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Scotland: OPR births 1538-1854

Earliest earliest OPR birth records by county for Fairbairn and variants

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Ayrshire:

33 records in total ; Earliest 1761 , latest 1852 ;
Only in 7 of the 48 parishes in total on SctP.

Six surname variants over 13 families in seven parishes: 
FREEBAIRN (26) 1761 - 1852; FREEBURN (2) 1829; FAIRBAIRN (2) 1784, 1852; FREBAIRN (1) 1788; FREEBARIN (1) 1824;  FREEBRAIRN (1) 1850;

Berwickshire:

803 records in total ; Earliest 1623, latest 1854;

Earliest is 1623 as FAIRBAIRNE, with 62 occurrences in all from 1623 to 1715; 

The most common however is FAIRBAIRN with 673 of the 803, earliest 1665, latest 1854;   

FREEBAIRN 25 from 1734 to 1782; 

FAIRBARN 10 from 1705 to 1772; 

FREBAIRN 8 from 1740 to 1750; 

with FAIRBARNE, FAIRBERN, FAIRBORN, FAIRBURN, FARBAIRNE, FAREBARN, FAREBARNE, FARIBARN, FAREBARNE, FARIBAIRN, FREEBARN and FREEBARNE also having 1 to 7 occurrences each

East Lothian:

136 records in total; Earliest 1627 as Fairbairn, latest ?;
Of the 136 births indexed, 57 are shown as female, 65 male and 14 not recorded. 

Over the 1627 to 1854 timespan, the biggest gap with no Fairbairn births is 33 years, between 1627 and 1660, and the next a 19 year gap between 1663 and 1682, and 12 between 1692 and 1704, 9 between 1730 and 1739, 8 between 1842 and 1850.
The rest of the time, there are Fairbairn births recorded every 1, 2 or 3 years (with one 6 and one 5 year gap).

Only 9 parishes are represented: Oldhamstocks (40); Haddington (33); Dunbar (25); Innerwick (19); Humbie & Saltoun (2 each); Prestonkirk Spott and Yester (1 each).

The majority of births/baptisms are indeed recorded as Fairbairn (124), followed by Fairbarn (5), Ferbairn (4), Freebairn (2) and Fairbern (1)

Midlothian:

Earliest is 1595, recorded as FLABAIRNE.
Assorted variants with Fla.. Fle.. occur from 1595 through to 1664, with the earliest FAIRBAIRN, or variant, arriving in the indexes at 1650.
The most common however is FAIRBAIRN 317 of the 388; 22 as FREEBAIRN; 
Also FLABARNE (9), FORBURN (7), FLABAIRNE (6), FLAEBAIRNE (5), FLEBAIRNE (4), FAIRBARN (4), FLEABAIRNE (3), FAIRBURN (3), FAIRBERN (2), FRIBAIRN (2),  and 1 each for FREEBARN, FAIRNBAIRN, FEARBAIRN and FLAEBARNE.

At least one birth/baptism recorded every 1 or 2 years apart from:

a 12 year gap 1651 to 1663; 

9 year gap from 1630 to 1639;

 6 years between 1620 to 1626; 

5 from 1708 to 1713.

Not a prolific area for FAIRBAIRNs, the most in any one year was 7 (1808, 1827); followed by 6 (1810, 1852, 1853)

Orkneys:

2 records in total ; Earliest 1833, latest 1835, both the family of the Rev. Patrick Fairbairn and Margaret Pitcairn

Peeblesshire:

Only 13 F*R*B*N* records; Earliest 1701, latest 1754;
6 spelling variants, over two parishes in what look superficially, as two separate families, James in Peebles, 1701  thru' 1710; Archibald in Newlands 1739 thru' 1754

Roxburghshire:

601 records in total ; Earliest 1600, latest 1854

Nil returns:

Caithness;



Owner/SourceFairbairn One Name Study
DateJun 2010
Linked toJohn Fairbairn; Jonat Fairbairn; Margaret Fairbairne; Thomas Fairbarine; Andro Faribairne; Thomas Flabairne; Matthew Freebairn

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