• 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"
Robert FAIRBAIRN, Esq. of East Gordon (marr. 1789)
Another family with Greenlaw connections.
It would seem unlikely that a DNA participant may be found unless the missing known sons pop out of the woodwork from somewhere.
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.

  • Robert0 Fairbairn (m. Janet AINSLIE) (say 1760 - bet. 1803 - 1866)
    • Janet Ainslie (say 1765 - bet. 1803 - 1866)
      • Male1 Fairbairn (say 1791 - )
      • Alexander1 Fairbairn (circa Oct 1794 - )
      • John1 Fairbairn (circa Mar 1800 - Jul 1872)
        • ?
          • John A.2 Fairbairn (1854 - )
        • Elizabeth Pollard (say 1800 - aft. 1882)
          • Robert2 Fairbairn (Jun 1841 - Dec 1922)
            • Fanny Taylor (say 1845 - Apr 1898)
              • Fanny A.3 Fairbairn (circa 1879 - 1954)
              • Robert C.3 Fairbairn (circa 1882 - 1961)
            • Frances S. Bussell (circa 1848 - Apr 1925)
          • Jane A.2 Fairbairn (1843 - Jan 1919)
            • Daniel K. Congdon
          • George2 Fairbairn (1848 - Jun 1913)
            • Sarah J. Siddins (1850 - Jul 1924)
              • George O.3 Fairbairn (1882 - Dec 1946)
                • Florence B. M. Allan
                  • George4 Fairbairn (say 1915 - bet. 1915 - 1946)
                  • Capt Murray T.4 Fairbairn
              • Edith M. S.3 Fairbairn (Jan 1885 - Jan 1939)
              • Florence A.3 Fairbairn (Apr 1887 - )
          • Isabella2 Fairbairn (say 1852 - )
            • James H. Hetherington (say 1850 - bet. 1877 - 1898)
          • James A.2 Fairbairn (1853 - Dec 1909)
            • Emily Fairfax (circa 1853 - Nov 1887)
              • John H.3 Fairbairn (Oct 1879 - Aug 1954)
              • Emily M.3 Fairbairn (Feb 1882 - aft. 1954)
                • Male Pollard
              • Mary T.3 Fairbairn (Sep 1883 - Aug 1961)
                • Laurence A. Childe
            • Ada A. Lowe (say 1860 - 1945)
      • Isabella1 Fairbairn (circa Aug 1801 - Jun 1866)
        • George Sutherland (circa 1804 - )