This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QdV.2ACIB/111 Message Board Post: I have a range of Fairbairn's in my Tree including a Samuel Fairbairn of Edinburgh a tax collector and his sister Katherine Fairbairn from Penicuik. Their father was an Archibald Fairbairn born in Penicuik in 1758. They link to a James Fairbairn the Schoolmaster in Penicuik. Some Fairbairn's in the Edinburgh book trade were also linked.