Marion Knox

MARION KNOX

Fake Pedigree

According to one pedigree published by Genealogy.com, Marion Knox, here treated, married John Paterson. She is said to have been born in 1485 and to have married in 1525. The source of this information appears to have been another pedigree oublished by OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm) [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc. Genealogy.com: Information about Marion Knox This may have its roots in a pedigree produced by Dan Austin and published by Wikitree, either that or he copied it, which identifies Marion Knox as the daughter of Uchtred Knox and Agnes Lyle. Wikitree: Marion Knox

The Question of Identity

The name of Marion Knox's father has not been satisfactorily identified. She is not mentioned in MacFarlane's Genealogical Collections, or in the Reverend Charles Roger's account of the children of Uchtred Knox of Ranfurly and Agnes Lyle, or in McKenzie's account of Kilbarchan. Links to all three accounts follow.

Genealogical Accounts

1. Genealogical Collections Concerning Families in Scotland made by Walter MacFarlane 1750-1751 etc. in two volumes. II (Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1902), 605 pp. including index. See pp. 261-84 for the Knox Family
2. Reverend Charles Rogers, LL.D., Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and of the Knox Family (Grampian Club, London, 1879), 184 pp. including index
3. Reverend Robert D. McKenzie, BD., Kilbarchan: A Parish History (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1902), 306 pp. For Knox of Selvieland and Knox of Ranfurly see pp. 223-6