Francis Fox m. Dorothy Kekewich (?-?)
Lloyd H Fox was the 6th great grandson of Francis Fox
Burke, in “History of the Commoners” states “that the numerous families of Fox at present residing in the West of England sprang from one common ancestor, a Francis Fox. who married, 1646, Dorothy Kekewich.
Tradition represents him to come from Wiltshire (it is said from the parish of Farley, or that of Pitton}, somewhere in 1645 during the commotions of the civil war. He is stated to have been descended from the same family as the celebrated Sir Stephen Fox, ancestors of the Earls of Ilchester and the Lords Holland. It is likewise handed down that he one of seven or eight sons, and that others of the same family also came into Devonshire and Cornwall, settling at Plymouth and Looe, but left no sons who survived.
The wife of this Francis Fox was Dorothy Kekewich. She was of good family, being a relation of the family of Kekewich of Exeter, whose home at Catchfrench, in the parish of St. Germans, being then vacant, became their residence on their first settling in Cornwall.”
FRANCIS FOX and his family, consisting of three sons, “joined tbe Society of Friends soon after its first stablishment in Cornwall. Some of them shared in the sufferings that awaited its early members on account of the stand they so resolutely and successfully made for liberty of consciencee”
He died in 1670, having had three sons
(1) FRANCIS, of Whom presently.
(2) John, died s.p. 1651
(3) James, married,1673, Elizabeth Record, of Plymouth, and in 1686 removed, with the whole of his family, to Philadelphia: his descendants of the male line soon became extinct
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The children: Francis Fox 1647-1704, John 1650-1651, and James 1653-1699. It is stated that Francis Fox the father was a clothier.