A Short Genealogical Account of Some of the Various Families of Fox in the West of England

This item is not a Victorian penny dreadful but a genealogical record. It is a privately printed family history of 1861, compiled by Charles Henry Fox of Brislington House near Bristol. The work traces the Fox family branches settled in the West of England from Francis Fox and Dorothy Kekewich, married circa 1640, through multiple generations to the mid-nineteenth century. It includes detailed pedigrees with names, dates of marriage, and descendants. The text also incorporates a heraldic grant of arms from Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms (1840), and incorporates genealogical sketches of related families—Croker, Churchill, Howell, Coplestone, Strode, Fortescue, and Bondville—with which the Fox family intermarried. The compilation documents lineage, family connections, and the removal of some family branches to Philadelphia and America.