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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"
Some descendants of James & Elspeth (TROTTER) FAIRBAIRN
Line believed to include Trotter & Jean (FAIRBAIRN) FAIRBAIRN who married at Ladykirk, moved to Kelso thence to Sunderland
DNA Tested Line
  • James0 Fairbairn (say 1705 - )
    • Elspeth Trotter (say 1700 - )
      • Thomas1 Fairbairn (cir. Feb 1738 - )
      • Thomas1 Fairbairn (cir. May 1743 - )
        • ?
          • Trotter2 Fairbairn (cir. 1774 - bet. Jun 1856 - Sep 1856)
            • Jean Fairbairn (say 1775 - )
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (cir. May 1795 - aft. 1861)
                • Mary Fairbairn (cir. 1800 - aft. 1861)
                  • John4 Fairbairn (cir. Oct 1818 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
                    • Mary A. Forster or Rickaby (cir. 1828 - aft. 1861)
                  • Jane4 Fairbairn (cir. 1821 - aft. 1841)
                  • Trotter4 Fairbairn (cir. 1824 - Jul 1883)
                    • Eleanor Bailey ( - bet. 1844 - 1871)
                    • Mary A. Wanless (Sep 1838 - Mar 1920)
                      • Mary J.5 Fairbairn (Sep 1872 - aft. 1881)
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (cir. 1827 - aft. 1841)
                  • William4 Fairbairn (cir. 1827 - aft. 1861)
                  • Thomas4 Fairbairn (cir. 1830 - aft. 1851)
                  • Arabella4 Fairbairn (cir. 1832 - aft. 1851)
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (cir. 1835 - aft. 1861)
                  • Mary4 Fairbairn (cir. 1837 - aft. 1851)
                  • Barbara4 Fairbairn (cir. Apr 1839 - aft. 1855)
                    • ?
                      • Jane A.5 Fairbairn (Nov 1855 - aft. 1881)
                        • Robert Humphrey (cir. 1857 - aft. 1901)
              • John3 Fairbairn (Mar 1797 - )
                • Mary Ayre (cir. 1796 - )
                  • Thomas4 Fairbairn (cir. Nov 1816 - bet. 1871 - 1881)
                    • Elizabeth ?Lawson or ?Stephenson (cir. 1820 - aft. 1881)
                      • Thomas5 Fairbairn (cir. 1843 - aft. 1861)
                      • John5 Fairbairn (cir. 1856 - aft. 1901)
                        • Margaret A. W. Swan (cir. 1858 - )
                          • Philip C.6 Fairbairn (cir. 1892 - aft. 1901)
                          • Neville6 Fairbairn (Nov 1894 - 1980)
                            • Dorothy UnknownSurname (Mar 1901 - )
                      • Robert5 Fairbairn (cir. 1857 - aft. 1881)
                  • Mary4 Fairbairn (cir. 1821 - )
                  • Margaret4 Fairbairn (Apr 1829 - )
              • Alexander3 Fairbairn (Nov 1799 - aft. 1851)
                • Isabella Oates (cir. 1801 - aft. 1851)
                  • Sarah O.4 Fairbairn (cir. 1821 - aft. 1843)
                    • John o. R. o. G. Crouch or Kipling or Thompson or Wood (say 1820 - )
                  • Trotter4 Fairbairn (cir. May 1822 - aft. 1822)
              • Jane3 Fairbairn (Aug 1802 - aft. 1851)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (Jul 1804 - )
                • Eleanor Sinclair (cir. 1805 - aft. 1871)
                  • William S.4 Fairbairn (cir. Sep 1829 - Jul 1893)
                    • Mary A. Goodenough (Jun 1845 - Jul 1899)
                      • David S.5 Fairbairn (Jun 1879 - Nov 1939)
                        • Euphemia Carr (Sep 1880 - Jan 1954)
                      • Robert E.5 Fairbairn (Jun 1880 - May 1953)
                        • Florence Aubury (cir. 1890 - aft. 1914)
                          • Sydney M.6 Fairbairn
                      • Arthur R.5 Fairbairn (May 1884 - Feb 1953)
                        • Miriam Craven (Jun 1877 - Dec 1963)
                          • Vivian6 Fairbairn (Aug 1909 - Oct 1998)
                            • Violet Minks (Jan 1906 - Aug 1974)
                          • Kenneth6 Fairbairn (Mar 1911 - Jun 1988)
                            • Clarice Gregory (Apr 1900 - Jul 1974)
                          • Joyce6 Fairbairn (Jul 1913 - Dec 1978)
                            • William Hutton
                          • Leslie6 Fairbairn (Feb 1916 - Aug 1991)
                            • Margaret A. Hall (Feb 1918 - Jan 1997)
                  • Jane E.4 Fairbairn (cir. 1844 - aft. 1851)
              • Barbara3 Fairbairn (Mar 1806 - )
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (Aug 1808 - )
                • George Godley (cir. 1810 - aft. 1851)
                  • Jane4 Godley (cir. 1833 - aft. 1851)
      • Agnes1 Fairbairn (cir. Mar 1746 - )
DNA Tested Line