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Thomas Fairfax

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• • 15th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 18th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 136012 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Fairfax 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Sherburne   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1476 
  • Birth Location:
  • Walton, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Dec 1520 
  • Death Location:
  • Walton, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Agnes Gascoigne
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1495 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Nicholas Fairfax (Ahnentafel No:68006 )

  William Fairfax

  Thomas Fairfax

  Miles Fairfax

  Guy Fairfax

  Robert Fairfax

  Anne Fairfax

  Margaret Fairfax

  Isabel Fairfax

  Elizabeth Fairfax

  Dorothy Fairfax

  Katherine Fairfax

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• Sources for Thomas Fairfax

  • ¹ The Mayflower Descendant, 1990, Vol. 40, p. 10.
  • ² Burke, J. Bernard, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland for 1852, Vol. 1, A to O, London: Colburn and Company (1852), 394.
  • ³ Burke, Sir Bernard, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 10th Edition, London: Harrison and Sons (1904), 393.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 80.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, pp. 139-140.
  • ⁶ Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 63, 84.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 186.
  • ⁸ Taylor, Edgar, The Suffolk Bartholomeans: A Memoir of the Ministerial and Domestic History of John Meadows, London: William Pickering (1840), 65.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Thomas Fairfax (Gilling)", (accessed 03/30/2011).

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