Born: 12 May 1819, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom 234
Christened: 16 Jun 1819, Stockbridge, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom 35
Marriage: Agnes Burgon
Died: 30 Jan 1905, Eyemouth, at age 85
General Notes:
James Fairbairn and wife Agnes Burgon watched from shore in the Eyemouth disaster as three of their sons perished, three within a stones throw of safety. In April 1884 James made an application for help from the relief fund which was turned down. 'He is too old for the fishing, his wife too frail. He lost three sons - two of them unmarried and living with him - at his own door he saw two of them perish. Now another son Paul has left to be married and his final son may do likewise. As a result of the refusal old James was forced to return to the sea. John Burgon may well have been Agnes' Brother. He was mourned by his father Alex Burgon who survived aboard the Ariel Gazelle which had headed out to sea. James' other son Paul was aboard the Ariel Gazelle.
James married Agnes Burgon. (Agnes Burgon was born about 1817 in Eyemouth.)
Sources
1
Norman Peters, Norman Peters' family tree research, (Supplied as a GEDCOM file to Martin Fairbairn on 26 July 2003. See also "Descendants of Thomas Fairbairne.doc" for more detail about Norman's sources.) ID: Mine4martin_fairbairn_line.fdb.
3
Fairbairn, Jean. 86 High Street, Haddington., Fairbairn, Jean. Letter to Peter Fairbairn Cameron, Ontario, Canada. 27 February 1977., Letter dated 27 February 1977. Cit. Date: 8 Dec 2002 Cit. ID: Documents "fairbairn_haddington.txt"
4
Tara Hawkins, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/7114/, Message posted on http://genforum.genealogy.com/fairbairn on 15 Aug 2002 - derived from data on IGI at www.familysearch.org. Cit. Date: 7 Sep 2002
5
Ibid, Message posted on http://genforum.genealogy.com/fairbairn on 15 Aug 2002 - derived from data on IGI at www.familysearch.org. Cit. Date: 7 Sep 2002 Records year of baptism as 1821 rather than 1819.
