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Descendants of Baron4 Fairfax Fairfax Henry-7626

Second Generation


2. Gov Virginia Lord5 Fairfax of Cameron Fairfax Thomas-7633 (Henry ) was born on 16 Apr 1657. He died on 10 Jan 1709/1710 in Midx.

His sister in Burke's P&B for Sherard. He is gov of Va 1675-1682. He owns 300,000 acres in the Shenandoah Valley in Va, which go to his widow. GEC, Peerage, Fairfax, p. 231, Colepeper, p. 365. http from stirnet.com file2 on Fairfax.

Thomas married Lady Fairfax Colepeper Catherine-75048 daughter of Gov Va Baron2 Colepeper Colepeper Thomas-5186 and Van Hesse Margaret Of Zealand-5187 in 1685 in Circa. Catherine died on 30 Apr 1719. She was buried in Broomfield,Kent.

GEC, Peerage, Colepeper of Thoresway, p. 365. Her parents were buried at Broomfield, Kent. She inherits Leeds Castle in Kent plus 300,000 acres in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. GEC, Peerage, Fairfax, p. 231.

Thomas and Catherine had the following children:

  7 M i Of Fredk Co Va Unmarried Baron6 Fairfax Fairfax Thomas-5198 was born in 1692 in Denton,England. He died on 12 Mar 1782 in Winchester,Virginia.

Died unmarried. GEC, Peerage, Fairfax, p. 232. Proprietor of Northern Neck of Virginia, at Oxford Univ, owned land between the Rappahanock and the Potomac, inherited land from his mother got from his
grandfather, the Second Baron Culpeper, a colonial gov of Virginia, new surveys made of the Nothern Neck by 1737, in 1745 the Privy Council gave Fairfax a minimum of 5,282,000 acres and in 1747 Fairfax came to live in Virginia. A Loyalist, only peer in the area, he remained unharmed during the Rev. tho he lost his proprietorship of the land in 1785.
+ 8 M ii Baron7 Fairfax, MP Maidstone Fairfax Robert-7639 was born in 1707. He died on 15 Jul 1793.
  9 M iii Unm Fairfax Henry Colepeper-39358 died in 1743.
  10 F iv Fairfax Margaret-5913.

stirnet file2 on Fairfax.
  11 F v Fairfax Frances-193817 was born in 1703. She died in 1791.
        Frances married Martin Denny-324088 son of Martin Progenitor-324089 and MNotknown Miss-324090.

stirnet file2 on Fairfax.

3. Fairfax Dorothy-20286 (Henry ) died on 14 Jan 1744.

stirnet file2 on Fairfax. Burke's P&B for Sherard. GEC, Peerage, Mount Edgecumbe, p. 316.

Dorothy married Sherard Bennet-85704 son of MP Sherard Philip-20285 and Denton Margaret-8657. Bennet died in 1701/1711.

stirnet file2 on Fairfax. Burke's P&B for Sherard. GEC, Peerage, Mount Edgecumbe, p. 316.

Bennet and Dorothy had the following children:

+ 12 M i Baron4 Sherard Earl2 Sherard Earl2 Harborough Sherard Philip-85694 was born in 1680. He died in 1750.
+ 13 F ii Sherard Margaret-176679 was christened in 1718.

4. Hon of Toulston Co Fairfax Henry-330238 (Henry ) was born in 1659. He died in 1708.

http from stirnet.com file2 on Fairfax. GEC, Peerage, Fairfax, p. 233.

Henry married Of South Cave Harrison Anne-7663 daughter of Of South Cave Harrison Richard-285620 and HNotknown Miss-285621.

They had the following children:

+ 14 M i Gov Va of Belvoir Va Fairfax William-7261 was born in 1692. He died on 3 Sep 1757.

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