Frances (Sheffield) Fairfax (abt. 1590 - bef. 1615)

Born about 1590 in England [uncertain]

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Descendants

Died before 9 Jun 1615 before about age 25 in England [uncertain]

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Biography

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Birth

Frances was the daughter of Sir Edmund Sheffield KG, third Earl of Sheffield, first Earl of Mulgrave, and his first wife Ursula Tyrwhitt, daughter of Robert Tyrwhitt, Knt.^[1][2]

Marriage

Frances married Philip Fairfax in 1607.^[1][3] The strategic marriages of Frances to Philip of Steeton and her sister, Mary, to Philip's cousin, Ferdinando of Denton, brought stability to the formerly feuding branches of the Fairfax family.^[3][4]

Four sons and two daughters were born to Frances and Philip's marriage:

• Edmund, born before 3 November 1609;^[1][2][3]
• William, Knt., born in 1609, married Frances Chaloner of Guisborough in 1629;^[1][2][3][5]
• Thomas;^[1][2]
• John;^[1][2]
• Mary;^[1][2] and
• Ursula, wife of James Chaloner.^[1][2][3]

Either Frances bore a child every year in the short course of her marriage to Philip or two or more of the children were twins.

Death

Frances died two years after her husband and was buried at Bolten Percy, Yorkshire, on 9 June 1615.^[1][2][6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: The author, 2013), Vol I, p. 379, BLADEN 15.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry, 4 vols., 2nd. edition, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: The author, 2011), Vol. 1, p. 213, BLADEN 15, (WebLink Google Books).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Clements R. Markham. Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton, Vice-Admiral, Alderman, and Member for York (London: Macmillan and Co., 1885), pp. 8, 9, (WebLink Internet Archive).
4. ↑ George William Johnson. The Fairfax Correspondence. Memoirs of the Reign of Charles the First (London: R. Bentley, 1848), Vol. 1, p. xxiii (WebLink Internet Archive).
5. ↑ Charles Harding. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900: Fairfax, William (1609-1644) (London: Elder Smith & Co., 1889), Vol. 18, p. 150, (WebLink Wikisource).
6. ↑ George William Johnson. The Fairfax Correspondence. Memoirs of the Reign of Charles the First (London: R. Bentley, 1848), Vol. 1, pp. xxvi, xxvii, (WebLink Internet Archive).

See also:

• Joseph foster. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire (London: Compiler, 1874), Vol. I, p. Pedigree of Fairfax, (WebLink Internet Archive).