• 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"
of Nenthorn, then Smailholm (mar. 1748)
A descendant of John & Helen's is a (distant) DNA match (60/67) to the Melrose line of David and Peggy (MERCER) FAIRBAIRN.
They belong to Haplogroup R1b1, unlike the majority of the Borders FAIRBAIRNs who are Haplogroup I1.
Additional participants from other lines are therefore required to validate these results.
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.

DNA Tested Line
  • John0 Fairbairn (m. Helen ANDERSON) (1714 - 1796)
    • Helen Anderson (say 1725 - )
      • George1 Fairbairn (Feb 1750 - )
      • John1 Fairbairn (May 1751 - bet. 1751 - 1760)
      • Helen1 Fairbairn (circa Jul 1752 - )
      • Walter1 Fairbairn (circa 1754 - )
      • Agnes1 Fairbairn (circa Mar 1754 - )
      • William1 Fairbairn (Schoolmaster, Bowden; m. Margaret SCOTT) (circa Apr 1756 - Mar 1810)
        • Margaret Scott (say 1757 - )
          • John2 Fairbairn (m. Sarah MORRIS) (Apr 1778 - May 1854)
            • Sarah Morris (circa 1790 - Aug 1853)
              • John3 Fairbairn (Mar 1815 - Nov 1894)
                • Elizabeth Stote (circa 1824 - aft. 1891)
                  • John U.4 Fairbairn (Sep 1849 - Dec 1923)
                    • Annie P. Rowland (say 1860 - )
                      • John R.5 Fairbairn (Sep 1882 - bet. 1919 - 1939)
                      • Beatrice E.5 Fairbairn (1884 - 1939)
          • George2 Fairbairn (Apr 1779 - )
          • James2 Fairbairn (Jul 1781 - )
          • Janet2 Fairbairn (May 1784 - )
          • Andrew2 Fairbairn (Mar 1786 - bet. 1815 - 1859)
            • Mary Watson (say 1785 - bef. 1859)
              • Catherine3 Fairbairn (circa 1807 - Aug 1859)
                • Thomas Leitch (circa 1805 - aft. 1859)
              • William3 Fairbairn (Nov 1812 - )
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (Feb 1815 - Nov 1895)
          • Nelly2 Fairbairn (Jan 1788 - aft. 1805)
            • Robert Fairgrieve (Feb 1782 - )
              • Anne3 Fairgrieve (circa Jan 1805 - )
          • Isabel2 Fairbairn (Dec 1789 - )
          • Peter2 Fairbairn (Jun 1792 - Oct 1862)
            • Mary A. Forrest (circa 1801 - aft. 1881)
              • Anne D.3 Fairbairn (circa Nov 1827 - aft. 1891)
              • Margaret S.3 Fairbairn (Dec 1828 - )
              • Catherine F.3 Fairbairn (Oct 1832 - aft. 1903)
              • Peter3 Fairbairn (circa Jun 1834 - Mar 1903)
              • David F.3 Fairbairn (Nov 1836 - May 1903)
              • Helen3 Fairbairn (Aug 1837 - )
              • William J.3 Fairbairn (circa Dec 1839 - Jul 1890)
                • Georgianna d. F. Reid (say 1840 - aft. 1892)
                  • Helen G.4 Fairbairn (Jul 1864 - )
                  • William G.4 Fairbairn (Feb 1866 - aft. 1881)
                  • Peter F.4 Fairbairn (Mar 1867 - aft. 1881)
                  • Mabel4 Fairbairn (Feb 1869 - aft. 1901)
                  • Jane d. F.4 Fairbairn (Oct 1870 - )
                  • Muriel4 Fairbairn (Jun 1872 - )
                  • Miss (?)4 Fairbairn (say 1885 - aft. 1890)
              • George H. D.3 Fairbairn (Nov 1841 - aft. 1861)
              • Mary A.3 Fairbairn (Oct 1843 - aft. 1901)
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (Sep 1794 - )
          • Agnes2 Fairbairn (Aug 1798 - )
      • Andrew1 Fairbairn (Feb 1758 - Jan 1844)
        • Margaret Henderson (say 1760 - Jan 1820)
          • John2 Fairbairn (Oct 1784 - )
          • Adam2 Fairbairn (Jan 1786 - )
          • Jane2 Fairbairn (Apr 1787 - Mar 1874)
          • Sir William2 Fairbairn 1st Baronet (Feb 1789 - Aug 1874)
            • Dorothy Marr (Oct 1791 - Jan 1882)
          • Thomas2 Fairbairn (Jun 1791 - 1812)
          • Helen2 Fairbairn (Jan 1795 - )
          • Sir Peter2 Fairbairn (Sep 1799 - Jan 1861)
            • Margaret Kennedy (circa 1806 - 1843)
              • Andrew3 Fairbairn (Mar 1828 - May 1901)
                • Clara F. Loraine
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (circa 1830 - )
                • William Wailes
                  • William4 Walies-Fairbairn (May 1861 - Feb 1933)
              • Robina3 Fairbairn (circa 1834 - aft. 1861)
            • Rachel A. Brandling (circa 1820 - Jun 1886)
          • Elisabeth2 Fairbairn (circa Oct 1801 - circa 1803)
      • John1 Fairbairn (Feb 1760 - )
      • Peter1 Fairbairn (circa Aug 1762 - Jul 1822)
        • Jane Paxton (bet. 1761 - 1766 - aft. 1841)
          • John2 Fairbairn (circa Feb 1788 - Sep 1816)
          • Elizabeth2 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1789 - Jun 1853)
            • John MacKenzie (1773 - Dec 1861)
          • James2 Fairbairn (circa Sep 1791 - )
          • William2 Fairbairn (Apr 1794 - 1868)
            • Beatrix Hay (circa 1806 - 1870)
              • Peter3 Fairbairn (Apr 1834 - 1894)
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (circa 1837 - 1927)
              • Colina3 Fairbairn (circa 1841 - 1911)
                • Albert O. Macrow (circa 1835 - Apr 1927)
              • James3 Fairbairn (circa 1844 - 1868)
          • Peter2 Fairbairn (Apr 1795 - )
          • Francis2 Fairbairn (Feb 1798 - )
          • Thomas2 Fairbairn (Jan 1800 - )
DNA Tested Line