When William Andrew Fox was born about 1858, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Jesse Fox, was 28 and his mother, Martha Matilda Penland, was 30. He lived in Cocke, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Burnet, Texas, United States in 1880. He died about 1888, in Texas, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Leander, Williamson, Texas, United States.
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 .
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