United States of America
From telephone, birth and other records available via other Internet sites, we have found that there are many family members across the States.
One family which started in Utah in the late 1800s is part of the English Burton Joyce branch.
Since August 2001, we have made contact with several Americans who have connections with Fairholm family members, and they have been most helpful. This has already resulted in two cross Atlantic connections with the Scottish Edinburghshire & Lanarkshire branch.
We have also been given data by other researchers and have found census data about family members in Iowa, Kansas and Indiana which seem to link back to New Jersey in the late 1700s - there seems to have been family members in that state from at least 1793 to at least 1850. At the moment we are not sure how these families fit together and where they link to in the British Isles and so we have created several temporary branches. Trees for the early years of each branch are included in the image gallery at the bottom of the page. Only desendants of male Fairholms are shown - except for New Jersey 4, which is a very small branch.
| New Jersey 1 | This branch is headed by William Fairholm and Margaret Vail. Their son, Jeremiah Haines Fairholm, was born 1815 in New Jersey and he married Guilelma Rudrow (there are several different spellings of her name). The family is associated with Kosciusko in Kansas, and with Dexter, Douglas, Massena, Penn, Washington and Winterset in Iowa and Hennepin County, Minnesota. There are 310 people on this tree including living descendants. |
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Jersey 2 / 3 (two previous branches merged) |
This branch is headed by Johnston Fairholm. His grandson was Isaac Vail Fairholm born 1801 New Jersey. He married Mary Kindle. The family is associated with Waynesville, Ohio and Oskaloosa, Kansas. There are 84 people on this tree. They include living descendants, but none of them are Fairholms - yet. |
| New Jersey 4 | This branch is headed by John Fairholm and Ann. They were both born in New Jersey around 1794 and were still living in the state in Burlington County in 1850. We only have one daughter for this couple, Mary I., plus her two children, John and Joseph Haines. Mary later married a second time to a Richard Jobes. |
The best guess at the moment is that all the New Jersey branches are descended from Johnston Fairholm (New Jersey 2 / 3 branch) who, according to family history, arrived in, what would become, the USA prior to the War of Independence. He had two sons and a daughter, but we only have a name for one of them - William. It is likely that William is also the man who married Margaret Vail (New Jersey 1 branch) given that he had a son named Isaac Vail Fairholm. In a history of the Vail family, William and Mary are stated as having had 11 children, but only one is named in that source, Johnston (it would seem, a grandson of the previously mentioned Johnston). John who heads New Jersey 4 branch is possibly one of William's sons. There is still a lot to sort out, in particular the names of all the children of William and Margaret. (Note : Jeremiah Haines Fairholm also had a son called Isaac Vail Fairholm born 1850 - there is a photograph of him and his family in the image gallery at the bottom of the page.)
At least three family members of the New Jersey branches were blacksmiths.
There are still many other family members that we have not yet been able to connect to any trees.
If you belong to any of the families in the States or have photographs of family members that you are willing to share then we would be very interested in hearing from you. You can contact us at queries@fairholmfamilytrees.info.
Some geographical connections?
A settlement called Fairholm exists in Washington State near Port Angeles and there was a Fairholm plantation in South Carolina. We not aware of any family connection - yet.
Image gallery for United States of America
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| Location map United States of America |
Old photograph Isaac Vail (1850) and family |
Old photograph Leon Arthur Fairholm and Harry Dale Fairholm |
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| Old photograph Family farm, Winterset, Iowa |
Family tree (pdf) New Jersey 1 - early generations |
Family tree (pdf) New Jersey 2 & 3 - early generations |
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| Family tree (pdf) New Jersey 4 - whole tree |