��What Y-DNA Testing Has Shown About the Early History of Foxes in Virginia
Joseph M. Fox and David E.
Fox
�Summary
The Fox Y-DNA Surname
Project was started early in 2004 with the testing of two Fox males who were
thought to be about eighth cousins, based on indirect, published
information.� When their test results
matched closely we were able to link a Philadelphia Fox family with their
British cousins.� The story was told in
the book Growing with America � the Fox Family of
Philadelphia[1]and
now we can even tell when this occurred.
Checking such a paper
trail is by far the best way to use Y-DNA testing.� The history of Fox families in Colonial
Virginia has been exhaustively studied, particularly the ancestry and the
descendants of Henry Fox and Anne West of Colonial Virginia.� Virginia Fox family trees often made erroneous
connections to this family, partly because the Fox line can be traced back to
1541 in Buckinghamshire, England, and partly because Anne West was the grand
niece of Lord De La Warr and had royal ancestry.� Probably the most exhaustive review of this
family line was done by Joseph Steadman[2].� Many times his conclusions were drawn based
on limited or conflicting evidence, thus offering a wonderful target for
verification by genetic testing.
Two possible sons of Henry
Fox and Anne West, Thomas and Henry, the 2nd, provided the perfect
challenge�� Some researchers denied that
Henry the 2nd �was their son because he was not
mentioned in the will of Anne West�s brother.��
Testing living descendants of these two men has confirmed their
relationship as brothers.� We can now say
with confidence that we know the haplotype of Henry Fox, the first, and can now
prove or disprove other proposed connections.�
This paper is a first attempt to set the record straight.
Genetic Testing of Known Henry
Fox/Anne West Descendants
There are several types of
testing applied to genetic genealogy but this paper is concerned primarily with
testing a large group of markers on the Y-Chromosome. These markers are
sections called microsatellites where there are repeat patterns � and the number
of repeats can be measured.� The
resulting set of numbers (i.e. marker repeats) is called one�s haplotype.� Only men carry the Y- Chromosome and the
haplotype is passed almost intact from father to son.� Replication errors occur frequently enough
with these markers, however, that this test is useful for genealogical
purposes.�� Y-DNA testing is governed by
the laws of probabilities of rare events and thus gives a wide range of
estimated generations back to a common ancestor.� Combined with a paper trail, however, it can
be very effective in either confirming or denying a relationship.� Roughly speaking, it can be said that two Fox
men are related with a genealogical time frame, say 400 - 600 years, if they
match repeat lengths on 33 or more out of 37 markers.�
How do we know the
haplotype of Henry Fox 1st, who was born in about the year 1650 in
England and married Anne West in Virginia in 1673? The answer is given in Table
1, which should be referred to in following this analysis[a]
:�
Early on, we tested out to
37 markers two well-documented project members who descended from different
sons [William Fox (1791-1852) and Joseph Carroll Fox (1802-1879)] of another Henry
Fox (1768-1852) who married Sarah Harrell, a southern USA Fox family with many
living descendants[3].�� The 37 marker haplotypes of these fourth
cousins were identical. �Another cousin (not
shown) matched them on 25 markers.� As a
very good approximation then, this must also be the haplotype of their common
ancestor, Henry Fox (1768-1852).� It was
accepted by most genealogists that Henry Fox (1768-1852) was the son of William
Fox (1743-1816) who had married Sarah Carroll and the pretty well-defined ancestry
then went:� Henry Fox, 3rd, (1698-1770)
- Henry Fox, 2nd, (1674-1750).
Secondly, we tested two
second cousins who had identical 37 marker haplotypes to each other and
descended from another son of Henry Fox, 3rd, named Thomas Fox
(1725-1822) who had married Elizabeth Hancock. �Recall that our first group descended from his
brother, William Fox (1743-1816). �Joseph
Steadman has Martha Keene as William�s mother and Mary Goodwyn as the mother of
Thomas[4].
Table 1 shows mismatched markers only the rest being
identical. The 37 marker haplotypes of the descendants of each of these two
sons of Henry Fox, 3rd, differed at only one marker, a multivalued,
rapidly-mutating marker called CDYa,b.� This five person matchup defined the
haplotype of the common ancestor, Henry Fox, 3rd, except for the
value at CDYa,b and the relationship was now proven
back another 2 generations to Henry Fox, 3rd.� The question still remained: Was Henry Fox, 3rd,
(1698-1770) the son of Henry Fox, 2nd, (1674-1750) and the grandson
of Henry Fox, 1st?
In 2013 and 2014, we tested
two descendants of another son of Henry Fox, 1st, and Anne West on
37 markers. �Again see Table 1, showing
the mismatched markers.. �This son was Thomas Fox (1680-?), who married
Mary Tunstall[5].� These two men matched the first pair at DYS
385a,b but showed deviations between themselves at
DYS385a,b, DYS460 and DYS470.� On each of
these three markers, however, one of them matched the first four.� A consensus ancestral 37 marker haplotype for
all 6 cousins can thus be defined and Thomas Fox and Henry Fox, 2nd,
were indeed brothers.
�Finally, we have a slave descendant named
Elder, who is obviously related. At 37 markers, he matched our first group at all
but markers, DYS 458 and DYS 470.� He and
one member from each of our first two groups have been tested out to 67 markers.� They matched each other and Elder differed
from them only at DYS 413a,b in the last 30 markers.� His results help to confirm the consensus
ancestral haplotype.
�Y-DNA testing had now proven that these Foxes
were all one family and we now had a good good fix on the haplotype of Henry
Fox, 1st, as shown in Table 1.�
The marker deviations found between descendants of the two brothers were
about what was to be expected since Henry Fox, 1st, was an average
of 9 generations removed from each of those being tested.��
In addition, two of this
group have been Haplogroup tested and are R-L47, a subclade of R-U106/S21.� Haplogroups are defined by mutations at
specific sites on the Y-chromosome that are rare enough to define a timeline
for the history of mankind.� These are
called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, and they define deep ancestry.� Any other Virginia Foxes who are not in this particular
subclade cannot be related within the last 4,000 years[6].
The Henry Fox 2nd
Controversy
It seems that only two
sons of Henry Fox, 1st, and Anne West were mentioned in the will of
their maternal uncle, John West, the son of Colonel John West.�� John West was the brother of Thomas West,
better known as Lord De La Warr.� Sons
John and Thomas were mentioned but Henry Fox, 2nd, was not.� This could well be because Henry Fox, 2nd,
was first in line to inherit from his father estate; nevertheless considerable
doubt remained in the mind of researcher Ellen Cocke[7]
and others.� In
1934, Ann Woodard Fox, wife of Edward Lansing Fox, founded �The Society of the
Descendants of the Hon. Henry Fox and Anne West" that claimed they were
the only "approved" Virginia line and descendants of Henry Fox, 2nd,
were not permitted to join.� Both Ellen
Cocke and Edward Lansing Fox were of the Thomas Fox line. �Ann Woodard Fox is best known for her treatise
emphasizing the royal West family connections[8].� She does not even mention Henry Fox, 2nd.
Later researchers, including Joseph Steadman[9]
and Frances Chan[10],
felt that the overwhelming evidence was in favor of Henry Fox, 2nd,being the brother of John and Thomas.� Even genealogist George
Harrison Sanford King, who was the �registrar� of the above �Society�, agreed
with them[11].� Nevertheless, the seeds of doubt had been
planted.� The Fox Surname Project is
happy now to confirm that these later researchers were correct.��� Genetic testing has shown that they were
all one family.
Richard Fox (1707-1771) of Mecklenburg�
Joseph Steadman devotes several pages[12]
to various claims as to the ancestry of Col. Richard Fox who married Hannah
Williamson and left many descendants.�
The story he tells is really quite fantastic.� It appears that many claims were made that he
was the grandson of Henry Fox and Anne West; the son of either Henry Fox, 2nd,
or Thomas Fox � both mentioned previously � even to the point of a woman using
this in a Colonial Dames application.�
Steadman said that this was incorrect and agreed with George H. S. King[13]
that he was probably the only child of a George Fox of Surry County, though
even the evidence for this is weak.� The
ancestry of Col. Richard Fox remains a mystery but Y-DNA testing is quite
definite.� He was not a Henry Fox/Anne
West descendant.� Results for a
descendant of his son Jacob and a descendant of his son William are both in
agreement.� They match each other on 36
out of 37 markers but are a complete mismatch with the Henry Fox/ Anne West
descendants.� In fact, they are in an
entirely different Haplogroup (I-L39.)
Perhaps some clue will eventually be found
from another interesting Fox Project result.�
�Several descendants of Joaquin
Fox of New Orleans are obviously related to the Richard Fox descendants.�� One of them, tested on 67 markers, is a 66
for 67 match with our William Fox descendant.� Since the descendants of Richard Fox and
Hannah Williamson have been so well researched, this connection may well
predate Richard Fox himself, even though the match is so close.
John and Matthew Fox of Abbeville, South
Carolina
Henry� Fox,
3rd, had several other sons than Thomas by his first wife.� One of these, John Fox, was born around the
year 1729.� It appears that he may have
participated, along with his brother Henry, in the French and Indian Wars.� Steadman has also identified him to be John
Fox, a private on the payroll
of Captain Andrew Miller�s Company from February 1779 through May 1780 in the
Revolutionary War[14].� In this case, the Y-DNA evidence has proven
Steadman to be wrong.��
In December 1781, after the truce at Yorktown,
Private John Fox was captured at Pratt's Mill on Long Cane Creek by Hezekiah
Williams, a Tory leader, and carried to the Cherokee Nation where he was
killed.� His widow, Mary (Mollie) Fox,
received payment of the amount due him for service and for articles of his that
were lost at Pratt's Mill.� She died in
1828 and her will mentions a son Matthew and four
daughters.� Matthew Fox, born in 1766,
"in Abbeville District, S.C.", enlisted at age 15 as a soldier in the
Revolutionary War.� He later moved to
Newport, Cocke County, Tenn., where he was living when he applied for a
revolutionary war pension.
Matthew �Fox and his wife Martha left many descendants
and we have four of them in the Fox Project.�
They descend from three different sons of Matthew; Anderson Fox, William
Fox and John S. Fox.� In 37 markers there
is only one deviation among the four of them.�
They are definitely not descendants of Henry Fox and Anne West, having
17 or more marker deviations on 37 markers.�
Being members of Haplogroup R-L1/S26, rather than Haplogroup R-L47, puts
their common ancestor back thousands of years.
Instead, these Matthew Fox descendants are close matches at 67 or more
markers with the British and the American Fox families described in detail in Growing with America[15].� A comparison of marker mismatches for these
three families is shown in Table 2.
�With the advent of affordable
Y-Chromosome sequencing we can now pinpoint the common ancestor with confidence.
The Big Y test, offered by FamilytreeDNA
starting in 2013, used �next-generation� targeted non-recombining Y-DNA
sequencing of around 11.5 to 12.5 million base pairs to reveal genetic
variations across the Y-Chromosome.� One
member of each of the two American Fox families and two members of the British
Fox family were tested.� All four had 20
SNPs in common downstream from L1/S26 but the British pair had one more.� The common ancestor of the British pair was
George Fox, born in 1693 in Cornwall, England.�
Best estimates of the rate of mutation are 100 to 150 years per SNP,
which puts birth of the common ancestor of all four at from 1543 to 1593.� George Fox was the grandson of Francis Fox,
born in 1606 in Wiltshire.� Our best
estimate, therefore, is that the common ancestor of all four was the father of
Francis Fox.� One researcher has found
evidence in the parish register of St. John the Baptist Church, Devizes, Wiltshire,
that that Francis Fox was the seventh son of Henrie Fox and his wife Edith[16].� This would put Henrie�s birth right in the
middle of the above range of dates.
�How a member of this family
arrived in South Carolina remains a mystery but there are some clues. The
genealogy of the British Foxes descending from Francis Fox, born in 1606 in Devizes,
Wiltshire, is very well documented in Burke�s Landed Gentry[17] and only one of them is known to
have emigrated to America in the time frame in
question.� James Fox, son of the above
Francis Fox, came to Philadelphia in 1686 on the ship Desire as a leader of the Plymouth
Friends but his line died out by the year 1700.� He brought with him Justinian Fox, a 13 year
old who was the progenitor of the Philadelphia Fox family.� Justinian, who was not a Quaker, had an older
brother named John and there was also a John Fox on the ship Desire who was
not a Quaker,�
The Y-DNA results say that these all three Fox lines were closely related
and Big Y testing puts the common ancestor as the grandfather of James Fox born
in about 1580 in Wiltshire.� James Fox was
obviously bringing relatives along with him to America and there is indirect
documentation to back this up. �John Fox,
passenger on the ship Desire, is
known to have married in Philadelphia and had children.� His wife died and he then disappeared from
view. �Many Philadelphians headed south
in those days to seek their fortune and he may have been one of them.
There is another possibility that is certainly worth a follow up.� In Burke�s Landed Gentry he writes that Francis Fox was �stated to be of the
same family as the celebrated Sir Stephen Fox, ancestor of the Earls of
Ilchester and the Lords Holland� and the Francis Fox family is permitted to use
his coat of arms. �In his 1917 book on
the Fox Family[18],
James Wallace Fox relates several tales of how Sir Stephen�s grandson, the
politician Charles James Fox (1749-1806), corresponded with and sent gifts of
jewelry to several Fox relatives of his in Virginia, jewelry that ended up in
the hands of another Charles James Fox, a bachelor who was said to be the son
of John and Grace Fox .� Unfortunately, they all ended up in the
possession of relatives named Moody or Montague and were lost or stolen. The
Matthew Fox line is the only Southern Fox family identified by Y-DNA testing, up
until now, that might fit this description. �There are known descendants of Sir Stephen Fox
living in England and, hopefully, further Y-DNA testing will tell the tale.
William Fox of Loudoun County, Virginia
Another Virginia Fox family that has often been confused with the Henry
Fox/ Anne West family is that of the descendants of William Fox, Sr., born
about 1710 in Loudoun County, Virginia.�
The descendants of his son, William Fox, Jr., have been well covered in
a book by Nellie Fox Adams[19].� Interestingly, John Fox, the author of Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, the
first American novel to sell one million copies, was from this line.� This is also the family line of James Wallace Fox, who wrote that Fox
Family history in 1917[20],
a rambling endeavor that may have caused some confusion.�� At the end of this book he mentions a James
Fox who married Mary Bartleson at Swede�s Church in Philadelphia on September
1, 1758 but fails to connect him to William Fox, Senior.�� Joseph Steadman[21]
has James Fox and his son, Bartleson Fox, as descendants of John Fox (born
about 1652 and brother to Henry Fox, 1st,) who married a Miss
Lightfoot.� Other researchers
working on these Fox lines include Kevin Daniel who has an online Fox family tree[22]
and Jane Fox Wheldon who has researched the Bartleson Fox line[23].�
There was also a tradition in one of these Fox families that another John Fox, who was born 1780 in Virginia, married Mary
Elizabeth Hoffman (1782-1853) of Maryland and died 1852 in Montgomery County,
KY, was a Henry Fox/Anne West descendant, either through their son Thomas or
their son John[24].� Thus there was ample reason for some of this
family to suspect a Henry Fox/Anne West connection.� DNA testing has now definitely rejected this
connection.
The lines of descent are
not yet all in place but we now have found that two project members descending
from William Fox (1710)�s son, William Fox, Junior, and one member descending
from his son James Fox (who married Mary Bartleson), are
exact matches at 37 markers, confirming that William and James were
brothers.� See Table 3 for a list of
mismatched markers within the group.�
The John Fox/Mary Hoffman
descendant matches them all exactly at 37 markers and has only one mismatch
with the James Fox/Mary Bartleson descendant at 67 markers.� The family tradition was wrong and it is
suspected that this John Fox (b 1780) was a descendant of James Fox by his
second wife.� �A descendant of Enos Fox, born in 1814 in
Kentucky, is also a member of this family group.� He also matches the James Fox/Mary Bartleson
descendant on 66 out of 67 markers and matches the John Fox/Mary Hofmann
descendant on 65 out of 67.� The
ancestral 67 marker haplotype is pretty well defined.
This group is not even
remotely connected to Henry Fox who married Anne West. ��The two groups have a genetic distance of 23
based on 67 markers and this family is a member of Haplogroup R-L21.� R-L21 is a subclade of R-P312 and any
connection with the Henry Fox/Anne West line goes back at least 6,000 years.
To further confound the
issue, we now have two descendants of Hugh Fox born about 1745 in Virginia who
match the William Fox, Sr., descendants 32 for 37 and 34 for 37.� See Table 3 and note that while a mismatch at
a multicopy marker can usually be considered a single event, in this case it
case been considered two events.� �A third Hugh Fox descendant was tested at only
12 markers but confirms the mismatch at DYS 389ii.� The 32 for 37 match
has two more mismatches at 67 markers.� These less-close Y-DNA test results
could indicate that a possible family connection exists well prior to 1710 but
this is only an indication, probability estimates being what they are.� �Current thinking is that all these Foxes may
have come down to Virginia from Philadelphia or New Jersey and that may explain
James� marriage back in Philadelphia.�
�William Fox (1710-1764) who
Married Sarah Avent
Perhaps the most interesting of these erroneous matches, because it had
been so abundantly documented, is that of two descendants of William Fox (b� 1710) who married
Sarah Avent.� In Shirley Faucette�s comparison of the two
genealogists[25],
both Steadman and Robinson have this William Fox as the son of Henry Fox
2nd.� Steadman[26]
actually comments as follows, "The said William Fox doubtless was that one
who settled in Brunswick County (Virginia), being named as the son of Henry Fox
2nd and Mary Claiborne.� He married Sarah
Avent who was a granddaughter of William Gooch and his wife Ursula
Claiborne. - See Joseph Emery Avent's �The Avents and Their Kin of Avent Ferry,
Chatham County, North Carolina�.�
We now have Y-DNA evidence
that William was not the son of Henry Fox, 2nd.�
One descendant of William Fox and Sarah Avent has been tested on 37
markers but he differs by 17 steps from our five Henry Fox/ Anne West
descendants. �He is matched on 12 markers
by his first cousin, confirming that the test was valid, but it would be good
to have more William Fox/Sarah Avent descendants tested to confirm a deeper
relationship.� The two men tested are
descended from their son Thomas Avent Fox, born in
1750 in Brunswick County, Virginia, who married Lavinia Smith.� William Fox and Sarah Avent had several other
sons (William who married Martha Rives and John who married Celia Bonnner) and
it is a Fox Project objective to find and test a descendant of one of these
brothers.
We are not even certain
who Henry Fox, 2nd, actually married. Shirley Faucette states that,
"Some sources list both wives, others show only
one but vary as to whether it was Mary Kendrick or Mary Claiborne."� It is quite possible that the Henry Fox who
married Mary Claiborne was a different person than Henry Fox, 2nd,
son of Henry Fox, 1st, and Anne West.
Interestingly enough,
William Fox and Sarah Avent were the grandparents of Sarah Harrell,
mentioned above as the spouse of Henry Fox (1768-1852) of Webster County,
Mississippi, ancestor of three of our Henry Fox/Anne West descendants. One of
Henry Fox/Sarah Harrell descendants, Frances Cooke Chan, writes that, �I don't
think anyone in our family ever felt that they (Sarah Harrell�s grandparents)
necessarily were in this Fox family, just that they had the same name and might
have been relatives�[27].
�Andrew Fox (1749-1819) of Virginia and
Tennessee
More than a
dozen other Fox Project members erroneously thought they might be descendants
of Henry Fox and Anne West.� This list
includes a descendant of William Eires Fox, b 1758 in Virginia, a descendant of
Allen Fox, b 1760 in North Carolina, a descendant of
John Fox, b. ca 1705-15 in Essex Co, VA, two descendants of John B. Fox b. 1745 Orange County, Virginia,
who married Ann Barber and two descendants of William Fox b. 1836 in Warwick
County, VA, whose parents were William Fox and Nancy Stacy.
�A classic example of how erroneous family
trees get spread around is the tale of Andrew Fox, who first appeared in
Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1772 and then showed up in Greene County, TN, in
1786.�� Someone dreamed up a connection
to Henry Fox and Anne West via Henry Fox, 2nd, and Mary Kendrick and
then via a son named Jacob, a connection that managed to get into the files at
the Mormon Library. �Once there, it was
picked up by many others and published on various internet sites.� One such example is the Germanna Research
site, which questions contrary evidence published by a researcher named John
Fox and says Andrew may have been of German origin but still uses the Mormon
Library family tree[28].
�John Fox had suggested that Andrew Fox came
as an indentured prisoner to Culpeper, Virginia, in 1772 from Rutland, England,
the son of a pauper named Anne Fox.
James Fox in his 2012 book
Tracking Andrew Fox[29]
concludes that John Fox was correct.� He says
that Andrew Fox was indeed the illegitimate son of Anne Fox but thrived in
America; serving in the Revolutionary War, marrying Sarah Render of Culpeper
and acquiring 300 acres of property in Tennessee.� The evidence is all circumstantial but Y-DNA
testing tends to confirm this version over the others.�
�Andrew Fox was definitely not a Henry Fox/Anne
West descendant and may not have been a Fox by birth.� Three of his descendants have been tested out
to 37 markers and they are all close matches to a non-Fox descendant who traces
back to Scotland in 1898, as shown in Table 4.�
In addition, they are all considered to be members of Haplogroup R-L21,
a result strongly indicative of an ancient Scots/Irish ancestry.
The non-Fox descendant has
been tested out to 111 markers and his Haplogroup assignment has been confirmed
R- DF13 (a subclade of R-L21) by SNP testing.�
If one of our Andrew Fox descendants were to upgrade it might well
solidify the connection.
Conclusions and
Recommendations
There must be hundreds of
erroneous Fox genealogies posted on the internet that rely on sources mentioned
here.� It is probably too much to hope
that this paper will resolve all these problems but perhaps this is a good
start.� As the public comes to realize
the power of genetic surname testing, they will hopefully correct most of these
errors.
�Those whose connection to Henry Fox and Anne
West was disproven can take heart; they have learned a lot and usually have
used this information to set new goals for their research.� Those whose connection was proven can rejoice
that a contentious issue has finally been settled.
There are many challenges
remaining and perhaps this paper will spur more people to help resolve
them.� The many Virginia John Foxes
remain something of a mystery.� The English
ancestry of Henry Fox, 1st, is high on the list as is the possible
relationship of the Matthew Fox group to Sir Stephen Fox. �As mentioned previously, Henry Fox, 1st,
had a brother named John Fox who married Margaret Lightfoot and, hopefully,
there may be a direct male descendant of this line we
can locate and test.
Ann Woodard Fox took the
ancestry of Henry Fox, 1st, back to England and Joseph E. Steadman[30]
later made a comprehensive review of what is known about the British ancestry
of Henry Fox, 1st.� He was the
son of John Fox, a sea captain who also settled in Virginia in 1661, and this
line has been tentatively traced back to Henry Fox (1521) who married a Hawes
of Missenden and possibly to a William Fox (1497-1559) of Missenden,
Buckinghamshire, who lived at Stewkley Manor[31].
A William Vaux, descended
from a Norman Invader named Robert de Vaux, is known to have inherited Stewkley
Manor by marriage in 1424. If a Fox/Vaux connection could be substantiated,
this would carry the line back to 1066.
Table 1
Comparison of Henry
Fox/Anne West Descendants at 37 Markers
Line of Descent from
Henry Fox 1st |
Results
for Markers that Differ |
||||
|
DYS 458 |
DYS 385a,b |
DYS 470 |
DYS 460 |
CDYa,b |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Group 1 - Henry/Henry/Henry/William |
|
|
|
|
|
Henry/Henry/Henry/William/Henry/William/Malachi |
16 |
11-14 |
17 |
11 |
36-38 |
Henry/Henry/Henry/William/Henry/Joseph |
16 |
11-14 |
17 |
11 |
36-38 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Group 2
- Henry/Henry/Henry/Thomas |
|
|
|
|
|
Henry/Henry/Henry/Thomas/Thomas/Mike/Felix/Samuel |
16 |
11-14 |
17 |
11 |
35-38 |
Henry/Henry/Henry/Thomas/Thomas/Mike/Felix/Everett |
16 |
11-14 |
17 |
11 |
35-38 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Group 3 �
Henry/Thomas |
|
|
|
|
|
Henry/Thomas/Joseph/Joseph/Joseph
Steven |
16 |
11-14 |
17 |
10 |
36-38 |
Henry/Thomas/Joseph/Thomas/Jeremiah |
16 |
11-11-11-14 |
18 |
11 |
36-38 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Group 4 - Elder |
15 |
11-14 |
18 |
11 |
36-38 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Probable
Ancestral Value for Henry 1st |
16 |
11-14 |
17 |
11 |
36-38 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Table 2
�Descendants of Matthew, Francis and Justinian Fox at 37 Markers
Line of Descent |
Results for Markers that Differ |
|||||||
|
DYS 391 |
D YS 439 |
DYS 389ii |
DYS 458 |
DYS 447 |
DYS 576 |
DYS 570 |
CDYa,b |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descendants of Matthew Fox (1766-Abbeville, SC) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew/Anderson/Matthew
Anderson |
11 |
12 |
29 |
17 |
25 |
18 |
17 |
38-38 |
Matthew/Anderson/Matthew/Henry |
11 |
12 |
29 |
17 |
25 |
18 |
17 |
38-38 |
Matthew/William/Silas |
11 |
12 |
29 |
17 |
25 |
18 |
17 |
38-38 |
Matthew/John/William |
11 |
12 |
30 |
17 |
25 |
18 |
17 |
38-38 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descendants of Francis Fox (1607-Wiltshire, Eng) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
�Henrie/Francis/Francis/George/George |
11 |
12 |
29 |
17 |
25 |
17 |
17 |
38-38 |
�Henrie/Francis/Francis/George/Joseph |
12 |
12 |
29 |
17 |
25 |
17 |
17 |
38-38 |
Henrie/Francis/Francis/Francis/Francis |
11 |
12 |
29 |
na |
na |
na |
na |
na |
Henrie/Francis/Francis/John/John/Josiah |
11 |
13 |
29 |
�� 16 |
�� 25 |
�� 17 |
�� 17 |
�� 38-38 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descendants of Justinian Fox (1673-Plymouth,Eng) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Henrie/Edward/Justinian/Joseph/Joseph |
11 |
12 |
29 |
18 |
26 |
18 |
16 |
38-38 |
Henrie/Edward/Justinian/Joseph/Samuel |
11 |
12 |
29 |
17 |
26 |
19 |
17 |
38-39 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ancestral Haplotype |
11 |
12 |
29 |
17 |
25 |
18 |
17 |
38-38 |
Table 3
Comparison of William Fox,
Sr. and Hugh Fox Descendants at 67 Markers
Line of
Descent |
Results for Markers
that Differ |
|||||||
|
DYS 389ii |
DYS 448 |
DYS 456 |
DYS 576 |
CDYa,b |
DYS 578 |
DYS 557 |
DYS 444 |
Group 1 - William/William |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
William/William/James/James |
31 |
19 |
16 |
18 |
35-38 |
na |
na |
12 |
William/William/James/Reuben |
31 |
19 |
16 |
18 |
35-38 |
na |
na |
na |
|
|
|||||||
Group 2
- William/James |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
William/James/Bartleson |
31 |
19 |
16 |
18 |
35-38 |
8 |
16 |
12 |
|
|
|||||||
Group 3 � John and Enos Fox |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
John Fox b 1780 VA d 1852 KY |
31 |
19 |
16 |
18 |
35-38 |
8 |
15 |
12 |
Enos Fox b1814 KY d 1897 IA |
31 |
20 |
16 |
18 |
35-38 |
8 |
16 |
12 |
|
|
|||||||
Probable
Ancestral Value for William Sr. |
31 |
19 |
16 |
18 |
35-38 |
8 |
16 |
12 |
|
|
|||||||
Group 4 - Hugh Fox Descendants |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hugh/Hugh/James |
30 |
19 |
17 |
19 |
36-37 |
9 |
16 |
13 |
Hugh/Moses/Hugh |
30 |
19 |
17 |
18 |
36-38 |
na |
na |
na |
|
|
|||||||
Overall� Ancestral Haplotype |
19 |
18 |
16 |
|
||||
|
|
Table 4
Descendants of Andrew Fox of Virginia and Tennessee at 37 Markers
Line of Descent |
Results for Markers that Differ |
||||
|
DYS 449 |
DYS 576 |
DYS 570 |
CDYa,b |
GD From �Ancestral |
Andrew/Jacob/Matthias |
28 |
20 |
19 |
36-38 |
2 |
Andrew/Jacob/Joseph |
28 |
18 |
18 |
36-40 |
2 |
Andrew/Jesse/Jesse |
29 |
19 |
18 |
36-38 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
�Non Fox - Scotland � 1898 |
28 |
19 |
18 |
36-37 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Probable Ancestral |
28 |
19 |
18 |
36-38 |
|
Endnotes
[a] Table 1 shows results of mismatches in the first 37
markers, since this is what will be compared.�
Several of this group have tested out to 67 or more markers
[2] Steadman, Joseph E., Sr.,� Ancestry of the Fox Family of Richland and Lexington Counties, South Carolina, published by Steadman in 1972.
[3] Faucette, Shirley and McCain, William D., An Outline of Four Generations of the Family of Henry Fox (1768-1852) and His Wife, Sarah Harrell Fox (1772-1848), of South Carolina and Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1971.
[4]� Steadman, Part III, Chapters 4 and 5.
[5]� Steadman, Part III, Chapter 2 � Section 1.
[6] MacDonald, Iain, Haplogroup U-106/S21 Family Tree , pfd file updated November 24, 2014.
[7] Cocke, Ellen M.� Some Fox trails in old Virginia: John Fox of King William county, ancestors, descendants, near kin, Dietz press, 1939
[8] Fox, Ann Woodward, �The Noble Lineage of the Delaware-West� Family of Virginia through Col. John West his sons and his daughters including Ann West who married Henry Fox, edited by Margaret McNeill Ayres, Seebode Printing Service, Memphis Tennessee, 1958.
[9] Steadman, Joseph E., Sr.,� Part III, Chapters 2 and 3
[10] Chan, Francis Cooke,� Ancestors of Anselm Cooke by Frances Cooke Chan, Langford Publications, Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, 1998. ��See particularly Appendix 1.
[11] King,� George H. S. Letter to Dr. M. Harris April 27, 1961, King, George Harrison Sanford (1914-1985) papers, Virginia Historical Society.
[12] Steadman Part III, Chapter 3, section 2.
[13] King, George� H. S. Papers, Letter to Mrs. Vivian T. Rousseau, October 6, 1960.
[14] Steadman, Part III, Chapter 4.
[15] Fox, Joseph M. III, Growing with America, Chapters 26, 27 and 28.
[16] http://www.kinloch.ukgateway.net/pease.ged� accessed in 2005.
[17] Burke, John and John Bernard, A Genealogical and Heraldric Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1, p. 440 Henry Colburn Publisher, London, 1847.
[18] Fox, James Wallace, Fox Family by James Wallace Fox Richmond, VA, Reprint from the October Issue of William and Mary Quarterly, Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, Richmond Virginia, 1917, p 8.
[19] Adams, Nellie Fox and Walton, Bertha Fox,� Fox Cousins by the Dozens by Nellie Fox Adams and Bertha Fox Walton, Higginson Book Co., Salem Mass, 1998 (reprint of 1976 book.)
[20] Fox, James Wallace,� Fox Family, Richmond, VA,
[21] Steadman, Part III, Chapter 1.
[22] http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kwdaniel&id=I81� Accessed 6/24/2013.
[23] Personal communication.
[24] Personal communication from a descendant.
[25] Faucette, Shirley, Steadman vs. Robinson, Included as part of Steadman�s book.
[26]� Steadman, Part III, Chapter3, Section 1.
[27] Personal Communication from the author of Ancestors of Anselm Cooke.
[28] See http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=germanna&id=I9791 and http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jf5&id=I0925 ,accessed 11/29/2014.
[29]� Fox, James, Tracking� Andrew Fox,� Create Space Publishing, 2012.
[30]� Steadman, Part II
[31] Fox, John William� Fox/Vaux Lineage,� 2004 http://home.comcast.net/~jmfoxiii/pdf%20files/Vaux.pdf accessed 11/25/2014.