Brief Life History of Carrie
When Carrie Fox was born on 14 November 1876, in Gosfield, Essex, Canada West, British Colonial America, her father, Darius Fox, was 31 and her mother, Emily Orton, was 27. She married Charles Alfred Wigle Jr. on 3 April 1901, in Gosfield South Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died in 1969, at the age of 93, and was buried in Kingsville, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
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Family Time Line
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- Carrin Wigle in household of Charles A Wigle, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Carrie Fox, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Carrie Fox, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (7)
1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
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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