a list of all the SINTON descendants (and spice) included on this site
Andrews
Jessie Alice     (1912 - 2005)
Dalgleish
Elizabeth     (cir. 1851 - 1898)
Donaldson
Janet     (say 1750 - bet. 1794 - 1855)
Gibson
John Walls     (1891 - 1964)
John Walls     (1917 - 1942)
Michie
Margaret Beattie     (cir. 1895 - aft. 1964)
Richardson
Margaret Ann     (1864 - 1933)
Ross
Catherine     (cir. 1834 - 1876)
Sinton
Cecilia     (cir. 1795 - 1877)
Helen     (cir. 1820 - 1883)
Isabella     (1792 - 1869)
James     (say 1730 - cir. 1802)
Jane     (cir. 1812 - 1902)
John     (1806 - 1854)
John     (cir. 1774 - )
John     (1809 - 1881)
Margaret     (1848 - 1870)
Peter     (cir. 1783 - 1866)
Peter     (say 1752 - cir. 1811)
Peter     (1855 - 1874)
Robert     (1852 - 1943)
Slater
Margaret     (1866 - aft. 1881)
Peter     (cir. 1847 - 1870)
Peter Angus     (1870 - bet. 1870 - 1881)
Robert     (1868 - 1871)
Soutar
Charles William     (1887 - 1944)
Walter Wight     (1895 - 1926)
Thomson
James     (1834 - 1899)
Whitson
Elizabeth Jane Sinton     (1884 - bet. 1916 - 1945)
Wight
Beatrice Thomson     (1856 - 1935)
Jane     (cir. 1783 - 1858)
Susan Robertson     (1859 - 1860)
Walter     (1816 - 1886)
William     (1846 - 1896)
 
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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"