When James A Knox was born in 1850, in Ohio, United States, his father, Hugh Timothy Knox, was 33 and his mother, Welthy S. Hawkins, was 27. He died on 1 July 1852, in Union, Ohio, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in York Center, Union, Ohio, United States.
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Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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