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Michael,
My name is Richard Mcintosh. My grandmother was Mary Fair Lundy born in Ireland, probably in the 1860's. My mother, Elizbeth Hoey Lundy, was born in Lacombe, Alberta in 1903, the youngest of 11 children. The family later moved to Vancouver, BC.
When I was growing up my mother passed on my grandmother's account that she was raised by grandparents in Ireland and brought out to the US by her uncle James Fair who had become wealthy in Nevada's Comstock Load. My grandmother claimed she came as a visitor, but could not face the sea voyage home. When Fair died my grandmother and her children then living received an inheritance - apparently less than they might have since Fair did not approve of her marriage. On the strength of the inheritance my mother's oldest sister, Winifred, attended one of the Seven Sisters colleges and settled in Boston.
Your reference to four brothers, including James Fair, emigrating from Ireland caught my attention. I understand that Fair was born in 1831, came to the United States in 1843 and grew up on a farm in Illinois. I have always assumed that Mary Fair was the daughter of one of James Fair's brothers but have not reconciled her Irish origin with Fair's earlier immigration to the US.
My reply was actually prompted by your references to James Fair's daughters, Virginia Graham (Birdie) Fair (1875-1935) and Teresa (Tessie) Fair (died 1926). Virginia Graham Fair married William K. Vanderbilt II. His sister Consuelo Vanderbilt (1876–1964) married the Duke of Marlborough. Virginia had two daughters, Consuelo and Muriel. Tessie Fair married Peter Duchin’s great-great-uncle Herman Oelrichs, a shipping magnate.
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