Search this site (uses FreeFind)
  • 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"
The SINTONs of Jedburgh. The second DNA breakthrough (Dec 2008) is harder to connect in as William and Isabella have no known Southdean connections. Results do show that there is as close a relationship between his descendants, and those of the family of Peter and Janet (DONALDSON) SINTON, as between the two Southdean participants.
My WIGHT relations
  • William Sinton (1778 - Aug 1841)
    • Isabella Scott (1778 - Apr 1849)
      • James Sinton (Jul 1805 - Jun 1861)
        • Margaret Hogg (1807 - Jan 1879)
          • James Sinton (1835 - Aug 1891)
            • Jane I. Rathie (Jul 1838 - Sep 1895)
              • Jane I. R. Sinton (1857 - Feb 1898)
              • James W. Sinton (Oct 1859 - aft. 1901)
                • Jessie Hoggarth (cir. 1864 - )
              • Margaret R. Sinton (Mar 1862 - aft. 1901)
                • Robert Kerss (cir. 1868 - )
              • Walter R. Sinton (Sep 1864 - aft. 1891)
                • Isabella Hollands (Dec 1860 - Dec 1886)
                • Christian McInnes
              • Isabella Sinton (Dec 1867 - Jul 1907)
                • Robert Douglas ( - aft. 1907)
              • John Sinton (Jun 1870 - aft. 1901)
                • Jane Geddes (1870 - )
                  • James Sinton (cir. 1898 - aft. 1918)
                    • ?
                  • Alexander Sinton (cir. 1900 - aft. 1901)
              • Robert Sinton (Jul 1872 - )
              • George Sinton (Oct 1874 - )
              • Mary A. Sinton (cir. 1876 - aft. 1901)
              • Jessie E. R. Sinton (cir. 1879 - aft. 1901)
          • William Sinton (Nov 1837 - Jul 1880)
            • Janet N. Symington (May 1839 - Jun 1927)
              • Betsy Sinton (Feb 1863 - May 1920)
                • Charles Q. Hutchinson (cir. 1850 - )
              • Margaret M. Sinton (Aug 1865 - Sep 1957)
                • Noble A. Johnston (Jul 1856 - Feb 1948)
                  • William A. Johnston (aft. 1884 - )
                    • ?
              • James W. Sinton (Oct 1867 - Mar 1936)
                • Elizabeth F. Gunn (Jul 1875 - Dec 1944)
                  • Violet E. Sinton (Dec 1895 - Mar 1978)
                    • Andrew Andersen (Aug 1893 - Dec 1949)
                  • Hazel M. Sinton (Dec 1899 - Nov 1956)
                    • Samuel Holliday
                  • Maud J. Sinton (Dec 1903 - )
                    • Stanley G. Finch
                  • Isabella M. Sinton (Mar 1907 - Sep 1984)
                    • Francis J. Birch
                  • Gwendoline E. Sinton
                    • Marcus P. Andrews
              • Alexander R. Sinton (Mar 1870 - Mar 1949)
                • Ellen J. Wallace (Oct 1874 - Feb 1959)
                  • Janet A. Sinton (Nov 1892 - Aug 1961)
                    • William Paterson (bef. 1896 - 1952)
                  • William A. Sinton (Dec 1893 - Jun 1969)
                    • Maria L. Thomson (cir. 1887 - Feb 1951)
                    • Winifred R. Wallen (cir. 1900 - Sep 1961)
                  • Mabel V. Sinton (Feb 1895 - 1950)
                    • George Kennedy (bef. 1893 - )
                  • George Sinton (Nov 1896 - 1978)
                    • Mary A. Norton (cir. 1907 - 1982)
                  • Robert J. Sinton (Feb 1899 - Jan 1978)
                    • Elsie M. Woolnough (bef. 1898 - )
                  • Alice E. Sinton (Jun 1901 - Aug 1987)
                    • Harold Hunter
                  • Leonard W. Sinton (Oct 1903 - Jan 1983)
                    • Florence A. North (Jul 1904 - Apr 1971)
                    • Ann Goodacre
                  • Margaret O. Sinton
                    • George Thomson
                  • Reginald Sinton (Jul 1906 - Dec 1986)
                    • Elsie M. Bridgford (1907 - 1982)
                    • Jessie MacDowell
                  • Wallace L. Sinton (Jan 1909 - Mar 1988)
                    • Janet N. W. Orrock (cir. 1910 - 1979)
                  • Stanley Sinton (Oct 1912 - Aug 1972)
                    • Iris A. Bridgford (Apr 1916 - Oct 1995)
              • John Sinton (Jun 1877 - Sep 1956)
                • Lillian F. Bridgford (Apr 1878 - Mar 1956)
                  • Jessie J. S. Sinton (Sep 1902 - Jul 1987)
                    • Moses E. Wright (Mar 1899 - Feb 1962)
                  • Esther L. Sinton (Dec 1902 - 1987)
                    • Sydney R. Gould (Oct 1906 - Sep 1981)
                  • John W. Sinton (Mar 1909 - Aug 1964)
                    • Violet M. Hewson
              • Jane Sinton (Sep 1879 - Jul 1975)
                • William Ockleston (1876 - Jun 1953)
          • Walter H. Sinton (1840 - Sep 1860)
          • John Sinton (Jul 1845 - Jul 1927)
            • Mary E. Dean (cir. 1855 - 1874)
            • Margaret Wishart (cir. 1853 - May 1932)
              • James Sinton (1877 - 1963)
                • Louise M. Hellyer (bef. 1884 - 1929)
                  • John H. Sinton (1906 - 1942)
                    • Hughina V. Kane
                  • Walter J. Sinton (May 1911 - Dec 1980)
                    • Margaret V. McMurray (1912 - Oct 1978)
                • Elizabeth A. D. Cumming (bef. 1913 - Apr 1962)
                  • Marjorie Sinton
                    • J Wyllie
              • George W. Sinton (1879 - Aug 1949)
                • Emily E. Bridgford (Jun 1876 - May 1953)
                  • Lillian J. Sinton (Apr 1903 - )
                    • John Mallins
                    • Geoffrey L. Lucena
                  • Albert G. Sinton
                    • Christine M. Insley (Mar 1903 - 1986)
                  • Ada E. Sinton
                    • Peter Hannah
              • Jane Sinton (Sep 1881 - )
                • Louis D. Watson (bef. 1884 - )
              • Margaret Sinton (Feb 1882 - Aug 1964)
                • Thomas Morris (bef. 1899 - )
              • William Sinton (Jul 1887 - Nov 1969)
                • Lillian I. J. Easy (cir. 1888 - Feb 1948)
                  • Beatrice H. Sinton
                    • Stanley Brunton
                  • Edward W. Sinton (Oct 1909 - 1980)
                    • Irene M. Plowman (cir. 1907 - bef. Oct 1991)
                  • Margaret L. Sinton
                    • Arthur G. W. Gordine
                    • Aubrey C. Ollard
                  • Malinda J. Sinton
                    • Wallace Smith
                  • John T. Sinton
                    • Millie Johnson
                  • Hazel G. Sinton
                    • John Hastings
                  • George H. Sinton (Jan 1920 - Jun 1938)
                  • Marjorie L. Sinton
                    • Hector Woodward
                  • Eileen J. Sinton
                    • Harold Scott
          • George Sinton (Oct 1847 - Dec 1907)
            • Annie M. Dean (cir. 1859 - Mar 1947)
              • George Sinton (Dec 1876 - Mar 1956)
                • Ethel M. Reed (cir. 1878 - Nov 1931)
                  • Gifford G. Sinton (1906 - Dec 1971)
                    • Winifred M. Harrison (Dec 1910 - Mar 1971)
                  • Roy W. Sinton (1909 - 1966)
                  • Ellen M. Sinton
                    • Malcolm C. Moates
              • William Sinton (Sep 1878 - cir. 1959)
                • Agnes M. Wilton (cir. 1880 - Sep 1966)
                  • Phyllis G. Sinton
                    • Norman Brown
                  • Edward W. Sinton (Jul 1906 - 1991)
                    • Winifred M. Ayres
                  • Ruby C. Sinton
                    • Engle A. Rohrer
                  • Wilma E. M. Sinton
                    • James K. Johnstone
                  • Anthea D. Sinton
                    • Stuart Avery
                    • Geoffrey A. Regan
                • Eileen M. E. Wallen (Aug 1898 - 1984)
              • Eleanor Sinton (Jun 1880 - )
                • Alfred H. Wilkinson (bef. 1883 - )
              • Margaret Sinton (Mar 1882 - Jun 1963)
                • Edwin A. Emerson
              • Alice Sinton (Jun 1884 - )
                • James Preston (bef. 1891 - )
              • Ada E. Sinton (1885 - 1885)
              • Walter Sinton (Jun 1886 - 1963)
                • Evelyn M. F. M. Wright (cir. 1890 - 1973)
                  • Jacqueline A. Sinton
                  • Olga Sinton
                  • Yvonne M. Sinton
              • Annie Sinton (Apr 1888 - Aug 1929)
                • Alfred O. Butler (bef. 1894 - )
              • Ellen W. Sinton (Jul 1890 - Jun 1973)
                • Richard Bartlett (bef. 1898 - )
              • Charles B. Sinton (Jun 1892 - Aug 1915)
              • James Sinton (Apr 1894 - Mar 1918)
              • Robert Sinton (Sep 1896 - Nov 1946)
              • John A. Sinton (Mar 1899 - Jul 1985)
                • Thelma P. Hay (cir. 1900 - 1982)
                  • Verna E. Sinton (Apr 1923 - Aug 1989)
                    • Peter Mannington
                  • Rene M. Sinton
                    • Alistair Irvine
                  • Donald J. Sinton (Jan 1929 - Feb 1989)
                    • Suzanne C. Macky
              • Isobel M. Sinton (Jul 1902 - )
                • Ralph Fearn
      • William Sinton (Feb 1808 - Jul 1873)
        • Jessie Lamb (cir. 1813 - Sep 1862)
          • William Sinton (Mar 1847 - Sep 1881)
          • Betsy Sinton (Jun 1850 - aft. 1871)
          • Isabella Sinton (Nov 1853 - aft. 1871)
          • George Sinton (Feb 1857 - Feb 1857)
      • John Sinton (Sep 1810 - Feb 1865)
        • Mary A. Gillies (1816 - bef. 1851)
          • William Sinton (cir. 1837 - aft. 1851)
          • Jane Sinton (Feb 1839 - aft. 1851)
          • James Sinton (Feb 1841 - Aug 1885)
            • Mary Bruce (cir. 1841 - aft. 1885)
              • Mary Sinton (Oct 1865 - Jan 1936)
                • John Fleming (Dec 1865 - May 1920)
                  • James S. B. Fleming (Jan 1900 - Mar 1980)
                    • Cecilia P. Vickers (Aug 1896 - Oct 1982)
              • John Sinton (Oct 1867 - aft. 1885)
              • Helen Sinton (Dec 1868 - aft. 1881)
              • Bella Sinton (Dec 1871 - aft. 1881)
          • Isabella Sinton (Jun 1843 - )
            • Charles Falconer (bef. 1844 - )
              • Isabella W. Falconer (Jul 1865 - )
              • Charlotte Falconer (Jul 1868 - )
              • James Falconer (Jul 1870 - )
              • Mary G. Falconer (Feb 1874 - )
          • John G. Sinton (Jun 1843 - Apr 1904)
            • Isabella Wight (Oct 1840 - bet. Apr 1904 - Jun 1904)
              • John Sinton (Jul 1862 - aft. 1881)
              • William W. Sinton (Nov 1866 - Feb 1895)
              • Helen Sinton (Jul 1869 - Jun 1948)
                • John Willocks (Oct 1872 - Oct 1926)
                  • Helen Willocks (cir. 1895 - aft. 1901)
                  • Mary Willocks (cir. 1897 - aft. 1901)
                  • Elizabeth Willocks (cir. 1899 - aft. 1928)
                    • Leslie H. L. Langley (cir. 1890 - )
              • Mary Sinton (Nov 1871 - aft. 1881)
              • James Sinton (Nov 1873 - Nov 1936)
                • Janet Dickie (cir. 1878 - aft. 1936)
                  • Christina M. Sinton (Feb 1907 - Sep 1953)
                    • William Tinning (cir. 1901 - Sep 1953)
              • George Sinton (Jan 1878 - aft. 1891)
              • Francis D. Sinton (Jan 1882 - 1971)
                • Margaret A. Runciman (Sep 1875 - aft. 1911)
                  • Isabella M. Sinton (Nov 1904 - )
                  • John W. Sinton (Oct 1906 - )
                    • Gertrude E. Ormiston (say 1905 - )
                  • George A. Sinton (bet. Jun 1909 - Sep 1909 - 1928)
          • George Sinton (Jul 1845 - aft. 1851)
        • Mary Dickson (cir. 1830 - bet. 1881 - 1933)
          • Robert Sinton (Oct 1854 - )
          • Thomas Sinton (Dec 1856 - Apr 1933)
            • Annie Scott (Mar 1854 - aft. 1891)
              • John Sinton (Oct 1878 - aft. 1891)
              • Walter Sinton (cir. 1886 - aft. 1933)
              • Jane Sinton (cir. 1887 - aft. 1891)
          • Mary Sinton (Jun 1860 - aft. 1881)
      • Thomas Sinton (Sep 1813 - )
      • Andrew Sinton (cir. 1816 - Nov 1868)
        • Margaret Dodds (cir. 1821 - aft. 1901)
          • Margaret Sinton (Jul 1843 - aft. 1881)
            • James Henderson (cir. 1848 - aft. 1881)
              • William Henderson (Nov 1870 - aft. 1881)
              • Andrew S. Henderson (Mar 1873 - aft. 1881)
              • James Henderson (cir. 1876 - aft. 1881)
              • Margaret Henderson (cir. 1877 - aft. 1881)
              • Jessie Henderson (cir. 1879 - aft. 1881)
          • William Sinton (Aug 1845 - Aug 1924)
            • Margaret Romaines (cir. 1849 - aft. 1881)
              • Andrew Sinton (Mar 1873 - aft. 1881)
              • Alexander Sinton (Jul 1874 - )
              • Margaret R. Sinton (Mar 1876 - Feb 1957)
                • Alexander B. Dunn ( - Oct 1929)
              • Isabella Sinton (cir. 1878 - aft. 1881)
              • Walter Sinton (cir. 1880 - aft. 1881)
          • Walter Sinton (Jul 1847 - )
            • Helen Pringle (cir. 1851 - )
          • Isabell Sinton (Oct 1849 - )
          • Andrew Sinton (Oct 1851 - )
          • Helen Sinton (Mar 1854 - aft. 1901)
            • Adam Young (cir. 1853 - aft. 1901)
              • Maggie S. Young (Nov 1874 - aft. 1891)
              • Annie M. Young (cir. 1876 - aft. 1881)
              • Jessie M. Young (cir. 1882 - aft. 1901)
              • Matthew J. T. Young (Mar 1885 - aft. 1901)
          • James Sinton (May 1856 - Mar 1922)
            • Janet E. Crawford (aft. Apr 1881 - 1969)
              • Andrew J. G. Sinton (Jul 1908 - bef. 1996)
                • Catherine Wilkinson (1909 - bef. 1996)
                  • Catherine Sinton
                  • James A. T. Sinton (Dec 1930 - Dec 2004)
                  • Lester R. Sinton
                    • Nancy C. UnknownSurname
              • Margaret D. Sinton (bef. 1911 - cir. 1911)
          • Richard T. Sinton (Jul 1859 - bef. Apr 1903)
            • Isabella Scott (cir. 1861 - aft. 1901)
              • Andrew Sinton (cir. 1885 - aft. 1901)
              • Robert Sinton (cir. 1887 - aft. 1901)
              • Richard T. Sinton (1889 - aft. 1928)
              • James Sinton (cir. 1892 - Jul 1928)
              • William Sinton (cir. 1894 - aft. 1901)
              • Elizabeth Sinton (cir. 1896 - aft. 1901)
              • Walter Sinton (cir. 1898 - aft. 1901)
          • Jessie Sinton (Jul 1859 - )
      • Adam Sinton (Mar 1819 - bef. 1874)
        • Elizabeth Waugh (cir. 1815 - Feb 1874)
          • William Sinton (Apr 1841 - Aug 1871)
          • Robert Sinton (Dec 1842 - Oct 1905)
            • Agnes Pringle (cir. 1843 - Feb 1873)
              • Adam Sinton (May 1871 - )
            • Margaret Fairbairn (Jul 1844 - 1925)
              • Marion Sinton (cir. 1876 - Mar 1917)
                • Robert E. Douglas ( - aft. 1917)
              • Elizabeth Sinton (cir. 1879 - aft. 1901)
          • Adam Sinton (Sep 1845 - )
          • Elizabeth Sinton (May 1850 - aft. 1881)
            • John Fowler (cir. 1845 - aft. 1881)
              • William Fowler (Jul 1873 - aft. 1881)
              • Elizabeth Fowler (cir. 1876 - aft. 1881)
              • Robert Fowler (cir. 1878 - aft. 1881)
              • Annie Fowler (cir. 1880 - aft. 1881)
My WIGHT relations