Brief Life History of Christoph
When Christoph Fox or Fuchs was born in 1745, in Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Matthew Fox, was 32 and his mother, Anna Magdalena Modelina Fuchs, was 32. He married Magdalena Beckner on 4 June 1765, in York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died after 1810, in Augusta, Virginia, United States.
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- Christoph Fuchs, "Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940"
- Christoph Fuchs in entry for Maria Susanna Fuchs, "Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995"
- Christophel Fahs in entry for Johann Fahs, "Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995"
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
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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