When Mary L. Fox was born about 1804, in Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Amos Fox II, was 43 and her mother, Mary Niles, was 43. She died in Mina, Chautauqua, New York, United States.
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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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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