When Sarah Ann Augusta Fox was born on 5 June 1865, in Gosfield, Essex, Canada West, British North America, her father, Thomas James Fox, was 28 and her mother, Euphemia Wigle, was 25. She married John Arthur Riley on 1 July 1885, in Essex, Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Mersea Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 10 March 1931, in Leamington, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 65, and was buried in Leamington, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
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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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In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
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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