Archibald Fairbairn (1813 - aft. 1861)

Born 2 Aug 1813 in Lessudden, Par. of St Boswells, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Blakey) Fairbairn — married 6 Feb 1841 in Tynemouth, Dist of Tynemouth, Northumberland, England

Descendants

Died after 1861 after age 47 in Caledon, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada [uncertain]

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Lorna Henderson [send private message]

Biography

Archibald Fairbairn ^[1][2][3]

Born 02 AUG 1813 Lessudden, Par. of St Boswells, Roxburghshire, Scotland^[4][5][6][7]

NB 1851 census shows born Durham, England which is incorrect by most other sources)^[8]

Baptized 29 AUG 1813 St Boswells, , Roxburghshire, Scotland

entry shows "Archibald Fairbairn son of Archibald Fairbairn labourer Lessudden and Janet Scott his wife was Born Augt 2nd 1813 and Baptised August 29 1813 in the Church"^[9][10][11]

Died BET 1861 AND 1871 possibly  ?Caledon, Peel Co., Ontario, Canada

presumably between 1861 and 1868 as not obvious 1869+ in ONT dths (registration started 1869), and is in 1861 census.

No death registration was found in either Scotland or England.^[12][13][14]

Emigrated 1851 to Ontario, Canada

(from son Archibald's census data, 1851 in 1901, 1853 in 1911)^[15][16]

Family

Husband: Archibald Fairbairn

Wife: Jane Blakey

Married 06 FEB 1841 Tynemouth, Dist of Tynemouth, Northumberland, England

cert. shows Archibald as a blacksmith s/o Archibald Fairbairn, a gardener; Jane as d/o John Blakey, waggon[maker?]. Both of full age and resid. Cowpen Colliery. Secession Church but rites and ceremones of the Presbyterian Ch of Scotland; Wit: Joseph Armstrong and Mary Ann Carmichael; Archibald signed, Jane her mark. Minister David Carmichael^{[17][18][19][20]}

Children:

Jane Fairbairn

Archibald Fairbairn

John Fairbairn

Helen Fairbairn

Barbara Fairbairn

Walter Fairbairn

Robert Fairbairn

Census

1841 Horton, Castle (East Division), Northumberland, England

Note: BLAKEY: John 55 husbandman b Cty; FAIRBAIRN: Archibald B.S. (assumed to mean blacksmith) 25 b Scotland; Jane 25 b Cty; Also William BLAKEY 10 and CHARLTON^[21]

1851 Cowpen, Dist of Tynemouth, Northumberland, England

FAIRBAIRN: Archibald 38 blacksmith b Durham; Wife Jane 37 b Cowpen, NBL; Children (all b Cowpen): William 15 coal miner, Jane 10, Archibald 7, John 5 all scholars, Helen 3; Lodgers GRAY, William Batty 25 unm coal miner b NBL^[22]

1861 Caledon, Peel Co, Ontario, Canada

FAIRBURN: Archibald 48 blacksmith b Scotland ; Jane 47 "spinster" (!) b Scotland, both F.C. Assumed children: Jane 20 b England, Archibald 18 blacksmith b England; John 15 b England; Barbra (sic) 10 b England; Walter 3, Robert 2 both b U.C. Living in a one storey frame hse, as 1 family^[23]

DNA

The Surname DNA project has come up trumps - again.

I (Lorna) began to suspect that the family of FAIRBAIRNs I was tracing around in Ontario and Alberta just might belong to the family of an Archibald married to Jane Blakey in Tynemouth in 1841. Much later, I realised that I'd never actually checked this marriage cert.

When this was remedied I was very interested to see that this Archibald's father was another Archibald.

Given that the one married to Jane was given as born about 1813 in Scotland in most available records, and the only Archibald son of Archibald I had in my database of Fairbairns was the one baptised in St Boswells in 1813 to Archibald F. and Janet Scott, it was looking even more likely that I'd found out what had happened to this latter Archibald, albeit that the father was shown with an occupation (gardener) that I hadn't associated with him.

(Up till now I had assumed he had died prior to the 1841 census).

Thanks to a McKee researcher connected to the Ontario branch of these Fairbairns (who only knew their ancestry back to the Robert who married Martha Almira Huston, a descendant was convinced to represent his line in the Fairbairn dna project.

The preliminary results (Apr 2009) showed a 12/12 match, and by May they showed a 64/67 match, with the known descendant of Archibald and Janet (Scott) Fairbairn. QED, especially as two of those markers are unique in the project to this line, and marker cdya of 36 is shared with Martin the known descendant of Archibald and Janet (Scott) F, and none of the others in the project.

And when in Apr 2011 Ed turned up a military record for John, son of a Walter of Roxburghshire, which clearly showed his mother as Agnes ROBINSON, we finally had a proven representative for the line of Archibald and Alison (Crosser) Fairbairn to compare the other representatives with.

A good match.^[24][25]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S5 Page: Marr. 3 Jul 1871 Archibald (s/o Archibald & Jane FAIRBAIRN) & Mary Jane (d/o Thos Mary & Ann CAVENA) roll MS932_4, York, ONT, from Ontario, Canada Marriages 1857-1924, extracted Dec 2007
2. ↑ Source: #S5 Page: Marr. 30 Dec 1897 Walter s/o Archibald & Jessie FAIRBAIRN, & Adaline d/o Alane VROOMAN & Caroline MAIN, Wellington Cty, ONT, FHL Film MS932_97, from Ontario, Canada Marraiges, 1857-1924, extracted May 2008
3. ↑ Source: #S620
4. ↑ Source: #S200 Page: Horton, Castle (East Division) Hundred, NBL HO107/821/4 ED 6 F 16 Pg 25, hsehold of John BLAKEY, extracted Dec 2007
5. ↑ Source: #S809 Page: 1891 Sub Dist Stisted & McMurrich, Dist Muskoka & Parry Sound, ONT Dist 95 Roll T-6355, family of Archibald & Mary Jane FAIRBAIRN, extracted Feb 2009
6. ↑ Source: #S620
7. ↑ Source: #S56 Page: Birth 2 Aug Bap. 29 Aug 1813 Archibald s/o Archibald FAIRBAIRN (Lessudden) and Janet SCOTT, Par. 804 0010 0150 St Boswells, copy d/loaded Apr 2009
8. ↑ Source: #S202 Page: Par. of Cowpen, Sub Dist Earsdon, Dist Tynemouth, Northumberland, HO107/2412 F 414 ED 2b Pg 55 Sched 194, hsehold of Archibald & Jane FAIRBAIRN, extracted Jun 2008
9. ↑ Source: #S620
10. ↑ Source: #S1960 Page: Oct 2000
11. ↑ Source: #S56 Page: Birth 2 Aug Bap. 29 Aug 1813 Archibald s/o Archibald FAIRBAIRN (Lessudden) and Janet SCOTT, Par. 804 0010 0150 St Boswells, copy d/loaded Apr 2009
12. ↑ Source: #S1596 Page: 1881 Orangeville, Wellington Centre, ONT FHL Film 1375895 NA Film C-13259 Dist 152 Sub Dist A Div 1 Pg 31 hsehold 157, hsehold of Jane FARABURN (as indexed), extracted Feb 2009
13. ↑ Source: #S809 Page: 1871 Erin, Wellington Center, ONT, M'film roll C-9947 Div 2 Pg 20, hoh Jane FAIRBURN, (59 b England), extracted Feb 2009
14. ↑ Source: #S809 Page: 1861 Caledon, Peel, Ontario; Roll: C-1063, hsehold of Archibald & Jane FAIRBURN, extracted Aug 2009
15. ↑ Source: #S809 Page: 1901 Sub Dist Ryerson, Dist of Muskoka & Parry Sound, ONT Dist 91 Sub Dist N1-2 Family 56, hsehold of Archibald & Mary J FAIRBAIRN, extracted Jun 2008
16. ↑ Source: #S809 Page: 1911 Dist Parry Sount, ONT Dist 108 Sub Dist 24 Pg 3 Family 21, hsehold of Archie & Mary FAIRBAIRN, extracted Feb 2009
17. ↑ Source: #S5 Page: Marr. 3 Jul 1871 Archibald (s/o Archibald & Jane FAIRBAIRN) & Mary Jane (d/o Thos Mary & Ann CAVENA) roll MS932_4, York, ONT, from Ontario, Canada Marriages 1857-1924, extracted Dec 2007
18. ↑ Source: #S1595 Page: Marr. 1841 Archibald FAIRBAIRN & Jane BLAKEY or SMITH, reg. Tynemouth, Mar qtr 25/361, extracted Dec 2007
19. ↑ Source: #S5 Page: Marr. 30 Dec 1897 Walter s/o Archibald & Jessie FAIRBAIRN, & Adaline d/o Alane VROOMAN & Caroline MAIN, Wellington Cty, ONT, FHL Film MS932_97, from Ontario, Canada Marraiges, 1857-1924, extracted May 2008
20. ↑ Source: #S2153 Page: Marr. 6 Feb 1841 Archibald s/o Archibald FAIRBAIRN & Jane d/o John BLAKEY, United Secession Ch, Tynemouth, Northumberland, copy rcvd Feb 2009
21. ↑ Source: #S200 Page: Horton, Castle (East Division) Hundred, NBL HO107/821/4 ED 6 F 16 Pg 25, hsehold of John BLAKEY, extracted Dec 2007
22. ↑ Source: #S202 Page: Par. of Cowpen, Sub Dist Earsdon, Dist Tynemouth, Northumberland, HO107/2412 F 414 ED 2b Pg 55 Sched 194, hsehold of Archibald & Jane FAIRBAIRN, extracted Jun 2008
23. ↑ Source: #S809 Page: 1861 Caledon, Peel, Ontario; Roll: C-1063, hsehold of Archibald & Jane FAIRBURN, extracted Aug 2009
24. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Dec 2007, updated Feb 2009, and again Apr and May 2009
25. ↑ Source: #S14 Page: 12/12 match between descendants of Archibald and Janet (SCOTT) FAIRBAIRN and of Robert and Martha Almira (HUSTON) FAIRBAIRN, rcvd Apr 2009

• Source: S14 FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project, http://dnasurnames.info/lineages
• Source: S1596 IGI: Online searches, assorted surnames http://familysearch.org
• Source: S1960 EMails re FAIRBAIRN: Borders ex Sanna G, Address: North Carolina, USA,
• Source: S2 FAIRBAIRN Analysis http://Fairbairn.lornahen.com Author: Lorna Henderson Fairbairn OneNameStudy http://FairbairnsAll.blogspot.com
• Source: S200 1841 Census images for England and Wales, via Ancestry.com
• Source: S202 1851 Census images for England and Wales, via Ancestry.com
• Source: S5 Ancestry.com
• Source: S56 Scottish Birth, Marriage, Death entries (from 1855), http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.php
• Source: S620 OPR INDEX: Roxburghshire, Scotland; New Register House, Edinburgh, Subject: Births marriages OPR index,
• Source: S809 CENSUS: Canada, via Ancestry.com

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Lorna Henderson for creating WikiTree profile Fairbairn-374 through the import of FairbairnArchibaldScottJanet3Gen4WikiTreeJun2013PlaceUpdated.ged on Jun 26, 2013. (Reference: 15576)