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Isaac FOX (1759 - 1811)
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John FOX (1794 - 1852)
Elisa FOX (1808 - 1875)
Isaac FOX (1810 - 1878)
Isaac FOX (1759 - 1811)

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Christina PHILIPS ( - 1796)

Mary Eliza YOUNG (1788 - 1875)
Gilbert FOX (1714 - 1780)











Mary WILSON (1714 - 1785)











Isaac FOX Mary Eliza YOUNG

Isaac FOX Isaac FOX
Isaac FOX Mary Eliza YOUNG Isaac FOX Isaac FOX
b. 1759 at England
m. (1) 20 Sep 1792 Christina PHILIPS ( - 1796)
m. (2) 02 Aug 1806 Mary Eliza YOUNG (1788 - 1875) at London, Middlesex, England
d. Jan 1811 aged 52
Near Relatives of Isaac FOX (1759 - 1811)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Father in Law David YOUNG
Mother in Law Isabella SAYLE

Father Gilbert FOX 1714 1780 66
Mother Mary WILSON 1714 1785 71

Self Isaac FOX 1759 England Jan 1811 52

Wife Christina PHILIPS abt Dec 1796
Wife Mary Eliza YOUNG abt 04 Jan 1788 Buckinghamshire, England 16 Apr 1875 Buckingham Pl, Brighton, England 87

Son John FOX 28 Nov 1794 1852 58
Daughter Elisa FOX 02 May 1808 1875 67
Son Isaac FOX 14 Feb 1810 Liverpool, Lancashire, England 30 Nov 1878 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 68

Sister Ann FOX 1746 1797 51
Sister Mary FOX 1748 1772 24
Sister Ellen (Eleanor) FOX 1751 1814 63
Brother John FOX 1753 1846 93
Brother Gilbert FOX 1756 1839 83

Daughter in Law Mary Lavina DREW 1896
Son in Law Thomas LAMBERT 1810 1881 71
Daughter in Law Mary Bridget RICHARDSON abt 1815 Croydon, Surrey, England 10 Jan 1845 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 30
Daughter in Law Sarah Milbourne CARTER 24 Sep 1826 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England 13 Jul 1895 Marrickville, Sydney, Australia 68

Grandson Stephen FOX
Granddaughter Theodora FOX
Grandson John Tregea Titley FOX 26 Aug 1832
Granddaughter Charlotte Eliza Titley FOX 06 May 1835
Grandson Isaac FOX 14 Jun 1850 1924 Jamaica 74
Grandson Thomas LAMBERT 1841 1881 40
Grandson Frederick Fox LAMBERT 1843 1918 75
Grandson Edward Tiley LAMBERT 1844 1908 64
Granddaughter Emma LAMBERT 1847
Grandson Streeter LAMBERT abt 1848 1910 62
Grandson Isaac Cowley LAMBERT 1851
Granddaughter Mary Eliza LAMBERT 1854
Grandson George FOX 1836 Croydon, Surrey, England 27 Jan 1914 Yeronga, Queensland, Australia 78
Grandson Isaac Alexander FOX 26 May 1838 At sea 30 Aug 1918 Queensland, Australia 80
Grandson John Ruskin FOX 27 Aug 1840 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 27 Feb 1873 Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia 32
Granddaughter Mary Eliza FOX 11 Nov 1841 Taradale, Lake George, New South Wales, Australia 20 Jan 1876 Berrima, New South Wales, Australia 34
Grandson William Richardson FOX 26 Oct 1843 Taradale, Lake George, New South Wales, Australia 29 Jun 1898 South Pine River, Queensland, Australia 54
Granddaughter Ann FOX 09 Oct 1850 Bungonia, New South Wales, Australia 1927 North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 77
Grandson Thomas Lambert FOX 07 May 1852 Bungonia, New South Wales, Australia 1882 Winton, Queensland, Australia 30
Grandson Edward Carter FOX 17 Jun 1854 Bungonia, New South Wales, Australia 1861 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 7
Grandson Frederick Young FOX 13 Apr 1856 Bungonia, New South Wales, Australia 1938 82
Granddaughter Emma Oldfield FOX 16 May 1858 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 08 Nov 1942 Mosman, New South Wales, Australia 84
Granddaughter Fanny FOX 28 Mar 1860 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 1947 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 87
Grandson Benjamin Carter FOX 10 Feb 1862 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 1913 West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia 51
Granddaughter Alice Maud FOX 07 Nov 1864 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 23 Aug 1951 86
Grandson Arthur Holroyd FOX 27 Aug 1866 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 13 Jun 1955 Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia 88

Events in Isaac FOX (1759 - 1811)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1759 Isaac FOX was born England
1780 21 Death of father Gilbert FOX (aged 66)
1785 26 Death of mother Mary WILSON (aged 71)
20 Sep 1792 33 Married Christina PHILIPS 20
28 Nov 1794 35 Birth of son John FOX 20
abt Dec 1796 37 Death of wife Christina PHILIPS 20
02 Aug 1806 47 Married Mary Eliza YOUNG (aged 18) London, Middlesex, England
02 May 1808 49 Birth of daughter Elisa FOX 20
14 Feb 1810 51 Birth of son Isaac FOX Liverpool, Lancashire, England 11
Jan 1811 52 Isaac FOX died 20
Personal Notes:
Isaac Fox of Roeburndale was born at “Scale”, an up hill sheep farm two miles south of Wray. His parents were Gilbert 1714-80 and Mary (Wilson) 1714-85, who were tenant farmers in the Hundred of Lonsdale. This area is about 12 miles east of Lancaster in Lancashire. The ecclesiastical parish is Melling, and the centre of local power in that period was Hornby. Isaac was the sixth child of seven, and the third son.

About 1790 Isaac moved to Kingston, Jamaica. Our fist record of him there is in 1792, where he is listed as merchant, of Kingston, marrying Christiana Stevenson, a widow of St Andrews on September 20. On November 28 1794, a son John was born.

Feurtado states that Isaac Fox was an ensign in St Andrews Militia in 1793, Lt. in 1794, Captain 1796, Major 1805 and Lt. Colonel in 1807. He was made a JP in 1802 and a Church Warden of St Andrews in1805. He appears to be a man of some substance and vigour. He was a merchant, soldier, and churchman. He owned a coffee plantation “Mt Chrissey”. In the Jamaican Almanac for 1818 Mount Chrissey is listed as the property of the Estate of Isaac Fox, with 78 slaves and 4 stock. “Mt. Chrissey” was about 500 acres, in the parish of St Andrews in the Blue Mountains, on the borders of Portland and St Mary near Fox’s Gap. It is about 30 miles north of Kingston.

Christiana died, probably in December 1796. Isaac married for a second time to Mary Eliza Young (1788-1875) on the 2 August 1806. She was an 18 year old bride who required her father David’s approval to marry. We are fairly sure that his new bride never travelled to Jamaica, and that her two children were born in England. Mary was a member of a distinguished Scottish family who moved to the West Indies in 1715 from Leny, in the Trossachs, following another unsuccessful Jacobite uprising. They had two children, Elisa born 2 May 1808, and Isaac born 14 February 1810.

Isaac Fox was lost at sea, in January 1811, apparently returning to or from Jamaica to finalise his affairs there, and then to England to retire. His estate took some time to finalise, and it received 16,000 pounds stg. from the British Government to free the slaves.

John, from the first marriage, stayed in Jamaica, and married Mary Lavina (Drew). He lost the property and became a member of the clergy, as rector of Black River. He died in the cholera epidemic of 1852. Children from the marriage were John Tregea Titley born 26 August 1832, Charlotte Eliza Titley (Sythe) born 6 May 1835, Theodora (Olney), Stephen, and Isaac born 14 June 1850. John’s descendants live on today in Florida, Canada, and the Northern Territory in Australia.

Elisa, from the second marriage, married Thomas Lambert (1810-81), from Telham Court, Battle, Sussex, and their children played an influential part in the social and political life in England. The children from the union were as follows: Thomas (b 1841), Rev. Frederick Fox (b 1843), Edward Tiley (b 1844), Emma (b 1847) (Everett), Streeter (b 1848?), Isaac Cowley (b 1851), Mary Eliza (b 1854) (Bell).

Their descendents, the Everetts and the Bells, stayed in touch with their Australian Fox cousins as late as the 1950’s.

Isaac (b 1810) established the Australian branch of the family when he emigrated in 1838. He is the subject of a following article.

Peter Fox wrote "Isaac Fox was the son of an impoverish tenant farmer in Lancashire who married, firstly for money and then secondly for social position. His financial success enabled the Australian side of the family to migrate and establish themselves quite comfortably as free settlers."
Source References:
18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool
- Reference = Peter Fox 29-3-09 (Name, Notes)
20. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Fox family tree, Title: Fox family, Locn: http://www.foxfamilyhistory.com/
- Reference = http://www.foxfamilyhistory.com/Isaac_Fox_1759/IsaacFox_1759.htm (Death)
- Reference = http://www.foxfamilyhistory.com/Isaac_Fox_1759/IsaacFox_1759.htm (Marriage)
- Reference = http://www.foxfamilyhistory.com/Isaac_Fox_1759/IsaacFox_1759.htm (Name, Notes)

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