Historically the Cairns Chisholm is a Scottish surname. Historically the Chisholm name traces its roots back to the Midlothian region of  Scotland. one of two regions of Scotland - Inverness or Borders region near Roxburgh.

The earliest confirmed ancestor of our Cairns Chisholm line is John Cairns Roderick Chisholm of ClackmannaPerthshire. It was his grandson James Bain granddaughter Elizabeth McPherson McFarlane who emigrated to Australia in 1862.

Biographies are available for the following family members

The Chisholm ancestry goes back 8 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links

• Roderick Chisholm 1771 - 1847 married Betty McPherson
  • /wiki/spaces/HFHW/pages/63209473 married James McFarlane
    • Elizabeth McPherson McFarlane 1838 - 1914 married James Bain
      • Margaret Bain 1860 - 1930
      • Elizabeth McFarlane Bain 1868 - 1955
      • James Cairns Bain 1870 - 1945 married Mary Emma Bashford
        • James Bashford Bain 1893 - 1971 married Eva Mary Yates

          • Doreen Bain 1921 - 2000 married Douglas James Hardie

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      • Roderick George Chisholm Bain