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The following family have Eckford connections, and as such may well be related to Archibald & Alison (CROSSER) FAIRBAIRN.
(Historical information on Ancestral file has this James as the son of Archibald & Alison (CROSSER) FAIRBAIRN, but he can't be two places at once in 1841.)
Mary B. Thomson
Robert Fairbairn
Isabella Henderson
Margaret Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Archibald H. Fairbairn
Mabel Fairbairn
Robert H. Fairbairn
Elizabeth Wright
Robert Fairbairn
Mary A. Fairbairn
Archibald H. Fairbairn
Walter W. Fairbairn
Isabella Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
Mabel Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Fanny W. Fairbairn
Helen D. Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
William Fairbairn
Elizabeth Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Edward Fairbairn
John D. Fairbairn
Archibald H. Fairbairn
Grace C. G. Spalding
Robert H. Fairbairn
John S. Fairbairn
Isabella H. Fairbairn
Margaret S. Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Margaret E. Cornwall
Eric G. T. Fairbairn
Isabella O. Scott
Isabella J. Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Elizabeth W. Fairbairn
Bernice Bunyan
Neil J. Fairbairn
Mary E. Fairbairn
Jean B. Fairbairn
Judith Fairbairn
Lois M. Fairbairn
Hugh Fairbairn
Anne C. Fairbairn
Harry C. Welsh
Ann Wilkinson
James D. Fairbairn
Matilda Smith
John D. Fairbairn
Female UnknownSurname
Archibald Fairbairn
Vibeke M. Madsen
Robert H. Fairbairn
Helen M. P. Low
John D. Fairbairn
Samuel W. Smith
Samuel Smith
May Smith
Isabel Smith
Ivy F. Thomson
Emele M. Te'o
Jim Fairbairn
Rex Fairbairn
Mabel Fairbairn
Ian J. Fairbairn
Alfred S. Fairbairn
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