• 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"
a shoemaker (marr. 1795)
Surname variations seem to abound in this family, but mostly use FAIRBAIRNS, with also FAIRBURN, FAREBANES, also appearing.
Any direct male line FAIRBAIRNs still around to represent this line in the DNA project?
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.

  • William0 Fairbairns (circa 1771 - Jul 1848)
    • Mary Dixon (circa 1775 - Apr 1844)
      • Isabel1 Fairburn (circa Aug 1796 - )
      • William1 Fairburn (circa Jul 1798 - bet. Jun 1866 - Sep 1866)
      • Jane1 Farebarne (circa Dec 1802 - )
      • Thomas1 Fairbairn (circa Oct 1805 - aft. 1871)
        • Mary King (circa 1805 - )
          • George2 Fairbairns (circa Jan 1832 - )
          • Sarah2 Fairbairns (circa 1835 - )
            • ?
              • Isabella3 Fairbairns (circa Jul 1858 - )
          • Thomas2 Fairbairn (circa Apr 1839 - )
          • Sophia2 Fairbairns (circa 1843 - )
          • Zillah2 Fairbairns (circa Nov 1846 - )
          • Jane2 Fairbairns (circa May 1848 - )
          • Emma2 Fairbairns (circa Apr 1850 - )
      • Sarah1 Fairbairns (circa Jun 1808 - )
      • George1 Fairbairn (May 1810 - Nov 1887)
        • Hannah Lightfoot (Oct 1810 - Dec 1882)
          • Randall2 Fairbairns (Feb 1834 - May 1864)
            • Elizabeth Cotton (circa 1834 - May 1857)
              • George H.3 Fairbairns (Jul 1855 - Jan 1943)
                • Hannah Robinson (Apr 1858 - Jul 1907)
                  • Fred4 Fairbairns (circa 1880 - )
                  • Horace4 Fairbairn (May 1897 - bet. Sep 1968 - Dec 1968)
                    • Agnes Naismith (1897 - 1963)
                  • Herbert4 Fairbairn (May 1901 - Jun 1984)
                    • Annie Cawthorn (circa 1906 - Aug 1964)
              • Arthur3 Fairbairn (circa May 1857 - Jan 1951)
                • Sarah E. Tate (circa 1861 - Nov 1945)
            • Ellen Hanby (circa 1829 - aft. 1891)
          • Ephraim2 Fairbairns (circa Dec 1835 - )
            • Mary Murgatroyd (circa 1832 - bet. Jun 1874 - Sep 1874)
              • Randall3 Fairbairns (circa Jun 1865 - bet. Jun 1865 - Sep 1865)
              • Alfred3 Fairbairn (Mar 1868 - aft. 1881)
              • George3 Fairbairnes (circa Jan 1874 - bet. Jan 1874 - Mar 1874)
            • Elizabeth Saul (circa 1836 - aft. 1911)
              • Frank3 Fairbairn (circa 1879 - Apr 1918)
                • Ada Mason (circa 1877 - 1962)
          • William2 Fairbairns (circa 1839 - bet. Sep 1913 - Dec 1913)
            • Ann Wheater (circa 1842 - Aug 1877)
              • Randle3 Fairbairns (bet. Sep 1867 - Dec 1867 - Jun 1872)
              • Arthur3 Fairbairns (1877 - aft. 1911)
                • Martha A. Ward (circa 1875 - )
                  • Fred4 Fairbairns (circa 1910 - )
          • James2 Fairbairn (circa 1842 - Nov 1892)
            • Isabella Tree (circa 1841 - Nov 1898)
              • George W.3 Fairbairns (circa 1860 - Aug 1862)
              • Albert3 Fairbairns (circa 1862 - )
              • James3 Fairbairns (circa 1871 - )
              • Joseph3 Fairbairns (circa 1873 - )
              • Randal3 Fairbairns (circa 1876 - aft. 1901)
              • John W.3 Fairbairns (circa 1877 - Apr 1958)
                • Rose A. Austwick (circa 1878 - Dec 1927)
              • Isabella3 Fairbairns (circa 1879 - aft. 1901)
                • ?
                  • John J. A.4 Fairbairns (Jan 1897 - May 1969)
                    • Hilda M. Woodhead (Feb 1899 - Oct 1970)
                      • Sydney5 Fairbairns (Mar 1926 - Nov 2005)
              • Florence3 Fairbairns (circa 1880 - )
          • Sidney2 Fairbairn (Jul 1843 - bet. 1906 - 1916)
            • Mary A. Hartley (circa 1841 - bet. 1871 - 1877)
              • Emily A.3 Fairbairn (circa 1873 - aft. 1894)
                • Austwick Dobson (circa 1870 - )
            • Lucy Carr (circa 1857 - Feb 1926)
              • Olive R.3 Fairbairn (May 1879 - Sep 1928)
                • Robert J. Pelton (Jun 1879 - Oct 1928)
              • George A.3 Fairbairn (Apr 1882 - aft. 1915)
              • Harold B.3 Fairbairn (May 1891 - )
          • Alfred2 Fairbairns (circa Sep 1846 - )
          • George2 Fairbairns (circa Apr 1848 - )
          • Jesse2 Fairbairns (circa 1853 - May 1915)
            • Mary Robinson (circa 1845 - Mar 1913)
              • John W.3 Fairbairns (circa 1878 - Aug 1950)
                • Emily V. Hutchinson (circa 1881 - Jun 1977)
                  • Alan4 Fairbairns
              • Beatrice3 Fairbairns (circa 1884 - )
              • Jesse3 Fairbairns (bet. Sep 1888 - Dec 1888 - Sep 1965)
                • Elsie Pocklington (Aug 1889 - bet. Jan 1983 - Mar 1983)
              • George3 Fairbairns (circa 1897 - )
      • John1 Fairbairn (Dec 1817 - Dec 1884)
        • Elizabeth Hinsley (Dec 1817 - Jul 1877)
        • Ellen Coward (circa 1833 - )
      • Joseph1 Fairbanes (bet. 1821 - 1826 - aft. 1841)