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Knox

• References:
  • Knox information from [Wyllie, 2020, p.312 and 315]

Dr. Peter Knox,
Peter John Knox.
He was a surgeon at "Santa Cruz". This is presumably Santa Cruz de La Palma in the Canary Islands.
He mar Margaret Gibbon [bapt 13 Dec 1761].
Their son was baptised in Aberdeen 1784.
Their dau was born in the West Indies.
They had issue:

1. Hugh Knox,
   bapt 26 Dec 1784 [St.Nicholas', Aberdeen].

   
   

2. Jane Knox,
   Jane Gibbon Knox, Jenny,
   born on St.Croix, West Indies.
   
   She mar 8 Apr 1820 [St.Nicholas', Aberdeen] to Dr. Colin Allan [from an Aberdeen family].
   Ann Gibbon's diary, 30 Apr 1820, says: "Doctor and Mrs. Allan are come home from their marriage jaunt".
   He was an Army surgeon, in the West Indies.
   He was surgeon to the Hill Force of the 7th West Indian Regiment.
   
   Children baptised in Aberdeen 1821 to 1824.
   They went to Canada.
   In 1836 he was the Principal Medical Officer at the Halifax Station, Nova Scotia.
   He died in 1850 at Fredericton, New Brunswick, while Jane was at Halifax.
   Poem of Oct 1852 says: "When looking at Dear Jenny Knox; In Widows cap, oer gray white locks".
   Some of their children went to America.
   They had issue:
   1. Colin Irvine Allan,
      bapt 29th Mar 1821 [St.Nicholas', Aberdeen].

   2. Christian Allan,
      bapt "Margaret Christian", 4th Dec 1822 [St.Nicholas', Aberdeen].

   3. Arthur Allan,
      bapt "Arthur Hugh", 26th Feb 1824 [St.Nicholas', Aberdeen].

   4. Margaret Allan.
   5. James Allan.