Lorna's family forest - James & Jean (TROTTER) 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 Jean's children were born at Dunse (BEW)

James and children are later found in Edinburgh as masons, carpenters, slaters.
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James⁰ Sinton (cir. 1746 - Jun 1835)
- Jean Trotter (say 1760 - bef. Feb 1830)
  - John¹ Sinton (Apr 1784 - Oct 1872)
    - Ann Thomson (cir. 1794 - aft. 1871)
      - James² Sinton (cir. 1820 - bet. 1891 - 1901)
        Augusta M. B. McNaughton (cir. 1840 - Sep 1927)
        John³ Sinton (Jan 1867 - Mar 1869)
        James³ Sinton (Oct 1868 - aft. 1901)
        William L.³ Sinton (Aug 1870 - aft. 1881)
        Augusta M.³ Sinton (Apr 1872 - aft. 1881)
        Alexander³ Sinton (Apr 1874 - aft. 1891)
        Margaret L.³ Sinton (cir. 1879 - aft. 1881)
        Isabella J.³ Sinton (Sep 1880 - aft. 1901)
        Lucy³ Sinton (cir. 1883 - aft. 1891)
      - Margaret² Sinton (cir. 1825 - aft. 1871)
      - Peter² Sinton (cir. 1828 - aft. 1851)
      - William² Sinton (cir. 1833 - )
  - Peter¹ Sinton (Aug 1789 - Jan 1841)
    - Mary Humble (cir. 1798 - Jan 1832)
      - Mary² Sinton (cir. 1824 - Sep 1849)
        Donald Morrison (cir. 1829 - )
    - Catharine Seton (Feb 1792 - Mar 1871)
  - James¹ Sinton (Dec 1791 - Nov 1829)
    - Helen Telfer (cir. May 1790 - May 1864)
      - James² Sinton (Sep 1824 - Jan 1905)
        Jane Turnbull (cir. 1830 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
        Alison T.³ Sinton (Aug 1851 - )
        Alexander D. Christie (say 1851 - )
        James S.⁴ Christie (cir. 1880 - Feb 1961)
        James³ Sinton (cir. 1854 - Jul 1938)
        Ellen Combe (cir. 1850 - 1925)
        James T.⁴ Sinton (cir. 1883 - aft. 1938)
        Bertha R. Sutherland (say 1885 - )
        Elizabeth⁴ Sinton (cir. 1887 - aft. 1901)
        Andrew T.³ Sinton (1855 - bet. 1901 - 1911)
        Isabella Rutherford (cir. 1864 - Nov 1910)
        James⁴ Sinton (cir. 1886 - Feb 1919)
        Charlotte R.⁴ Sinton (cir. 1888 - Apr 1950)
        Thomas R.⁴ Sinton (cir. 1890 - Dec 1929)
        Jane T.⁴ Sinton (cir. 1889 - aft. 1911)
        Archibald Henderson (Apr 1858 - aft. 1911)
        Alexander C.⁴ Sinton (cir. 1898 - 1944)
        Andrew T.⁴ Sinton (cir. Feb 1899 - May 1916)
  - William¹ Sinton (Oct 1794 - Mar 1875)
    - Elizabeth Welsh (cir. 1804 - May 1874)
  - Alison¹ Sinton (Jul 1797 - Feb 1866)