The Fairfax Archives

This paper is an attempt to bring up to date the research first published here in 1973 (Archives, xi (50), Autumn 1973, pp. 76–85). Since then there have been further discoveries, and dispersals have continued through the book and manuscript trade. Although tracking the fate of material of this kind through the salerooms and elsewhere has been rendered more difficult in recent years by the general tightening of data security, it is still possible to highlight further migrations. The original paper attempted to elucidate the various strands of the Fairfax family in Yorkshire; the resulting archives; and their subsequent preservation, dispersal or loss. This is an attempt to bring together information about more recent discoveries and developments. It does not involve itself with the archives of the Virginia estates and their possessors, which derived from the Culpepper inheritance. Nor is it concerned with those families bearing the Fairfax name who were not involved in Yorkshire

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