Lorna's family forest - WIGHT relations:

a list of all the WIGHT descendants included on this site (and spice)

Andrews: Jessie Alice (1912 - 2005)
Gibson: John Walls (1891 - 1964)

John Walls (1917 - 1942)
Hall: Isabella (say 1758 - 1816)
Houd: Margaret (say 1690 - )
Johnston: Oliver (1860 - aft. 1901)
Michie: Margaret Beattie (cir. 1895 - aft. 1964)
Richardson: Elizabeth (1773 - 1831)

Margaret Ann (1863 - 1933)
Sinton: Francis Douglas (1882 - 1971)

Helen (cir. 1820 - 1883)
Soutar: Charles William (1887 - 1944)

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

Elizabeth Aiken   (1856 - aft. 1911)

George   (cir. 1848 - 1904)

Isabella   (cir. 1800 - 1869)

Isabella   (1805 - 1871)

James   (say 1685 - aft. 1743)

James   (cir. 1721 - aft. 1743)

James   (say 1743 - 1791)

James   (say 1755 - )

James   (1796 - 1825)

James Hall   (cir. 1805 - 1821)

Jane   (cir. 1783 - 1858)

Margaret   (1798 - 1873)

Robert   (1800 - 1865)

Susan Robertson   (1859 - 1860)

Walter   (1816 - 1886)

William   (1767 - 1847)

William   (cir. 1833 - 1855)

William   (1846 - 1896)
Wood: Isobel (say 1721 - )

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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