DNA LineagesJohn Fairbairn **
#1172, b. Apr 1778, d. May 1854
| Recruit (AnotherWanted) | The project would like to recruit another representative of this line. William was schoolmaster at Bowden, then Galashiels, and is assumed to be the person referred to in Sir William's biography as the uncle who taught him book-keeping and land-surveying (see below for further info). Not many of this family have been traced to present day as yet, but one grandson lived in Rio de Janeiro and had 8 children (as at 1890 when he died in Edinburgh on a visit home), so there may yet be candidates to definitively represent William's line in the project. Many available pedigrees claim relationships to these lines, however, preliminary results just in (Jan 2010) for a line highly likely to be that of his son John born Bowden 1778, indicate a rethink may be in order. |
| Intro | Initially, research indicated that this John was highly likely to be the son of William FAIRBAIRN (married to Margaret SCOTT) schoolmaster of Bowden, then Galashiels. It was expected that this lineage would therefore most likely match "clump 2" of lineage 1, in haplogroup I1. DNA results now show there is no match as the representative of this line belongs to haplogroup R1b12. Back to the drawing board, either to find a different set of parents for John, or to find a confirmed representative for schoolmaster William's line to compare with, John having inconveniently died in the year preceding civil registration. Given John's 1851 census entry shows him to be 72, born Bowden, and the naming pattern fits, he really does look like the John son of William & Margaret, shown in the Bowden registers as born 10 Apr 1778, so more investigations, and participants needed to tease out this piece of the jigsaw. |
| Birth | John Fairbairn ** was born Apr 1778 Bowden, Roxburghshire, SCT. |
| Christening | He was christened May 1778 Bowden, Roxburghshire, SCT. |
| Marriage | He married Sarah Morris Feb 1809 St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, SCT, entry reads: John Fairbairn Bookseller Buccleugh Street and Sarah Morris daughter of the late James Morris gave up their names for proclamation of banns matrimonial. |
| Death | John Fairbairn ** died May 1854 25 Warriston Cres, Edinburgh, Midlothian, SCT, at age 76. |
Family | Sarah Morris (cir. 1790 - aft. 1851) |
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| Charts | Wanted: John Fairbairn & Sarah Morris Fairbairn Lineage 2e Relationship chart: Michael Rowland (F-23) and John FAIRBAIRN (married Sarah MORRIS) |
| Last Edited | 17 Jan 2010 |