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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"
John Andrews (bef. 1724 - 1776)
Thomas Andrews (cir. 1745 - 1821)
Anne Cuff (bef. 1724 - )
John Andrews (cir. 1777 - cir. 1867)
Elizabeth Ralph (cir. 1754 - cir. 1818)
Simon Andrews (1814 - 1900)
Thomas Wines (bef. 1717 - cir. 1784)
Samuel Wines (cir. 1750 - bef. 1841)
Jane UnknownSurname (bef. 1717 - )
Rebekah Wines (1782 - 1870)
Betty Andrews (bef. 1751 - cir. 1786)
George G. Andrews (1851 - 1920)
male Gibson (bef. 1792 - )
Jane Gibson (J1a) (1812 - 1906)
Jane UnknownSurname (bef. 1792 - )
George E. Andrews (1881 - 1944)
Robert Turnbull (say 1690 - )
Walter Turnbull (say 1720 - aft. 1764)
Helen Blacklock (say 1690 - )
Walter Turnbull (cir. 1745 - aft. 1791)
Betty Turnbull (say 1720 - aft. 1764)
Robert Turnbull (cir. 1774 - 1854)
Elizabeth Dickson (cir. 1750 - )
James Turnbull (1820 - 1891)
Eleanor Scott (cir. 1788 - 1846)
Ellen Turnbull (1854 - 1926)
Andrew Graham (cir. 1662 - bet. 1736 - 1739)
Stephen Graham (cir. 1690 - bet. 1757 - 1757)
Jane UnknownSurname (bef. 1665 - aft. 1739)
Andrew Graham (cir. 1736 - cir. 1801)
Abigail Rea (cir. 1714 - aft. 1789)
Stephen Graham (cir. 1774 - 1856)
Ellin Graham (bef. 1715 - )
Jane Graham (say 1736 - aft. 1804)
Jane Graham (cir. 1819 - 1907)
William Baty (bef. 1710 - )
William Baty (cir. 1742 - cir. 1810)
Jane Corry (bef. 1710 - )
Jane Baty (cir. 1778 - cir. 1826)
Sarah Baty (cir. 1754 - cir. 1791)
Jessie A. Andrews (1912 - 2005)
Joseph Rowe (say 1700 - 1757)
Joseph Rowe (bet. 1721 - 1725 - 1763)
Florence Stephens (bef. 1701 - 1760)
Joseph Rowe (cir. 1749 - cir. 1811)
Hannah UnknownSurname ?Harris (say 1721 - aft. 1762)
Matthias Rowe (cir. 1780 - 1835)
Elizabeth Cross (1747 - 1844)
William Rowe (cir. 1827 - 1915)
John King (bef. 1655 - cir. 1686)
Elizabeth UnknownSurname (bef. 1630 - aft. 1673)
John King (aft. 1676 - cir. 1737)
Florence Bootel (bef. 1655 - cir. 1689)
Walter King (1706/7 - cir. 1771)
Elizabeth Northmore (cir. 1680 - cir. 1708)
James B. King (cir. 1754 - 1824)
James Barter (bef. 1669 - cir. 1711)
James Barter (1693 - cir. 1767)
Ann UnknownSurname (bef. 1673 - )
Ann Barter (cir. 1723 - cir. 1804)
Ann Stephens (cir. 1700 - cir. 1778)
Ann King (cir. 1788 - 1850)
Richard Peek (bef. 1690 - )
Richard Peek (cir. 1712 - cir. 1778)
Martha UnknownSurname (bef. 1692 - )
Sarah Peek (cir. 1758 - cir. 1795)
Augustine Algar
Michael Algar
Augustine Algar (say 1605 - )
Augustine Algar (cir. 1635 - )
Andrew Algar (say 1660 - )
Johane Pearse (say 1635 - 1693)
Samuel Algar (cir. 1690 - 1770)
Mary Courtis (say 1661 - )
Elizabeth Algar (cir. 1725 - cir. 1763)
Sarah Lowry (say 1697 - 1754)
Matthias Rowe (1852 - 1901)
John Daw (bef. 1724 - )
Isaac Dawe (cir. 1769 - 1840)
Sarah Moore (bef. 1724 - )
Isaac S. Dawe (1797 - 1851)
Sarah Smith (cir. 1773 - bef. 1833)
Honor Daw (1831 - 1897)
Richard Matters (cir. 1757 - 1830)
Bettsey Metters (1792 - 1863)
Robert Pyke (say 1720 - 1786)
Patience Pike (cir. 1758 - 1829)
Elizabeth UnknownSurname (bef. 1735 - aft. 1762)
Honor Rowe (1886 - 1971)
William Austin (cir. 1829 - aft. 1854)
Caroline E. Austin (1854 - 1899)
John? Clinton (bef. 1767 - )
William Clinton (1787 - bet. 1830 - 1851)
Mary UnknownSurname (bef. 1767 - )
Emma P. Clinton (1827 - 1894)
William Parker (bef. 1769 - )
Jemima Parker (1793 - 1861)
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