This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QdV.2ACIB/100.1 Message Board Post: Dear John, Can you tell us more about where these Fairbairns lived? I'm unable to recognise the Newlands connection but James, Mary and Christina are all names which appear in my Fairbairn family. Mine were in the Scottish Borders / Northumberland in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Best wishes, David Richardson.