Brief Life History of George S.
When George S. Fox was born about 1798, in Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Amos Fox II, was 37 and his mother, Mary Niles, was 37.
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Parents and Siblings
1762–1839 Male
1762–1839 Female
Siblings (12)
1788– Male
1791–1864 Female
1793–1875 Female
1796–1874 Male
1797–1841 Male
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World Events (3)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
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1803
Age 5
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
Age 10
Name Meaning
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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