• 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"
A line from Haddington with emigration to Nova Scotia (at least)

Although shown as a Wanted! line for the Runciman DNA project, that would so far seem to be a vain hope as it looks like a "daughtered out" line. We would love to be proven wrong.
Charts only show those I have researched, only descendants still with the surname RUNCIMAN, and their spouses, and usually only deceased RUNCIMAN family members.
Exceptions include direct lines down to researchers included elsewhere on the site, or for DNA project participants who have agreed to be shown in the latter project.
Should you wish to be included in your relevant chart, please contact the webmistress, using the link in the page footer.
So, in general, charts are by no means complete. Please refer further queries to the researcher(s) listed for the line.
Where there is doubt, conflicting evidence for relationships, or additional published information exists, this is usually discussed on the appropriate person's page, follow the link and make up your mind from the information and sources shown.
Duplicate
DNA Tested line
  • George0 Runciman (m. Agnes VALLANCE) (say 1690 - )
    • Agnes Vallance (say 1690 - )
      • Janet1 Runciman (circa Jul 1715 - )
      • Margaret1 Runciman (May 1717 - )
      • Charles1 Runciman (Nov 1719 - )
      • Christian1 Runciman (Jun 1722 - )
      • George1 Runciman (Jun 1722 - )
      • Agnes1 Runciman (Aug 1727 - )
      • George1 Runciman (Sep 1730 - )
      • John1 Runciman (Apr 1734 - )
        • Agnis Richardson (say 1730 - )
          • John2 Runciman (Oct 1757 - aft. 1841)
            • Janet Muirhead (Sep 1763 - bet. 1806 - 1841)
              • Janet3 Runciman (Jun 1790 - Jan 1873)
                • George Knox (say 1790 - bef. 1873)
              • John3 Runciman (Feb 1792 - Dec 1866)
                • Margaret Milne (circa 1791 - bet. 1851 - 1861)
                  • Janet4 Runciman (Jul 1815 - aft. 1891)
                  • Elizabeth4 Runciman (Jun 1817 - )
                  • John4 Runciman (Nov 1819 - )
                  • James4 Runciman (circa 1823 - )
                    • Marion Pentland (circa 1830 - 1866)
                      • James M.5 Runciman (circa 1859 - aft. 1901)
                  • George4 Runciman (Jun 1824 - 1877)
                    • Isabella Menzies (circa 1825 - Jan 1862)
                      • John5 Runciman (circa 1849 - aft. 1851)
                      • Janet5 Runciman (circa 1853 - )
                      • James5 Runciman (Apr 1856 - May 1856)
                      • Wilhelmina5 Runciman (Jul 1857 - )
                        • Adam Lawson (circa 1857 - )
                    • Euphemia Hogg (circa 1830 - 1899)
                      • Margaret5 Runciman (Mar 1868 - )
                      • Georgina5 Runciman (May 1871 - )
                      • Agnes5 Runciman (May 1871 - )
                        • John Malcolm (say 1871 - )
                      • John5 Runciman (Jan 1874 - May 1935)
                        • Caroline D. Harden (circa 1881 - 1954)
                          • Caroline D. H.6 Runciman (1904 - 1994)
                            • George R. Wishart (say 1904 - )
                          • George6 Runciman (1910 - )
                  • Alexander4 Runciman (circa 1826 - aft. 1841)
                  • William4 Runciman (Apr 1829 - Dec 1918)
                    • Jeanie MacAulay (say 1845 - bet. 1877 - 1881)
                      • Jessie5 Runciman (May 1871 - Dec 1932)
                      • Margaret M.5 Runciman (May 1873 - aft. 1901)
                      • John5 Runciman (circa 1875 - aft. 1891)
                      • William5 Runciman (Oct 1875 - aft. 1932)
                      • George5 Runciman (Aug 1877 - Nov 1917)
              • Agnes3 Runciman (Dec 1793 - )
                • David Pringle (say 1790 - )
              • George3 Runciman (merchant Annapolis, NS) (Jul 1796 - Aug 1872)
                • Isabella Wilson (circa 1804 - Jan 1834)
                  • Isabella D.4 Runciman (Oct 1824 - )
                    • Robert E. Fitzrandolph (Dec 1834 - )
                  • John H.4 Runciman (Nov 1826 - aft. 1901)
                    • Margaret E. Runciman (circa 1845 - Dec 1908)
                      • George W.5 Runciman (circa Sep 1864 - Mar 1865)
                      • Herbert J.5 Runciman (Dec 1867 - aft. 1908)
                        • Annie E. Dargie (1875 - 1966)
                          • Marjorie G.6 Runciman (Sep 1896 - aft. 1936)
                            • Albert B. Hudson
                          • Doris S.6 Runciman (Mar 1899 - Oct 1996)
                          • Mildred6 Runciman (Oct 1909 - Apr 2006)
                      • Edith G.5 Runciman (Jul 1872 - Sep 1873)
                      • Ella S.5 Runciman (Jul 1872 - )
                  • Eliza4 Runciman (Apr 1829 - aft. 1891)
                  • George4 Runciman (Jan 1832 - )
                  • James E.4 Runciman (Jan 1834 - aft. 1850)
                • Isabella C. Chipman (circa 1805 - Jun 1891)
              • James3 Runciman (Sep 1798 - Oct 1860)
                • Mary A. Ruggles (1811 - Apr 1883)
                  • Janet M.4 Runciman (Jun 1841 - aft. 1880)
                    • John W. Fielder (say 1830 - )
                  • Mary A.4 Runciman (circa 1845 - )
                  • Margaret E.4 Runciman (circa 1845 - Dec 1908)
                    • John H. Runciman (Nov 1826 - aft. 1901)
              • Alexander3 Runciman (Apr 1801 - aft. 1841)
                • Margaret Liddle (Aug 1814 - )
                  • Alexander4 Runciman (Aug 1844 - )
              • Elizabeth3 Runciman (Sep 1806 - aft. 1841)
          • George2 Runciman (May 1760 - )
          • Agnus2 Runciman (Apr 1765 - )
Duplicate
DNA Tested line