R1b-L47
Clade R1b (R1b-U106 subclade)
Case study confidence 📍 England (Buckinghamshire) to Colonial Virginia, USA
Also spelled: Foxe (lineage-specific: Henry Fox 1st & Anne West descendants of Colonial Virginia)
STR/SNP triangulation across six generations of documented descendants of Henry Fox 1st (1650-1714) and Anne West confirmed a single R1b-L47 paternal lineage and resolved a century-old paternity dispute over Henry Fox 2nd. Other Colonial-Virginia men bearing the Fox surname were shown by the same project to belong to entirely unrelated haplogroups (R1b-L1/S26, R1b-L21, R1b-DF13), demonstrating that "Fox" is not a single genetic lineage - only this specific documented branch carries R1b-L47.
Source: Fox JM III, Fox DE. "Y-DNA Testing of a Paper Trail - The Fox Surname Project." Journal of Genetic Genealogy 8(1):7-20, 2016.
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