Lorna's family forest - Joseph & Jenny (DAWE) DAWE of Meavy, (DEV) then Surrey

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 Joseph & Jenny DAWE.
Of particular interest as this tree inter-connects by marriage with that of William DAW & Elizabeth WILLCOCKS of Meavy.

DNA representative wanted

Joseph⁰ Dawe (cir. 1791 - aft. 1861)
- Jenny Dawe (cir. Oct 1793 - )
  - William¹ Dawe (Feb 1816 - )
  - John¹ Dawe (Apr 1818 - aft. 1851)
  - Ann¹ Dawe (May 1820 - )
  - Jane¹ Daw (cir. 1822 - )
  - Joseph¹ Dawe (cir. Nov 1824 - aft. 1861)
  - Mary A.¹ Dawe (Dec 1826 - )
  - Thomas W.¹ Dawe (cir. Jan 1829 - aft. 1853)
    - Ann Manser (cir. 1829 - )
  - Elizabeth¹ Dawe (Apr 1831 - aft. 1851)
  - Richard¹ Dawe (cir. 1834 - aft. 1891)
    - Frances Hamston (cir. 1833 - )
      - Alfred W.² Dawe (cir. 1859 - )
      - William² Daw (cir. 1862 - aft. 1881)
      - Richard² Daw (cir. 1865 - aft. 1881)
      - Albert² Daw (cir. 1867 - aft. 1891)
      - Frederick² Daw (cir. 1875 - aft. 1891)
      - Frances A.² Daw (cir. Apr 1876 - )
        William J. Riggal (bet. Sep 1871 - Dec 1871 - )
        Annie³ Riggal
        ?

DNA representative wanted