When Christopher Fox was born on 13 March 1798, in Mount Bethel, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Joseph Fuchs, was 36 and his mother, Christiana Reimel, was 33. He married Mary E. Teel about 1819, in Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died on 16 April 1868, in Mount Bethel, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Mount Bethel, Northampton, 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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