This branch is headed by John and Mary Fairholm. We suspect that John was the eldest son of William and Ann Fairholm of Shelford, and so the uncle of Joseph who heads the Gedling 2 branch, but can't prove it yet. Mary's maiden name was probably Truman - in which case they married in 1798. John and Mary had five daughters and two sons, but we have only been able to identify descendants for the youngest child, William, who married Lucy Scothern in 1835. We only have current day descendants for William and Lucy's second youngest son, Joseph, who married Annie Wright in 1876. Joseph was a grocer. The most recent information we have is that their descendants were living in West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Oxfordshire. The spelling of the surname of this branch started to change from Fairholm to Fairholme sometime around 1840.

So far we have 65 people on this tree.

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Location Map Gedling & Carlton	Old postcard Carlton