André Fairchild's ancestry page

A history of Thomas Fairchild's descendants & of my
my great-grandfather's Fairchild ancestors
(17th, 18th & 19th centuries)

a narrative history of my own lines of the Fairchild family of Oakley, Idaho;
descended from Thomas Fairchild of Stratford, Connecticut

Historical Background & Fairchild Genealogy:

Charles the First was the inept king of a war-torn, violent and bloody England in the 1630s.
In 1631, Roger Williams and his wife arrived in Boston from England. They later became founders of the Rhode Island colony.
In 1635, English colonization of Connecticut began as John Winthrop led his English settlers into Connecticut. The town of Windsor was founded by religious refugees from Dorcester, Massachusetts. New Haven was founded in 1638. In that same year, Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Puritans' Massachusetts Bay Colony as a dissident.

My ancestor, Welshman Thomas Fairchild, was about 28 years old when he left Cambridge, England in 1638 (along with his group and their minister, the Reverend Adam Blakeman). They made it across the Atlantic Ocean and arrived on the coast of the small Connecticut colony. In 1639, they settled in the wilderness in Connecticut & founded their colony. The settlement of Stratford began in 1639, initially under the Indian name Cupheag, and it became a plantation in 1640. The original territory of Stratford reached back 12 miles from the sea and included the present townships of Stratford, Huntington, Monroe, Trumbull, and Bridgeport.
Thomas's first wife was the daughter of Robert Seabrook [who was already quite old on his arrival in Connecticut] and of Alice Goodspeed Seabrook. The three sisters, born in Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England, were the three youngest of 8 daughters of Robert Seabrook. Thomas Fairchild's two sisters-in-law married Thomas Sherwood and William Preston of Giggleswick, Yorkshire. All were founders of Stratford in 1639.

Thomas Fairchild became a Deputy from Stratford to the General Court and served eleven sessions from April 1646 to October 1665. In those days this office was similar to that of an elected Justice of the Peace of today.

Thomas' son Samuel Fairchild born in 1640, was probably the first white child ever born in Stratford.

For additional information & chronology on early colonial history, see my page U.S. History - Colonial Period (1584-1700). These were insanely chaotic and deadly times in Europe. Life was coarse, short and brutal. In 1642-47, civil war was raging in England. In 1649, Charles I was tried and beheaded; England was declared a Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. Between 1629 and 1642 over 60,000 Englishmen came to the New World, about half of them to the Puritan colonies. But immigration was curtailed by the outbreak of civil war in England, with massive bloodshed, executions by beheading and marching armies at war.

When a mysterious malady due to ergot poisoning caused hallucinations and death in New England, “witches” were blamed. Many innocent women were hanged, drowned or stoned.
But Englishmen considered the Indians to be the savages... They had no marching armies...

In 1662 Charles II, King of England married Catherine de Bragança, daughter of King João IV of Portugal.
Some Puritans from Connecticut settled in Newark, New Jersey.

In 1680, nearly a decade after his father's death, Samuel Fairchild married Mary Wheeler, daughter of Moses Wheeler. Samuel and Mary had a son named Samuel Jr., born in 1683. In January 1705, a year after his father's death in 1704, Samuel married Ruth Beach (daughter of John Beach and Hannah Staples Beach) .

In 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Ruth and Samuel Fairchild Jr. had a son named Benjamin, who was born on March 21, 1721 in Stratford. When he was about 33 years old, Benjamin Fairchild married Melissa Hall, daughter of Joshua Hall of Fairfield, Connecticut. They had seven children: Peter, Ruth, Mary, Benjamin Jr., Joshua, Deborah and Isaac (who was born in 1771 in Stratford). This family lived for many years in Townsend, Norfolk Canada. Allegedly, the reason for Benjamin Fairchild Sr settling there in the first place was that he was a loyalist (Tory), siding with the English against those who supported American independence. Isaac, a fur trapper, was one of the first settlers of that area called Upper Canada, now Ontario; Isaac was made Honorary Chief of the Mohawk Nation by War Chief Joseph Brant; he survived there as a fur trader with his brother Benjamin. Benjamin Fairchild, Jr. had been kidnapped by the Iroquois (or Mohawk?) Indians from his home prior to the American Revolution. He was raised by the Iroquois in their customs and language. Many years later, Benjamin was hired by the British government to interpret for them in doing business with the Iroquois Indians.
As far as I know, he was the only person in my family other than myself to become an interpreter or translator.
Benjamin's contemporaries in Canada around 1787 included respected Indian chiefs of the Mohawk tribe and white men Moses Mound & Caleb Reynolds.
Benjamin Sr. died in Canada in 1795.

In 1797, after his father's death, Joshua Fairchild married Elizabeth Cooley Olmstead of Greenwich, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Their son Joshua, Jr. was born in Townsend, Norfolk, Canada.
Joshua, Jr. (also listed as Joshua Moroni Fairchild: the middle name may have been added later by his Mormon offspring) turned out to be a bit of a wastrel. His family moved to Niagara Falls in 1803/04, where his father operated a tavern. Young Josh would have been only eight years old. At the age of sixteen, when Joshua began to pick up wrong ideas, his parents sent him to live with his uncle Peter Fairchild, a somewhat important Baptist minister, at or near Townsend. Joshua later wrote, "I was raised in a wicked place, by the Falls of Niagara, and never heard a prayer or sermon preached until I was fourteen.

Joshua Fairchild, Jr. claimed that he had fought in the battle for Queenstown Heights. That was in October 1812, when he would have been only 15* years old. Fighting was vigorous and bloody in this area. The Americans were pushed back and his father's tavern at Niagara was burned.

In 1818, Joshua Fairchild married Mary Skinner, the Baptist daughter of Benjamin Skinner. Presumably his uncle Peter Fairchild performed the marriage ceremony.

After the death of Joshua's first wife in August 1823, her parents took the three children to live with them in Townsend, Norfolk County, Canada. Joshua Jr. bought land at Table Grove in Vermont Township, Illinois. He married again and had a child named Harvey, born in 1824. He lived with this wife, Harvey's mother only about a year and a half..".... I was then 400 miles from my first children. I went for them and never saw my wife again."

Joshua Fairchild, Jr. married a third time to Prudence Fenner, a mormon widow with two children. "We lived together eight or ten years and were blessed with three children." In 1831, Joshua and Prudence went from Ohio with a group to northwest Missouri. Two sons were born to them: Alma and Moroni were born in Clay County, Missouri in 1833 and 1835 respectively.
Joshua Jr's fourth wife, Mary Ann Buckingham Curtis had two daughters when they married some time in 1839. They had seven more children by this marriage: Clara, Isaac, Lucy, Rebecca, Mary Ann, Phoebe and Benjamin Shiloh. Some time around 1868, Mary Ann left Joshua and went to live with her daughter.

Moroni Fenner Fairchild was born on the 19th of September 1835 in Clay County, Missouri, the son of Prudence Fenner and Joshua Fairchild, Jr. His parents separated about 1837. He was the youngest of three children, having one sister, Elizabeth and one brother, Alma. These three children were raised by their mother after their father disappeared. In 1852, the three children went west with their mother in the Mormon 6th Company, under the command of Captain David Wood. They were among the Mormons who had been persecuted in Missouri and were compelled to flee.

On the 18th of January 1855, Moroni married young Harriet Lucinda McMurray, who was born July 18, 1840 in Columbiana, Ohio. She was not yet fifteen years of age when they were married.· Harriet's older brother Joseph McMurray married Moroni's sister Betsy Fairchild. Moroni & Harriet had 15 surviving children: Moroni Joshua, Mosiah, Seymour, Adalaid, Isadora, Joseph (died after being dragged by a horse at age 12), John Harvey, Mary Arletta, Emma, Elneva, Rachel, Fanny Lucinda, Alice, Birdie Estella and Harriet Elizabeth. Mosiah Fairchild was my great-great grandfather.

Please visit my foreign languages web site at http://www.interfold.com/translator (See link below). I also offer a large, multilingual medical resources and glossaries page at http://www.interfold.com/translator/medsites.htm

I know very little about my great grandfather Mosiah Fairchild. I do know that he was Mormon, and in 1885, he married a Swedish Mormon woman named Augusta Fredricka Nielson. She was born in Mashult, Skaraborg, Sweden and was a daughter of Johannes Nilsson. She was almost 18 years of age when they married in Utah.
Mosiah sold his famous Fairchild liniment from a horse-drawn buggy around Idaho and northern Utah.· Mosiah was only 45 years old when he was killed by a steam locomotive in a railroad switching yard while returning home in a snowstorm with his horse & buggy carrying his famous "Fairchild liniment" from Belleview, Idaho. Was it a suicide? His young wife was left a widow. *

If you have any information about Moroni or about Mosiah McMurray Fairchild or any of their ancestors or their descendants, please email me at translator@interfold.com -- click here to email me:
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*If you have questions or answers about the lfe and death of Mosiah Fairchild, please contact me.

A detailed version of the above narrative is available (in WordPerfect or RTF format) from me, André, upon request. Free.


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here is my direct descendancy:

Thomas Fairchild, born in England, 1610
Samuel Fairchild, born in Stratford, Connecticut, 1640
Samuel Fairchild, Jr., born in Woodbury, CT, 1683
Benjamin Fairchild, born in Stratford, Connecticut, 1721
Joshua Fairchild, born in Stratford, Connecticut, October 1770
Joshua Fairchild, Jr. born in Townsend, Norfolk, Canada, 16 January 1797
Moroni Fenner Fairchild born Clay County, Missouri 19 Sept. 1835
Mosiah McMurray Fairchild, born in Provo, Utah, 3 Dec. 1858
Frederick Hyrum Fairchild, born in Oakley, Idaho on 21 Dec 1891
Reid Cameron Fairchild, born in Oakley, Idaho on 2 Sept 1920

I am André Fairchild, born in Savannah, Georgia, on 2 March 1951
Chinese troops were invading Tibet and killing Tibetans: monks, men, women and children when I was born.
China still occupies Tibet today. They annexed Tibet just like the USA annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam.



THE LIST BELOW IS OUT OF DATE: for current list of links and dictionaries, please see http://www.interfold.com/translator/index.htm
International Section; Links to other web sites

Click HERE to see an English-only list of 45% of the key words taken from a 2004 version of my BIG, detailed Multilingual Medical Dictionary/Thesaurus: a subset of 45% of the entries, with key words/phrases in English only. ♣ Half a dozen trilingual and multilingual samples are also available online, in Excel format: http://www.interfold.com/translator/espamostra.xls ,
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http://www.interfold.com/translator/7taligmonster.xls
http://www.geocities.com/med_dictionary/7taligmonster.xls

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Other Links: ♠ ♥
Early Fairchilds in America, by Mrs. Jean Gilmore.
Denver Public Library / catalog
U.S. govt data that may (or may not) help genealogists doing research.
André Fairchild's Foreign Language Resources Page - 65 links to glossaries, dictionaries, online translators, etc. in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English
Cyndi's huge List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Search or browse my GEDCOM data: Thomas Fairchild down to Mormon branches, etc.


André Fairchild, interpreter/translator

Medical Dictionaries? Click here to see André's Directory of over 1,780 MEDICAL DICTIONARIES and medical online resources. 664 medical sites in English, 295 in Spanish, 122 in Portuguese, 215 in French, 123 in German, 102 in Dutch, and 150 in other languages or bilingual/multilingual.

A Portuguese-language version of the table of contents for this Medical Directory page is online at http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/multilingual6.
Há uma versão em português do índice, que é a primeira parte da página com links médicos, está no endereço http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/multilingual6


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In 2002, a few translators scoffed at the idea that we could compile a worthwhile, accurate and reputable multilingual biomedical dictionary. A few even seemed to sneer as they pointed out a few of our mistakes. Very few offered help or constructive suggestions.
But now that it has become a reality, and now that bilingual doctors and translators have proofread, guided and corrected it, there are no more scoffers.... Now that it is rapidly becoming the best and most reliable multilingual biomedical dictionary in the world, nobody is sneering. In the past two years, the dictionary has been expanded and improved dramatically, although some additional proofreading is still needed in Swedish and German.
Your feedback is welcome. See online samples.

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(Sample in English, German & French only: 2,880 terms)
That's about 9% of the current number of entries, taken from an older version of the large Biomedical-Technical Dictionary/Thesaurus® .


See also this larger subset of the Medical Dictionary/Thesaurus in English, French, Dutch & German only at http://www.geocities.com/med_dictionary/GrandeAmostra.xls (version of November 2003)

See our large 7-language online sample DICTIONARY in Excel format at http://www.interfold.com/translator/7taligmonster.xls or www.geocities.com/med_dictionary/7taligmonster.xls

We are adding Finnish and Swedish languages. In fact, 95% of the entries in the main medical data base already have entries in the Swedish language column, and 40% already have Finnish equivalents....
The separate English-Swedish bilingual version now contains about 28,482 entries in a rough draft.
Of course, it takes a long time and a Lot of dedicated work to research, refine, input and correct some 28,482 Swedish language entries. If any trilingual Scandinavian medical translator is interested & wants to get involved, please send me an email.

With your help, translators, this project could easily become even more huge and more international.


ad hoc, ad loc & quid pro quo; so little time, so much to know!


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