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

    Henry David Thoreau
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    John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
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    John Adams
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    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
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    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"
Swinton, Berwickshire (marr. abt 1805)
The DNA tested descendant of John & Helen (CAMPBELL) FAIRBAIRN of Eccles show a match with Lineage 1, in particular those sharing 446=14, but unlike the others of that lineage he has 570 = 19 (modal) rather than 570 = 18 as others in this sub 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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DNA Tested Line
  • John0 Fairbairn (m. Helen CAMPBELL) (circa 1770 - Mar 1849)
    • Helen Campbell (circa 1776 - Dec 1862)
      • Helen1 Fairbairn (circa 1806 - Jun 1883)
        • William Logan (circa 1801 - bet. 1881 - 1883)
      • John1 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1812 - Jan 1892)
        • Agnes Jeffrey (circa 1812 - Jan 1892)
          • John2 Fairbairn (circa 1841 - aft. 1892)
            • Agnes Broomfield (circa 1841 - aft. 1891)
          • Agnes2 Fairbairn (Jan 1844 - )
          • Helen2 Fairbairn (circa 1846 - )
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (circa 1848 - Feb 1857)
          • William2 Fairbairn (Jun 1853 - )
            • Margaret Leithead (circa May 1850 - aft. 1891)
              • John3 Fairbairn (circa 1876 - aft. 1906)
                • Ellen Thomson (circa 1877 - )
                  • William4 Fairbairn (Nov 1906 - )
                    • Elizabeth L. Smith (say 1906 - bet. 1937 - 1953)
              • William3 Fairbairn (circa 1878 - aft. 1915)
                • Isabella Stevenson (say 1879 - )
      • Robert1 Fairbairn (circa Feb 1814 - Aug 1902)
        • Isabella Bruce (circa 1821 - Jan 1903)
          • Elizabeth2 Fairbairn (circa 1853 - aft. 1901)
            • John Kinghorn (circa 1846 - aft. 1901)
      • Janet1 Fairbairn (Jul 1817 - Sep 1891)
        • Thomas Strachan (circa 1820 - Dec 1876)
DNA Tested Line