On Nov 7, 10:07 pm, Wjhonson <
wjhon...@aol.com> wrote:
> OK I have the line now from the Buckworth baronets back to Anne Bacon through Elizabeth Killigrew Viscountess Shannon
>
> But the only source I have for Paston Herne's grandmother Frances Fairfax was calling her daughter of Henry Lord Fairfax, however a primary contemporary source giving her age proves that is impossible and further it states that she was daughter of someone named "Francis Fairfax". Any idea who that might be?
Let's look at the sources which you failed to identify but are
probably the ones below.
Blomefield's Norfolk says that Frances was daughter of "Henry Fairfax,
Lord Viscount Fairfax, of Gilling in Yorkshire".
http://books.google.com/books?id=WVoMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA392
But there was no Henry Fairfax, Viscount Fairfax. The first Viscount
Fairfax of Emley was Thomas and his son, also Thomas, was the 2nsd
Viscount. Also Blomefield confuses the Clement Herne who married
Frances Fairfax with his father Clement, assigning the death date of
the father to the son and making him die in 1694 aged 84. This age is
incompatible with the marriage record for the younger Clement and
Frances Fairfax, shown here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=DioEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA74
I suspect that the identification of her father as Francis here is a
clerical error - it's more likely that her MOTHER's name was Frances.
The compiler of the Stirnet website has suggested that Frances Fairfax
Herne was a daughter of Henry Fairfax of Burlington (d. 4 Apr 1650
aged 49), who was a younger son of Thomas, the 1st Viscount.
According to Fairtfax pedigrees in "Herald and Genealogist" v. 6 & 7,
Henry married Frances, dau. of Henry Barker of Hurst, and had 3
children including a daughter Frances for whom a marriage is not
specified. (He also had a son Henry who had a daughter Frances who
mar. David Erskine, 9th Earl of Buchan).
The identification of Frances Fairfax Herne as a daughter of Henry,
son of the 1st Viscount, makes senses chronologically, and the use of
the name Frances in three generations of this family also fits well.