George Fairbairn (abt. 1745)

Born about 1745 in Roxburghshire, Scotland [uncertain]

Descendants

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Biography

George was born about 1745, probably in Roxburghshire, Scotland.

Family

Husband: George Fairbairn

Wife: Janet Murray

Married about 1768 assumed to be Roxburghshire, Scotland

Children:

Isabel

Janet

James

John

Robert

Janet

James

DNA

Two different lines of descendants of George are represented in the Fairbairn Surname DNA project having tested to yDNA67 and belong to the cluster of Scottish Borders Fairbairns sharing I-M253 (probably down from I-Y7277)

Research notes

Known places associated with George and Janet, are Sprouston (baptisms of first two dtrs) and Kelso (baptisms of later children).

Assuming that all of the known baptisms to George and Janet (Murray) Fairbairn around this time belong to this one couple, then George and Janet were probably born around 1745.

James' and Helen's first son was named George, and they had a dtr Janet, albeit the 1st (that I know of), rather than the 2nd dtr as would fit the Scottish naming pattern.

Proven place connections in Scotland for James are Maxton (1813 when he married Helen) and Eccles (where some of the children were baptised);

There is a Maxton connection with a proven descendant of George and Janet's in that their son Robert married Ann Curle there in 1811.

James and Helen's sons James (1821) and Robert (1825) were both born at Birgham, Eccles, at which time James was described as a weaver^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Taken from my notes published as part of the Fairbairn One Name Study, http://fairbairn.lornahen.com/p54165.htm; Fairbairn One Name Study (ONS) Worldwide from 2010 by Lorna Henderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 04 June 2020, 00:00), entry for George Fairbairn(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MLFB-MRX); contributed by various users.