Lorna's family forest - James & Mary Bell/Mabel (THOMSON) FAIRBAIRN

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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
So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
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
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"
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"

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The following family have Eckford connections, and as such may well be related to Archibald & Alison (CROSSER) FAIRBAIRN.

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James⁰ Fairbairn (cir. 1795 - Jun 1846)
- Mary B. Thomson (cir. 1791 - Mar 1867)
  - Robert¹ Fairbairn (Jul 1824 - Sep 1907)
    - Isabella Henderson (cir. 1827 - Aug 1873)
      - Margaret² Fairbairn (cir. 1852 - aft. 1861)
      - James² Fairbairn (May 1853 - Nov 1911)
        Elizabeth Wright (cir. 1852 - aft. 1911)
        Robert³ Fairbairn (Apr 1877 - aft. 1915)
        Margaret E. Cornwall (Aug 1878 - )
        Mary A.³ Fairbairn (Jan 1880 - aft. 1891)
        Archibald H.³ Fairbairn (Aug 1881 - 1968)
        Isabella O. Scott (1882 - 1952)
        Walter W.³ Fairbairn (Nov 1882 - bet. Jun 1970 - Sep 1970)
        Bernice M. Bunyan (bet. Jan 1896 - Mar 1896 - bet. Jan 1955 - Mar 1955)
        Isabella³ Fairbairn (cir. 1884 - aft. 1901)
        Margaret³ Fairbairn (cir. 1886 - aft. 1891)
        Mabel³ Fairbairn (cir. 1888 - aft. 1911)
        James³ Fairbairn (Jan 1891 - aft. 1914)
      - Archibald H.² Fairbairn (Aug 1855 - bet. Mar 1936 - Jun 1936)
        Fanny W. Fairbairn (cir. 1862 - aft. 1911)
        Helen D.³ Fairbairn (Dec 1879 - aft. 1913)
        Harry C. Welsh (say 1875 - )
        Robert³ Fairbairn (cir. 1882 - aft. 1936)
        William³ Fairbairn (cir. 1883 - aft. 1936)
        Elizabeth³ Fairbairn (cir. 1886 - aft. 1911)
        James³ Fairbairn (Jan 1887 - aft. 1943)
        Ann Wilkinson (cir. 1889 - aft. 1943)
        Edward³ Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1889 - Jun 1889 - aft. 1936)
        John D.³ Fairbairn (cir. 1892 - aft. 1922)
        Matilda Smith (say 1892 - )
        Archibald H.³ Fairbairn (Sep 1893 - bet. Jun 1967 - Sep 1967)
        Winifred N. Lee (Jul 1895 - )
      - Mabel² Fairbairn (Aug 1859 - 1935)
      - Robert H.² Fairbairn (Dec 1862 - Aug 1920)
        Grace C. G. Spalding (cir. 1864 - Apr 1908)
        Robert H.³ Fairbairn (Jul 1893 - May 1958)
        Vibeke M. Madsen (say 1895 - cir. 1975)
        John S.³ Fairbairn (Feb 1895 - Dec 1956)
        Helen M. P. Low (May 1893 - cir. 1966)
        Isabella H.³ Fairbairn (cir. 1899 - aft. 1930)
        Samuel W. Smith (cir. 1890 - )
        Margaret S.³ Fairbairn (cir. 1900 - aft. 1923)
        Ivy F. Thomson (say 1900 - aft. 1923)
        James³ Fairbairn (Jun 1901 - Sep 1973)
        Emele M. Te'o (May 1908 - Nov 1996)

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