Lorna's family forest - Andrew & Mary (WATSON) RICHARDSON of Roxburgh then Crailing

BMD data on all rellies

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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The following are just some of Andrew's descendants.
Some of those that may have a direct male line RICHARDSON descendant able to join the RICHARDSON DNA project to see if we get a match with the other RICHARDSON trees shown here are marked on the following chart.

Candidate wanted for RICHARDSON DNA project

Andrew⁰ Richardson (Jan 1779 - Jun 1854)
- Mary Watson (cir. 1779 - Feb 1863)
  - Thomas¹ Richardson (cir. 1805 - May 1880)
  - Elisabeth¹ Richardson (cir. 1807 - May 1879)
  - John¹ Richardson (cir. 1813 - Aug 1891)
  - Robert¹ Richardson (cir. 1815 - Jun 1885)
    - Barbara Murdie (cir. 1836 - Apr 1887)
  - Isabella¹ Richardson (cir. 1818 - Jul 1894)
  - Andrew¹ Richardson (cir. Aug 1818 - May 1893)
    - Paulina Redpath (cir. 1818 - Oct 1886)
      - Euphemia² Richardson (Jun 1840 - bet. 1883 - 1891)
        ?
        Robert³ Richardson (Jul 1860 - Jul 1860)
        John Wight (cir. 1842 - aft. 1891)
        Mary³ Wight (May 1864 - aft. 1891)
        Thomas Aitchison (Feb 1858 - )
        Euphemia⁴ Aitchison (cir. 1885 - )
        George Fairbairn
        John³ Wight (Jul 1866 - aft. 1881)
        Andrew³ Wight (May 1868 - aft. 1881)
        Ann³ Wight (May 1870 - aft. 1891)
        James³ Wight (May 1872 - Jul 1933)
        Christina M. Wight (Apr 1872 - Aug 1930)
        Isabella⁴ Wight
        John⁴ Wight (May 1899 - )
        Jessie Thomson (cir. 1898 - )
        Euphemia R.⁴ Wight
        Malcolm Riddell (cir. 1903 - )
        Alexander³ Wight (Apr 1873 - Dec 1934)
        Mary Fairbairn (Jun 1873 - Oct 1968)
        William F.⁴ Wight (1908 - Oct 1972)
        Appelinia³ Wight (Jul 1874 - aft. 1891)
        Agnes³ Wight (cir. 1877 - aft. 1881)
        Hellen³ Wight (cir. 1880 - aft. 1891)
        Thomas A.³ Wight (cir. 1883 - aft. 1891)
      - Andrew² Richardson (Apr 1842 - Feb 1902)
        Agnes Scott (cir. 1832 - Mar 1908)
        Andrew³ Richardson (Feb 1867 - )
        James³ Richardson (Apr 1869 - )
        Thomas J.³ Richardson (Oct 1871 - Jan 1929)
        Robina Shiel ( - aft. 1929)
        Janet C.⁴ Richardson (1895 - 1984)
      - Mary W.² Richardson (Feb 1844 - 1902)
        ?
        John W.³ Richardson (Apr 1866 - Jun 1924)
        Andrew³ Richardson (Nov 1872 - aft. 1881)
        James Fox (bef. 1855 - )
        Mary³ Richardson (Mar 1875 - aft. 1950)
        David Hope (Jan 1872 - Mar 1950)
        James Stewart (cir. 1826 - 1904)
      - Thomas² Richardson (Mar 1846 - aft. 1901)
        ?
        Thomas³ Richardson (cir. 1866 - aft. 1881)
        Andrew³ Richardson (cir. 1871 - aft. 1881)
        Helen McDougall (cir. 1847 - aft. 1891)
        Helen³ Richardson (Apr 1872 - Jun 1942)
        James³ Richardson (Apr 1874 - aft. 1891)
        Apolina³ Richardson (cir. 1877 - aft. 1901)
        ?
        Thomas⁴ Richardson (cir. 1895 - aft. 1901)
        John³ Richardson (cir. 1877 - aft. 1891)
        Isabella³ Richardson (cir. 1878 - aft. 1891)
        Robert³ Richardson (cir. 1880 - aft. 1891)
        Annie³ Richardson (cir. 1884 - aft. 1901)
        Janet³ Richardson (cir. 1886 - aft. 1901)
        George³ Richardson (cir. 1888 - aft. 1901)
      - James² Richardson (Apr 1848 - aft. 1871)
      - Isabella² Richardson (May 1850 - aft. 1873)
        ?
        Andrew³ Richardson (Jan 1869 - aft. 1881)
        William R.³ Richardson (Jan 1873 - aft. 1881)
      - Robert² Richardson (Apr 1852 - Apr 1917)
        Mary Turnbull (Nov 1846 - Oct 1918)
        John³ Turnbull (Jan 1869 - aft. 1881)
        Andrew³ Richardson (Jul 1872 - aft. 1918)
        Jessie UnknownSurname (say 1872 - )
        Isabella³ Richardson (Oct 1873 - Oct 1961)
        Peter Fair (Jul 1866 - Jan 1950)
        Mary T.⁴ Fair (Mar 1895 - Dec 1972)
        Thomas Wight (Nov 1888 - Jan 1975)
        Alexander⁴ Fair (Jul 1896 - Jul 1915)
        Robert R.⁴ Fair (Nov 1897 - Dec 1945)
        Julia D. J. Knox (Nov 1894 - Nov 1965)
        Peter⁴ Fair (Nov 1899 - Sep 1959)
        Christina Miller (Oct 1905 - Dec 1984)
        James³ Richardson (Jan 1875 - aft. 1891)
        Robert³ Richardson (Oct 1877 - aft. 1891)
        Thomas³ Richardson (Dec 1879 - cir. 1969)
        Helen Veitch (May 1887 - 1976)
        Robert T.⁴ Richardson (Mar 1911 - Nov 1981)
        Mary A. Laurie (Jul 1911 - Nov 1987)
        Walter³ Richardson (Apr 1882 - aft. 1901)
        Maria UnknownSurname (say 1882 - )
        Mary T.³ Richardson (Aug 1884 - )
        Appaulina³ Richardson (Dec 1891 - aft. 1901)
      - John² Richardson (Jul 1854 - aft. 1881)
        Margaret McDonald (cir. 1854 - aft. 1881)
        Ann³ Richardson (Sep 1874 - aft. 1881)
        Paulina³ Richardson (cir. 1877 - aft. 1881)
        Andrew³ Richardson (cir. 1879 - aft. 1881)
        Isabella³ Richardson (cir. 1880 - aft. 1881)
      - Paulina² Richardson (Jul 1856 - aft. 1881)
      - Helen² Richardson (Oct 1858 - aft. 1881)

Candidate wanted for RICHARDSON DNA project