Notes on Families of the Parish of Halifax, Yorksire". By Hunt, John G., in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.) 40:22-29 (Jan 1964).
link Mr. Torrey agreed with the present contributor... that Jenet Fairbanks... married James5 Platts alias Gawkroger of Sowerby. They had with others Abraham6 Platts father of Mary7 who married in 1629 John Prescott of Sowerby.