Recruit(Wanted) | The project would like to recruit a representative of this line. Andrew moved around a bit! (From Oxford Dictionary of National Biography): "After serving in the navy during the American War of Independence, his father returned to Scotland, and married the daughter of a Jedburgh tradesman, a Miss Henderson, with whom he had five children another of whom was Peter Fairbairn (1799-1861), engineer and inventor." Other places mentioned: 300 acre farm in Dingwall 1799, Kelso 1801, Knaresborough Yorkshire. |
Birth | Andrew Fairbairn was born 10 Feb 1758 Smailholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland . |
Christening | He was christened 12 Mar 1758 Smailholm, Roxburghshire . |
Marriage | He married Margaret Henderson 12 Dec 1783 Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland . |
Death | Andrew Fairbairn died 14 Jan 1844 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England , at age 85. |