My mother-in-law was a Fairbairn and through her we have a family tree prepared by a kind Australian cousin taking us back to John b.1563 thru to most of the AngloScottish and Australian branches to 1984. Where it's abit sketchy is with the American and Canadian branches which seem to start with John b.1714 d.1797 m.1st 1748 Lucy Eadster and 2nd.1754 Helen Anderson. He had the folowing children: Robert b.1749 d.1829 m.1772 Thomas b.1751 John b.1753 d.1830 m.1776 Elizabeth Yule. To Canada 1824 Walter b. & d.1755 William b.1756 d.1809 m.1782 Margaret Thomson Andrew b.1758 d.1844 m.1783 Margaret Henderson (Baronets line) and Peter b.1760 d.1823 m.1783 From what I know some of the Canadian branch have also gone to Buffalo and on to San Francisco and some of William snd Margaret's descendents have gone to Minnesota (Mao Clinic?). Have other bits of info for those lines but it would be good to try and build a complete family tree for the Fairbairns descended from John b.1563 in Ednam Alasdair