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John Fairbairn
Born
say 1705
probably Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Married
abt 1728
probably Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Notes: The session resolve to examine witnesses in this affair and for that end order their beadle to summoned John Fairbairn, miller, and his wife Bessie Flint, Bessie Hog, their woman, John Lyal, John Dawson and James Wilson to the session this day eight days.[5]
↑ Source #S2: From DNA, naming patterns of (sometimes assumed) descendants
↑ Source #S3: From DNA, naming patterns of (sometimes assumed) descendants
↑ Source : #S55 Bap. 6 Sep 1741 Thomas to John FAIRBAIRN & Bettie FLINT, Par. of Smailholm, ROX, copy d/loaded Mar 2008
↑ Source #S1: Book: 2.---Baptisms, Marriages, and Discipline in the parish of Melrose since November 1723 "att which time Mr. Gavin Eliot was admitted School-master and Session-clerk".
Source S1 1723-41 Roxburgh: Melrose - Register of Baptisms, Marriages, Proclamations of Marriages, Session Minutes (1723-1741) and Mortuary Rolls, extracted from Ancestry index Jan 2010
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