Catherine Fox (1836–1872)
Catherine Jencken (1872–1892)
b. 1836? d. 1892
American medium. From 1848, rapping noises occurred in the presence of Fox and her older sister, Margaret, at the family home. Went to New York with her mother and sisters, with Eliab Capron as manager, in 1850. Over the next few years she and her sisters held public and private sittings throughout the eastern United States. Travelled to England in 1871. Married the spiritualist barrister Henry Diedrich Jencken (baptised as Heinrich) (1823–81) in 1872. Returned to the US in 1885, four years after her husband’s death.
Sources
ANB
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 October 2022)
Registers of births, marriages and deaths surrendered to the Non-Parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857 (General Register Office RG4/4571)
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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