• 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"
Stitchel (marr. 1732 Eccles, BEW)
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David (F-7) would love to hear from descendants of other lines to confirm the dna signature for this lineage.
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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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 (m. Elspeth TROTTER) (say 1705 - )
    • Elspeth Trotter (say 1700 - )
      • Thomas1 Fairbairn (circa Feb 1738 - )
      • Thomas1 Fairbairn (circa May 1743 - )
        • Isobel Smith (say 1745 - )
          • Trotter2 Fairbairn (circa 1774 - bet. Jun 1856 - Sep 1856)
            • Jean Fairbairn (say 1775 - )
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (circa May 1795 - aft. 1861)
                • Mary Fairbairn (circa 1800 - aft. 1861)
                  • John4 Fairbairn (circa Oct 1818 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
                    • Mary A. Forster or Rickaby (circa 1828 - aft. 1861)
                  • Jane4 Fairbairn (circa 1821 - aft. 1841)
                  • Trotter4 Fairbairn (circa 1824 - Jul 1883)
                    • Eleanor Bailey (circa 1825 - bet. 1851 - 1871)
                      • Thomas5 Fairbairn (circa 1845 - )
                      • Henry5 Fairbairn (circa 1847 - )
                      • Charlotte5 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1848 - Jun 1848 - )
                    • Mary A. Wanless (Sep 1838 - Mar 1920)
                      • Mary J.5 Fairbairn (Sep 1872 - aft. 1881)
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (circa 1827 - aft. 1841)
                  • William4 Fairbairn (circa 1827 - aft. 1861)
                  • Thomas4 Fairbairn (circa 1830 - aft. 1851)
                  • Arabella4 Fairbairn (circa 1832 - aft. 1851)
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (circa 1835 - aft. 1861)
                  • Mary4 Fairbairn (circa 1837 - aft. 1851)
                  • Barbara4 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1839 - aft. 1855)
                    • ?
                      • Jane A.5 Fairbairn (Nov 1855 - aft. 1881)
                        • Robert Humphrey (circa 1857 - aft. 1901)
              • John3 Fairbairn (Mar 1797 - )
                • Mary Ayre (circa 1796 - aft. 1851)
                  • Thomas4 Fairbairn (circa Nov 1816 - )
                  • Mary4 Fairbairn (circa 1821 - )
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (Apr 1829 - )
              • Alexander3 Fairbairn (Nov 1799 - aft. 1851)
                • Isabella Oates (circa 1801 - aft. 1851)
                  • Sarah O.4 Fairbairn (Dec 1819 - aft. 1843)
                  • Trotter4 Fairbairn (circa May 1822 - aft. 1822)
              • Jane3 Fairbairn (Aug 1802 - aft. 1851)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (Jul 1804 - )
                • Eleanor Sinclair (circa 1805 - aft. 1871)
                  • William S.4 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1829 - Jul 1893)
                    • Mary A. Goodenough (Jun 1845 - Jul 1899)
                      • David S.5 Fairbairn (Jun 1879 - Nov 1939)
                        • Euphemia Carr (Sep 1880 - Jan 1954)
                      • Robert E.5 Fairbairn (Jun 1880 - May 1953)
                        • Florence Aubury (circa 1890 - aft. 1914)
                          • Sydney M.6 Fairbairn
                      • Arthur R.5 Fairbairn (May 1884 - Feb 1953)
                        • Miriam Craven (Jun 1877 - Dec 1963)
                          • Vivian6 Fairbairn (Aug 1909 - Oct 1998)
                            • Violet Minks (Jan 1906 - Aug 1974)
                          • Kenneth6 Fairbairn (Mar 1911 - Jun 1988)
                            • Clarice Gregory (Apr 1900 - Jul 1974)
                          • Joyce6 Fairbairn (Jul 1913 - Dec 1978)
                          • Leslie6 Fairbairn (Feb 1916 - Aug 1991)
                  • Jane E.4 Fairbairn (circa 1844 - aft. 1851)
              • Barbara3 Fairbairn (Mar 1806 - )
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (Aug 1808 - )
                • George Godley (circa 1810 - aft. 1851)
DNA Tested Line