Henderson, Andrews, Rowe, Wight, Sinton, Fairbairn, Bain, Manson, McAdie and many many more

Susan Robertson Wight¹

ID#1384, (11 January 1859 - 15 March 1860)

Father

Walter Wight¹ (Sep 1816 - Oct 1886)

Mother

Helen Sinton¹ (cir. 1820 - Jan 1883)

Charts

Ancestors & siblings of Les Henderson
RICHARDSON
Earlston/Wanton Walls RUNCIMAN
SINTON
WIGHT

Relationship

2nd great-aunt of Lorna Henderson.

     Susan Robertson Wight was born on 11 Jan 1859 at Maxton, ROX, SCT, Sister Helen's note reads; "Susan Robertson Wight born 11th Jan 1859 Died 15th March 1860 aged 14 mths."¹
     Susan Robertson Wight died on 15 Mar 1860 at Maxton, ROX, SCT, at age 1 year, 2 months and 4 days.^1,2
     Susan Robertson Wight was interred with Walter Wight and Helen Sinton at Maxton, ROX, SCT; Their h/stone reads: IMO Helen Sinton wife of Walter Wight who died at Maxton 12.1.1883 aged 64 also the above Walter Wight who died 31.10.1886 aged 71 also their daughter Susan R. Wight who died 15.3.1860 aged 14 mths."²

Last Edited

4 Jan 2006

Citations

Letter, Helen Sinton HENDERSON nee WIGHT (43) to family, 28 Nov 1875, original held by L Henderson.
Borders FHS, MIs: ROX Maxton, Entry #117.

E. & O. E. Some/most parish records are rather hard to read and names, places hard to interpret, particularly if you are unfamiliar with an area.

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
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 1992
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