Welcome

My father and I set up this website to help us to find other Fairholm & Fairholme family members who are interested in researching their family history, and to share information which we have found during our research.

Please have a look around. I hope that you find something interesting.

You can contact me at queries@fairholmfamilytrees.info.

Roger Fairholm

Mission

My name is Roger Fairholm and I live in England. Peter Fairholm, my father, and I had a shared hobby of researching our family history. In particular, we were trying to compile the most complete family trees possible for the Fairholm and Fairholme families - and all known variants - throughout the world - from the start of records up to the present day.  Since my father's death in 2020 I have continued with the research, although I do not have as much immediate awareness of the Scottish side of things as he did.  There are two articles about him under English Branches Derby.

Although our family numbers are small when compared to other surnames, researching the family tree is still a big task. The public records in England and Scotland do not contain all the information which is helpful or important or interesting. In addition, many family members live in other countries.  We continue to look for information which will expand or fill in or link our existing trees together, as well as for stories and photographs to turn the dull facts into real lives. It could take many years to do this thoroughly, but we hoped that it could be speeded up if we were able to work with other people who were also interested.

Many people have already provided us with a lot of useful information and we really appreciate it. Equally, we have been able to provide others with details that they have found helpful.  For a list of people and organisations that have helped see the list of contributors under the Analysis link in the menu at the top of the page.

If you would like to know more about the family history than is on this site or if you wonder whether I have a missing fact linked to your own research then please email me. I do not offer a research service, but will check the records I have for anything useful or interesting.

Broad discoveries

There two main concentrations of Fairholm and Fairholme families in the British Isles in early records: one around Edinburgh in Scotland and the other around Nottingham in England.

Some of the current Fairholm and Fairholme families in England are related.

Some of the current Fairholm and Fairholme families in Scotland are related.

There is no obvious connection yet between the original Scottish and English families.

Outside the British Isles there are Fairholm and Fairholme family members in Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand.

The Scottish surname variation of Ferme has extensive family connections in Australia.

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Privacy & copyright

We are happy for anyone who provides us with personal information about themselves or their immediate family to impose restrictions on the use we may make of the information. This means that we may not be able to pass on all the information we are given to other family members.

We do not pass on contact details for existing contributors to other people who may want to contact them. Instead we will pass the enquirer's details on and leave it to the contributor to decide if they wish to respond.

At the moment we do not intend to submit the information we have gathered to any genealogical index (for example, the Ancestral File of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Genes Reunited) or to the likes of ancestry.com. We require that everyone who receives information from us will agree not to submit the information or let it be submitted to any third party for publication including on the Internet. If we do decide to make the information more widely available in the future then we will adopt the best practice in the genealogical community at the time in relation to the information we supply. However, this will not over-ride any express restrictions laid down by people who provide us with personal information.

The copyright to the content of this site belongs to us or to others as stated.  You may not copy information, text, photographs, diagrams, etc without the express approval of the copyright holder.

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Site Search

The search function only works on the text on the pages of the website.  It does not include a search of text on attached documents. Use double quotes to find precise entries.  For example "John Fairholm".  Click a heading in the list of results to go to the page with the search term on it.  The actual term is not highlighted on the page so you have to review the whole page. The term may appear more than once on a page.

I am just testing this function.  I am not certain how useful it is yet.

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