A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1838)
. FAIRFAX, OF GILLING CASTLE. FAIRFAX, CHARLES-GREGORY, esq. of Gilling Castle, in the county ofYork, m. Mary, second sister of Sir Henry Goodricke, bart. of Ribston, in the sameshire, and has issue, Charles-Gregory. Lavinia. Harriet. This o-entleman, whose paternal name is Pigott, assumed, by act… … This ancient family was originally namedfrom the Fair locks of its members—feax, signifying hair in the language ofour Saxon ancestors, and it was establishedbefore the Norman conquest at Torces-ter, in the county of Northumberland,whence removing into Yorkshire, there, inthe vicinity of York, in…
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