• 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"
in NBL then Coldstream (marr. 1805) Any connection to John & Jane (WADDELL) FAIRBAIRN?

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DNA Tested Line
  • Ralph0 Fairbairn (circa 1785 - May 1874)
    • Helen Crow (circa 1782 - bet. 1851 - 1861)
      • John1 Fairbairn (circa 1806 - Mar 1879)
        • Janet UnknownSurname ?Blackball (circa 1806 - bet. 1861 - 1871)
          • Agnes2 Fairbairn (circa 1834 - Dec 1874)
            • William Grieve (circa Oct 1824 - Jun 1878)
      • Mary1 Fairbairn (bet. 1806 - 1811 - Jan 1874)
        • John Edmison (circa 1805 - )
      • Alexander1 Fairbairn (1808 - Apr 1891)
        • Isabella Cairns (Nov 1834 - Mar 1909)
      • James1 Fairbairn (circa 1817 - Sep 1904)
        • Christian N. Fairbairn (Feb 1819 - Jun 1885)
          • Jane2 Fairbairn (Aug 1842 - )
            • ?
              • Christina3 Fairbairn (circa 1864 - aft. Sep 1904)
                • James Whitehead (circa 1862 - aft. 1901)
            • Henry Hargreaves
          • Helen2 Fairbairn (Feb 1844 - May 1926)
          • Mary2 Fairbairn (Mar 1846 - Jan 1890)
            • Walter Pattison (circa 1843 - )
          • Ralph2 Fairbairn (Sep 1848 - aft. 1911)
            • Elizabeth Laws (circa 1850 - aft. 1911)
              • Mary M.3 Fairbairn (circa 1875 - aft. 1891)
              • Jesse A.3 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1876 - Jun 1876 - Jan 1939)
                • Esther Birkett (circa 1876 - bet. Jun 1951 - Sep 1951)
                  • Ralph4 Fairbairn (Dec 1896 - bet. Mar 1976 - Jun 1976)
              • George3 Fairbairn (circa 1883 - aft. 1901)
              • John J.3 Fairbairn (bet. Jun 1884 - Sep 1884 - aft. 1910)
                • Mary Gilroy (say 1885 - )
              • Edith A.3 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1887 - Jun 1887 - aft. 1901)
      • Helen1 Fairbairn (1820 - )
      • Robert1 Fairbairn (circa 1822 - 1888)
        • Isabella Gray (Jun 1823 - 1898)
          • Ralph2 Fairbairn (Sep 1848 - Jun 1923)
          • Mary2 Fairbairn (1850 - Mar 1926)
            • ?
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (Sep 1870 - )
              • James3 Fairbairn (Jan 1874 - Apr 1928)
                • Margaret Wight (Jul 1879 - May 1946)
                  • Margaret W.4 Fairbairn (Jun 1906 - Jan 1982)
              • Christina3 Fairbairn (circa 1882 - )
              • Isabella3 Fairbairn (circa 1888 - )
          • Helen2 Fairbairn (1852 - aft. 1881)
          • Agnes2 Fairbairn (1854 - aft. 1891)
          • Janet2 Fairbairn (Jul 1856 - )
          • Thomas G.2 Fairbairn (Apr 1858 - )
          • Jane2 Fairbairn (Jul 1860 - 1861)
          • Christina2 Fairbairn (Mar 1863 - Oct 1869)
          • Alice2 Fairbairn (Feb 1865 - Dec 1865)
DNA Tested Line