Brief Life History of Nicholas
When Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden was born in 1460, in Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England, his father, Sir William Vaux IV, was 25 and his mother, Lady Katherine Penyson, was 20. He married Elizabeth FitzHugh in 1484. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He died on 14 May 1523, in Clerkenwell St John, Middlesex, England, at the age of 63, and was buried in Blackfriars, London, England.
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- Sir Vaux, "Find A Grave Index"
- "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" Lestrange, Sir Thomas
- pg 185 Line 201 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700
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Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Vaux, from the Old French plural of val ‘valley’. Compare English Vause and French Devaux .
History: Richard Vaux (1749–90) emigrated from Sussex, England, to Philadelphia, PA, in early youth. Calvert Vaux, landscape architect, emigrated from London, England, to America in 1850 and designed several major US parks, including Central Park in New York City (with Frederick Olmstead). — This surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (along with its variant Veaux and altered form Devoe ) and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Biography of Nicholas Vaux
Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden (c. 1460 – 14 May 1523) was a soldier and courtier in England and an early member of the House of Commons . The son of Lancastrian loyalists, Sir William …
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