When Isabella Fox was born about 1837, in Gosfield, Essex, Canada West, British North America, her father, John C. Fox, was 31 and her mother, Judith Ann Wigle, was 26. She married James Thornton Sloan on 3 November 1862, in Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 24 June 1903, in Gosfield, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 67, and was buried in Gosfield South Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
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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
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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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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