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Fairbairn One-Name Study
Fairbairns worldwide
Would love to hear your interest in the Fairbairn surname.
Please leave a comment in the Guestbook.
These are public comments visible to all, and may be moderated before publication.
Welcome to the future proofed Fairbairn site.
With many thanks to the Guild of One Name Studies for their initiative in providing hosting for websites devoted to surname studies registered with them.
As you can see, the site is definitely in development – and is in two parts:
– general Fairbairn information
– genealogies with trees and name/place analysis
the link between them not yet fully seamless.
Enjoy
Have you found a Fairbairn pedigree in an archive lately?
Check out
https://fairbairn.one-name.net/tng/showmedia.php?mediaID=6
for some of those shared with me over the years, including the comments, and links to further information / sources / corrected links.
Please check the data before copying such pedigrees.
My maternal grandmother was maternal first cousin to the wife of the latest Hindi. Sir. David Fairbairn, MP(Lib NSW);RAAF…
Joanne,
I’ve only done a quick search, but isn’t the “latest Hindi” the living artist rather than the deceased poliitician Sir David Fairbairn?
Lorna
Hello Fairbairn’s,
My connection to the Fairbairn name is my 3rd great grandmother, Rachel Fairbairn, who according to 1841 and 1851 Scotland census was born in 1785 in England. Rachel from the Parish of Cornhill married John Foster in Coldstream, Berwick, Scotland on 22 December 1809. John Foster, a shoemaker, and Rachel had 5 children in Northumberland, England but in 1841 and 51 lived in Coldstream and Rachel died and was buried in Coldstream. Would love to make a connection, entered on WikiTree.
Hello!
Found your site while attempting to find a tartan pattern for the Fairbairns. Just found out the Armstrong tie is probably false…so now I’m interested in doing more digging…married to a Fairbairn with four sons!
Which line of Fairbairns does your husband belong too Theresa?
Pop over to the rather fuller list of the Fairbairn families I have researched on http://Fairbairn.LornaHen.com and see if any of them are on that site.
I can then usually tell you reasonably quickly whether or not they are already represented in the DNA project or not 🙂
Lorna
Hi Lorna!! Thank you so much doing this work. My Dad, Raymond Farris, and 2 cousins have tested through FTDNA. We have a 2 genetic step relation to … Fairbairn, and 4 steps from …Fairbairn. We are strongly Scottish.
Anyway, I would appreciate if you tell me how to proceed from here, Thank you
Thank you Lorrie, I have sent you an email about the best option for your Dad’s DNA.
Basically, the match results from the y STR testing, ie at the y37/67/111 levels those Genetic differences can be misleading as to closeness.
It would be fantastic if we could figure out how come we have a group of Farris surnames matching the Fairbairns, and the stray Elliots we also seem to have accumulated along the way.
To figure out how far back the actual connection is, needs upgrades to BigY, currently with a discount for DNA day.
That takes away all speculation about the where/when branching occurred in the respective trees.
https://discover.familytreedna.com/groups/fairbairn/tree?subgroups=226113,226114,226115,226116,226117,230539,250901,275802,275803
is the project “Time Tree” view which includes the people your Dad matches.
This can only include those who have tested BigY, and will update a week or so after each new result is eceived.
It’s all fascinating, and I do so hope you can club together and organise an upgrade – no rescrape required UNLESS the original sample hasn’t enough left.
Lorna