• 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"
(marr. abt 1705 ?Penicuik)
A direct male line FAIRBAIRN from this line is still being sought to represent this line in the FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project, particularly now we believe that there's a connection to the Chelsea gardener John, who may himself be connected to the nurserymen of Clapham, which later line is represented in the DNA project.
With luck a match should ensue.
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.
So, in general, charts are by no means complete. Please refer further queries to the researcher(s) listed for the line.
Where there is doubt, conflicting evidence for relationships, or additional published information exists, this is usually discussed on the appropriate person's page, follow the link and make up your mind from the information and sources shown.

DNA Tested Line
  • James0 Fairbairn (schoolmaster of Penicuik) (say 1680 - bet. Jun 1744 - Mar 1745)
    • Marion Craig (say 1680 - )
      • Marion1 Fairbairn (circa Aug 1706 - )
      • Archibald1 Fairbairn (circa Jun 1713 - bet. 1754 - 1804)
        • Sophia McKean (say 1715 - )
          • Marion2 Fairbairn (Aug 1737 - aft. 1804)
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1739 - )
          • Agnes2 Fairbairn (Oct 1741 - )
          • Jean2 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1744 - aft. 1804)
          • Janet2 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1746 - )
          • Sophia2 Fairbairn (circa Feb 1748 - )
          • Mary2 Fairbairn (circa May 1750 - )
          • John2 Fairbairn (Jul 1752 - )
          • Barbara2 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1754 - )
      • James1 Fairbairn (circa Oct 1715 - aft. 1757)
        • Katherine Marshall (say 1720 - )
          • John2 Fairbairn (Curator Chelsea Physic Garden) (Feb 1742 - Dec 1814)
            • Jane UnknownSurname (say 1740 - 1815)
          • James2 Fairbairn (circa Dec 1743 - )
          • William2 Fairbairn (circa Mar 1746 - )
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1748 - )
          • Alexander2 Fairbairn (circa Dec 1750 - )
          • Anne2 Fairbairn (circa Mar 1753 - )
          • Marion2 Fairbairn (circa May 1756 - )
          • Archibald2 Fairbairn (circa Jan 1758 - aft. 1841)
            • Margaret Gibb (say 1760 - )
              • Katherine3 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1783 - aft. 1804)
              • James3 Fairbairn (Nov 1785 - May 1836)
                • Janet Barrie (circa 1787 - aft. 1851)
                  • James4 Fairbairn (circa Mar 1810 - )
                  • Ann4 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1811 - )
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (circa Jan 1814 - )
                  • John4 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1818 - Jul 1835)
                  • Jean4 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1820 - aft. 1851)
                    • Thomas Hamilton (circa 1824 - aft. 1851)
                  • Janet4 Fairbairn (circa Jun 1824 - )
                  • Alexander4 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1826 - )
                  • William4 Fairbairn (circa May 1830 - aft. 1891)
              • John3 Fairbairn (say 1787 - aft. 1804)
              • Alexander3 Fairbairn (circa Nov 1789 - aft. 1804)
              • George3 Fairbairn (circa 1796 - aft. 1841)
                • Jane Gray (say 1796 - aft. 1861)
                  • Catherine4 Fairbairn (Jan 1817 - )
                  • William4 Fairbairn (circa Jun 1819 - )
                    • Agnes Blackie (circa 1821 - Dec 1890)
                      • Agnes5 Fairbairn (Oct 1840 - aft. 1841)
                    • Margaret Dart (circa 1827 - )
                      • Margaret H.5 Fairbairn (circa Jun 1850 - Dec 1854)
                  • James4 Fairbairn (circa 1826 - aft. 1841)
                  • John G.4 Fairbairn (circa 1826 - Apr 1904)
                    • Alice Holder (circa 1821 - )
                      • Margaret5 Fairbairn (circa 1857 - )
                      • Eliza5 Fairbairn (circa 1858 - )
                      • John G.5 Fairbairn (bet. Jan 1862 - Mar 1862 - )
                        • Cecilia C. Moorey (circa 1869 - )
                          • Dorothy6 Fairbairn (circa 1895 - bet. 1901 - 1911)
                          • Alice6 Fairbairn (circa 1902 - )
                          • Donald G.6 Fairbairn (Oct 1903 - Jun 1984)
                            • Margaret Chignell (Dec 1920 - Jan 1993)
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (circa 1831 - aft. 1841)
                  • George4 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1831 - Jan 1859)
                    • Eliza UnknownSurname (say 1830 - aft. 1853)
                      • George W.5 Fairbairn (circa May 1853 - )
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (Oct 1833 - aft. 1851)
                  • Elizabeth4 Fairbairn (circa 1837 - aft. 1861)
                  • Samuel4 Fairbairn (bet. Sep 1838 - Dec 1838 - aft. 1851)
              • Samuel3 Fairbairn (circa 1798 - Mar 1864)
                • Margaret Hislop (circa 1807 - bet. 1841 - 1851)
                  • Samuel4 Fairbairn (circa 1831 - Oct 1902)
                    • Jane S. Walker (circa 1831 - aft. 1901)
                      • Elizabeth B.5 Fairbairn (Jun 1856 - )
                      • William5 Fairbairn (Jul 1858 - )
                      • Catherine W.5 Fairbairn (Dec 1860 - )
                      • Archibald5 Fairbairn (Jun 1863 - Aug 1865)
                      • Samuel5 Fairbairn (Oct 1866 - 1920)
                        • Mary P. Dalgleish (circa 1869 - aft. 1901)
                          • Maggie6 Fairbairn (circa 1892 - aft. 1901)
                          • Jane6 Fairbairn (circa 1893 - aft. 1901)
                          • Samuel6 Fairbairn (circa 1895 - aft. 1901)
                          • James6 Fairbairn (circa 1900 - aft. 1901)
                      • Margaret W.5 Fairbairn (Dec 1870 - aft. 1881)
                      • Jane S. W.5 Fairbairn (Jul 1873 - )
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (circa 1832 - )
                  • Catherine4 Fairbairn (circa 1834 - )
                  • Ann4 Fairbairn (circa 1837 - )
              • Archibald3 Fairbairn (circa Mar 1802 - Feb 1820)
      • Patrick1 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1719 - )
      • William1 Fairbairn (circa May 1722 - )
    • Margaret Gibson (say 1715 - )
DNA Tested Line