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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
  • 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
Archibald Henderson (bef. 1785 - 1826)
James Henderson (1813 - 1892)
Robert McEwan (bef. 1698 - )
William McEwan (1718 - )
Agnes Ferguson (bef. 1698 - )
James McEwan (1745 - aft. 1788)
Margaret Gray (bef. 1723 - )
Margaret McEwan (cir. 1782 - aft. 1828)
John Fisher (bef. 1733 - )
Margaret Fisher (1753 - )
Margaret Stevenson (bef. 1733 - )
William Henderson (1845 - 1931)
James Millar (bef. 1797 - )
Amelia Millar (1817 - 1894)
Margaret Chrystal (bef. 1797 - )
Archibald Henderson (1883 - 1952)
James Wight (say 1685 - aft. 1743)
James Wight (cir. 1721 - aft. 1743)
Margaret Houd (say 1690 - )
James Wight (say 1743 - 1791)
Isobel Wood (say 1721 - )
William Wight (1767 - 1847)
William Thomson (bef. 1705 - aft. 1743)
William Thomson (bef. 1725 - )
Janet Scott (bef. 1705 - )
Issobel Thomson (say 1740 - )
Walter Wight (1816 - 1886)
William Richardson (cir. 1670 - bet 1714 - 1726)
Robert Richardson (cir. 1694 - aft. 1736)
Isabel UnknownSurname (say 1670 - )
Walter Richardson (cir. 1720 - aft. 1778)
male Ledgerwood (bef. 1652 - )
Walter Ledgerwood (say 1670 - )
Jennet Leigerwood (1693 - aft. 1736)
Margaret Henderson (say 1670 - bet 1695 - 1699)
Robert Richardson (1747 - )
Robert Shiel (say 1665 - aft. 1729)
James Shiel (say 1690 - )
Margaret Shiell (1723 - aft. 1764)
Isabel Shiel (say 1695 - )
Elizabeth Richardson (1773 - 1831)
George Runciman (say 1645 - )
David Runciman (say 1685 - aft. 1715)
Jennet Finlay (bef. 1648 - )
John Runciman (1715 - aft. 1788)
Margaret Brown (bef. 1692 - )
Margaret Runchaman (1746 - aft. 1784)
William Familton (say 1695 - aft. 1753)
Elizabeth Familton (cir. 1720 - 1788)
George Wilson (bef. 1679 - )
Elizabeth Wilson (bef. 1699 - aft. 1753)
Helen S. Wight (1848 - 1941)
James Sinton (say 1730 - cir. 1802)
Peter Sinton (say 1752 - cir. 1811)
?Margaret? UnknownSurname (say 1730 - bet 1760 - 1762)
Peter Sinton (cir. 1783 - 1866)
?John? Donaldson (say 1720 - )
Janet Donaldson (say 1750 - bet 1794 - 1855)
?Janet? UnknownSurname (say 1720 - )
Helen Sinton (cir. 1820 - 1883)
James Wight (say 1758 - )
Jane Wight (cir. 1783 - 1858)
William Hall (cir. 1735 - 1817)
Isabella Hall (say 1758 - 1816)
Jane Stevenson (cir. 1743 - 1825)
Leslie A. Henderson (1913 - 1995)
male Davidson (bef. 1798 - bef. 1900)
John Davidson (cir. 1817 - 1900)
Ann Collins (say 1795 - bef. 1841)
Adam Davidson (1851 - 1920)
John Fairbairn (say 1705 - bet 1741 - 1805)
Archibald? Fairbairn (say 1735 - )
Bessie Flint (say 1705 - aft. 1741)
Archibald Fairbairn (say 1760 - bet 1800 - 1841)
Walter Fairbairn (cir. 1784 - 1859)
Male ?. Croser (say 1740 - )
Alison Crosser (say 1765 - bet 1800 - 1841)
Agnes Fairbairn (cir. 1818 - 1884)
John Robertson (bef. 1766 - bef. 1863)
Agnes Robertson (cir. 1786 - 1863)
Ann UnknownSurname (bef. 1766 - bef. 1863)
Agnes M. Davidson (1885 - 1955)
male Bain ?Donald (bef. 1764 - )
John Bain (cir. 1784 - 1853)
Donald Bain (1806 - 1892)
Donald Gray (bef. 1730 - aft. 1765)
Donald Gray (1754 - bet 1800 - 1841)
Kathrin Morgan (bef. 1730 - aft. 1765)
Catherine Gray (1785 - 1865)
Janet Sutherland (bef. 1762 - bef. 1863)
John Bain (cir. 1832 - 1909)
William Taylor (say 1725 - aft. 1771)
William Taylor (cir. 1749 - aft. 1799)
Janet Smith (say 1725 - )
William Taylor (1772 - 1860)
James Finlayson (bef. 1731 - )
Isabella Finlayson (say 1751 - bef. 1860)
Margaret Taylor (1802 - 1861)
Isobella McDonald (bef. 1775 - bet 1806 - 1827)
Isabella Bain (1857 - 1915)
James Manson (bef. 1701 - aft. 1735)
David Manson (1724 - aft. 1771)
Euphen Malcolm (bef. 1701 - aft. 1735)
James Manson (1756 - bef. 1823)
Helen J. Miller (bef. 1735 - aft. 1771)
Donald Manson (1796 - bet 1841 - 1851)
Donald Georgeson (bef. 1735 - cir. 1793)
Christan Georgeson (bet 1756 - 1761 - bet 1823 - 1841)
Esther Miller (bef. 1735 - aft. 1766)
Sinclair Manson (1828 - 1893)
George MacAdie (say 1730 - )
Robert MacAdie (cir. 1760 - aft. 1826)
Robert Cottar (bef. 1689 - bet 1724 - 1725)
Margaret Cottar (1725 - aft. 1760)
Katherin Calder (bef. 1689 - )
Isabella S. MacAdie (cir. 1800 - 1873)
William Sinclair (bef. 1740 - aft. 1768)
Margaret Sinclair (1768 - bef. 1841)
Katherine McKonlay (bef. 1740 - )
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