Lorna's family forest - RUNCIMAN relations:

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   (1863 - 1933)

Robert   (cir. 1747 - aft. 1791)

Robert   (1780 - bet. 1851 - 1861)

Robert   (1856 - aft. 1911)

Walter   (1776 - 1791)

William   (1825 - 1884)

William McCulloch   (1872 - 1889)
Runchaman: Margaret (cir. 1746 - aft. 1784)
Runcheman: Elisabeth (cir. 1744 - )
Runciman: Alexander Ewing   (1850 - 1878)

David   (cir. 1751 - 1825)

David (marr. to Margaret Brown)   (say 1685 - aft. 1734)

David D.D.   (1804 - 1872)

David Williamson   (1837 - 1910)

Elisabeth   (cir. 1793 - 1876)

George (marr. Jennet Finlay)   (say 1645 - )

James   (1798 - 1872)

James   (1800 - 1871)

John   (cir. 1715 - aft. 1788)

William   (cir. 1734 - )

William   (cir. 1756 - 1803)

William   (cir. 1790 - 1838)

William   (1802 - 1875)

William Aitchison   (1840 - 1863)
Scott: Robert Russell (Sir) KCB (1877 - 1960)
Sinton: Francis Douglas (1882 - 1971)
Small: Elizabeth (1836 - aft. 1901)
Soutar: Charles William (1887 - 1944)

Walter Wight (1895 - 1926)
Whitson: Elizabeth Jane Sinton (1884 - 1940)
Wight: Beatrice Thomson   (1856 - 1935)

Eliza   (1815 - 1871)

George   (cir. 1848 - 1904)

Isabella   (1805 - 1871)

James   (1796 - 1825)

Margaret   (1798 - 1873)

Robert   (1800 - 1865)

Susan Robertson   (1859 - 1860)

Walter   (1816 - 1886)

William   (1846 - 1896)

BMD data on all rellies

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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