Lorna's family forest - FAIRBAIRN relations

a list of all the FAIRBAIRN descendants (and spice) included on this site

Andrews: Jessie Alice (1912 - 2005)
Armstrong: Grace (1821 - 1905)
Crosser: Alison (say 1760 - 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)
Dodds: John (1871 - aft. 1921)
Fairbairn: Agnes   (cir. 1818 - 1884)

Alison   (cir. 1811 - 1891)

Ann   (cir. 1810 - 1891)

Archibald   (cir. 1758 - bet. 1806 - 1841)

Archibald   (say 1760 - bet. 1800 - 1841)

Archibald   (say 1783 - 1842)

Archibald   (1808 - 1867)

Archibald   (1813 - bet. 1861 - 1871)

Archibald   (1822 - aft. 1860)

Archibald James   (1825 - 1851)

Archibald?   (say 1735 - )

Barbara   (1830 - 1896)

David   (cir. 1800 - 1872)

David   (1822 - 1894)

George   (1804 - 1870)

James   (cir. 1794 - bet. 1851 - 1854)

James E   (1849 - 1922)

Jane   (cir. 1820 - 1896)

Jeany   (1826 - )

John   (1792 - 1847)

John   (cir. 1797 - )

John   (1812 - 1896)

John   (1833 - 1909)

John   (1856 - 1922)

John (m. Bessie fflint)   (bef. 1705 - bet. 1741 - 1805)
Fairbairn (cont.): Margaret   (cir. 1821 - 1883)

Mary   (1830 - bet. 1900 - 1905)

Mary Catherine   (1855 - aft. 1930)

Niles G   (1886 - 1965)

Robert   (cir. 1729 - aft. 1771)

Robert   (say 1789 - aft. 1851)

Robert   (cir. 1828 - 1887)

Robert Herd   (cir. 1838 - 1923)

Walter   (cir. 1785 - 1859)

Walter   (cir. 1823 - 1903)

Walter   (1837 - 1904)

Walter   (1861 - 1918)

Walter Edward   (cir. 1871 - 1930)

William   (cir. 1822 - 1912)
Fairchild: John (1832 - 1894)
Hood: Andrew   (cir. 1838 - 1912)

Elizabeth   (cir. 1812 - 1890)

Mary Cranston   (cir. 1836 - 1898)

William   (cir. 1801 - 1862)
McIntyre: Jessie (cir. 1854 - 1915)
Ormiston: Jessie (1845 - 1911)
Pope: Amy Florence (1870 - 1957)
Purdie: Janet   (1802 - 1874)

William   (1823 - 1848)

William   (cir. 1844 - aft. 1901)
Robinson: Agnes (cir. 1786 - 1863)
Stuart: Agnes (1841 - bet. 1891 - 1901)

BMD data on all rellies

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"

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