Lorna's family forest - James & Jean (KER) RICHARDSON Minister of Morebattle from 1786 to 1807

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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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The following are just some of James' descendants.
Curious to see if the Rev James is related? Is there 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 with a Morebattle connection?
Failing a direct male line, we'll happily settle for anyone testing their autosomal dna, eg FamilyFinder from FamilyTree DNA!

Candidate wanted for RICHARDSON DNA project

James⁰ Richardson (cir. 1731 - Feb 1807)
- Jean Ker (say 1740 - Apr 1823)
  - John¹ Richardson (Jul 1765 - Mar 1818)
    - Sarah Fraser (1774 - 1833)
  - Kerr¹ Richardson (Feb 1767 - bet. 1797 - 1817)
    - Mary Skirving (say 1775 - )
      - Andrew² Richardson (cir. 1805 - Aug 1885)
        Charlotte Davidson ( - aft. 1886)
        Andrew K.³ Richardson (cir. 1840 - Dec 1888)
        Mary J. Young (say 1845 - )
  - William¹ Richardson (Jan 1768 - Jul 1774)
  - Henry¹ Richardson (Oct 1769 - Nov 1828)
    - Mary Fraser (Apr 1777 - Mar 1856)
      - Mary F.² Richardson (1808 - 1832)
      - Dr Henry W.² Richardson (Sep 1812 - Aug 1845)
        Mary A. Maner (1813 - 1884)
        John M.³ Richardson (Jun 1841 - Jan 1890)
        Eloise B. Martin (Jul 1850 - Jun 1935)
        John M.⁴ Richardson (May 1881 - May 1965)
        Madeline UnknownSurname (cir. 1894 - aft. 1918)
        Henry W.³ Richardson (Aug 1844 - Jan 1916)
        Sarah Aldrich (Apr 1846 - Oct 1928)
        Henry W.⁴ Richardson Jr (cir. 1874 - Feb 1949)
        Evelyn S. UnknownSurname (cir. 1884 - aft. 1949)
        Alfred A.⁴ Richardson (Aug 1880 - aft. 1930)
      - Cecilia² Richardson (Mar 1814 - Dec 1839)
  - Charles¹ Richardson (Jan 1773 - Jul 1775)
  - Cicely¹ Richardson (May 1774 - )
  - Isobel¹ Richardson (May 1776 - )
    - William Middleton

Candidate wanted for RICHARDSON DNA project