When Mary Jane Fox was born on 20 January 1854, in Cedar, Missouri, United States, her father, Austin Fox, was 24 and her mother, Martha J. Petty, was 23. She lived in Linn Township, Cedar, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 13 April 1873, in Cedar, Missouri, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Stockton Cemetery, Stockton, Cedar, Missouri, 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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