• 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. about 1660)

Any direct male line FAIRBAIRNs still around to represent this early 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.

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  • Thomas0 Fairebarnes (say 1640 - )
    • ?
      • John1 Fairbairns (circa Apr 1667 - )
        • Jane Snawdon (say 1675 - )
          • William2 Fairbarns (circa Nov 1703 - )
            • ?
              • William3 Fairbairns (circa Dec 1730 - )
                • Jane Smith (say 1730 - )
                  • William4 Fairbairns (circa Apr 1754 - bet. Sep 1843 - Dec 1843)
                    • Sarah Nixon (bet. 1756 - 1761 - )
                      • Thomas5 Fairbairns (circa May 1786 - )
                      • Francis5 Fairbairns (circa May 1788 - Nov 1849)
                        • Susannah Davis (circa 1789 - Jan 1860)
                          • William6 Fairbairns (Sep 1816 - Jan 1884)
                          • Richard6 Fairbairns (Sep 1818 - aft. 1851)
                            • Emma M. Sallis
                              • Francis L.7 Fairbairns (circa 1848 - )
                              • Richard7 Fairbairns (circa 1849 - )
                              • William7 Fairbairns (circa Dec 1850 - )
                          • Elizabeth6 Fairbairns (circa Oct 1823 - aft. 1891)
                            • William Fairbairns (circa 1821 - aft. 1891)
                              • William H.7 Fairbairn (circa 1851 - aft. 1911)
                                • Katherine M. Bateman (circa 1850 - )
                                  • William B.8 Fairbairns (bet. Sep 1875 - Dec 1875 - )
                                  • Mary E.8 Fairbairns (circa 1879 - aft. 1919)
                                  • Arnold8 Fairbairn (circa 1882 - aft. 1911)
                              • Francis R.7 Fairbairn (circa 1854 - aft. 1891)
                              • Thomas R.7 Fairbairn (circa 1856 - )
                              • Joseph E.7 Fairbairn (circa 1857 - )
                              • Frederick J.7 Fairbairn (circa 1858 - )
                          • Francis R.6 Fairbairns (Jan 1830 - bet. Sep 1875 - Dec 1875)
                            • Louisa Dew (Feb 1826 - )
                      • Robert5 Fairbairns (circa Jan 1793 - Jul 1879)
                        • Isabella Harley (circa 1794 - bet. Sep 1860 - Dec 1860)
                          • Ann6 Fairbairns (circa Aug 1819 - Dec 1879)
                          • William6 Fairbairns (circa 1821 - aft. 1891)
                            • Elizabeth Fairbairns (circa Oct 1823 - aft. 1891)
                          • Sarah6 Fairbairns (circa Jan 1823 - )
                          • Isabella6 Fairbairns (circa Aug 1826 - aft. 1861)
                          • Mary6 Fairbairns (circa 1831 - aft. 1841)
                          • Thomas6 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1839 - aft. 1851)
                          • Henry6 Fairbairn (circa 1840 - )
                      • Henry5 Fairbairns (circa Jun 1796 - May 1863)
                        • Mary A. UnknownSurname (circa 1809 - )
                          • William6 Fairbairns (circa Jun 1820 - aft. 1871)
                            • Hannah Walsh (circa 1821 - )
                              • Mary A.7 Fairbairn (circa 1845 - )
                              • Isabella7 Fairbairns (circa 1856 - )
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