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Edinburghshire & Scottish Borders branch
(Former Lugate Branch plus successors to Craigiehall Estate).

This branch is descended from John / Johne / Johnne Fairholm / Fairholme, who married Marion / Marione Thompson / Thompsone, probably in 1617, and had 14 children in Edinburgh by 1638. In 1643 he bought the Craigiehall Estate from the Stewart family, on the western edge of Edinburghshire, which included a 'tower house' which at the time was just over the River Almond boundary, in Linlithgowshire. His sixth son, John married Sophia Johnston, and had an only child Sophia. She married William Johnstone, who eventually became Marquis of Annandale. The Craigiehall Estate passed to her on the death of her father in 1693, and a new Craigiehall House was completed in 1699. She died in 1716, and her monumental inscription in Westminster Abbey, London was one of the factors that started our interest in family history.

The main Fairholm/e family line stems from Thomas, the seventh son of John, "1st of Craigiehall', who married Elizabeth Couper around 1663, and had 5 children from 1664-1670 in Edinburgh. From the early 1700s, they gradually migrated southwards through the Borders and into England, so that today there are virtually no members of this branch left in Scotland. Early references show that their surname was sometimes spelt in records with an 'e', but sometimes without. It became standardised as Fairholme in the late 1700s.

So far, we have 171 people on this tree, including some connections to Johnstones and Johnstone-Hopes, following the inheritance of Craigiehall.

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Modern photograph Greenknowe Tower

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