Thomas James Knox was born to Thomas Suffield Knox and his wife Rebecca (nee Harper) in London .  Thomas James Knox had a wife and children in England . Their son Thomas Knox did eventually come to Australia . At the Brisbane wedding, Thomas declared that he was 34 years old, a seaman, and a bachelor who lived at Norden St Cannon Hill ( Brisbane ). Thomas and Rebecca returned to Ryde and lived at 70 Church St .

Thomas and Rebecca Knox had three children born at home being:

Thomas was a worker who had many jobs on ships, boats, farm work, wharves, fishing, fixing boats, nets etc.  James said that he was a good fisherman and almost always brought a catch home. On one fishing trip he returned with watermelons. He took the boys fishing on Parramatta River , the Hawkesbury River at Brooklyn and at Windsor . Some of the mates would go fishing at Anglers Inn at Brooklyn (drink at the pub and returned with fish purchased off other fishermen). Thomas worked on boat repairs with his mates Mr Whitmore and Mr Robinson and with his brother Alfred Knox. 

During the depression when work was scarce, they went fishing and prawning using the boats . Thomas took his son Bill on a horse and sulky trip from Ryde to Maitland and returned with a horse he purchased. The trip took over a week and they camped along the way.

Thomas did get drunk and hit his wife. Rebecca took out a restraining order on him and they separated . Thomas went back to England and married again. His English wife found out about his Australian wife and contacted her. Thomas was charged with bigamy and served six months in Dartmoor Prison in England . He later returned to Sydney .

Rebecca, as a deserted wife, did well raising the children but was assisted by her sisters living next door. The farm and the home gardens, chickens, the cow, and the fishing helped feed the families. Andy and Bill had a good time as youths and did many things with their cousins Ned and Jack Stevens. Some of the pranks the boys were involved in landed young Jack in trouble with the aunts .

Rebecca lost her dad William Woodcock in 1918 when she was 39 and her mum, Annie, in (1934) when she was 55.  James stated that he did homework for both Betty and Bill, whilst they were at school.  The boys enjoyed fishing, boating  building billy carts and cricket. When World War II broke out, many of the boys enlisted in the services. Ned joined the navy as a diver whilst Bill and Jack joined the army.

A few years after the War, Bill met Eunice and after  a two-year courtship they married in 1948. William John Knox (age 26) married Eunice Margaret Holden (age 20) at St Andrews Church Parramatta . They honeymooned at Katoomba and built their home in Merrylands. They had five children in two shifts. The children are:

Sadly, William Knox passed away on 8 July 2008 and is buried at Pinegrove Cemetery .

Betty Francis Knox cared for her mum Rebecca up to the time of her death in 1954. Rebecca Knox saw two grandchildren born. She died aged 75 and is at Northern Suburbs Crematorium.  At age 37, Betty married John Joseph Lane at St Anne's Church Ryde in January 1955.  John Lane was a chef from Surry Hills but as a TPI war veteran, their married life - of 14 years - was cut short by John’s untimely death in 1969.

Betty Lane (nee Knox) lived all her life at 70 Church St Ryde, except for recent months (late 2008) when she broke her hip in a fall and lives in a nursing home in Penrith.