a list of all the RUNCIMAN descendants (and spice) included on this site
Andrews
Jessie Alice   (1912 - 2005)
Dickson
Robert   (1840 - aft. 1901)
Familton
Elizabeth   (cir. 1720 - 1788)
Gibson
John Walls   (1891 - 1964)
John Walls   (1917 - 1942)
Johnston
Oliver   (1860 - aft. 1901)
Michie
Margaret Beattie   (cir. 1895 - aft. 1964)
Richardson
Alexander   (1877 - 1955)
Andrew William Alexander   (1862 - 1936)
Catherine   (1816 - 1890)
Elizabeth   (1773 - 1831)
Isabella   (1853 - 1877)
James   (1782 - 1868)
James   (1853 - 1854)
Jane   (cir. 1850 - 1898)
Jemima   (1818 - 1886)
Margaret Ann   (1864 - 1933)
Robert   (1856 - aft. 1909)
Walter   (1776 - 1791)
Runchaman
Margaret   (1746 - aft. 1784)
Runciman
Alexander Ewing   (1850 - 1878)
David   (say 1685 - aft. 1715)
David   (1751 - 1825)
David   (1804 - 1872)
David Williamson   (1837 - 1910)
Elisabeth   (1793 - 1876)
George   (say 1645 - )
James   (1800 - 1871)
John   (1715 - aft. 1788)
William   (1790 - 1838)
William Aitchison   (1840 - aft. 1862)
Scott
Robert Russell (Sir) KCB   (1877 - 1960)
Sinton
Francis Douglas   (1882 - 1971)
Helen   (cir. 1820 - 1883)
Small
Elizabeth   (1836 - aft. 1901)
Soutar
Charles William   (1887 - 1944)
Walter Wight   (1895 - 1926)
Whitson
Elizabeth Jane Sinton   (1884 - aft. 1916)
Wight
Beatrice Thomson   (1856 - 1935)
Eliza   (1815 - 1871)
George   (cir. 1848 - aft. 1891)
James   (1796 - )
Margaret   (1798 - 1873)
Robert   (1800 - 1865)
Susan Robertson   (1859 - 1860)
Walter   (1816 - 1886)
William   (1846 - 1896)
William   (1767 - 1847)
 
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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
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    — 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