When Matilda Emma Fox was born in 1839, in Mainesburg, Sullivan Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Fox, was 38 and her mother, Deborah Rickard, was 35. She married Jesse Miller Clark on 12 September 1866, in Mainesburg, Sullivan Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Sullivan Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died on 21 February 1889, in Hartsfield, Liberty Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield, Tioga, Pennsylvania, 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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