• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna 1992
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
Edinburgh, possibly from Dunbar (marr. 1807)

Charts only show those I have researched, only descendants still with the surname FAIRBAIRN, and their spouses, and usually only deceased FAIRBAIRN family members. Exceptions include direct lines down to researchers included elsewhere on the site, or for DNA project participants who have agreed to be shown in the latter project. Should you wish to be included in your relevant chart, please contact the webmistress, using the link in the page footer.
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DNA Tested Line
  • George0 Fairbairn (m. Christian CLAPPERTON) (bet. 1777 - 1791 - Mar 1863)
    • Christian Clapperton (Mar 1783 - Aug 1817)
      • Christian1 Fairbairn (Apr 1809 - Feb 1886)
        • Charles Dunlop (say 1805 - )
      • Helen1 Fairbairn (Dec 1810 - aft. 1861)
        • Adam Porteous (bet. 1806 - 1811 - aft. 1861)
      • William1 Fairbairn (Feb 1814 - May 1864)
        • Margaret Ramsay (circa 1814 - bet. 1864 - 1869)
          • George2 Fairbairn (circa 1834 - Jul 1864)
            • Margaret Chalmers (circa 1836 - bet. Sep 1863 - 1864)
              • William3 Fairbairn (Sep 1858 - )
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (Sep 1859 - aft. 1871)
              • John R.3 Fairbairn (Jun 1861 - aft. 1881)
              • Janet3 Fairbairn (Sep 1863 - )
          • William2 Fairbairn (circa 1838 - aft. 1871)
            • Mary McLeod (circa 1828 - )
              • William3 Fairbairn (Nov 1858 - aft. 1861)
              • Alexander3 Fairbairn (Feb 1860 - aft. 1861)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (Nov 1861 - aft. 1871)
              • Peter3 Fairbairn (Jan 1866 - aft. 1871)
          • Robert2 Fairbairn (circa 1842 - Dec 1889)
            • Mary Wilson (circa 1845 - aft. 1901)
              • William3 Fairbairn (circa 1865 - aft. 1901)
              • Joseph W.3 Fairbairn (Apr 1867 - 1942)
                • Selina Corbett (Dec 1864 - Jun 1953)
                  • Robert R.4 Fairbairn (Sep 1891 - aft. 1954)
                  • David C.4 Fairbairn (circa 1894 - aft. 1953)
                    • Alice H. Cooper (say 1895 - )
              • Robert R.3 Fairbairn (Dec 1868 - Sep 1935)
                • Maria M. Pew (Nov 1871 - aft. 1935)
              • George3 Fairbairn (circa 1871 - aft. 1891)
              • Peter G.3 Fairbairn (circa 1876 - aft. 1901)
          • Henry2 Fairbairn (circa 1844 - aft. 1851)
          • Peter R. G.2 Fairbairn (circa 1850 - 1894)
            • Mary Murray (circa 1849 - 1906)
              • Peter3 Fairbairn (May 1878 - aft. 1930)
                • Isabella L. H. Leadbetter (circa 1880 - )
                  • Peter R. G.4 Fairbairn (Jul 1904 - Jul 1987)
                    • Harriet Bauman (Jul 1904 - Jul 2000)
                      • James P.5 Fairbairn (Aug 1928 - Jun 2007)
                        • Amanda N. Stauffer (Jul 1927 - Aug 1997)
                          • Gary C.6 Fairbairn
                          • Donald R.6 Fairbairn
                          • Peter D.6 Fairbairn
                  • James W. C.4 Fairbairn (Dec 1914 - Mar 2001)
                  • David M.4 Fairbairn
              • John3 Fairbairn (circa 1881 - aft. 1891)
              • David3 Fairbairn (circa 1882 - aft. 1901)
          • John2 Fairbairn (circa 1850 - aft. 1851)
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (circa 1853 - aft. 1871)
      • Henry1 Fairbairn (Aug 1816 - )
DNA Tested Line