Fairbairn Family History
Fairbairn Name Meaning
Scottish: probably a nickname from Older Scottish fair bairn
‘fair child’. Black, however, suggests that it is perhaps a
metathesized variant of Frebern (see Freeborn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fairbairn
Name Distribution of Fairbairn Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fairbairn families
 153 - 304  52 - 152 |
 1 - 51  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fairbairn families
|
178 - 353 60 - 177 |
1 - 59 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fairbairn census records
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Fairbairn Family Origin
Fairbairn Emigration Information (US)
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Fairbairn Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fairbairn census records
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Military Service by Fairbairn
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