• 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"
Robert's children were born in Ancrum and the family emigrated to the Chateauquay Valley, Quebec.
With the WIGHT marriage it is tempting to believe there has to be a connection.
  • Robert0 Sinton (cir. 1784 - aft. 1851)
    • Jane Wight (Aug 1790 - Apr 1871)
      • Barbara1 Sinton (Apr 1815 - bef. 1860)
        • Robert Hall (Apr 1815 - aft. 1900)
          • Jane2 Hall (May 1842 - )
          • Euphemia2 Hall (Aug 1843 - )
          • William E.2 Hall (Mar 1845 - aft. 1910)
            • Mary E. Dillin (Sep 1847 - Nov 1905)
              • unknown3 Hall
              • Fred W.3 Hall (Jan 1868 - Aug 1945)
                • Julie E. Dillin (Oct 1860 - aft. 1928)
                  • Genevieve4 Hall (Jan 1894 - Mar 1915)
                    • William E. Sweeney (Feb 1883 - )
                      • Florence L.5 Sweeney (Dec 1908 - Feb 1971)
                        • Henry Belt (Dec 1904 - Mar 1978)
                  • Jesse4 Hall (cir. 1896 - )
                    • male Sweeney
                  • Clarence W.4 Hall (cir. 1898 - Sep 1908)
              • Charles S.3 Hall (1872 - 1893)
              • Frank V.3 Hall (Jan 1876 - Feb 1940)
                • Eudoxie J. A. Escalle (Jan 1885 - Feb 1986)
              • Edith E.3 Hall (Mar 1885 - Sep 1973)
                • Richard Huttl (Jun 1877 - Apr 1957)
                • Norman Bramley (May 1879 - Feb 1970)
                  • Norman V.4 Bramley (Jan 1905 - Dec 1962)
                  • Charles D.4 Bramley (May 1908 - bef. 2001)
                • James W. Kaylor (Feb 1889 - Aug 1966)
                  • James W.4 Kaylor (Jan 1918 - Jun 1964)
                    • Jean M. Tyson
                      • James A.5 Kaylor
                        • Linda Lin Dan Lam
                      • Stephen D.5 Kaylor
                        • Anita A. Hendry
                    • Carolyn Rellstab
                      • William J.5 Kaylor
                  • Carol D.4 Kaylor (Dec 1920 - Aug 1981)
                    • Caroline E. Leno
                      • Cheryl L.5 Kaylor
                      • Linda C.5 Kaylor
                      • Duane M.5 Kaylor
                        • Robert G. Karr
          • Barbara2 Hall (1847 - )
            • James Bradford (1844 - )
              • Barbara3 Bradford (cir. 1869 - )
          • Robert2 Hall (Nov 1848 - )
          • James2 Hall (Nov 1850 - )
          • Mary2 Hall (Feb 1853 - )
          • Isabelle2 Hall (cir. 1857 - )
      • Isabella1 Sinton (May 1819 - )
        • James Tait (bef. 1826 - )
          • Jane2 Tait (Dec 1846 - )
          • David2 Tait (Nov 1848 - )
          • Robert2 Tait (Feb 1851 - )
          • Isabella2 Tait (Mar 1853 - )
          • William2 Tait (Jun 1855 - )
          • Charles2 Tait (Dec 1857 - bef. 1859)
          • Charles E.2 Tait (Sep 1859 - )
          • George J.2 Tait (Jun 1862 - )
          • Barbara E.2 Tait (Jun 1865 - )
      • William1 Sinton (Jan 1822 - Oct 1912)
        • Betsy Elliot (cir. 1826 - Oct 1908)
          • Jane2 Sinton (May 1852 - Mar 1913)
            • Alfred Franklin (bef. 1863 - aft. 1913)
          • Robert2 Sinton (May 1854 - cir. 1953)
            • Christina C. McEwen (May 1861 - )
              • William R.3 Sinton (Feb 1898 - aft. 1956)
                • Kathleen Foster (Aug 1903 - aft. 1956)
              • Christina3 Sinton (cir. 1899 - )
              • Mary E.3 Sinton (cir. 1903 - )
          • Andrew2 Sinton (cir. 1856 - aft. 1871)
          • William2 Sinton (cir. 1859 - aft. 1891)
          • James2 Sinton (cir. 1860 - aft. 1901)
          • Mary2 Sinton (Apr 1862 - )
          • Barbara H.2 Sinton (May 1864 - )
            • Archibald C. McEwen (Feb 1862 - )
              • Duncan L.3 McEwen (Dec 1892 - )
              • Bessie R.3 McEwen (Jul 1894 - )
          • Isabella2 Sinton (Aug 1866 - )
      • James1 Sinton (Jan 1825 - Mar 1894)
        • Grace Alexander (cir. 1834 - Mar 1923)
          • Janet2 Sinton (Feb 1857 - )
            • William Kerr (bef. 1869 - )
              • James H.3 Kerr (Aug 1883 - )
              • Ethel G.3 Kerr (Apr 1885 - )
              • William M.3 Kerr (Dec 1888 - )
              • Arnold H.3 Kerr (Dec 1892 - )
              • Robert H.3 Kerr (Apr 1896 - Aug 1896)
          • Barbara2 Sinton (Jun 1860 - bef. 1862)
          • Barbra2 Sinton (Jun 1862 - )
            • James Baird (bef. 1866 - )
              • William A.3 Baird (Apr 1887 - )
              • Sidney M.3 Baird (Jan 1889 - )
              • James N.3 Baird (Aug 1890 - )
          • Robert2 Sinton (Nov 1864 - )
            • Amelia Gardner
              • John3 Sinton (Dec 1898 - )
          • Jane2 Sinton (Feb 1867 - )
            • James Gardner (bef. 1869 - bef. Oct 1889)
              • Jamesy3 Gardner (Aug 1889 - )
            • John Slater (bef. 1879 - )
          • Isabella2 Sinton (Feb 1867 - )
          • Euphemia2 Sinton (Dec 1868 - )
            • John Cunningham (bef. 1871 - )
          • John2 Sinton (Apr 1871 - )
      • Elspeth1 Sinton (Nov 1832 - Mar 1923)
        • ?
          • Thomas2 Elliot (Aug 1852 - Feb 1871)
        • James Alexander (cir. 1832 - bef. 1923)
          • Jane2 Alexander (Feb 1857 - )
          • Janet2 Alexander (Aug 1859 - )
          • Barbra2 Alexander (Oct 1861 - )
          • Grace2 Alexander (Apr 1864 - )
          • John2 Alexander (Sep 1866 - )
            • Janet M. McMillan (cir. 1872 - )
          • Robert2 Alexander (Nov 1868 - )
          • William2 Alexander (Nov 1870 - )