Lorna's family forest - William & Mary (Hanham) GIPSON

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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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of Yeovil & Sutton Montis, then Queen Camel (3 generations only, see John & Ann (COLE) ANDREWS above for more)

John a carpenter, descendants include blacksmiths and ag labs,, with places including Kingsbury Episcopi, Pitney and Ash

William⁰ Gipson (cir. Apr 1776 - Nov 1860)
- Mary Hanham (cir. Apr 1778 - Dec 1835)
  - Elizabeth¹ Gipson (cir. Nov 1805 - Jan 1807)
  - John¹ Gipson (cir. Nov 1807 - bef. 1815)
  - Ann¹ Gipson (cir. Feb 1810 - Aug 1881)
    - John J. Windsor (cir. 1808 - Sep 1881)
      - Emily² Windsor (cir. 1829 - )
        Aris Dunford (cir. 1828 - Aug 1905)
      - Sarah² Windsor (cir. Mar 1831 - bet. Jan 1865 - Mar 1865)
        Abraham Otton (cir. 1829 - )
      - Jane² Windsor (cir. Aug 1833 - 1912)
        Morris Hurford (cir. Aug 1831 - Jun 1909)
      - Thomas² Windsor (cir. 1836 - )
        Anna M. West
      - Sampson² Windsor (cir. 1838 - )
      - Eli² Windsor (bet. Sep 1839 - Dec 1839 - )
      - John² Windsor (cir. Mar 1843 - Jun 1921)
        Mary A. Parsons (cir. 1844 - )
      - William G.² Windsor (bet. Sep 1845 - Dec 1845 - )
      - Mary A.² Windsor (cir. May 1848 - )
        George T. Phillips (cir. 1850 - )
      - Martha² Windsor (bet. Jun 1851 - Sep 1851 - Nov 1896)
        Henry A. T. White (cir. 1858 - )
  - Jane¹ Gibson (J2a1a1) (Apr 1812 - Dec 1906)
    - Simon Andrews (Jul 1814 - Jan 1900)
      - Sarah² Andrews (Jul 1840 - Jan 1869)
        Thomas Langman (Apr 1839 - Feb 1911)
      - John² Andrews (Apr 1842 - Feb 1932)
        Emily Young (cir. 1847 - Jan 1924)
      - William² Andrews (Mar 1844 - Dec 1895)
        Jane Pearce (Aug 1850 - Jul 1929)
      - Mary R.² Andrews (Dec 1845 - Jun 1923)
        Henry Faull (Nov 1835 - Aug 1909)
      - Fred² Andrews (Aug 1847 - Nov 1923)
        Elizabeth Giddy (Dec 1848 - Jun 1884)
        Agnes Purdie (Feb 1867 - Dec 1945)
      - Elizabeth² Andrews (Sep 1849 - Mar 1895)
        Robert Bishop (Jun 1836 - aft. 1920)
      - George G.² Andrews (Jul 1851 - Aug 1920)
        Ellen Turnbull (Jun 1854 - Jun 1926)
      - Anna M.² Andrews (Jun 1853 - May 1938)
        John L. Purdie (Feb 1831 - Feb 1914)
      - Emma² Andrews (Jul 1855 - Oct 1856)
  - John¹ Gipson (cir. Feb 1815 - Dec 1904)
    - Mary A. UnknownSurname (m. GIBSON) (cir. 1825 - )
  - William¹ Gipson (cir. Jul 1817 - bet. Sep 1890 - Dec 1890)
    - Eliza Stephens (cir. 1816 - )
      - Henry² Gibson (bet. Jan 1843 - Mar 1843 - )
        Eliza Hayman (cir. 1843 - )
      - John² Gibson (cir. 1844 - )
      - Caroline² Gibson (bet. Mar 1846 - Jun 1846 - )
      - Samson G.² Gibson (cir. Jul 1848 - )
        Lydia UnknownSurname (m. GIBSON) (cir. 1847 - )
      - William E.² Gibson (cir. 1849 - )
      - James² Gibson (cir. May 1853 - Mar 1854)
      - Albert² Gibson (cir. 1854 - )
      - Samuel J.² Gibson (cir. Sep 1856 - )
        Fanny Edwards (bet. Mar 1860 - Jun 1860 - )
      - Emily J.² Gibson (cir. 1860 - )
  - Elizabeth¹ Gipson (cir. Jan 1820 - aft. 1851)
  - Sarah¹ Gibson (cir. Sep 1822 - bet. Mar 1915 - Jun 1915)
    - Charles Sims (cir. 1822 - aft. 1891)
      - Charles H.² Sims (bet. Mar 1852 - Jun 1852 - )
      - George J.² Sims (bet. Sep 1853 - Dec 1853 - )
      - Mary J.² Sims (Mar 1857 - )
  - Mary¹ Gipson (cir. Oct 1826 - cir. Jun 1910)
    - ?
      - Mary J.² Gibson (cir. Dec 1848 - Dec 1858)
    - William Hobbs (cir. 1826 - bef. 1881)
      - James² Hobbs (bet. Mar 1855 - Jun 1855 - )
      - Sampson G.² Hobbs (cir. 1859 - )
      - Mary J.² Hobbs (cir. 1863 - aft. 1901)
      - Herbert² Hobbs (Oct 1865 - bet. Mar 1947 - Jun 1947)
        Eliza Kidner (cir. 1864 - bet. 1911 - 1913)
        Ann M. White (Jan 1887 - Oct 1980)
      - Henry² Hobbs (cir. 1870 - )