Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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Thomas Fairfax

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• • 16th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 19th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 272024 
  • Father:
  • William Fairfax 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine Neville   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1450 
  • Birth Location:
  • Walton, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Mar 1505 
  • Death Location:
  • Walton, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Sherburne
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1475 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Fairfax (Ahnentafel No:136012 )

  William Fairfax

  Richard Fairfax

  Robert Fairfax

  Jane Fairfax

  Dorothy Fairfax

  Isabel Fairfax

  • Notes: 

  • Master of the Horse to King Edward IV

• Sources for Thomas Fairfax

  • ¹ The Mayflower Descendant, 1990, Vol. 40, Page 10.
  • ² thePeerage.com: A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of Britain as Well as the Royal Families of Europe, (accessed 03/30/2011).
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ Guild of Corpus Christi, The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York, Durham: Andrews and Company (1872), 29, 133.
  • 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), 139.
  • ⁶ Taylor, Edgar, The Suffolk Bartholomeans: A Memoir of the Ministerial and Domestic History of John Meadows, London: William Pickering (1840), 65.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Thomas Fairfax (Walton)", (accessed 03/30/2011).

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