Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax
Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
b. 1762 · d. 1846
Husband of Margaret Herbert Fairfax Margaret Herbert Fairfax d. 1858 Eldest daughter of and who in January 1800 married ; the surviving British Lords Fairfax of Cameron line descends from her in the maternal line. ; grandfather of Charles Snowden Fairfax, 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. The surviving British baronage of Cameron descends from this 1800 Alexandria marriage.
Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was born in 1762 and died 21 April 1846. In January 1800 he married Margaret Herbert Fairfax Margaret Herbert Fairfax d. 1858 Eldest daughter of and who in January 1800 married ; the surviving British Lords Fairfax of Cameron line descends from her in the maternal line. , eldest daughter of William Herbert (Sr.) William Herbert (Sr.) Anglo-Irish merchant of Alexandria; husband of and father of the children who carried and the Carlyle name into the Herbert, Norris, Fairfax-of-Ashgrove, and … and Sarah Carlyle Herbert Sarah Carlyle Herbert Eldest daughter of and ; her marriage to carried into the Herbert family. Mother of (held the house 1781-1827) and (m. Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax 1800); great-grandmother of . — a granddaughter of John Carlyle John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … of 121 North Fairfax Street 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … . [1] R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book
The marriage produced ten children documented in Spencer’s 1910 compilation, including Albert Fairfax (b. 1802), father of Charles Snowden Fairfax 10th Lord Fairfax (b. 1829); Henry Fairfax of Ashgrove (b. 1804, killed in the Mexican War 1847); and Orlando Fairfax MD (b. 1806). The surviving British Lords Fairfax of Cameron — Charles Snowden Fairfax (10th), John Contée Fairfax MD (11th, b. 1830, d. 1900), and Albert Kirby Fairfax (12th, b. 1870) — descend from Thomas and Margaret in unbroken male line, making the surviving Fairfax baronage Carlyle-descended on the maternal side. [1] R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book
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Richard Henry Spencer, "The Carlyle Family," William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 18, No. 3 (January 1910), pp. 201-212; expanded as Carlyle Family and Descendants of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle. The Carlyle House and Its Associations (Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1910). The foundational Carlyle genealogy.
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