Gabriel Fairfax, Esq. of Steeton, distinguished his coat armour by bearing the lion crowned, or. He married Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Aske, Esq. of Aughton, by Anne his wife, dau. of Thomas Sutton, Esq., and had (with two daus., Anne, wife of Sir Edmond Sheffield, of Epsworth; and Mary, m. to Sir Thomas Gower, of Stitenham) four sons of whom the eldest,
Sir William Fairfax, of Steeton, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth 1562. He m. Mabel, dau. of Sir Henry Curwen, of Workington....
