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Just to confuse things a bit! In 1902 a family names Jones (what else) lived in a tiny house called Parc in Carmel north of Talysarn, Parish of Llanllyfni.

Mandy, this is quite an unexpected surprise!
Are you Amanda D. White who married Andrew Clothier in Runcorn in 1994?? You currently work in the pain management field??

I am cautious because Widnes/Runcorn appears several times in the odd branches of the White tree, mostly belonging to ne'er do wells.

My notes show that William Henry White was born 1845 in Langton Dorset. He married Annie Lees in Manchester on 12 April 1869.
Somehow they ended up in Australia with him working as an accountant of some type in Charters Towers, a town near Townsville. He died 5 February1884 and was buried in Aramac.
Billion Graves has his tombstone showing him to be a son of Stewart Fulton W, but there have been at least two corrections to the Billion Graves site so I am not certain what the final outcome was.

I also show that Stewart Fulton White had the following kids by his first wife:
Stewart, Ann, Joseph, Jane, William Henry, with the possibility of an additional John and a James.

I show Jane being born 30 November 1839 in Longfleet (Poole) Dorset.
I am descended from Stewart.

Regarding a trip to the loo, a posh Oxford girl I knew used the phrase “I am just going to turn my bicycle round”. It took me a while to figure it out.

Purely as an aside, during my misspent youth I spent a lot of time exploring the old lead mines around Maeshafn. Later I wrote an article for the Ninnau, the North American newspaper for Welsh ex-pats. Here is a section of that article:

"....The sign shown on the top of the page shows a Miners Arms at Maeshafn. This is in Denbighsire near the border with Flintshire in the far North East of the country. It marks the center of a huge lead mining area which extends from the northern coast down to Caergwrle with Halkyn Mountain being its centerpoint. There is a Miners Arms for sale in Meliden if anyone is interested! Walking in the countryside around Maeshafn and Gwernymynydd can be quite tricky as there are dozens of open airshafts for the old lead mines.

Sometimes it is not appreciated how old these mining areas are. OK we know that Parys Mountain in Anglesey was mined for at least a thousand years before the Romans came, likewise the copper mines on the Great Orme in Llandudno, but the Maeshafn area was also mined before the Romans.

Several lead ingots from Roman times have been discovered stamped with a code and the name “Decangi”, which is the Roman term for the Celtic tribe that lived in the North East between the Clwyd and the Dee.
Lead was very important in those days. The Romans were really into bathing so they needed lead water pipes and lead lined baths so they could soak. Roman women used lead pigments for makeup. Lead acetate, being quite sweet, was added to wine in huge quantities. But, lead is quite poisonous with long term exposure and it is no wonder that the Emperors went mad.

As an aside and in spite of all the evidence, it is common to find these old lead mines dammed up near their entrances with iron waterpipes serving to supply drinking water to the local rural population. Much of this was financed by the Ruabon District Council within their area!   
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Dianacanada,
I am a Fairbairn on my mother’s side (born in Glasgow and living near Toronto) so your post caught my interest.

If you haven’t done so already you must take a look at the One Name Study managed by Lorna Henderson (in NZ!). You can find it at

www.fairbairn.lornahen.com

It looks like all of them originated near Kelso Scotland and spread around the World from there. Specifically check the many lineages she documents.