• 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. 1743 Whickham, DUR)
Bible pages show surname as FAIRBAIRN, baptisms as FAIRBARNES
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 Fairbarnes (m. Margaret CROMBY/CROMEY) (say 1710 - Jun 1768)
    • Margaret Cromby (Jan 1715 - Jan 1799)
      • John1 Fairbairn (Dec 1753 - Mar)
        • Mary Bourn
          • John2 Fairbairn (Nov 1788 - May 1848)
            • Hannah Spoor (bet. 1786 - 1791 - )
              • John3 Fairbairn (Feb 1817 - Mar 1868)
                • Jane Colling (circa 1815 - aft. 1861)
                  • William H.4 Fairbairn (Apr 1838 - bet. Sep 1898 - Dec 1898)
                    • Annie A. Sudron (circa 1848 - aft. 1881)
                      • William H.5 Fairbairn (bet. Jun 1868 - Sep 1868 - aft. 1901)
                        • Jessie Ross (circa 1869 - )
                          • Charles H.6 Fairbairn (bet. Sep 1898 - Dec 1898 - )
                      • Charles J.5 Fairbairn (bet. Jan 1875 - Mar 1875 - Apr 1936)
                        • Annie Hesketh (Jul 1874 - Jul 1921)
                          • Kenneth6 Fairbairn (May 1904 - )
                          • Charles J.6 Fairbairn (Mar 1912 - Dec 1989)
                      • George5 Fairbairn (bet. Jan 1882 - Mar 1882 - aft. 1907)
                        • Mary I. Robinson (circa 1883 - )
                  • Mary4 Fairbairn (Nov 1839 - )
                  • John4 Fairbairn (Feb 1843 - Apr 1843)
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (Apr 1844 - aft. 1871)
                    • James S. Stuart (circa 1836 - aft. 1871)
                  • Jane H.4 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1846 - aft. 1871)
                  • John4 Fairbairn (May 1852 - aft. 1861)
                  • Charles G.4 Fairbairn (Jun 1855 - aft. 1871)
              • Frances J.3 Fairbairn (Sep 1819 - aft. 1851)
              • William H.3 Fairbairn (Oct - Jul 1820)
              • George3 Fairbairn (Nov 1826 - )
          • Thomas W.2 Fairbairn (Sep 1790 - )
          • George2 Fairbairn (Dec 1798 - )
DNA Tested Line