James Fox I (1785 - 1860)

Born 1 Dec 1785 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Ann (Andrews) Fox — married 16 Nov 1818 in London, England

Husband of Sarah Sophia (Avery) Fox — married 4 Feb 1845 in London, England

Descendants

Died 28 Nov 1860 at age 74 in Bexley Heath, Dartforth, Kent, England

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Biography

Wholesale Tea and Provision merchant and grocer, of London.

Marriages and family

On 16 November 1818 he married 1ly Mary Ann Andrews and they had seven children. The eldest, James Negus Fox, was the only child to survive to adulthood. She died in 1836.

On 4 February 1845 he married 2ly Sarah Sophia Avery and they had no children.

Death and burial

He died on 28 November 1860, three days before his 75th birthday, of bronchitis. He was buried in Bexley New Church, Bexley Heath, Dartforth, Kent. His widow died in 1870.

Sources

'Recollections of Rev Richard Taylor' and genealogical notebooks, transcribed by his great-grandson, Cranleigh Harper Barton 1890-1975, and which form part of the Cranleigh Barton Bequest (1975), Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand.

1851 British Census.