Brief Life History of Frederick William
When Frederick William Fox was born about July 1879, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Tripp Fox, was 38 and his mother, Ruth Smith, was 35. He died about March 1892, in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 12.
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- Frederick Fox in household of William Fox, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- Frederick William Fox, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
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1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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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