John Fairbairn

Bef 1705 - 1805  (> 36 years)

• Name	John Fairbairn  [1, 2]
  	name assumes I've found the right bap. for Robert father of Archibald (marr. Mary Grierson) - which seems likely given we have good dna matches, both Y-DNA and autosomal DNA, between descendants of Robert and his assumed brother "Archibald?"
  Born	Bef 1705	Melrose?, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  WebHighlight	John is not the John baptised 1706 to Robert & Alison (SCLATER) FAIBAIRN of Eildon, as that John married a Margaret YOUNG in 1740, when our John is documented as still having children with Bessie (Elizabeth 1740, Thomas 1741). From naming pattern of known children, John's parents may be a Robert and Isobel.
  WebHighlight	The Archibald with the ? after his name has to have existed, as the Fairbairn Surname DNA project provided a DNA match between a descendant of [PAGELINK:]11318;Archibald Fairbairn and Alison Crosser, likely first son Archibald born Whitsome, Berwickshire, and a descendant of Archibald and Mary Grierson/Giessen's, son George, baptised Bowden, Roxburghshire. These two families are contemporaries in time and fairly close by place. The name Archibald? is assigned as father of the Archibald who married Alison Crosser from my assumption that the 1783 baptism of an Archibald to an Archibald, hynd of Whitsome Vaults, is their likely eldest child. Prompted by this unexpected success I researched the other Archibald and have now convinced myself that his father was Robert, and grandfather John (marr. Bessie fflint), this all being from both naming patterns of the children, and the baptisms being in the right area and timeframe as there are no convenient wills left around for us to find. The extended family also end up in all the right places (Smailholm and Kelso). There's even an Archibald as a witness to one of the baptisms, and a Thomas Anderson. My calcs are that a grandfather to the two known to exist Archibalds would cover 8 generations in total, between the matching y_DNA candidates. This agrees with the 90% probability calculations from FamilyTree DNA's y_DNA calculations (95% that it was no more than 10). This seemed good enough reason to join the families up in this way, it may however be a generation, or two, further back - until we also factor in the growing number of autosomal dna matches bewteen the two lines. An additional line joined this extended Fairbairn family with an unexpected match between these Archibalds and a descendant of William Fairbairn and Jean Wanless, who had emigrated to Quebec. This 67/67 match between a descendant of the Archibald who married Mary Grierson, and a descendant of William Fairbairn and Jean Wanless. and the 64/67 match between the Crosser line and these two lines has led me to join up the families as per the linked charts. You can read about this research journey on my personal Fairbairns page
  Died	Between 1741 and 1805	?Smailholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [8]
  WebLink	Oct 2011  [9]
  	http://wikitree.com/wiki/Fairbairn-42
  Reference Number	52709
  Person ID	I52709	FairbairnJohnFlint
  Last Modified	23 Apr 2016

  
  

  Family	Bessie Flint,   b. Between 1700 and 1710, ?Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1741, ?Smailholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 42 years)
  WebHighlight	Between 1723 and 1741	Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [10]
  	mentioned in the Session minutes: The session resolve to examine witnesses in this affair and for that end order their beadle to summoned John Fairbairn, miller, and his wife Bessie Flint, Bessie Hog, their woman, John Lyal, John Dawson and James Wilson to the session this day eight days.
  Married	Est 1728	?Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Robert Fairbairn,   b. Abt Jan 1729, Drygrange, Par. of Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1771, ?Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 43 years)   2. George Fairbairn,   b. Abt Mar 1731, Drygrange, Par. of Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland   3. Elizabeth Fairbairn,   b. Abt Aug 1733, Drygrange, Par. of Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland ,   d. Between 1733 and 1740, ?Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland + 4. Archibald? Fairbairn,   b. Est 1735, ?ROX or ?Berwickshire, Scotland   5. Isobel Fairbairn,   b. Abt Feb 1736, Drygrange, Par. of Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland   6. Mary Fairbairn,   b. Abt Apr 1738, Drygrange, Par. of Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland   7. Elizabeth Fairbairn,   b. Abt Apr 1740, Drygrange, Par. of Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland   8. Thomas Fairbairn,   b. Abt Sep 1741, Smailholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2017
  Family ID	F280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Bef 1705 - Melrose?, Roxburghshire, Scotland WebHighlight - Between 1723 and 1741 - Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland Married - Est 1728 - ?Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland Died - Between 1741 and 1805 - ?Smailholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories » Slide Show		Oct 2016 snapshot of autosomal DNA matches detectable between lines of descent from John Fairbairn and Bessie Flint NB table can only include those tested descendants who have uploaded their DNA results to GEDMatch.com (free) as that is the only place where results from all the main companies can be compared.
  		yDNA Haplogroup I-Y32666 https://yfull.com/tree/I-Y32666/
  		yFull v5.04 Fairbairn Lineage 1 May 2017 Update for the Lineage 1 (Haplogroup I1) Fairbairns on the yFull.com tree v. 5.04
  		yFull v6.04.16 Fairbairn Lineage 1 Aug 2018 Update for the Lineage 1 (Haplogroup I1) Fairbairns on the yFull.com tree v. 6.04.16 Three lines of DNA tested Fairbairns are represented here: YF13995 belongs to the line of Robert Fairbairn (marr. Crosbie) and sits up at the generic branch of the I1 tree assigned to all BigY tested Fairbairns to date - I-Y32666 YF14549 represents the Cockburnspath Fairbairn line, sitting at a new to yFull sub branch (I-A14330) of the above. The remaining cluster under I-A14330 at I-A14340 are from John Fairnairn marr. Flint around Melrose, Roxburghshire
  		yFull v7.05.00 Fairbairn/Elliot Lines This newer (Jun 2019) version of the yFull haplogroup tree inserts a branch between our I-Y32666 and its previous "parent" I-Y7277, and slightly refined the time estimate for the TMRCA of I-Y32666 from 600 years before present (ybp) to 550 ybp. NB present is defined as 1950. The generic branch of I-Y32666 that (so far) includes all of our Fairbairn testers, and their matches, now has 3 testers awaiting refining matches to form their particular sub branches.
  		yFull v7.09.00 Fairbairn/Elliot Lines This newer (Oct 2019), annotated version of the yFull haplogroup tree adds another result to the overall I-Y32666 generic branch that (so far) includes all of our Fairbairn testers, and their matches who have uploaded to yFull. There are now 4 testers awaiting refining matches to form their particular sub branches. It is expected that two will form a mew sub branch as FTDNA shows the Fairbairn (m. Redpath) descendant as matching the Fairbairn (m. Crosbie) descendant as sharing a separate lower SNP (I-FT144967)

  
  

• Sources

  [S55] BDM: Scotlands People entries to 1854, Bap. 5 Jany 1729 Robert to John FFAIRBAIRN & Bessie FFLINT, Par. of Melrose, Roxburghshire, copy d/loaded Dec 2007. [S2656] FamilyTree DNA, FamilyTree DNA, (Nov 2007), FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project, 36/37 marker match between descendants of two contemporary (time and place) Archibald FAIRBAIRNs, Dec 2007. [S55] BDM: Scotlands People entries to 1854, Bap. 13 Jan 1706 John s/o Robt FAIRBAIRN & Alison SCLATER in Eidon, Melrose, Roxburghshire, 799/00 0010 0173, copy d/loaded Jan 2015. [S2] FAIRBAIRN Analysis, Lorna Henderson, Jan 2015. [S2] FAIRBAIRN Analysis, Lorna Henderson, Dec 2007, updated Jan 2015. [S2656] FamilyTree DNA, FamilyTree DNA, (Nov 2007), FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project, 37/37 marker match between descendants of Archibald FAIRBAIRN & Mary GRIERSON, and of William FAIRBAIRN & Jean WANetherlandsESS, Mar 2008. [S14] FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project, Fairbairn., 67 marker results for the three matching participants, rcvd Apr 2008. [S1596] IGI: Online searches, Bap. 6 Jul 1758 Mary d/o John FAMILTON, batch C117372 Eccles, Berwickshire, extracted Oct 2008. [S3217] WikiTree, Oct 2011. [S5] Ancestry.com, John FAIRBAIRN, miller, and wife Bessie FLINT, from 1723-41 Roxburgh: Melrose - Register of Baptisms, Marriages, Proclamations of Marriages, Session Minutes (1723-1741) and Mortuary Rolls, extracted Jan 2010. (From Book: 2.---Baptisms, Marriages, and Discipline in the parish of Melrose since November 1723, att which time Mr. Gavin Eliot was admitted School-master and Session-clerk.)