A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
Gloucestershire. 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 gentleman, whose paternal name is Pigott,… … 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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