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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
George
Knox
21 August 1882
56
South Hill of Dripps
John
Knox
10 December 1842
1
South Hill of Dripps
John Snr
Knox
26 August 1880
82
South Hill of Dripps
John( 2 )
Knox
07 December 1848
3
South Hill of Dripps
Elizabeth
Knox
24 January 1873
32
South Hill of Dripps
Elizabeth
Law
23 July 1893
92
South Hill of Dripps

Relatives: Son of John Knox Stone Condition: Damaged Material: Sandstone Height: 2.05 Breadth: 0.95 Depth: 0.38 Inscription Condition: Mostly decipherable Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: J. Davidson, Glasgow Pre 1855 no. 6 ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

ERECTED BY
JOHN KNOX,

SOUTH HILL OF DRIPS

IN
MEMORY OF HIS CHILDREN;
JOHN,
DIED 10TH DECR 1842 AGED 15 MONTHS.
JOHN,
DIED 7TH DECR 1848 AGED 3 YEARS.
ELIZABETH,
DIED 24TH JANY 1873 AGED 32 YEARS.
JOHN KNOX,
DIED 26TH AUGUST 1880 AGED 82 YEARS.
GEORGE KNOX,
DIED 21ST AUGUST 1882 AGED 56 YEARS.
[  ] WIFE ELIZABETH LAW,
[   ]
DIED [  ]1893 AGED [ ] 92 YEARS

Family History

This very elaborate and substantial monument was erected by a wealthy farmer in commemoration of several of his children, his wife and eventually himself.

John Knox, a son of the soil, was born in Strathblane, Stirlingshire to farmer George Knox and his wife Margaret Wilson on 8th May, 1796. He married Elizabeth Law in the parish of Mearns on 12th June, 1825. Elizabeth was born on 29th October, 1800, the daughter of William Law and his wife Jean Gilmour both from the parish. Over the next eighteen years this couple were to produce nine children, four of which were boys. The family consisted of George (b.1826), Jean (b.1828), Margaret (b. 1831), William (b.1833), Agnes (b.1835), Elizabeth (b.1838), John (b.1840), Barbara (b.1843) and another John (b.1845). Both sons given the name John died as infants.

The farm at South Hill of Dripps was on the south side of the River Cart, now included in the parish of East Kilbride, but then in Eaglesham Parish. Situated on high exposed ground the farm was able to produce crops and livestock of sufficient quality and quantity to supply the farmer with a good living. This factor was reflected by the size and quality of the monument erected in the kirkyard.

John Knox and his wife, despite losing two children in infancy and two others at relatively young ages, were themselves to enjoy lengthy lives before being placed under this stone. John died aged eighty-two years after suffering a stroke, having retired to a house in Polnoon St in Eaglesham in 1880. His wife Elizabeth Knox nee Law lived to the very great age of ninety-two years before passing away at Blantyre in 1893.

It is interesting to realise that this couple spent the greater part of their lives under the reign of Queen Victoria which in itself was the then longest in history. They would have lived through many wars including the Napoleonic and the Crimean. The Industrial Revolution had a large effect on the lives of those involved in agriculture, and they would have had to learn to adapt to the new experience of steam power over horse power, a giant step in itself.

Son George died of heart failure aged fifty-six years only two years after the death of his father. George had married Mary Clark of Nether Malletsheugh Farm and had taken over the running of the farm on the death of her father. After his wife’s death George married for a second time a woman called Mary Mather.