• 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"
marr. about 1805?
Is there any connection to the other Stirling lines? Or those also around Kirkintilloch and Glasgow?
Usual plea applies, any direct male line RUNCIMAN willing to test the above theory out by joining the DNA project would be most welcome to get in touch.
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.
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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.
Relationships assumed, treat with caution
  • John0 Runciman (say 1780 - )
    • Mary McPherson (say 1785 - )
      • George1 Runciman (bet. 1808 - 1816 - May 1878)
        • Mary McKellar (say 1813 - bet. 1845 - 1860)
          • George2 Runciman (circa 1835 - Jan 1907)
            • Mary Davidson (circa 1830 - Mar 1900)
              • Mary3 Runciman (Jan 1854 - aft. 1926)
                • Adam Morrison (circa 1849 - bet. 1901 - 1926)
              • Ann3 Runciman (Sep 1859 - 1940)
                • Hector Blair (circa 1872 - )
              • Andrew D. L.3 Runciman (Jul 1863 - Oct 1910)
                • Margaret C. H. Hunter (Apr 1873 - 1937)
                  • Jane G. H.4 Runciman (1893 - aft. 1911)
                  • Mary A. M. D.4 Runciman (Jul 1894 - 1979)
                    • William Boyce (circa 1882 - )
                  • Andrew D. L.4 Runcieman (Sep 1897 - 1897)
                  • George H.4 Runciman (May 1901 - 1977)
                    • Rachel C. Doherty (1901 - 1993)
                      • Donald D.5 Runciman (Dec 1921 - Dec 1995)
                      • Robert D. C.5 Runciman (Sep 1935 - Jan 2005)
                        • Agnes K. T. Crawford (circa 1939 - 2000)
                        • Maureen McGuire
                      • Thomas R.5 Runciman (May 1938 - 2005)
                        • Elizabeth McTaggart (circa 1927 - 1992)
                  • Andrew . D.4 Runciman (Jan 1905 - May 1938)
                    • Annie F. York (Aug 1902 - Nov 1988)
                  • Hector B.4 Runciman (Oct 1906 - Sep 1981)
                    • Charlotte Murray (Aug 1908 - bet. Mar 1982 - Jun 1982)
                      • William L.5 Runciman (Apr 1936 - Dec 2006)
                  • Adam M.4 Runciman (Apr 1910 - )
                    • Elfriede Heckhoff
            • Margaret Wallace (circa 1839 - 1912)
              • George3 Runciman (circa Dec 1860 - 1868)
              • William3 Runciman (Aug 1863 - 1863)
              • Catherine3 Runciman (Nov 1864 - 1868)
              • John3 Runciman (Jun 1868 - 1868)
              • Mary3 Runciman (circa 1870 - aft. 1881)
              • Jane3 Runciman (Apr 1872 - 1952)
                • John P. Allan (say 1873 - )
              • Robina3 Runciman (1877 - aft. 1901)
              • George R.3 Runciman (circa Aug 1880 - 1885)
          • Sarah2 Runciman (circa 1837 - 1871)
            • William Woodrow (circa 1833 - )
          • Catherine2 Runciman (circa 1842 - 1926)
            • Angus Livingston (circa 1842 - )
          • Malcolm2 Runciman (circa 1845 - Oct 1926)
            • Elizabeth Reynolds (circa 1852 - aft. 1926)
              • Malcolm G. L.3 Runciman (Feb 1877 - 1889)
              • Clara E. P.3 Runciman (circa 1880 - 1923)
Relationships assumed, treat with caution