The fairbairn Surname
fairbairn Name Meaning and History
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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 LornaHenNZ
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| Robert Fairbairn dies 1908 WA |
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| William Ewart Fairbairn, born 28 feb. 1885 in Rickmansworth |
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