Lorna's family forest - James & Isabella (FLEMING) SINTON

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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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James and Isabella married at Southean in 1816. Were in Jedburgh by 1841

James⁰ Sinton (cir. 1780 - bet. 1841 - 1851)
- Isabella Fleming (cir. 1786 - Mar 1867)
  - Robert¹ Sinton (cir. 1817 - May 1897)
    - Helen Scott (cir. 1823 - Dec 1878)
      - James² Sinton (Dec 1842 - Jul 1938)
        Emily W. Tennent (cir. 1842 - 1884)
        Rachel A.³ Sinton (Oct 1869 - aft. 1948)
        William Morrison (say 1869 - )
        Martha M. McKenzie (cir. 1865 - cir. 1928)
      - George² Sinton (cir. 1847 - aft. 1901)
        Isabella Blake (cir. 1850 - 1871)
        Robert W.³ Sinton (Jul 1868 - 1869)
        Mary J. Henderson (cir. 1852 - aft. 1881)
        Robert W.³ Sinton (Sep 1873 - aft. 1881)
        Jane³ Sinton (Jan 1875 - aft. 1902)
        John Leishman (cir. 1876 - )
        Helen³ Sinton (cir. 1877 - aft. 1901)
        Isabella³ Sinton (cir. 1879 - aft. 1901)
        Mary³ Sinton (cir. 1881 - aft. 1881)
        Eliza³ Sinton (cir. 1883 - aft. 1891)
        George³ Sinton (cir. 1885 - aft. 1901)
        James³ Sinton (cir. 1888 - aft. 1901)
        Jessie³ Sinton (cir. 1891 - aft. 1901)
      - Robert S.² Sinton (Nov 1847 - Oct 1903)
        Margaret Taylor (cir. 1846 - Jun 1932)
        Elizabeth E.³ Sinton (Mar 1869 - aft. 1881)
        Robert³ Sinton (Jun 1870 - Feb 1950)
        Ellen E. Cairncross (Jan 1867 - Aug 1939)
        Alison⁴ Sinton (cir. 1890 - aft. 1926)
        Andrew Wood (cir. 1889 - )
        Margaret⁴ Sinton (cir. 1892 - aft. 1901)
        Robert⁴ Sinton (cir. 1894 - aft. 1901)
        Cairncross⁴ Sinton (May 1895 - 1977)
        Mary A. Hope (Oct 1896 - 1956)
        Robert⁵ Sinton (cir. 1920 - 1971)
        Linda Haithwaite
        James⁵ Sinton
        Ellen E. C.⁵ Sinton (Apr 1933 - 2006)
        John B. Fairgrieve (Dec 1929 - cir. Mar 2008)
        Mary Fairbairn (cir. 1911 - 1982)
        Elizabeth E.⁴ Sinton (Jun 1897 - aft. 1901)
        David R. Mathieson (cir. 1887 - )
        Allan⁵ Mathieson
        ?
        David W.⁵ Mathieson
        Ellen⁴ Sinton (cir. 1900 - aft. 1901)
        Thomas J. Hay (cir. 1897 - )
        Cairncross S.⁵ Hay
        May E. Robson
        Isabella C.⁴ Sinton (Mar 1901 - 1991)
        George R. Redpath ( - 1961)
        James⁵ Redpath (aft. 1920 - )
        ?
        Georgina⁴ Sinton (Jul 1904 - )
        John McDonald (cir. 1901 - )
        Janette F.⁵ McDonald
        Ann⁵ McDonald
        Helen S.³ Sinton (Oct 1872 - 1896)
        ?
        Peter⁴ Sinton (May 1891 - 1916)
        Annie E.³ Sinton (Oct 1874 - aft. 1881)
        William³ Sinton (cir. 1878 - aft. 1891)
        George S.³ Sinton (cir. 1879 - aft. 1919)
        Agnes Nairn (Oct 1879 - 1959)
        Ellen⁴ Sinton (cir. 1910 - cir. 1920)
        Robert⁴ Sinton
        Margaret⁴ Sinton
        James Glover ( - cir. 1970)
        Samuel⁵ Glover
        John³ Sinton (cir. Feb 1881 - aft. 1901)
        Maggie³ Sinton (cir. 1886 - aft. 1901)
        James³ Sinton (cir. 1888 - aft. 1919)
        Lizzie Scott (cir. 1887 - )
      - Isabella² Sinton (Oct 1849 - aft. 1881)
        William Reid (cir. 1843 - aft. 1881)
        John³ Reid (May 1873 - aft. 1881)
        Robert³ Reid (cir. 1875 - aft. 1881)
        Helen³ Reid (cir. 1877 - aft. 1881)
        Agnes³ Reid (cir. 1880 - aft. 1881)
      - Agnes² Sinton (Jul 1851 - aft. 1872)
      - William² Sinton (Sep 1856 - aft. 1901)
        Isabella Robertson (cir. 1854 - aft. 1901)
        Robert³ Sinton (Mar 1881 - 1881)
        John R.³ Sinton (Jun 1882 - aft. 1905)
        William³ Sinton (cir. 1885 - aft. 1891)
        Agnes³ Sinton (cir. 1888 - aft. 1901)
        Helen³ Sinton (Oct 1890 - aft. 1891)
      - Helen² Sinton (Jun 1858 - aft. 1901)
        ?
        Robert³ Sinton (1879 - )
        John Freer (cir. 1856 - aft. 1901)
      - Eliza² Sinton (Aug 1860 - 1935)
        Adam Crozier (cir. 1853 - Aug 1905)
        George³ Crozier (Feb 1897 - )
      - Jessie² Sinton (Jan 1863 - aft. 1871)
      - John² Sinton (Aug 1866 - 1942)
        Isabella P. Cook (Mar 1868 - 1942)
        Isabella P. C.³ Sinton (Jun 1893 - 1959)
        Thomas Elder (May 1890 - 1952)
        James S.⁴ Elder (1926 - 1978)
        Barbara D. Hall (cir. 1930 - Feb 2006)
        Judith A.⁵ Elder
        Robert J.³ Sinton (cir. 1899 - Oct 1964)
        Christina McLennan ( - aft. 1964)
        J⁴ Sinton
  - William¹ Sinton (cir. 1826 - Apr 1890)
    - Margaret Gray (cir. 1826 - bet. 1870 - 1890)
      - Margaret² Sinton (Jul 1854 - )
      - James² Sinton (cir. 1856 - aft. 1880)
      - George² Sinton (cir. 1863 - aft. 1870)