Brief Life History of Malinda
When Malinda Fox was born on 30 October 1840, in Olinda, Essex, Ontario, Canada, her father, John I Fox, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Godwin, was 21. She married William H Lovelace on 1 October 1840, in McCracken, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Gosfield, Essex, Canada West, British North America for about 30 years and Lyon Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States for about 20 years. She died on 13 October 1921, in South Lyon, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in South Lyon, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
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- Malinda Loveless, "Canada, Ontario Census, 1861"
- Malinda Lovelace, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Melinda Lovelace, "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952"
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World Events (8)
1841
23 July 1840 this was under the United Province of Canada 1849 the United Province of Canada dissolved into just 3 counties, of which Essex was one
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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