Margaret Fox

Conflicting Data and Sources

• What proves that she was born in Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire?
  • When inputting her birthplace as Dry Drayton in 1611 on Ancestry, the AI hint it brings up shows the following:
    • Baptism: 31 Mar 1611 – Dry Drayton – Father: Jacobi Clarke; Mother: Ann.
      • England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, at Ancestry.com.
      • England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980, at Ancestry.com.
    • Is this provable? Maybe. (See note about a brother Henry below.)
• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 @Google Books does not indicate a given name for her husband.
  • However, it says that Margaret was a "sister of Henry Clarke."
    • Given that a Henry Clarke appears in this record suggests that he also emigrated to Colonial America.
    • For Margaret to be born in Dry Drayton to the parentage shown above, then Henry Clarke must also show the same parentage and place of birth. There is no source for any Henry Clarke baptized in Cambridgeshire between 1608-1620, which discounts Dry Drayton as Margaret's town of baptism. See FamilySearch results.
    • At present, there is no brother connected to her through the presently-showing father, Nicholas Clarke, which may or may not have been Margaret's father—if one accepts Dry Drayton as her place of birth.
• The following book does not mention Margaret's town of birth. Her bio in this book is posted in Sources:
  • Ferris, Mary Walton. 1931. “Fox.” In Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes, 2:345–48. Chicago: Privately Printed. Available at : Babel.HathiTrust.

Book: Quoted Passage

• Boyd, Cora Dunham. 1928. The American Ancestors and Descendants of Willard William and Cora Dunham Boyd: 1620-1928. St. Louis, Missouri, USA: Privately Printed. Available at: Archive.org.
  • “In Stiles Ancient Windsor, we find a brief note stating that Henry Fowkes was “early at Dorchester and at Windsor; buried Sept. 12, 1640 at Windsor”. His daughter Hannah Fowkes or Fox, married Nov. 1, 1653, Thomas Loomis.
  • “Margaret Clarke, wife of Henry Fox, received bequests from her brother, Mr. Henry Clark of Windsor, one of the 19 Patentees under the Conn. Charter, a man of considerable importance in the official life of Windsor, and one of the first settlers of Hadley. He died Dec. 23, 1675, leaving no wife and children, and left most of his estate to his sister Margaret Fox and to her grandchildren, Hannah and Mary Loomis, their Mother having died.”
  • "Data from Salsbury’s Genealogy, Vol. III. page 239." (Note: Unable to locate this volume online.)

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Margaret Clarke
Birth: Between 1611 and 1617 in Bedfordshire, England <— What source proves this?
Death: Apr 13 1673 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents: Nicholas Clarke, Mrs Nicholas Clarke <— What source proves this?
Spouses:: Thomas Fox, Richard Fox, Henry Fox or Fowkes <— What source proves all these husbands?
Children: Richard Fox Sr., Hannah Loomis (born Fox), ELIZABETH FOX

Margaret Fox or Fowkes (born Clarke)
Birth: Mar 11 1611 in Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, England <— What source proves this?
Death: Apr 13 1673 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Mother: Mrs Nicholas Clarke <— What source proves this?
Husband: Henry Fox or Fowkes
Son: Richard Fox Sr.
Sister: Margaret Clarke

• FamilySearch Family Tree

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GEDCOM Source

Age: 61-62

• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 2 2022, 15:02:13 UTC