Lorna's family forest - Thomas & Cecilia (YOUNG) RICHARDSON of Lilliesleaf then Morebattle

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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Marr. about 1780 ?Southdean?

The following are just some of Thomas' 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

Thomas⁰ Richardson (say 1755 - bef. 1855)
- Cecilia Young ( - bef. 1855)
  - Jasper¹ Richardson (cir. 1781 - Feb 1855)
    - Mary Hope (cir. 1790 - aft. 1861)
      - John² Richardson (Dec 1808 - Sep 1885)
        Janet Ingles (cir. 1823 - aft. 1885)
        James³ Richardson (cir. 1843 - aft. 1861)
        Janet³ Richardson (cir. 1845 - aft. 1851)
        William³ Richardson (Apr 1847 - aft. 1891)
        Ann Cockburn (cir. 1856 - aft. 1891)
        Jasper⁴ Richardson (cir. 1890 - )
        Mary³ Richardson (cir. 1849 - aft. 1851)
        John³ Richardson (cir. Dec 1850 - aft. 1851)
        Jasper³ Richardson (Mar 1853 - aft. 1901)
        Isabella Shiell (cir. 1853 - aft. 1901)
        John⁴ Richardson (cir. 1876 - Aug 1951)
        Margaret Cairns (cir. 1874 - May 1952)
        Thomas³ Richardson (Nov 1855 - )
        George L.³ Richardson (Sep 1858 - Nov 1943)
        Helen Hope (cir. 1858 - Mar 1928)
        John⁴ Richardson (cir. 1882 - Mar 1904)
        Robert⁴ Richardson (cir. 1883 - Nov 1903)
        Janet⁴ Richardson (cir. 1895 - Oct 1916)
        Charles C.³ Richardson (Oct 1861 - aft. 1881)
      - William² Richardson (cir. 1812 - aft. 1855)
      - Eliza² Richardson (cir. 1813 - 1853)
      - Cecilia² Richardson (1816 - Feb 1872)
        John Hood (cir. 1812 - aft. 1881)
        John³ Hood (1843 - )
        Mary³ Hood (1845 - )
        Isabella³ Hood (Jan 1849 - aft. 1887)
        James Rutherford (Feb 1843 - aft. 1891)
        James³ Hood (1854 - )
      - Thomas² Richardson (1817 - 1841)
      - James² Richardson (cir. 1819 - 1836)
      - Mary² Richardson (cir. 1822 - aft. 1861)
        George Brotherstone (cir. 1829 - )
      - Jessie² Richardson (cir. 1824 - aft. 1855)
      - Jane² Richardson (1825 - 1848)
      - Elizabeth² Richardson (cir. 1828 - Mar 1911)
        George Fairbairn (Aug 1828 - May 1910)
        Catherine³ Fairbairn (cir. 1850 - aft. 1884)
        ?
        James⁴ Fairbairn (May 1884 - )
        George³ Fairbairn (cir. 1853 - aft. 1871)
        Mary³ Fairbairn (cir. 1855 - Jun 1865)
        Elizabeth³ Fairbairn (cir. 1855 - aft. 1881)
        John³ Fairbairn (cir. 1857 - aft. 1901)
        Ellen Affleck (cir. 1860 - aft. 1901)
        Janet⁴ Fairbairn (cir. 1885 - aft. 1901)
        George⁴ Fairbairn (cir. 1888 - aft. 1901)
        John⁴ Fairbairn (cir. 1890 - aft. 1901)
        Robert⁴ Fairbairn (cir. 1895 - aft. 1901)
        Bessie⁴ Fairbairn (cir. 1896 - aft. 1901)
        William⁴ Fairbairn (cir. 1899 - aft. 1901)
        Jessie³ Fairbairn (Apr 1861 - )
        Jane³ Fairbairn (Jun 1862 - )
        Isabella³ Fairbairn (Aug 1864 - )
        Euphemia³ Fairbairn (Sep 1866 - )
        Mary³ Fairbairn (Dec 1867 - aft. 1901)
        James³ Fairbairn (Apr 1872 - aft. 1916)
        Elizabeth S. Hall (cir. 1873 - aft. 1901)
        James⁴ Fairbairn (cir. 1893 - aft. 1901)
        Robert H.⁴ Fairbairn (cir. Oct 1895 - aft. 1927)
      - Margaret² Richardson (cir. 1830 - aft. 1855)
      - Robert² Richardson (cir. 1833 - aft. 1855)
  - John¹ Richardson (cir. Feb 1783 - )
  - Cicilie¹ Richardson (cir. May 1785 - )
  - Thomas¹ Richardson (cir. Jul 1790 - Jul 1871)
    - Jane Laidlaw (cir. 1786 - Dec 1858)
      - Thomas² Richardson (cir. 1814 - Jun 1853)
      - John² Richardson (cir. 1817 - Feb 1838)
      - Jemima² Richardson (cir. 1819 - Mar 1905)
      - Cecilia² Richardson (cir. 1824 - Mar 1899)
      - Jane² Richardson (cir. 1826 - Jan 1852)

Candidate wanted for RICHARDSON DNA project