CHILDREN OF
JAMES CAIRNS and ELIZABETH PATTERSON
NOTE: This is all that is known, so there will be NO link for him to his own page.
1. THOMAS CAIRNS: Born 25 Dec
1810, Swinton, Roxburgh Co., Scotland, died 7 May 1882. He married HELEN LOWRIE born 1814, died 9 Sep 1877.
2. GEORGE CAIRNS: Born 13 Sep 1812, Berwickshire, Scotland, died 7 Aug 1872, Michigan, USA.
Never married.
Buried Knox Church Cemetery, Camlachie, Ont.
George was the first of the Cairns family to come to Canada. He was known as a wanderer and with Richard Richardson, his brother-in-law, crossed the Rocky Mountains about 1848 in search of gold in California.
He remained there for 10 years then returned to the area of Corunna, Ont., rented a farm and stayed for 3 years, then he went to Michigan where he settled on a farm and there died.
3. JAMES CAIRNS: Born 12 May 1814, Berwickshire, Scotland, died 18 Dec 1871. In 1835, he married ELIZABETH "Betsy"
ANDERSON, born 6 Nov 1810, died 24 Oct 1899.
4. ANN CAIRNS: Born 11 Mar 1816, Berwickshire, Scotland, died 8 Nov 1897. She married DAVID LUNAM, born 20 Apr 1810, died 3 Oct 1897.
Also show Ann died 8 May 1897.
5. ALEXANDER CAIRNS: Born 9 May 1817, Berwickshire, Scotland, died 1898, Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1846, he married HARRIET TRUSLER, born 1 Sep 1829, died 24 Sep 1910.
6. PETER CAIRNS: Born 23 Jun 1818, Berwickshire, Scotland, died 11 Feb 1894. In 1840, he married MARY KNOX, born 23 May 1815, died 10 Jul 1872.
7. CATHERINE CAIRNS: Born and died 1820, Berwickshire, Scotland.
Nothing else known.
NOTE: There will be NO link to her own page.
8. KATHARINE "Katie" CAIRNS:
Born 4 Jul 1824, Berwickshire, Scotland, died 28 Jun 1905. On the 24 Jan 1845, she married WILLIAM SYMINGTON, born 26 Aug 1820, died 26 May 1893.
9. JOHN AYLMER CAIRNS: Born 1826, Berwickshire, Scotland died 3 Feb 1898. In 1847, he married JANE LANG, born 13 Oct 1831, died 14 Sep 1922.
10. ELIZABETH CAIRNS: Born 17 Feb 1829, Berwickshire, Scotland, died 23 Jan 1909, Portland, Oregon. She married RICHARD RICHARDSON who died in 1879.
They had 8 children. John, Rachel and ????.
At one time they lived in Souix Centre, Minnesota.
I do have a copy of Elizabeth's Obit, but nothing else is known on this family.
NOTE: There will be NO link to her own page at this time.
