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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
George Runciman (say 1645 - )
Jennet Finlay (bef. 1648 - )
Johann Pachelbel.
Robert Shiel (say 1665 - aft. 1729)
Walter Ledgerwood (say 1670 - )
Margaret Henderson (say 1670 - bet 1695 - 1699)
William Richardson (cir. 1670 - bet 1714 - 1726)
George Wilson (bef. 1679 - )
Georg Philipp Telemann.
James Wight (say 1685 - aft. 1743)
David Runciman (say 1685 - aft. 1715)
J S Bach.
Katherin Calder (bef. 1689 - )
Robert Cottar (bef. 1689 - bet 1724 - 1725)
Margaret Houd (say 1690 - )
James Shiel (say 1690 - )
Robert Richardson (cir. 1694 - aft. 1736)
William Familton (say 1695 - aft. 1753)
Agnes Ferguson (bef. 1698 - )
Robert McEwan (bef. 1698 - )
Elizabeth Wilson (bef. 1699 - aft. 1753)
Euphen Malcolm (bef. 1701 - aft. 1735)
James Manson (bef. 1701 - aft. 1735)
John Fairbairn (say 1705 - bet 1741 - 1805)
1707: Union of England and Scotland.
John Runciman (1715 - aft. 1788)
James Wight (1716 - bet 1721 - 1727)
Walter Richardson (cir. 1720 - aft. 1778)
Elizabeth Familton (cir. 1720 - 1788)
David Manson (1724 - aft. 1771)
William Taylor (say 1725 - aft. 1771)
Margaret Cottar (1725 - aft. 1760)
Donald Gray (bef. 1730 - aft. 1765)
Kathrin Morgan (bef. 1730 - aft. 1765)
Franz Joseph Haydn.
Esther Miller (bef. 1735 - aft. 1766)
Donald Georgeson (bef. 1735 - cir. 1793)
Helen J. Miller (bef. 1735 - aft. 1771)
William Hall (cir. 1735 - 1817)
William Sinclair (bef. 1740 - aft. 1768)
James Wight (say 1743 - 1791)
Jane Stevenson (cir. 1743 - 1825)
James McEwan (1745 - aft. 1788)
Culloden.
Margaret Runchaman (1746 - aft. 1784)
Robert Richardson (1747 - )
William Taylor (cir. 1749 - aft. 1799)
Janet Donaldson (say 1750 - bet 1794 - 1855)
Isabella Finlayson (say 1751 - bef. 1860)
Peter Sinton (say 1752 - cir. 1811)
Margaret Fisher (1753 - )
Donald Gray (1754 - bet 1800 - 1841)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Christan Georgeson (bet 1756 - 1761 - bet 1823 - 1841)
James Manson (1756 - bef. 1823)
James Wight (say 1758 - )
Isabella Hall (say 1758 - 1816)
Archibald Fairbairn (say 1760 - bet 1800 - 1841)
George III.
Robert MacAdie (cir. 1760 - aft. 1826)
Janet Sutherland (bef. 1762 - bef. 1863)
Alison Crosser (say 1765 - bet 1800 - 1841)
John Robertson (bef. 1766 - bef. 1863)
William Wight (1767 - 1847)
Margaret Sinclair (1768 - bef. 1841)
1769: Capt Cook rediscovers NZ.
Ludwig van Beethoven.
William Taylor (1772 - 1860)
Elizabeth Richardson (1773 - 1831)
Isobella McDonald (bef. 1775 - bet 1806 - 1827)
American War of Independence.
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Margaret McEwan (cir. 1782 - aft. 1828)
Peter Sinton (cir. 1783 - 1866)
Jane Wight (cir. 1783 - 1858)
Walter Fairbairn (cir. 1784 - 1859)
John Bain (cir. 1784 - 1853)
Archibald Henderson (bef. 1785 - 1826)
Catherine Gray (1785 - 1865)
Agnes Robertson (cir. 1786 - 1863)
Beginning of the French Revolution.
Ann Collins (say 1795 - bef. 1841)
Donald Manson (1796 - bet 1841 - 1851)
Franz Schubert.
Isabella S. MacAdie (cir. 1800 - 1873)
Margaret Taylor (1802 - 1861)
Donald Bain (1806 - 1892)
Frédéric François Chopin.
James Henderson (1813 - 1892)
Battle of Waterloo.
Walter Wight (1816 - 1886)
John Davidson (cir. 1817 - 1900)
Amelia Millar (1817 - 1894)
Agnes Fairbairn (cir. 1818 - 1884)
Helen Sinton (cir. 1820 - 1883)
George IV.
Anton Bruckner.
Sinclair Manson (1828 - 1893)
William IV.
John Bain (cir. 1832 - 1909)
Johannes Brahms.
Queen Victoria.
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.
1840: Treaty of Waitangi signed.
William Henderson (1845 - 1931)
Helen S. Wight (1848 - 1941)
Adam Davidson (1851 - 1920)
Crimean War.
1855: Wellington earthquake.
Isabella Bain (1857 - 1915)
Mary JOHNSTON nee MILLER arrives in Otago, the 1st of the Henderson relations to do so (1C1R to James H via his mother Mgt McEWAN).
NZ Land wars.
American Civil War.
David H. arrives in NZ, 1st of the immediate family to do so (could possibly be 2 yrs earlier).
James & Elizabeth RICHARDSON arrive in Dunedin from Melbourne.
Elizabeth and Mary H. arrive in Dn on the "William Davie."
James H (son of James & Amelia), and his wfe Jane, arrive Dunedin on the "Schleswick Bride."
Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Wm H. arr. in Dunedin on the "William Davie."
Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninof.
James, wife Amelia, and the rest of their children (apart from Archibald) arrive in Port Chalmers on the "Wild Deer" (Amelia, John, Janet, Isabella, Agnes).
John BAIN & wife Sinclair MANSON arr. in Dunedin on the "Invercargill."
Maurice Ravel.
Robert ADDISON & wife Agnes BROOMFIELD (mother Mgt FAIRBAIRN) arr. Nelson on 'Michael Angelo."
Helen Sinton WIGHT, about to be wife of Wm H., arrives in Dunedin on the "Wellington."
Adam DAVIDSON is assumed to have arrived in Dunedin.
Robert & Mgt (nee HENDERSON) SMITH arr. Port Chalmers on the "Marlborough."
Béla Bartok.
Archibald Henderson (1883 - 1952)
Agnes M. Davidson (1885 - 1955)
2nd Boer War.
Francis Poulenc.
Edward VII.
Dmitri Shostakovich.
George V.
Jessie A. Andrews (1912 - 2005)
Leslie A. Henderson (1913 - 1995)
WWI.
1931: Hawkes Bay earthquake.
Arvo Pärt born.
George VI.
WWII.
Paternal immigrations
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