Robert Fox

Brief Life History of Robert

When Robert Fox was born on 28 October 1846, in Deepcar, Yorkshire, England, his father, Isaac Wilson Fox, was 28 and his mother, Margaret Ann Slinn, was 30. He married Lucy Ferguson on 16 February 1872, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1860 and lived in Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1860 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 15 January 1933, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Fox
1846–1933
Lucy Ferguson
1850–1930
Marriage: 16 February 1872
Robert Wilson Fox
1872–1878
James Isaac Fox
1874–1900
Charles Daniel Fox
1876–1961
Lucy Ann Fox
1878–1891
Sarah Emily Fox
1880–1940
Jane Phyllis Fox
1882–1973
Mayben Fox
1884–1964
Mary Elizabeth Fox
1886–1971
Julia Inez Fox
1888–1979
Martha Ann Fox
1890–1986
Barlow Fox
1893–1953

Sources (50)

  • Robert Fox, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Robert Fox, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Robert Fox, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1854 · The Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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