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Colonel William Fairfax Junior was born 1504 in Steeton, Yorkshire, England and died October 31, 1557 in Steeton, Yorkshire, England. He is buried at Bolton Percy Church, Yorkshire, England He married Isabel Thwaits who was born about 1495 in Denton Castle, Yorkshire, England and is the daughter of John Thomas Thwaits who was born 1441 in Denton Castle and of Emota Middleton who was born 1473 in Denton Castle. He wanted to marry Isabel Thwaits, a famous heiress, who had been placed in the care of Anna Langton, abbess of the local Cistercian nunnery at Nunappleton. The abbess had designs of her own on her charge's fortune and carefully denied Sir William a chance to press his suit. He found that all appeals were in vain so he stormed the nunnery, captured and carried off Isabel, and took her to Bolton Percy Church and married her. He was High Sheriff of York during the reign of Henry VIII. He joined the Pilgrimage of Grace but was apparently pardoned for his share in that outbreak. He acquired the manors of Polton Percy and Nunappleton in 1542 and Bilborough in 1546. He divided his property between his two eldest sons, Thomas and Gabriel, thus creating two branches of the family, Thomas at Denton and Gabriel at Steeton.