Lorna's family forest - John & Mary (BROWN) DAWE of Altarnun, Cornwall

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

— Abraham Lincoln
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

— Cary Grant
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

— e. e. cummings
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

— Saint Augustine
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

— Mark Twain
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

— Henry David Thoreau
If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

— John Cardinal
In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

— Anonymous
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

— John Adams
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

— Abraham Lincoln
History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

— ?Santayana?
What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

— Last of the Summer Wine
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

— Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

— Terry Pratchett
.. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

— Petronius (210 BC)
The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

— Proust
So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

— William J. H. Boetcker
Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

— Lorna
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw
A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

— Anon
Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

— Anon
The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

— Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"

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A very small sample of descendants of John DAWE of Altarnun, Liskeard, Cornwall.
Of particular interest as descendants also emigrated to New Zealand, settling around Timaru, and married into my family tree

DNA representative wanted

John⁰ Dawe (cir. 1798 - Aug 1839)
- Mary Brown (cir. 1797 - aft. 1861)
  - Richard¹ Dawe (Aug 1833 - Aug 1910)
    - Jane Bartlett (May 1837 - Apr 1918)
      - Sarah A.² Dawe (Jun 1865 - Oct 1943)
        William King (Sep 1858 - Mar 1930)
        Maude A.³ King (Jul 1884 - 1969)
        Henry W. Aker (Nov 1874 - Mar 1945)
        May A.³ King (Oct 1885 - Jan 1946)
        Walter W. Henderson (Dec 1878 - Sep 1957)
        William K.⁴ Henderson (Sep 1909 - Mar 1988)
        Ivy E. Hodgetts (Feb 1911 - Oct 1980)
        Helen S. M.⁴ Henderson (Jul 1916 - 2011)
        William D. Clark (Oct 1909 - Sep 1943)
        Ned S. Ivey (Feb 1918 - Oct 2009)
        Lydia M.⁴ Henderson (1918 - Oct 2015)
        John S. Anderson (Nov 1916 - Jul 2004)
        William H.³ King (Aug 1888 - Jun 1959)
        Sarah J.³ King (Apr 1890 - Feb 1976)
        William F. Ross (say 1890 - )
        Donald F.⁴ Ross (Feb 1912 - cir. 2001)
        Olwyn I. Ferguson
        Charlotte E. M.³ King (May 1893 - Jun 1977)
        Emma D.³ King (Aug 1895 - )
        Frederick C.³ King (Nov 1897 - )
        Lilian E.³ King (Sep 1899 - )
      - Charlotte J.² Dawe (Apr 1873 - )
        Arthur E. Taylor
        Lillian L. M.³ Taylor (Sep 1916 - )
        ?
        Irene⁴ Burns
  - Isaac¹ Dawe (bet. Mar 1838 - Jun 1838 - May 1903)

DNA representative wanted