Brief Life History of Robert Earl
When Robert Earl Fox was born in November 1895, in Seymour Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Fox, was 37 and his mother, Catherine McCook, was 34. He lived in Northumberland, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1968, at the age of 73.
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- Robert E Fox in household of Thomas Fox, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Robert Fox in household of Thomas Fox, "Canada Census, 1911"
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1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election
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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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