Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Fox was born about 1688, in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henery Fox, was 33 and her mother, Anne Tompson, was 29. She married John Gleave on 6 December 1709, in Garstang, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died in 1751, at the age of 64.
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- Elizabeth Fox, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Fox -
- Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Fox - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mrs. Elizabeth Glave
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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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