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M George Fox

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The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd Richard Herrington, Baptist Minister, Colchester (p. 152):
George Fox, to Ann Lighton, both of Colchester. 12 Apr. 1848, by Licence. Rev. Herrington. Wit. Adam Fox and Robert Lighton.

1851 personal census, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, p. 23:
Fox George, M, Married, 32, born Gosfield, Mormon, Farmer;
Ann, F, Married, 25, born Colchester, Methodist;
Nicle?, M, Single, 3, born Colchester, Methodist;
Cristeen, F, Single, 1, born Colchester, Methodist.

1861 personal census, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, transcribed by the Essex Branch of the OGS:
Fox George, M, Married, 40, born Can, W[esleyan];
Ann, F, Married, 36, born Can, W;
Christiana, F, 12, born, Can, W;
Adaline, F, 7, born Can, W;
Albert, M, 5, born Can, W;
George, M, 2, born Can, W.

1881 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Fox Ann, F, Widow, 56, born Ont, origin: English, Methodist, Farmer Fem;
Albert, M, 26, born Ont, origin: English, Methodist, Carpenter;
Jason, M, 23, born Ont, origin: English, Methodist, Farmer;
Melinda, F, 17, born Ont, origin: English, Methodist;
Emily, F, 14, born Ont, origin: English, Methodist.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 92-94:
Adam Fox is a retired farmer and wealthy land owner of the township of Colchester South, County of Essex, and is one of the few still surviving who were participants in the Rebellion of 1837-38.
The Canadian ancestor of the Fox family was Philip, grandfather of Adam, who was an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, of German descent. With his wife he removed to Canada and settled near Ruthven, in the township of Gosfield South, on a grant of government land. He accumulated considerable property, at one time owning three farms, while he gave to each of his sons a farm as they started out in life. His children were ten in number and were named: Philip, Michael, George, Henry, Adam, Jacob, John, Jonas, Margaret (who married a Fulmer), and Judith (who married Henry Bruner). All were located in Gosfield except Adam, who lived in the township of Colchester.
     Henry Fox was born about the time the family came to Gosfield in 1794. He was married in that township to Miss Catherine Ulch, who was born in 1798, and who died Sept. 21, 1882, aged eighty-four years, six months and fourteen days. They lived there on Lot 21, Concession 4, until 1828, when Mr. Fox moved to Colchester township and located in Lot 36, trading his other farm for one of 250 acres owned by a brother. When he took the property only about fifteen acres were cleared, but with the help of his sons he cleared up the remainder of it, and entered upon a long course of farming, which has proved eminently successful. In his politics he was a Conservative. After a long and prosperous career he finally passed to his reward Jan. 16, 1861, at the age of seventy-four years, seven months and thirteen days. The children of Henry Fox were as follows: Andrew, who married Elizabeth Woodwise, and died in Michigan; Mary Ann, who married David Iler, and both are deceased; Henry, who died Aug. 28, 1836, aged nineteen years, six months and twenty-eight days; George, deceased, who married Miss Ann Leighton, now living in Harrow; Adam; Julia Ann, deceased wife of Jacob Julien; Alexander, who died when a year and a half old; Christine, who married Peter Iler; Daniel, of Colchester South, who died at the age of sixty-two years, one months and twelve days; Susan, the wife of Henry Arner, of Kingsville; Jane and Martha, both deceased, who are buried in Ruthven Cemetery; Francis, a prosperous farmer of the township of Colchester South.
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Commemorative Biographical Record of Essex Co., pp. 128-130:
McCORMICK. ...
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(III) Matthew W. McCormick was born on the Col. Brush place, Colchester South, Oct. 1, 1830, ...
On Jan. 29, 1854, Mr. McCormick was married to Elizabeth Jane Taylor, who was born in New Brunswick, March 8, 1836, daughter of Steven and Jane Taylor. Their chidren were: ... (6) Mary Ocena, born Nov. 19, 1863, married Albert L. Fox, son of the late George Fox, of Colchester South, a lumberman of Walkerville, and has three children, Bertha, Chloe and Rena. (7) Adelaide, born June 8, 1865, married George Jason Fox, of Colchester, son of the late George Fox, above mentioned, and their children are: Blanche, Clyde, Perry, Arnold, Nina and Vernon...

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Philip Fox †   Catherine Lamar †   Andrew Ulch   ?? ??
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Henry Fox ca 1786-1861   Catherine Ulch 1798-1882
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George Fox ca 1820-