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by Richard James » Wed Jul 23, 2025 11:11 am
We can pick up six Fox/Carkeet children from the census records:
Charles James
Elizabeth Anna
Francis John
Mary Theodora
William Henry
Margaret Carkeet
... along with their adopted daughter Ann M, about the same age as Margaret.
I can only find birth records for Charles, Elizabeth and Mary. It seems that, for whatever reason, the family were neglectful in registering their children's births.
It's quite possible that Ann was the daughter, perhaps illegitimate, of another family member.
I've just found this, from an online tree run by someone who is, coincidentally, also distantly related to me.
Charles James Fox was amongst the founders of modern dentistry, as one of the first to call for the formation of a national dental association, the development of professional journals and the establishment of dental hospitals and schools. He set the second dental dispensary in England, the London Dental Dispensary founded on 20.2.1855. He was a Quaker, the son and grandson of doctors and followed an uncle and four cousins into dentistry. He was only 25 when he set up the dispensary at 44 Clarence Gardens, Regent's Park, initially ran at his own expense, “to assist the poor in the preservation of their teeth, and to extend to them such advantages, resulting from timely dental aid, as have hitherto been almost exclusively enjoyed by the better classes of society.” In 1866, when a dentist was accused of assault for administering chloroform to extract teeth, “feeling an injustice had been done, Mr Charles James Fox, dentist, with the concurrence of many leading practitioners, convened a meeting which passed a resolution expressing sympathy and declaring that actions of this nature were calculated to embarrass every practitioner. The meeting appointed a committee, whose report was received yesterday. The chairman commented upon the erroneous notions entertained by the public and even by the less experienced practitioners respecting the administration of Chloroform. Several gentlemen declared it was a public calamity that that it should be supposed that charity on the part of medical men was practiced with ulterior motives.” He published in Transactions of the Orthodontic Society London “On the application of a hydraulic press for swaging gold plates in 1860, “On the position of dental surgery as a profession” in 1870 and “a Few words on the extraction of teeth” in 1871. He played an important role leading up to the Acts of 1870 that gave recognition to dentistry’s claim to be a profession. In 1861 Charles lived at Cavendish Square, Marylebone with his wife, their children, brother in law William and his wife's nephew Charles Price who was a dental assistant, a visitor, a medical student, a surgery maid, a housemaid, a nurse and a cook.
