• 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"
Smailholm, Roxburghshire (marr. abt 1765)
One of two contemporary John FAIRBAIRNs with a son James buried Earlston.
Love to hear from another direct male line FAIRBAIRN descendant willing to help us by joining the Fairbairn DNA project to further examine the connections to the other Smailholm/Earlston families.
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
  • John0 Fairbairn (m. Elsepth ANDERSON) (say 1735 - )
    • Elspeth Anderson (say 1730 - )
      • James1 Fairbairn (m. Margaret TAIT) (bet. 1761 - 1766 - bet. 1842 - 1851)
        • Margaret Tait (circa 1782 - Jun 1870)
          • John2 Fairbairn (circa Dec 1802 - May 1859)
            • Mary Rule (circa 1809 - Mar 1879)
          • Mary2 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1804 - )
          • Alexander2 Fairbairn (circa Aug 1806 - Mar 1857)
            • Agnes Thomson (circa 1817 - 1889)
              • James U.3 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1836 - bet. 1841 - 1847)
              • John3 Fairbairn (Dec 1837 - 1858)
              • Alexander3 Fairbairn (Jan 1840 - aft. 1841)
              • Agnes3 Fairbairn (Jun 1842 - aft. 1851)
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (Jun 1844 - aft. 1851)
              • James U.3 Fairbairn (Sep 1846 - 1906)
                • Jean Thomson (circa 1853 - aft. 1901)
                  • Alexander4 Fairbairn (circa 1879 - aft. 1891)
                  • John T.4 Fairbairn (circa 1880 - aft. 1891)
                  • James U.4 Fairbairn (circa 1882 - 1963)
                  • George H.4 Fairbairn (circa 1884 - aft. 1901)
                  • Catherine4 Fairbairn (circa 1885 - aft. 1901)
                  • William R.4 Fairbairn (circa 1887 - Jul 1967)
                    • Margaret Lauder (circa 1893 - Oct 1944)
                      • James U.5 Fairbairn (say 1915 - bet. 1980 - 2012)
                        • Mary J. J. Burgess (say 1915 - bet. 1963 - 1968)
                      • Lauder D.5 Fairbairn (Mar 1918 - Apr 1973)
                    • Ethel I. UnknownSurname
                  • Arthur S.4 Fairbairn (1888 - aft. 1901)
          • Elspeth2 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1808 - aft. 1881)
          • William2 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1810 - Jan 1895)
            • Mary Philips (circa 1808 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (Aug 1812 - )
            • William Nicol (circa 1812 - )
          • James2 Fairbairn (Jul 1815 - )
          • Helen2 Fairbairn (Aug 1817 - May 1903)
            • Aaron Whillans (Jun 1808 - May 1874)
          • Isabella2 Fairbairn (Sep 1819 - Nov 1898)
            • Robert Yellowlees (circa 1824 - Dec 1909)
          • Agnes2 Fairbairn (circa 1823 - Feb 1840)
          • Rachel2 Fairbairn (circa 1825 - Mar 1832)
          • James2 Fairbairn (circa 1826 - )
          • George2 Fairbairn (Jan 1828 - bet. 1895 - 1901)
            • Sarah Inglis (circa 1827 - aft. 1861)
      • John1 Fairbairn (circa Aug 1768 - )
      • George1 Fairbairn (Jun 1771 - )
DNA Tested Line