When William Fox was born about 1788, in Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Amos Fox II, was 27 and his mother, Mary Niles, was 27. He married Tamma Tyler in 1825, in Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States.
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
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