Robert Fox

28 October 1846–15 January 1933 (Age 86)
Deepcar, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

The Life Summary of Robert

When Robert Fox was born on 28 October 1846, in Deepcar, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Isaac Wilson Fox, was 28 and his mother, Margaret Ann Slinn, was 30. He married Lucy Ferguson on 16 February 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1860 and Lehi Ward 1, 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
Arland J Fox
–
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

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    16 February 1872Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (6)

    +1 More Child

    World Events (8)

    1854
    Age 8
    On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
    1863
    Age 17
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 24
    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Foxe
    Foxx
    Faulks
    Foxman
    Fuchs
    Kearney

    Sources (31)

    • Robert Fox, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
    • Robert Fox in entry for Charles Daniel Fox, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
    • Robert Fox, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"

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