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Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5141 people with the Knox surname? In that year Knox was ranked number 829 for popularity in the UK.

"A little hill, from cnoc. "_{(The origin and signification of Scottish surnames. Clifford Stanley Sims, 1862)}

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"KNOX. The Renfrewshire family of Knox is derived by Crawfurd (Macfarlane, n, p. 276 6284) from Adam son of Uchtred, who in the reign of Alexander n received from Walter the Steward the lands of Knock in the barony of Renfrew. The lands were named from the remarkable prominence there called "The Knock." The s is English plural In 1234 the land of Cnoc in Renfrewshire was held under the abbot of Paisley by Duugallus filius Cristini and Matilda his spouse, who claimed lands in Kilpatrick as heirs of Dufgallus, the rector, brother of the earl of Lennox (RMP., p. 178). About 1260 John de Cnoc or Knoc witnessed a charter of the lands of Haldhingleston ( (Ingliston), Renfrewshire, and in 1272 he witnessed the gift which Sir Antonius Lombardus (Anthony the Lombard) made to Paisley of his right in the lands of Fulton to the Abbey of Paisley (ibid., p. 51, 58). In the following year he witnessed, along with William de Knoc, a grant of lands by Malcolm, earl of Lennox to the same Abbey (Levenax, p. 15 17). About 1272 Hugo Cnox gave to the monastery of Inchcolme two shillings yearly (Ross, Aberdour, p. 133), William de Knoc witnessed a division between the lands of the house of Paisley and William de Sanchor in 1280 (RMP., p. 228), and Johannes de Knoc witnessed confirmation of the church of Cragin (Craigie) to the same house (ibid., p. 233). In 1328 there are records of payments to Alan del Cnoc or Alan de Knockis (ER., I, p. 113, 115). Uchtrede Knox of the Cragyns and Johne of the Knok of that Ilk were arbiters in a dispute between the burgh of Renfrew and the abbot of Paisley, 1408 (RMP., p. 406). Thomas de Knok held a tenement in Irvine, 1426 (Irvine, I, p. 130), George Knox was sergeant in Edinburgh, 1467 (Neubatle, 299), and John Knollis was sergeant in Linlithgow, 1549 (Lain. 552). William Knollis, custumar of Linlithgow in 1560, appears again in 1565 as William Knowis (ER., xix, p. Ill, 294). William Knocks and John Knots, indwellers in Cunyngham Baidland, 1662 (Hunter, p. 60). There was another family of Knows, Knox, or Knollis of that Ilk in the parish of Deer, Aberdeenshire, quite distinct from the Knoxs of Renfrew. Marion Nucx in record in Aberdeen, 1408 (CWA., p. 318). John Knowis admitted burgess of Aberdeen, 1460, appears again in 1464 and 1475 as John Knollis or Knollys (NSCM., i, p. 17; RAA., n, 154). Sir William of Knollis, a member of this family appears in 1463 as rector of Quhitsum, preceptor of Torfichen in 1480, and prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, 1493 (CMN., 32; Peebles, 27; Bain, rv, 1594). David Knowis was retoured heir of Alexander Knowis, burgess of Aberdeen, his father, 1605 (Retours, Aberdeen, 98), and James Knolls was sailor in Aberdeen, 1721 (NSCM., n, p. 108). The surname is now Knowles in Aberdeen. Cnoxe 1558, Knoches 1311, Knoicce 1345, Knokis 1330, Knokkis 1468, Knolles 1463, Knows 1615, Nox 1570. "_{(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)}

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