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From: Stephanie Walker <>
Subject: Fairbanks/Beaumont
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:48:32 -0500


This information was sent to me by a Fairbanks researcher. Can anyone tell
me if it is accurate, and if so, does anyone have any information on the
Beaumonts/Fairbanks ancestry in England?
Thanks!!

Stephanie

>In French, it is transliterated beaumont. In fact, the English is
>transliterated from the French. In high German it is Montbadden. In
>Hebrew it is rendered or Na'ah har in our alphabet. It is often
>translated as "the mountain" as in Genesis 19: 17, 19, and reiterated by
>St. John the Divine in the Apocalypse, though this was done in Greek. This
>mountain is the pinnacle of the tree of life. Isaiah calls it the
>"mountain of the Lord's house" (Isaiah 2:2) and the "high mountain" (Isaiah
>2:14). This reference is to the mystical mountain, where one can stand in
>the presence of the Most High. Nephi refers to his arrival in his
>wonderful discourse on the tree of life. Originally the name was singular,
>as in Beaumont and Montbadden. It was rendered Fayerbanke, and
>several other spellings, as the names had not yet been standardardized. All
>of the Fairbank/Fairbanks are related. There is only one family.
> Robert de Beaumont, came across the English Channel in the Norman
Invasion of 1066 with William the Conquerer. Robert was a nobleman of
great stature, and enjoyed status and prestige in the Norman Kingdom as did
his family in this and the subsequent Plantagenet Dynasty. The
Plantagenet Dynasty lasted from
>Henry II to Edward, who was overthrown by a conspiracy. In the ensuing
battles for supremacy among the contenders to the throne, the Beaumont
family refused
>to support any other than the legitimate heir, but Henry Tudor won and
>established himself as king. During this period of time, William
>took the transliterated name Fairbanks to provide cover for his family, and
>to protect them from retribution from King Henry VII. So our first
>encounter with the name Fairbanks happens in 1492, when William "took land
>of the soil and waste of the Lord, in Sowerby, to hold according to the
>custom of the manor." (8th Henry VII) We know that William was a nobleman
>because of his taking land, a thing complete prohibited to the commoner.
>In 1504 he transferred land to his son John. Land transfers in 1526 and
>1550 name Gilbert as a son of John.
>

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