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My Cairns Family


Historically the The Cairns family name traces its roots origing back to the Midlothian region of  Scotland. parish of Mid-Calder, Midlothian in Scotland. The name derives from the Old Gaelic "carn" meaning cairn i.e., a pile of stones raised as a boundary marker or a memorial. The surname first appears on records in the mid 14th Century.

The earliest confirmed ancestor of our Cairns line is John Cairns of ClackmannaClackmannan in the late 1700s. It was his grandson James Bain who emigrated to Australia in 1862.

Biographies are available for the following family membersMy Cairns ancestry goes back 8 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links