Frances Fairfax1

Female, #37817, (before 19 Nov 1703 - 13 Dec 1791)

Parent*Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1657 - 6 Jan 1710)
Parent*Catherine Culpeper (1670 - May 1719)
Frances Fairfax|b. before 19 Nov 1703\nd. 13 Dec 1791|p37817.htm|Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron|b. 1657\nd. 6 Jan 1710|p8949.htm|Catherine Culpeper|b. 1670\nd. May 1719|p8948.htm|Henry Fairfax Fourth Lord Fairfax of Cameron|b. 30 Dec 1631\nd. 13 Apr 1688|p37615.htm|Frances Barwick|b. say 1631\nd. 14 Feb 1684|p37616.htm|Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway|b. before 21 Mar 1635\nd. 27 Jan 1689|p8478.htm|Margaretta van Hesse|b. 12 Jan 1635\nd. before 12 May 1710|p8947.htm|

Birth*before 19 Nov 1703 Frances was born before 19 Nov 1703. 
Baptism19 Nov 1703 She was baptized at Broomfield, co. Kent, England, on 19 Nov 1703.  
 She was the daughter of Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron and Catherine Culpeper. 
Marriage*1721 She married Denny Martin of Salts in Loose, Kent, Esq. in 1721. 
Married Name1721  As of 1721, her married name was Martin. 
Death*13 Dec 1791 She died on 13 Dec 1791. 
Burial*20 Dec 1791 Her body was interred on 20 Dec 1791 at Loose, co. Kent, England. 
Biography* Frances Fairfax Martin (Catherine Culpeper[15], wife of Thomas, fifth Lord Fairfax), 1703-1791, the sixth child of her mother, was baptised in Bromfield, November 19, 1703, as 'Frances the daughter of Thomas Lord Fairfax and the Lady Catherine his wife.' In 1721 she married a neighbour, Denny Martin (1695-1762) of Salts in Loose, co. Kent, and thereafter lived a retired life, appearing in this record only in her progeny, several of whom played parts on the Virginia scene, as the representatives of the final generation of the descendants of the first Lord Culpeper.
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Like her eldest brother, she died in her eighty-ninth year; and was buried in the Martin vault in the church of Loose, where the MI. records that 'here also lieth the body of the Honble. Frances Martin, wife of Denny Martin esq. and daughter of the Right Honble. Thomas Lord Fairfax. She [died] 13 Dec. 1791, in the 89th year of her age.'
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The parish register supplements this with the further testimony that she was buried December 20, 1791.
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The parish of Loose takes its name from the stream, a tributary of the Medway, on which it lies. It is some three miles directly south of Maidstone and so in the vicinity of Leeds Castle. The manor of 'Salts' in this parish was held, from the time of Henry VII to the beginning of the eighteenth century, by the family of Buffkin (Hasted, ii, 138). In February, 1710/11, a childless representative of that family, one Ralph Buffkin, died, leaving a will dated February 25, 1700/1 (proved March 20, 1710/11, P. C. C. Young, 51) by which he devised
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"...to my cousin John Martin of the city of Westminster, gent., my manor and manor house called Brushing Court and lands thereto [appertaining] in Broughton-Mouchelsea and Langley in co. Kent ... also my capital messuage called Salts and lands thereto [appertaining] now in my occupation in Loose aforesaid and East Farleigh, co. Kent... all in fee, he paying thereout to my cousins Leavin Buffkin and Ralph Buffkin .£100 apiece, if living, they being now in the West Indies."
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This John Martin (1652-1730) was a remote kinsman of the Buffkins, descended of a race of clergymen, and was born at Staniner (near Lewes), co. Sussex. Following his fortunate inheritance, he removed his residence from London to Salts in the spring of 1711 and brought with him his son and heir; and that son, after marrying and burying within the year (1719) the sister of the contemporary parson of Loose, took Frances Fairfax as his second wife.
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Mr. C. Wykeham-Martin, who owed his tenure of Leeds Castle to this family, though as remote of kin to them as John Martin had been to the Buffkins, piously compiled a Martin pedigree for his History of Leeds Castle (1868); but, with a characteristic lack of interest in all documents later than the middle ages, did not print the capital genealogical testimony for them.
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This is an MI. on a stone in the floor of the chancel of the church of Loose, over a vault originally constructed by the Buffkins. Though somewhat defaced, when supplemented by the parish registers, the earliest portion of it reads as follows:
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"Remember thy Creator in the day of thy Youth. Here lieth the body of William Buffkin esq. who died 8 Jan. A.D. 1698(?) Here also lieth the body of Sibylla [Michelborne] wife of John Martin esq. who departed this life 30 May A. D. 1714 [sic, the parish register reads 1724] in the 78th year of her age. Here also lieth the body of John Martin esq. who departed this life 7 June 1730 in the 79th year of his age. [Here also lieth the] body of Hannah [Briggs, first] wife of Denny Martin gent. She dyed. . . . Aug. 1719 in the 32nd year of her age. Here also lieth the body of Denny Martin esq. . . . 'cetera desunt' as to him but the parish register records his burial February 20, 1762, as 'Denny Martin, Esq. of Salts'"
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The children of Frances Fairfax, remarkable for their longevity and the fact that no one of them ever married, were as follows:
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Edward, 1723-1775, o.s.p.
John, 1724-1746, o.s.p.
Denny, 1725-1800, o.s.p.
Frances, 1727-1813. unmarried.
Sibylla, 1729-1816, unmarried.
Thomas Bryan, 1731-1798, o.s.p.
Philip, 1733-1821, o.s.p.
Anna Susanna,[ 1736-1817, unmarried.
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(Source: Fairfax Harrison, ["The Proprietors of the Northern Neck").
 

Family

Denny Martin of Salts in Loose, Kent, Esq. (say 1700 - )
Children

Charts Descendants of William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell, from 1509: 7 generations
The Culpepers of Hollingbourne, from 1539 to present? (Possibly extinct)
Last Edited 1 Apr 2000

Citations

  1. Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII, 47-81, (1904) http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.