• 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. abt 1730)
Possibly the progenitor of the families at Ponteland and Stamfordham, NBL.
Any connection to those at Ulgham?
Any direct male line FAIRBAIRNs still around to represent this line in the DNA project?

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  • Robert0 Fairbairn (say 1699 - )
    • ?
      • Mathew1 Fairbarn (circa Mar 1732 - )
      • Stephen1 Fairbairn (circa Feb 1735 - May 1804)
        • Isabel Wilkinson (circa 1737 - bet. Feb 1805 - Feb 1805)
          • Robert2 Fairbairn (m. Mary ATKINSON) (circa Nov 1767 - Jul 1820)
            • Mary Atkinson (say 1770 - )
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (circa 1796 - bet. Mar 1878 - Jun 1878)
                • Ann Dodd (circa 1806 - bet. Jan 1879 - Mar 1879)
                  • Mary A.4 Fairbairn (circa 1838 - )
                  • Stephen4 Fairbairn (circa 1841 - aft. 1901)
                  • Sarah4 Fairbairn (circa 1843 - )
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (circa 1847 - bet. 1901 - 1911)
                    • Mary Steel (circa 1854 - aft. 1881)
                      • Barbara A.5 Fairbairn (bet. Sep 1880 - Dec 1880 - )
                        • Thomas E. Childs
                      • William R.5 Fairbairn (circa 1883 - aft. 1911)
                      • Thomas5 Fairbairn (circa 1885 - aft. 1912)
                        • Emma Howden (circa 1892 - )
                      • Stephen5 Fairbairn (circa 1892 - aft. 1911)
              • Ann3 Fairbairn (Jul 1798 - )
              • Isabella3 Fairbairn (Jul 1798 - )
              • Stephen3 Fairbairn (Apr 1802 - aft. 1861)
                • Jane Jackson (circa 1806 - aft. 1861)
                  • John4 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1827 - bet. 1880 - 1900)
                    • Elizabeth Hubbard (circa 1830 - aft. 1900)
                      • Jane5 Fairbairn (circa 1850 - )
                      • Ann5 Fairbairn (circa 1852 - )
                      • Frank5 Fairbairn (Mar 1854 - Oct 1917)
                        • Annie D. Crowell (Sep 1854 - )
                          • Frances I.6 Fairbairn (Mar 1878 - Apr 1915)
                          • Archibald D.6 Fairbairn (Jun 1885 - )
                            • Della D. Bradshaw (Apr 1889 - Apr 1982)
                      • Blanche5 Fairbairn (circa 1856 - )
                      • John C.5 Fairbairn (May 1858 - aft. 1900)
                        • Miriam E. Helms (circa 1860 - aft. 1882)
                          • Earle C.6 Fairbairn (Apr 1882 - Feb 1965)
                            • Agnes A. McLean (circa 1883 - )
                              • Murray7 Fairbairn
                              • Miriam J.7 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1916 - May 1992)
                                • Wayne E. Wiegand (Aug 1913 - Aug 2002)
                        • Laura UnknownSurname (Mar 1867 - aft. 1900)
                      • Florence5 Fairbairn (circa 1860 - Jan 1933)
                      • Eliza5 Fairbairn (May 1860 - )
                      • Oscar J.5 Fairbairn (May 1868 - Aug 1941)
                        • Minnie Baldwin (circa 1872 - aft. 1930)
                          • John B.6 Fairbairn (Oct 1901 - May 1995)
                            • Ruth I. Ackerman (May 1906 - Jan 1992)
                  • Susannah4 Fairbairn (circa 1830 - )
                    • Ambrose Spoor (circa 1828 - )
                  • Stephen4 Fairbairn (Nov 1832 - )
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (circa 1835 - aft. 1841)
                  • Jane4 Fairbairn (circa 1839 - )
                  • Stephen4 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1841 - Jun 1841 - aft. 1841)
                  • Stephen4 Fairbairn (circa 1844 - )
                    • Maria H. Adamson (circa 1850 - )
                      • Elizabeth5 Fairbairn (bet. Jan 1869 - Mar 1869 - )
                      • Charles H. A.5 Fairbairn (circa Jan 1871 - bet. Jan 1922 - Mar 1922)
                        • Florence R. Bainbridge (circa 1879 - aft. 1911)
                          • Stephen B.6 Fairbairn (Feb 1901 - Mar 1974)
                            • Edith M. Lamb
                          • Charles6 Fairbairn (circa 1905 - )
                          • Dorothy6 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1909 - Jun 1909 - )
                      • Stephen E.5 Fairbairn (bet. Jan 1873 - Mar 1873 - bet. Sep 1963 - Dec 1963)
                        • Lily . A. Maudlin (circa 1877 - bet. Jan 1934 - Mar 1934)
                          • Elizabeth J.6 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1905 - Jun 1905 - )
                            • John T. Holliday (circa 1903 - )
                          • Stephen G.6 Fairbairn (May 1909 - Feb 1995)
                            • Rhoda E. Croft
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (Mar 1810 - aft. 1841)
              • Matthew3 Fairbairn (circa 1813 - Feb 1885)
                • Mary Pickering (circa 1810 - bet. Jan 1857 - Mar 1857)
                  • William4 Fairbairn (circa 1843 - Aug 1893)
                    • Margaret Pringle (circa 1847 - )
                  • Isabella4 Fairbairn (circa 1845 - )
                  • George4 Fairbairn (circa 1847 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
                  • Stephen4 Fairbairn (circa Jun 1850 - bet. Jun 1882 - Sep 1882)
                    • Mary Jackson (circa 1850 - aft. 1901)
                      • Matthew5 Fairbairn (circa 1878 - aft. 1911)
                        • Nellie Nicholson (circa 1883 - bet. Jan 1910 - Mar 1910)
                      • William5 Fairbairn (circa 1880 - bet. Jun 1896 - Sep 1896)
              • William3 Fairbairn (circa Dec 1815 - )
              • Sarah3 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1820 - )
          • Mary2 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1769 - )
          • Thomas2 Fairbairn (circa Jan 1771 - )
          • Rebecca2 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1772 - )
          • Matthew2 Fairbairn (circa Mar 1774 - )
          • Stephen2 Fairbairn (circa Jan 1776 - Jun 1778)
          • Isabel2 Fairbairn (circa Dec 1777 - )
          • Sarah2 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1780 - )
      • Robert1 Fairbairns (circa Aug 1737 - )
      • Thomas1 Farbairn (circa Apr 1740 - )
      • Ann1 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1743 - )
      • Sarah1 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1746 - )