Brief Life History of Charlotte
When Charlotte Fox was born on 8 March 1826, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Fox, was 11823 and her mother, Mary Sellman, was 32. She married Franklin Dewey Richards on 13 October 1849, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in St Martin in the Bull Ring Church, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 28 November 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Charlotte Fox in household of Richd Fox, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Charlotte Richards, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Charlotte Richards, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
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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