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Some descendants of Thomas & Elspeth (REDPATH) FAIRBAIRN.
Thomas went to Canada to work on the Rideau Canal, as did the William who married Jean WANLESS. Reby DODDS book "Who's Which" assigns a brother Thomas to William (although she marries Thomas off to the wrong wife).
The dna project has shown there is a relationship, but it looks unlikely that William and Thomas are brothers.
Thomas Fairbairn
Elspeth Redpath
Helen Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Agnes Fairbairn
Elizabeth Fairbairn
Peter Fairbairn
Ann Brown
Peter Fairbairn
George Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
Prudence Fairbairn
Charlotte J. Kerfut
Thomas Fairbairn
William J. Fairbairn
Robert P. Fairbairn
Helen Fairbairn
Jane Williams
Thomas L. Fairbairn
William Fairbairn
Orilla Fairbairn
Elspeth Fairbairn
Arthur E. Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Margaret Galbraith
Harold P. Fairbairn
Kate F. Mather
Maria Spratt
Harold W. Fairbairn
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