• 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"
James, a smith at Whinkerstones, (marr. 1795, Fogo)
Potential parents of Andrew (m. HAGERMAN) and sister Mary (m. DARLING).
Any direct male line FAIRBAIRNs still around to represent this line in the DNA project?

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  • James0 Fairbairn (m. Margaret HOG) (bet. 1765 - 1771 - say 1844)
    • Margaret Hog (circa 1769 - Aug 1825)
      • Margaret1 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1798 - May 1871)
        • James Gardner (circa 1795 - Sep 1850)
      • Isabella1 Fairbairn (Apr 1802 - 1856)
        • Alexander Miller (circa 1803 - aft. 1861)
      • Andrew1 Fairbairn (Feb 1806 - Jun 1863)
        • Eliza A. Hagerman (circa 1810 - aft. 1891)
          • Elizabeth2 Fairbairn (Feb 1834 - Jul 1924)
            • George Johnston (circa 1826 - )
          • James2 Fairbairn (Sep 1835 - Jan 1862)
          • Charles2 Fairbairn (Feb 1837 - Apr 1911)
            • Esther Fee (Dec 1839 - )
              • Ester3 Fairbairn (circa 1866 - aft. 1871)
              • Milton3 Fairbairn (circa 1866 - aft. 1871)
              • Thomas A.3 Fairbairn (Jul 1866 - Jun 1928)
                • Margaret Warren (Dec 1868 - bef. 1928)
                  • Bruce W.4 Fairbairn (Feb 1890 - )
                    • Hazel A. Murphy (circa 1900 - )
                  • Charles W.4 Fairbairn (Apr 1894 - )
                    • Lillian UnknownSurname (say 1894 - )
                  • Howard A.4 Fairbairn (Jul 1896 - Aug 1968)
                    • Mary McCourt (circa 1889 - )
                      • Howard A.5 Fairbairn (Jun 1923 - Feb 2008)
              • James3 Fairbairn (circa 1868 - aft. 1871)
              • William J.3 Fairbairn (circa 1873 - aft. 1881)
              • Elizabeth E.3 Fairbairn (Dec 1874 - aft. 1901)
              • Mary F.3 Fairbairn (Nov 1877 - aft. 1901)
          • Hannah2 Fairbairn (circa 1838 - aft. 1861)
            • William J. Falls
              • J A.3 Falls
          • John2 Fairbairn (Jul 1841 - Apr 1922)
            • Mary Gain (circa 1845 - aft. 1922)
              • James H.3 Fairbairn (circa 1868 - )
                • Sarah Sage (circa 1868 - Feb 1899)
                  • Edith4 Fairbairn (Sep 1895 - )
                    • Harold Collinge (circa 1892 - )
                • Amelia W. Hunter (circa 1874 - )
                  • Percival J.4 Fairbairn (Jul 1900 - aft. 1924)
              • Sidney3 Fairbairn (circa 1877 - aft. 1922)
              • George F.3 Fairbairn (Aug 1883 - aft. 1911)
              • Roland3 Fairbairn (circa 1887 - aft. 1901)
          • Andrew2 Fairbairn (Mar 1843 - aft. 1901)
            • Sarah McKee (Jun 1851 - 1933)
              • Laura3 Fairbairn (Feb 1878 - aft. 1900)
              • Edwin B.3 Fairbairn (Jun 1889 - Aug 1899)
              • William A.3 Fairbairn (Mar 1895 - aft. 1901)
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (circa 1844 - aft. 1861)
          • Sophia2 Fairbairn (circa 1847 - aft. 1868)
            • Samuel Manning (circa 1840 - )
          • Alexander2 Fairbairn (Jan 1847 - Feb 1929)
            • Mary J. Murduff (Apr 1850 - May 1931)
              • Richard W.3 Fairbairn (circa 1875 - aft. 1891)
              • John A.3 Fairbairn (1880 - Jun 1961)
                • Elizabeth Lowry (circa 1871 - Mar 1910)
                  • John A. L.4 Fairbairn (Mar 1910 - aft. 1939)
                    • Marjorie (Fairbairn) (circa Feb 1911 - )
                • Alice E. Pearson (1891 - Apr 1954)
                  • Evan4 Fairbairn (circa 1913 - aft. 1945)
                  • Thurza4 Fairbairn (circa 1916 - aft. 1921)
                  • Mabel4 Fairbairn (circa 1920 - aft. 1921)
              • Sarah J.3 Fairbairn (Apr 1884 - Jan 1948)
                • Joseph Millage (Feb 1869 - Feb 1955)
              • Mabel M.3 Fairbairn (circa 1886 - aft. 1891)
              • Gordon3 Fairbairn (Apr 1890 - aft. 1916)
                • Winnifred Smith (circa 1888 - )
          • Nicholas2 Fairbairn (Jun 1851 - Jan 1926)
            • Fanny Beagley (Nov 1857 - aft. 1901)
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (Dec 1883 - aft. 1901)
              • Andrew3 Fairbairn (Nov 1885 - aft. 1901)
          • George2 Fairbairn (circa 1853 - aft. 1871)
      • Mary1 Fairbairn (1807 - Aug 1886)
        • John Darling (circa 1802 - Jul 1874)