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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"
Descendants of William & Isabel RICHARDSON of Pringlestead, Eckford
For the continuation of this chart look for Robert RICHARDSON on the RUNCIMAN chart
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  • William0 Richardson (cir. 1670 - bet. 1714 - 1726)
    • Isabel UnknownSurname (say 1670 - )
      • Marion1 Richardson (say 1690 - )
        • Adam Hunter (say 1685 - )
      • Robert1 Richardson (cir. 1694 - aft. 1736)
        • Jennet Leigerwood (Dec 1693 - aft. 1736)
          • William2 Richardson (Nov 1718 - )
            • ?
              • William3 Richardson (cir. Jan 1743 - )
          • Walter2 Richardson (cir. 1720 - aft. Feb 1778)
            • Margaret Shiell (Jul 1723 - aft. 1764)
              • Robert3 Richardson (cir. Mar 1747 - )
                • Margaret Runchaman (cir. Oct 1746 - aft. 1784)
                  • Elizabeth4 Richardson (May 1773 - Jun 1831)
                    • William Wight (Nov 1767 - Sep 1847)
                      • James5 Wight (Aug 1796 - )
                      • Margaret5 Wight (May 1798 - Mar 1873)
                        • James Rankin (cir. 1797 - Mar 1861)
                      • Robert5 Wight (Jun 1800 - Jan 1865)
                        • Janet Scott (cir. 1809 - aft. 1881)
                      • William5 Wight (Jul 1803 - )
                      • Isabella5 Wight (Sep 1805 - Oct 1871)
                        • Robert Stephenson (cir. Jul 1805 - Dec 1863)
                      • John5 Wight (Aug 1808 - Jul 1861)
                        • Helen Thomson (Dec 1808 - Mar 1883)
                      • Elizabeth5 Wight (Apr 1811 - Mar 1861)
                        • John M. Waldie (Jan 1807 - Oct 1897)
                      • Walter5 Wight (Sep 1816 - Oct 1886)
                  • Walter4 Richardson (May 1776 - Nov 1791)
                  • John4 Richardson (Dec 1777 - Feb 1855)
                    • Elisabeth Shiel (Dec 1782 - Dec 1875)
                      • Ann5 Richardson (Jul 1807 - aft. 1855)
                      • Margaret5 Richardson (Sep 1808 - 1813)
                      • Elizabeth5 Richardson (Oct 1809 - aft. 1855)
                      • Robert5 Richardson (May 1811 - aft. Jan 1877)
                        • Elizabeth Kinghorn (1814 - Jan 1877)
                      • John5 Richardson (Apr 1813 - Mar 1894)
                        • Ann Blair (cir. 1808 - bet. 1891 - 1894)
                      • Heleanor5 Richardson (Mar 1815 - 1825)
                      • Margaret5 Richardson (Mar 1815 - aft. 1861)
                      • Mary5 Richardson (May 1817 - 1837)
                      • Jemima5 Richardson (Apr 1818 - Nov 1886)
                        • Robert Dickson (1811 - Jan 1873)
                      • Jane5 Richardson (Mar 1820 - Jan 1891)
                        • John Wilson (cir. 1818 - Jun 1895)
                      • Adam5 Richardson (Mar 1821 - Mar 1892)
                        • Margaret Cranston (cir. 1823 - bet. 1871 - 1881)
                      • William5 Richardson (Oct 1825 - Feb 1884)
                        • Mary A. Davidson (May 1827 - Feb 1910)
                      • Helen5 Richardson (Jun 1828 - aft. 1901)
                        • ?
                        • William Wilson (cir. 1829 - aft. 1881)
                  • Robert4 Richardson (Feb 1780 - bet. 1851 - 1861)
                    • Jane Young (cir. 1789 - bet. 1851 - 1861)
                      • James5 Richardson (Nov 1824 - Aug 1903)
                        • Mary Hogg (cir. 1826 - Feb 1901)
                      • Agnes5 Richardson (May 1825 - aft. 1851)
                      • Jane5 Richardson (Nov 1828 - aft. 1841)
                      • Betty5 Richardson (May 1829 - )
                  • James4 Richardson (Jul 1782 - Feb 1868)
                    • Jane Russell (cir. 1794 - bet. 1851 - 1861)
                      • Margaret5 Richardson (Sep 1812 - bef. 1813)
                      • Margaret5 Richardson (cir. 1813 - bef. 1824)
                      • Robert5 Richardson (cir. 1814 - Aug 1863)
                        • Isabella Lawson (cir. 1814 - aft. 1863)
                      • Catherine5 Richardson (Jul 1816 - Nov 1890)
                        • Adam Peacock (cir. 1804 - Nov 1866)
                      • Thomas5 Richardson (cir. 1820 - Jan 1898)
                      • Margaret5 Richardson (Jun 1824 - Dec 1898)
                        • David Scott (Jan 1819 - May 1871)
                      • James R.5 Richardson (Sep 1826 - Jul 1902)
                        • Elizabeth McCulloch (cir. 1835 - Sep 1881)
                      • Jean5 Richardson (May 1828 - aft. Oct 1896)
                  • David4 Richardson (Oct 1784 - )
              • James3 Richardson (Apr 1750 - )
              • Janet3 Richardson (Apr 1752 - )
                • Andrew Thompson (say 1755 - )
              • male3 Richardson (Jul 1759 - )
              • Agnes3 Richardson (Feb 1761 - )
              • Mary3 Richardson (May 1763 - )
              • William3 Richardson (Dec 1764 - )
          • Isabel2 Richardson (Oct 1722 - )
          • Robert2 Richardson (Nov 1724 - )
          • Margaret2 Richardson (Jan 1727 - )
          • John2 Richardson (Jun 1729 - )
          • James2 Richardson (Apr 1731 - )
          • Janet2 Richardson (May 1733 - )
          • Adam2 Richardson (Jan 1736 - )
      • Grissell1 Richardson (1695 - )
      • Elizabeth1 Richardson (May 1699 - )
        • Walter Aitchison (bef. 1697 - )
      • Issobell1 Richardson (cir. Mar 1701 - )
        • William Stenners (say 1700 - )
      • Agnes1 Richardson (Mar 1703 - )
      • James1 Richardson (Apr 1705 - )
      • William1 Richardson (cir. Jun 1707 - )
        • Jannet Douglas (say 1705 - )
          • Isabel2 Richardson (Sep 1735 - )
          • George2 Richardson (cir. Jun 1738 - )
          • Robert2 Richardson (cir. Aug 1740 - )
          • William2 Richardson (cir. Jan 1742 - )
          • James2 Richardson (cir. May 1748 - )
      • George1 Richardson (cir. Jul 1711 - )
      • John1 Richardson (Sep 1712 - )
        • Helen Henrie?
      • Adam1 Richardson (May 1714 - )
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