Lorna's family forest - James WIGHT/Lydia AITKEN

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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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Descendant chart for James WIGHT and Lydia AITKEN

James and Lydia married in 1820 at Edinburgh, James a smith.
Lydia remarries, John MIDDLEMAS and there is at least one inter-marriage with "my" WIGHT family, adding to the conjecture that James WIGHT is the son of William WIGHT and Elizabeth RICHARDSON

My line

⁰Lidia Aitken (cir. 1799 - Jul 1861)
- James Wight (Aug 1796 - Nov 1825)
  - ¹Elizabeth A. Wight (cir. 1821 - May 1885)
    - Robert Paterson (cir. 1820 - bef. 1881)
      - ²James Paterson (Feb 1845 - aft. 1901)
        Isabella Ronaldson (cir. 1850 - aft. 1901)
        ³Robert Paterson (cir. 1876 - aft. 1881)
        ³David Paterson (cir. 1879 - aft. 1881)
      - ²John Paterson (Jul 1846 - aft. 1881)
        Catherine Galloway (cir. 1847 - )
        ³Elizabeth W. Paterson (cir. 1877 - aft. 1881)
        ³Margaret Paterson (cir. 1879 - aft. 1881)
      - ²Robert Paterson (Jun 1848 - )
        I L. UnknownSurname (m. Paterson) (cir. 1858 - )
        ³Robert W. Patterson (May 1879 - )
        Julia M. UnknownSurname (m. Patterson) (cir. 1885 - )
        ⁴Betty J. Patterson
      - ²George Paterson (May 1851 - )
      - ²Lydia A. Paterson (Apr 1853 - )
        ?
        ³Robert Paterson (Sep 1873 - aft. 1881)
      - ²Janet G. Paterson (Jul 1860 - aft. 1881)
      - ²Thomas Paterson (Feb 1865 - aft. 1881)
  - ¹James Wight (cir. 1825 - Apr 1900)
    - Beatrice Douglas (cir. 1825 - Sep 1889)
      - ²Lydia A. Wight (Mar 1847 - )
        ?
        ³James Wight (Jul 1868 - Dec 1868)
        ³James Wight (Jul 1871 - Nov 1872)
        ³George Wight (Mar 1873 - aft. 1911)
        Marion M. Watt (cir. 1875 - )
        ⁴James W. Wight (Aug 1898 - )
        ⁴George Wight (cir. 1901 - )
        ⁴Charles Wight (cir. 1905 - )
        ⁴Cecilia Wight (cir. 1907 - )
        George Waugh (cir. 1902 - )
        ⁴Marion Wight (cir. 1907 - )
        Charles Aitchison (cir. 1855 - aft. 1881)
        ³Charles Aitchison (cir. Dec 1880 - aft. 1881)
      - ²James Wight (Dec 1848 - )
      - ²George Wight (cir. Dec 1850 - Dec 1942)
        Flora McDonald (cir. 1858 - bet. 1891 - 1910)
        ³Margaret Wight (cir. 1880 - aft. 1891)
        ³Beatrice Wight (cir. 1883 - 1937)
        James Emond (cir. 1884 - )
        ⁴George W. Emond (Jun 1912 - )
        ?
        ³James Wight (cir. 1886 - )
        Margaret B. Urquhart (cir. 1887 - )
        ⁴James U. Wight (1908 - Jan 1973)
        Marion B. Watson (cir. 1911 - )
        ⁴William U. Wight
        ³Angus Wight (cir. 1888 - Apr 1940)
        Margaret F. MacDonald (cir. 1889 - Mar 1962)
      - ²Elizabeth A. Wight (Mar 1856 - aft. 1911)
        ?
        ³James Wight (Mar 1886 - Jan 1934)
        Mary E. Wallace (cir. 1886 - )
        ⁴William Wight (say 1912 - aft. 1934)
        ⁴Robert W. Wight (Jun 1915 - Oct 1965)
        Alison L. C. Denholm (Oct 1919 - Oct 1991)
        ⁴Elizabeth A. Wight (1923 - 1981)
        Alexander H. Frame (1919 - 2007)
        William Glass (cir. 1865 - aft. 1911)
        ³Agnes G. Wight (Aug 1888 - 1978)
        ³Jane Glass (cir. 1896 - )
        ³Helen C. Glass (1897 - 1981)
        Alexander S. Foster (cir. 1896 - )
        ⁴Female Foster
        ?
        ³Elizabeth Glass (cir. Aug 1900 - )
      - ²Beatrice Wight (cir. 1857 - Oct 1934)
        James Heddle (cir. 1855 - Aug 1881)
        ³Liza Heddle (cir. 1882 - )
        Thomas Watson (cir. 1855 - bef. 1934)
        ³Thomas Watson (Mar 1886 - aft. 1934)
      - ²female Wight (Aug 1858 - )
      - ²Joan Wight (Feb 1860 - 1860)
      - ²Thomas Wight (Oct 1861 - 1861)
      - ²Thomas M. Wight (Feb 1864 - 1864)
- John Middlemas (cir. 1801 - bet. 1841 - 1861)
  - ¹Lydia A. Middlemas (cir. 1831 - 1904)
    - Alexander Kerr (cir. 1834 - aft. 1901)
      - ²Hugh R. Kerr (Nov 1859 - aft. 1888)
      - ²Lydia A. Kerr (Apr 1861 - aft. 1891)
      - ²John Kerr (Aug 1863 - )
      - ²Margaret M. Kerr (Apr 1866 - Nov 1942)
        Thomas Watson (May 1870 - Sep 1942)
        ³Archibald Watson (Apr 1903 - Feb 1982)
        Beatrice M. Prest
        ⁴Norman A. Watson
        ?
        Evelyn J. Grindall
  - ¹George Middlemas (cir. 1831 - )
  - ¹John C. Middlemas (cir. 1835 - Jul 1906)
    - Ann Auld (cir. 1832 - Apr 1909)
      - ²Hughina Middlemas (Oct 1858 - )
      - ²Lydia Middlemas (Dec 1859 - Mar 1939)
        Alex Thomson (cir. 1845 - Mar 1921)
      - ²Joanna Middlemas (Mar 1862 - Nov 1903)
      - ²Elizabeth W. Middlemas (Apr 1864 - aft. 1881)
      - ²Margaret Middlemas (Feb 1866 - aft. 1881)
      - ²Marion Middlemas (Mar 1868 - aft. 1881)
      - ²John Middlemas (Nov 1869 - bef. 1881)
      - ²Mary Middlemas (Dec 1871 - aft. 1881)
  - ¹Thomas Middlemas (cir. 1837 - Apr 1897)
    - Jane H. Wight (Jan 1842 - Nov 1922)
      - ²Helen S. Middlemas (Aug 1863 - Mar 1941)
        James Geddes (cir. 1863 - bet. 1901 - 1911)
        ³James H. Geddes (cir. 1896 - 1975)
        Bella D. Stage (cir. 1900 - )
      - ²Lydia A. Middlemas (Jul 1865 - aft. 1901)
        Andrew M. McGregor (May 1864 - Oct 1897)
        ³Jane W. McGregor (Sep 1897 - )
        Charles A. Beckingham (Aug 1893 - )
        ⁴Frances L. L. B. Beckingham
        Robert Bruce (cir. 1857 - )
        ³Robert Bruce (cir. Jan 1901 - )
      - ²John Middlemas (Nov 1867 - Feb 1925)
        Jane R. Waterstone (cir. 1869 - Jul 1903)
        ³Thomas Middlemas (cir. 1893 - aft. 1901)
        ³Jane Middlemas (cir. 1894 - aft. 1901)
        ³Robert Middlemas (cir. 1898 - aft. 1925)
        Jane S. Anderson (cir. 1880 - )
      - ²Jane W. Middlemas (Aug 1870 - Jun 1886)
      - ²Elizabeth Middlemas (Jan 1873 - aft. 1940)
        Robert B. Davidson (cir. 1877 - bet. 1930 - 1940)
        ³Helen S. Davidson (cir. 1905 - aft. 1940)
      - ²Walter W. Middlemas (Mar 1875 - Feb 1876)
      - ²Thomas Middlemas (Oct 1878 - Sep 1969)
        Janet S. UnknownSurname (cir. 1882 - aft. 1930)
      - ²Margaret I. W. Middlemas (Jun 1880 - bef. 1965)
        James S. Crowden (cir. 1881 - bef. 1945)
        ³Margaret S. Crowden
        Christopher T. North
      - ²George L. W. Middlemas (Apr 1884 - Feb 1967)
        Helen L. Graham (cir. 1883 - Apr 1957)
        ³George G. Middlemas (Sep 1927 - 2008)
      - ²Beatrice T. W. Middlemas (Mar 1886 - Mar 1943)
        Thomas G. Park (cir. 1884 - 1911)
        ³David M. C. Park (cir. Dec 1910 - Jun 1947)
        Edith I. Campbell

My line