Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Fox was born on 17 October 1793, in Swalcliffe, Oxfordshire, England, her father, Thomas Fox, was 31 and her mother, Martha Helen Elizabeth Smith, was 35.
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1762–1835 Male
1758–1802 Female
Siblings (8)
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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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