Welcome to our Knox family web site!

Above Left: Gertrude Coore - 1900's

Center: Joseph Knox - Father of Sir Errol Knox and grandfather to
Peter Knox, Pamela (Knox) O'Connor and Patricia Steele

On the Right in order from left to right: Ivy Jasmine Gwendoline Knox,
Errol Aubrey Galbraith Knox and Joseph Milton Hosking Knox

Errol Knox

As an Australian Knox, my interest is in the first of the family to come to this country and in their experiences here. Unfortunately (this is becoming repetitious) we have little concrete information to go on besides names on official documents such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Therefore because, as far as I know no letters, diaries or any other written or even oral accounts exist, we have to go to historians and historical fiction to flesh out and lend color to these dry facts.

As I said earlier, both my Knox grandparents were dead long before I was born and my father talked little about them. This, in some ways, is not surprising for, during much of my life, my father was working on morning newspapers, which meant that I saw comparatively little of him. It is of course now a matter of great regret that we therefore have so few first hand stories and the ones that I do remember I cannot substantiate so whether they are legend or reality I do not know and I pass them on with this proviso. They will appear under a separate heading as Tales My Father Told Me!

Unfortunately my memories of my father’s brothers and sisters are also limited. The Knox family had been disappointed about my father’s marriage to an Englishwoman and one who was also a Catholic for religious divides were deep in the beginning of the 20th century.