Birth: 14 Apr 1886 Bradford, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Andrew Chadwick Fox 1845-1919
Mother: Sarah Ann Fox 1859-1938
Marriage: 10 July 1911 St Paul, Manningham, Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Florence Kershaw 1889-1962
Marriage: January-March 1937 Croydon, Surrey, UK
Wife: Constance Ann Fairer Smith 1907-1994
Death: June 1970 Manhood Farm, Birdham, West Sussex, UK
Buried: 23rd June 1970 St James, Birdham, West Sussex, UK
By Florence
Mary Dundas Fox 1912
Joan M Fox 1914
Nancey E Fox 1921
By Constance
Michael John Dundas Fox 1931-2005
Ann P D Fox 1933-2002
Shirley C D Fox 1935
Two entries in FreeBMD for the birth of William Duncan Fox and William Dundas Fox in April-June 1886 in Bradford Y (9b 140) but only the second is on the typed original.
In the 1891 census as Wm D Fox aged 4, born in Bradford, Yorkshire and living with his parents (Andrew Chadwick and Sarah Ann), four brothers (Andrew, Frank, Harry and Percy), sister (Amy C) and a servant (Mary Briden aged 22, born in Stainby, Derbyshire and single) at 47 Southfield Square, Manningham, Yorkshire.
In the 1901 census as William D Fox aged 14, born in Bradford, Yorkshire, and living with his parents (Andrew C and Sarah A), three brothers (Andrew, Frank and Percy), sister (Amy C) and a servant (Mary E Palmer aged 17, single and born in Wellington, Salop) at 47 Southfield Square, Manningham, Bradford, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as Wm Dundas Fox aged 24, born in Bradford, Yorkshire, single, an electric engineer at ? Electric Supply Co Ltd., and visiting James Kershaw (aged 50, born in Bradford, Yorkshire, a housekeeper (sic - in the index, horsekeeper for a pork butcher on the original, and his future father-in-law?), his wife (Annie aged 44, born in Micklefield, Yorkshire, married for 24 years with four children, two having died, at Central Station, and his future mother-in-law?), and two daughters (Alice aged 24, born in Bradford, Yorkshire, single and a dressmaker?, and Florence aged 21, born in Bradford, Yorkshire, single and a national telephone operator - his future wife?) at 49 (sic - in the index, 47 on the original) Carlisle Place, Manningham, Bradford, Yorkshire-West Ring.
Marriage of William D Fox and Florence Kershaw in FreeBMD in July-September 1911 in Bradford (9B 414).
Entry in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for William Dundas Fox aged 25, father Andrew Chadwick Fox, and Florence Kershaw on 10 July 1911 at Manningham, St Paul. "Page 54 [...] 1911 Marriage solemnized at Manningham in the Parish Church of S. Pauls in the County of York. [No.] 108 William Dundas Fox [aged] 25 [a] Bachelor [and] Electrical Engineer [of] 2 Lindum Terrace [father] Andrew Chadwick Fox Retired [crosssed out and replaced by] Gentleman, [and] Florence Kershaw [aged] 22 [a] Spinster [of] 47 Carlisle Place [father] James Kershaw [an] Ostler. Married in the Ch. of St Paul accord to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Ch of England after Banns [...] in the Presence of us, Frank Fox [and] Andrew Fox".
His three daughters were registered in West Ward, Westmorland in 1912, and in Bradford in 1914 and 1921.
In the 1921 census as William Dundas Fox born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1886 and living with Florence Fox (wife?), Mary Dundas Fox (daughter?) and one other in Bradford, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Two entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for W.Dundas Fox & Co Importers and Exporters address Thirnscoe Road, Bradford in 1922, 86A Manningham Lane in 1926 and 1927 number Bradford 1625.
Entry in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for W.Dundas Fox address 89 Brighton Road, Coulsdon Purley 2268 in 1933.
Three entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for William Dundas Fox address 89 Brighton Road, Coulsdon from 1931 to 1933, other occupant Constance Ann Fox (future wife?).
His son and daughter were registered in Croydon in 1931 and 1933, and daughter in Mid Eastern Surrey in 1935.
Entry in Ancestry Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for W.Dundas Fox address 1 Rose Walk, Purley, number Uplands 4567 in 1935 and 1936.
Two entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Dundas William (sic - on the original) Fox address White Cottage, Rose Walk, Coulsdon in 1934 other occupant Constance Ann Fox (future wife?), and 1 Rose Walk, Coulsdon in 1935 other occupant Constance Ann Fox (future wife?), and another for William Dundas Fox address 59 Acre Lane, Carshalton, Mitcham in 1936 other occupant Constance Alice (sic - on the original) Fox (future wife?).
Entry in Ancestry All Sutton, Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1931-1970 for William Dundas Fox address 59 Acre Lane, Carshalton, Mitcham in 1936 other occupant Constance Alice (sic - on the original) Fox (future wife?).
Marriage of William D Fox and Constance A F Smith in FreeBMD in January-March 1937 in Croydon (2A 1215).
Two entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for William Dundas Fox address 59 Acre Lane, Carshalton, Mitcham in 1937 and 1938, other occupant Constance Alice (sic - on the original) Fox (wife?).
Entry in Ancestry All West Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1963 for William Dundas Fox address Ab-Origine, Nyetimber Lane, Chichester in 1939, other occupant Constance A F Fox (wife?),
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as William D Fox born 14 April 1886, married, a company director - electrical engineers, and living with Constance A Fox (wife?), Michael J Fox (son?), Ann P Fox (daughter?), Walter Thurecht and one other at Ab Origine, Nyetimber Lane, Bognor Regis, Sussex,
Entry in Ancestry UK, London Gazettes World War II Military Notices, 1939-1945 Page 390 Supplement to the London Gazette, 20January , 1941 Corps of Royal Engineers [...] The undermentioned to be 2nd Lts:- 23 Nov. 1940 [...] William Dundas Fox (157511).
Eleven entries in Ancestry All West Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1963 for William D Fox addresses The Grazons, Shripney, Berstead, Chichester from 1945 to 1947, other occupant Constance Ann Fox (wife?); Keri, Barnham, Eatergate, Chichester from 1948 to 1950, other occupant Constance A F Fox (wife?); Lidsey House, Main Road, Aldingbourne, Chichester in 1950, other occupant Constance A Fox (wife?), The Wych, Third Avenue, Summerley Estate, Felpham, Bognor Regis from 1951 to 1952, other occupant Constance A Fox (wife?); Mill Lodge, Main Road, Bosham, Chichester in 1953, other occupants Constance A F Fox (wife?) and Michael J Fox (son?); Old Farm Cottage, Itchenor Road, Birdham, Chichester in 1954, other occupants Constance A F Fox (wife?) and Michael J D Fox (son?); 98 Fishboure Road, Chichester in 1957, and Sydney Cottage, Spring Gardens, East Askling, Funtington, Chichester in 1958, other occupants Constance A F Fox (wife?) and Shirley C D Fox (daughter?).
Death of William Dundas Fox, born 14 April 1886, in FreeBMD in April-June 1970 in Chichester (5H 1741).
Entry in Ancestry West Sussex, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995 for William Dundas Fox buried 23 June 1970 aged 84 in St. James Birdham. "Page 50 Burials in the Parish of St. James Birdham in the County of Sussex in the year One thosand nine hundred and seventy [...] William Dundas Fox No. 395 [of] Manhood Farm, Birdham [on] 23rd June 1970 [aged] 84".
Entry in Gravestone Photograph Index, 1265-2014 for William Dundas Fox buried at St James Birdham in 1970 aged 84."William Dundas/Fox 1886-1970/And Constance/Ann Fairer Fox/1907-1994".
There are twenty two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Dundas Fox.
William Dundas Fox was the father of Michael John Dundas Fox, husband of Jennifer Ann Denholm Armour, daughter of Robert Syme Denholm Armour, husband of Phyllis Eileen Katherine Morrison, wife of Erwin Henry Martin Slade (Schlaich), husband of Lucienne Marie G Lagasse de Locht, wife of Anthony Peter Crane, husband of Violet Anne Christine Elphinstone Fenton, wife of Philip Dudley Cross, my half first cousin.
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