Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox & Family (Sligo)

[Witherow]

Trying to track down some information on the Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox and his wife Isabel, shown on 1911 census at Bricklieve, Sligo. Anyone know where his church was, where he was married or any other useful information. I believe his wife may be a missing daughter of a family I am trying to research. If so her maiden name would have been Witherow

[aghadowey]

Rev. Hugh Montgomery Knox (lic. Route Presbytery 1888) was installed at Ballymote Presbyterian Church on 9 Oct.1888 and died 27 Oct.1923- Ballymote seems to have been his only charge.
He was aged 61 years when he died according to civil index so born c1862 (just before registration of births). Married Apr./June 1890 Londonderry registration district to Isabella Witherow.
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=collectionDetails

Seems to have been a son- Capt. W.H. Knox, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Military Cross), Mentioned in Despatches, son of Rev. H. M. Knox, Ballymote
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/roh/rohministersons.html

[shanew147]

strangely there's a second crossmatch for the marriage, maybe one one in a church and a second in a registry office :

no 1:

 Name: Hugh Montgomery Knox
 Registration district: Londonderry
 quarter and year: Apr - Jun 1890
 Volume: 2 / Page: 165

 Name: Isabella Withrow   [same index details]

no. 2

 Name: Hugh Montgomery Knox
 Registration district: Londonderry
 Quarter and year: Apr - Jun 1890
 Volume: 2 / Page: 148

 Name: Isabella Witherow  [same index details]


Shane

[Witherow]

Many thanks Aghadowey and Shanew. Your help is much appreciated. It looks like I'm getting close to finding some living relatives within this family. If you are out there let me know I have a continuous tree going back to 1759 on this line.

[aghadowey]

You'd think with at least 7 children there'd be a chance of some descendants!
Here's a link to 1911 census entry in case anyone is interested-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Bricklieve/Graniamore/752867/
Kathleen and Thomas both have Witherow as middle names (transcribed as Witherin).

Son Jocelyn's birth was registered as Jocelyn George Milling Knox and looks like he married July/Sept.1936 Dublin North registration district.

[shanew147]

found details of the marriage for Jocelyn in Dublin...  but cannot find any children born in Ireland to the couple (up to 1958).

as the marriage relates to possibly living people, I will not go into details here. Let me know if you would like to know more and I'll pm you..



Shane

[aghadowey]

Thomas Witherow Knox listed in WWI Medal Cards Index.

[shanew147]

some details on Jocelyn Knox's parents...

'...son of the late Rev. H.M. Knox, Ballymoate, Co. Sligo and Mrs Knox, "Lissadell", Finaghy, Belfast...'

does this fit the details you have for Isabel ?



Shane

[Witherow]

found details of the marriage for Jocelyn in Dublin...  but cannot find any children born in Ireland to the couple (up to 1958).

as the marriage relates to possibly living people, I will not go into details here. Let me know if you would like to know more and I'll pm you..
Shane

Many thanks Shane would appreciate a pm.
The details I have for his mother are that she is Isabella Witherow daughter of another clergyman the Rev. Thomas Witherow and that she was born in Maghera Co. Derry when he was a minister there. This fits well with the 1911 census details (apart from her name being abbreviated to Isabel) all the family's names with the exception of Jocelyn are also names from her line. Don't know where the Jocelyn came from. Her father wrote his autobiography in 1889 and in the postscripts to the autobiography (written after his death) it is mentioned that all but one of his daughters was still alive. It listed out all the husbands one being described as Mrs H.M. Knox. So I'm pretty excited to have found this line. Still working hard to tie down the rest of the daughters though. Got their brothers OK.