Southwell is a village to the west of Newark in Nottinghamshire. This branch is headed by William and Mary Fairholm. We do not know who William's parents were, but we suspect that he was the brother of George Fairholm who heads the Southwell 2 branch. They were both wheelwrights and it seems unlikely that two wheelwrights called Fairholm would both set up business in such a small village without being related. Mary's maiden name was Adamson. William and Mary had nine children. At first they were living at Radcliffe-on-Trent, on the opposite side of the river Trent to Nottingham. They moved to Southwell by 1820. William and several of his male descendants were wheelwrights. William was killed in 1843 when he was removing a tree from a field and he was hit by a "fern pole" which gave way. We only have present day descendants for William and Elizabeth's youngest sons, William Adamson and John. The most recent information we have is that their descendants are living in Nottinghamshire.

So far we have 209 people on this tree.

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Old postcard Westgate, Southwell	Old postcard Westhorpe, Southwell	Old street map Westhorpe, Southwell
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Family tree (pdf) Southwell 1 branch - early generations