Time to remove the parents? [closed]

Question

Starting over 3 years, many discussions have been help on the Ancestry of this person.   The main source of "Unknown" parents comes from "The Knox family; a genealogical and biographical sketch of the descendants of John Knox of Rowan County, North Carolina, and other Knoxes, by Hattie S. Goodman", https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6pz58f86 Link

To this point, no serious sources have been found to prove his parents.   There are a lot of differing opinions and lots of guesses, but, nothing substantial.   

To improve the accuracy of our data surrounding the US Presidents Project, I would like to suggest that we remove this set of parents with a clear explanation of "why".

Thoughts?

Comments

There is a John Knox, born October 15 1682 in Renfrew. His father was Adam Knox. Sending you email of doc.

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Thanks for all of your help, I am adding to the profile with some evidence explained theories.

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My apologies. Of course I'm not an expert.

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I will be glad to look into this.

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Beginning to look as a reasonable comment. Don't downgrade yourself not being an expert. If you can begin with internet searches and have invested time, then that has a lot of weight.

Your research is extremely valuable.

Answer 1

I have no idea about the specific case, but I agree with you, very much, on the general priciple.

Answer 2

If you would like to persue the Ad Knox theory, Scotlandspeople have a baptism for a John Knox on 2 Jan 1709 in Renfrew. Parents Adam Knox and Margaret Knox. Might be worth a closer look before making the decision to remove them.

Comments

If we believe the source cited above, that there was a headstone that indicated his death as 10/1758 and 50 years old, then a search of 11/1707-9/1709 reveals 8 men born with the name John Knox.   If someone wanted to research those 8 men, we might be able to find our John Knox through the process of elimination.

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Good suggestion Robin. Maybe it would be best to leave the current parents in place and put your suggestion in a research note. If you remove them, then there is an additional risk of duplicates being created the next time someone visits the profile.

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Susan, I have removed the best answer star that you gave me. My response was just offering a source for one potential set of parents that might fit. I did not mean it to be interpreted as being the definitive answer. I feel the best answer star on this one should not be awarded until someone can say with more certainty who the correct parents are.

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I will be glad to research the eight links you mentioned.

Will let everyone know what I find out.