• 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"
Still included here despite DNA evidence showing that these "cousins" are in the more distantly connected "clump 2"
Online references in Eatonville papers around 1917 show Angus U FAIRBAIRN, descendant of John or David and Jane (WILLIAMSON) FAIRBAIRN as being visited by his cousin John A (& wife Belle) FAIRBAIRN of Hoquiam.
The 1938 obituary of Albert FAIRBAIRN (born in Liverpool to parents of Shoreditch, grandparents from Sunderland), mentions the above John A FAIRBAIRN of Hoquiam as a cousin.
The DNA project shows that there is a link somewhere, but intriguingly matches a set of other FAIRBAIRNs more closely than the the Quebec ones.
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  • Robert0 Fairbairn (cir. Dec 1751 - Nov 1849)
    • ?
      • Robert1 Fairbairn (say 1784 - bet. 1824 - 1844)
        • Elizabeth Taylor (cir. 1791 - aft. 1861)
          • James2 Fairbairn (Sep 1815 - say 1881)
            • Sarah Cook (Feb 1812 - aft. 1881)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (cir. Feb 1838 - aft. 1841)
              • James T.3 Fairbairn (cir. Aug 1840 - aft. 1891)
                • Mary C. Millie (cir. 1847 - aft. 1871)
              • John B.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1842 - aft. 1891)
                • Elizabeth A. Smith (cir. 1839 - )
                  • John B.4 Fairbairn (bet. Jan 1870 - Mar 1870 - aft. 1881)
                  • Alfred T.4 Fairbairn (bet. Jun 1874 - Sep 1874 - aft. 1891)
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (cir. 1850 - )
              • Alfred D.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1854 - aft. 1901)
                • Susanarah Buckingham (cir. 1854 - bet. 1891 - 1901)
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (cir. 1880 - aft. 1901)
                    • Matilda P. Seeley (cir. 1881 - aft. 1901)
                      • Robert5 Fairbairn (cir. May 1900 - aft. 1901)
                  • Alfred4 Fairbairn (cir. 1890 - aft. 1912)
                    • Emily A. Matthews (cir. 1891 - )
              • Emma3 Fairbairn (cir. 1856 - aft. 1881)
          • Robert2 Fairbairn (May 1818 - Aug 1882)
            • Emma Cook (May 1816 - aft. 1881)
              • Robert W.3 Fairbairn (Jul 1840 - bet. Sep 1887 - Dec 1887)
                • Emma Andrew (1842 - aft. 1901)
                  • Alice M. M.4 Fairbairn (Feb 1864 - aft. 1901)
                    • William H. Hawksworth (1864 - aft. 1901)
                      • William H.5 Hawksworth (cir. 1884 - aft. 1901)
                      • Elizabeth5 Hawksworth (cir. 1887 - aft. 1901)
                      • Beatrice5 Hawksworth (cir. 1889 - aft. 1901)
                      • Charles5 Hawksworth (bet. Sep 1890 - Dec 1890 - aft. 1901)
                  • Elizabeth4 Fairbairn (cir. 1866 - aft. 1881)
                  • Emma4 Fairbairn (cir. 1868 - aft. 1881)
                  • Ann E.4 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1869 - Jun 1869 - aft. 1891)
                  • Beatrice4 Fairbairn (bet. Jun 1874 - Sep 1874 - aft. 1881)
                  • Robert A.4 Fairbairn (1876 - aft. 1902)
                    • Alice M. Fairbairn (cir. 1883 - aft. 1901)
                  • Henry A.4 Fairbairn (cir. Sep 1879 - aft. 1903)
                    • Grace G. Skinner (1882 - )
              • Henry D.3 Fairbairn (Mar 1844 - Sep 1907)
                • Mary A. Andrew (cir. 1845 - bet. Sep 1918 - Dec 1918)
                  • Mary A.4 Fairbairn (cir. 1863 - aft. 1881)
                  • Louisa4 Fairbairn (Oct 1864 - Feb 1929)
                    • Henry Johnson (May 1865 - Mar 1944)
                      • Edmund J.5 Johnson (Nov 1898 - Jun 1967)
                        • Florence M. Hinkins (Sep 1908 - Aug 2001)
                          • Robert J.6 Johnson
                  • Florence4 Fairbairn (cir. 1870 - aft. 1891)
                  • Albert4 Fairbairn (May 1874 - 1938)
                    • Mary A. Dandy (bet. Jun 1874 - Sep 1874 - Sep 1908)
                      • Mary A.5 Fairbairn (Feb 1897 - Jul 1978)
                        • James H. Yowell (cir. 1898 - aft. 1930)
                      • Henry5 Fairbairn (Jun 1899 - Jul 1970)
                        • Anna Church (Oct 1905 - Dec 1986)
                          • Albert H.6 Fairbairn (Aug 1929 - Aug 2001)
                          • Joe6 Fairbairn (F-10)
                    • Bertha UnknownSurname (cir. 1874 - aft. 1930)
                  • Elizabeth A.4 Fairbairn (cir. 1877 - aft. 1891)
                  • Henry J.4 Fairbairn (cir. Jun 1880 - aft. 1901)
                  • Alice M.4 Fairbairn (cir. 1883 - aft. 1901)
                    • Robert A. Fairbairn (1876 - aft. 1902)
                  • Amy4 Fairbairn (cir. 1885 - aft. 1901)
              • George3 Fairbairn (cir. 1846 - aft. 1851)
              • Emma3 Fairbairn (cir. 1849 - aft. 1901)
              • John3 Fairbairn (cir. 1852 - bet. 1875 - 1881)
                • Elizabeth East (cir. 1849 - aft. 1891)
                  • John R.4 Fairbairn (Nov 1875 - aft. 1881)
              • Richard A.3 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1854 - Jun 1854 - bet. Jan 1898 - Mar 1898)
                • Sarah E. Atthews (bet. Jan 1855 - Mar 1855 - aft. 1901)
                  • Richard J.4 Fairbairn (cir. 1878 - aft. 1901)
                  • Sarah4 Fairbairn (cir. 1880 - aft. 1901)
                  • Charles4 Fairbairn (cir. 1882 - aft. 1920)
                    • Florence Johnson (say 1882 - )
                      • William G.5 Fairbairn
                        • ?
                          • Ron6 Fairbairn (F-19)
                      • Alfred5 Fairbairn
                  • Henry4 Fairbairn (cir. 1885 - aft. 1901)
          • John T.2 Fairbairn (Mar 1821 - bet. 1851 - 1861)
            • Elizabeth A. Swanton (cir. 1818 - aft. 1891)
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (cir. Nov 1845 - aft. 1891)
                • Joseph Barlow (cir. 1845 - aft. 1891)
              • Ann3 Fairbairn (cir. Apr 1847 - bet. Jan 1866 - Mar 1866)
              • Sarah D.3 Fairbairn (cir. Mar 1850 - aft. 1881)
              • Eliza3 Fairbairn (cir. Jan 1851 - aft. 1861)
              • Emma3 Fairbairn (bet. Sep 1853 - Dec 1853 - aft. 1871)
              • Louisa3 Fairbairn (bet. Sep 1857 - Dec 1857 - aft. 1891)
              • Henrietta T.3 Fairbairn (cir. Jun 1860 - bet. Jan 1880 - Mar 1880)
          • Elizabeth2 Fairbairn (cir. 1824 - aft. 1844)
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