• 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"
Sprouston and Kelso (marr. 1787 Nenthorn)
The dna participant for the line of John & Christian (WOOD) FAIRBAIRN, is an exact match to the two descendants of George and Janet (MURRAY) FAIRBAIRN's show that this family belongs to DNA Lineage 1, and within that, the line the subgroup showing markers 570=18, 446 = 14 and 413a=25.
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 (say 1760 - Feb 1800)
    • Christian Wood (say 1760 - bef. 1862)
      • Robert1 Fairbairn (Feb 1788 - Jun 1862)
        • Female Mason (say 1790 - aft. 1811)
          • Elizabeth2 Fairbairn (circa 1811 - Jan 1886)
            • ?
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (circa 1845 - )
        • Helen Rutherford (circa 1790 - aft. 1871)
          • Robert2 Fairbairn (circa 1823 - Oct 1897)
            • Helen Oliver (circa 1814 - bet. 1891 - 1897)
          • James2 Fairbairn (circa 1826 - Feb 1898)
            • Mary Hay (circa 1826 - aft. 1901)
              • Janet3 Fairbairn (Dec 1852 - aft. 1901)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (circa Jan 1855 - Aug 1901)
                • Emma Christian (circa 1855 - aft. 1901)
                  • James4 Fairbairn (circa 1887 - aft. 1891)
              • George3 Fairbairn (Nov 1856 - aft. 1901)
              • William3 Fairbairn (May 1858 - aft. 1898)
              • Helen3 Fairbairn (Oct 1859 - aft. 1891)
              • Mary H.3 Fairbairn (Jul 1861 - aft. 1901)
              • James H.3 Fairbairn (Jun 1864 - aft. 1901)
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (Mar 1867 - aft. 1881)
          • Janet2 Fairbairn (circa 1827 - Dec 1916)
            • ?
              • George3 Fairbairn (Oct 1858 - aft. 1891)
                • Mary T. Rutherford (circa 1861 - aft. 1901)
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (1885 - bet. Sep 1957 - Dec 1957)
                    • Sarah J. Pattinson (say 1898 - )
                  • James R.4 Fairbairn (1890 - aft. 1942)
          • William2 Fairbairn (circa 1832 - )
      • John1 Fairbairn (Sep 1789 - aft. 1801)
      • James1 Fairbairn (Jan 1793 - )
      • George1 Fairbairn (Jul 1795 - Mar 1890)
        • Female UnknownSurname (m. George Fairbairn) (say 1795 - bet. 1826 - 1833)
          • Thomas2 Fairbairn (circa 1821 - aft. 1841)
          • John2 Fairbairn (circa 1826 - aft. 1841)
          • Janet2 Fairbairn (circa 1826 - aft. 1841)
        • Margaret Dinn (Jan 1796 - )
          • William D.2 Fairbairn (circa Nov 1836 - Apr 1919)
            • Emma Sly (Dec 1855 - 1937)
              • Fred E.3 Fairbairn (circa 1883 - May 1933)
                • Lillian F. Travis (circa 1887 - Aug 1943)
              • James W.3 Fairbairn (Apr 1884 - Dec 1963)
                • Elizabeth Piel (circa 1887 - )
              • John E.3 Fairbairn (Jan 1890 - Jan 1951)
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (Aug 1841 - 1928)
      • Thomas1 Fairbairn (Dec 1798 - )
DNA Tested Line