• 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"
Cameron, FIF, marr. abt 1785
Any relationship to Lineage 2a?

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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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.

DNA Tested Line
  • Thomas0 Fairbairn (say 1760 - )
    • Ann Smith (say 1760 - )
      • Alexander1 Fairbairn (circa 1789 - Feb 1866)
        • Annie Robertson (circa 1780 - 1864)
          • Thomas2 Fairbairn (circa 1812 - Jan 1894)
            • Agnes Robertson (circa 1812 - bet. 1842 - 1847)
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (circa Aug 1836 - )
              • Shepherd3 Fairbairn (circa 1842 - May 1926)
                • Elizabeth Bromwich (circa 1850 - )
            • Alison Ross (circa 1819 - )
          • John2 Fairbairn (circa 1819 - Nov 1880)
            • Agnes M. Rolland (Apr 1819 - 1873)
              • Alexander3 Fairbairn (circa 1838 - aft. 1841)
              • David3 Fairbairn (Apr 1840 - bet. 1881 - 1915)
                • Jane Veitch (circa 1845 - )
                  • Andrew4 Fairbairn (circa 1879 - Apr 1915)
              • James3 Fairbairn (circa 1843 - )
              • Janet3 Fairbairn (circa 1844 - )
              • John3 Fairbairn (circa 1847 - )
              • William3 Fairbairn (circa 1850 - )
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (circa 1853 - Apr 1925)
                • Eliza Seath (circa 1856 - )
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (circa 1880 - )
                  • John4 Fairbairn (Dec 1881 - 1961)
                    • Alison D. Elder (1883 - 1940)
                  • Agnes4 Fairbairn (circa 1885 - )
                  • Andrew4 Fairbairn (circa 1886 - )
                  • William M. H.4 Fairbairn (1887 - Oct 1959)
                    • Janet Wilkie (circa 1887 - 1933)
                    • Sarah I. G. Laing (say 1896 - )
                  • Jeanie4 Fairbairn (circa 1890 - )
                  • Eliza4 Fairbairn (Jul 1891 - )
              • Andrew3 Fairbairn (circa 1855 - 1929)
                • Isabella Hope (circa 1861 - 1927)
                  • Barbara4 Fairbairn (circa 1881 - )
                  • Agnes4 Fairbairn (circa 1882 - )
                  • John4 Fairbairn (circa 1884 - )
                  • Adam4 Fairbairn (circa 1886 - )
                    • Catherine Wilkinson (circa 1881 - aft. 1911)
                      • Andrew J.5 Fairbairn (Apr 1912 - Jan 1967)
                        • ?
                          • Robert G.6 Fairbairn (Jan 1935 - Jun 1993)
                  • Hope4 Fairbairn (circa 1887 - )
                  • Andrew4 Fairbairn (circa 1888 - )
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (circa 1889 - )
                  • James4 Fairbairn (circa 1892 - )
                  • William4 Fairbairn (circa 1895 - )
                  • David4 Fairbairn (circa 1898 - )
              • George3 Fairbairn (circa 1857 - aft. 1881)
            • Christian Gowans (circa 1835 - )
DNA Tested Line