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/89.1.1 Message Board Post: I Have the book and indeed it was partly responsible for renewing my interest. From it I have gleaned 12 Fairbairn deaths in 1881, and a further loss at sea in 1858. I haven't looked at the Census yet. The possible Fife connection is very tenuous. One of my mother's sisters (they were Fairbairns) has a recollection that there may have been relatives of our family. I have now tracked our history back from Edinburgh in the last 100 years to Fife around 1750. We have a number of researchers around the globe. I think there is a pretty extensive Fairbairn tree available on LDS for the Cockburnspath branch, going back to 1661 in Innerwick. No connection to my lot yet, but heavily researched by someone and, similar to my family, many descendants in New Zealand.