a list of all the FAIRBAIRN descendants (and spice) included on this site
Andrews
Jessie Alice     (1912 - 2005)
Crosser
Alison     (say 1765 - bet. 1800 - 1841)
Davidson
John     (cir. 1817 - 1900)
John     (1873 - 1917)
Robert McIntyre     (1881 - 1916)
Walter     (1848 - 1881)
Walter Fairbairn     (1877 - 1920)
Dibdin
May Fairbairn     (1886 - 1914)
Fairbairn
Agnes     (cir. 1818 - 1884)
Alison     (cir. 1811 - 1891)
Ann     (cir. 1810 - 1891)
Archibald     (say 1760 - bet. 1800 - 1841)
Archibald     (1808 - 1867)
Archibald     (say 1783 - 1842)
Archibald     (1813 - bet. 1861 - 1871)
Archibald     (cir. 1758 - bet. 1806 - 1841)
Archibald     (1822 - aft. 1860)
Archibald James     (1825 - 1851)
David     (cir. 1800 - bet. 1870 - 1880)
David     (1822 - 1894)
James     (cir. 1794 - bet. 1851 - 1854)
James E     (1849 - 1922)
John     (cir. 1797 - )
John     (1812 - 1896)
John     (1833 - 1909)
John (m. Bessie fflint)     (say 1705 - bet. 1741 - 1805)
Margaret     (cir. 1821 - 1883)
Mary     (cir. 1830 - bet. 1900 - 1905)
Robert     (cir. 1729 - aft. 1771)
Robert     (cir. 1786 - aft. 1851)
Robert     (cir. 1828 - 1887)
Robert Herd     (cir. 1838 - 1923)
Walter     (cir. 1784 - 1859)
Fairbairn (cont.)
Walter     (1837 - 1904)
Walter     (1861 - 1918)
Walter Edward     (cir. 1871 - 1930)
Fairchild
Barbara     (1830 - cir. 1896)
John     (1832 - 1894)
Mary Joan     (1847 - 1897)
Hood
Andrew     (cir. 1838 - 1912)
Elizabeth     (cir. 1812 - 1890)
Mary Cranston     (cir. 1836 - 1898)
William     (cir. 1801 - 1862)
McIntyre
Jessie     (cir. 1854 - 1915)
Pope
Amy Florence     (1871 - 1957)
Purdie
William     (1823 - 1848)
Robinson
Agnes     (cir. 1786 - 1863)
Stewart
Agnes     (1841 - bet. 1891 - 1901)
 
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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"