• 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"
This line was believed to belong to Lineage 1d in the RUNCIMAN Surname DNA Project.
BUT this subset of that lineage isn't a dna match the descendant of John & Mary (WEATHERLIE) of that lineage, or their match, a descendant of Thomas & Mary (REDPATH) so is also included, for now, as his own Lineage 2b chart.

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.

DNA Tested line
  • John0 Runciman (Oct 1818 - Sep 1874)
    • Isabella Palmer (circa 1818 - Feb 1840 - bet. Jan 1882 - Mar 1882)
      • Thomas1 Runciman (circa 1842 - aft. 1901)
        • Sarah Hewetson (circa 1835 - circa 1862 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
          • Fenwick H.2 Runciman (bet. Jun 1863 - Sep 1863 - bet. Sep 1937 - Dec 1937)
            • Barbara A. Caisley (circa 1865 - bet. Jan 1888 - Mar 1888 - aft. 1911)
              • John R.3 Runciman (bet. Sep 1889 - Dec 1889 - Jul 1916)
                • Hannah M. Carver (circa 1892 - bet. Jan 1910 - Mar 1910)
                  • Fenwick H.4 Runciman (bet. Jan 1913 - Mar 1913 - bet. Jan 1967 - Mar 1967)
              • Fenwick3 Runciman (bet. Mar 1890 - Jun 1890 - bet. Mar 1896 - Jun 1896)
              • George W.3 Runciman (Oct 1893 - bet. Sep 1962 - Dec 1962)
                • Margery White (Nov 1891 - bet. Jan 1913 - Mar 1913)
                  • Mary A.4 Runciman (Nov 1931 - 2005)
              • Fenwick H.3 Runciman (Mar 1901 - bet. Jan 1956 - Mar 1956)
              • James3 Runciman (bet. Mar 1903 - Jun 1903 - bet. Jan 1977 - Mar 1977)
                • Eva M. Harkin (Feb 1903 - bet. Sep 1925 - Dec 1925 - bet. Mar 1974 - Jun 1974)
                  • Bernard4 Runciman (Mar 1934 - Jan 1991)
                  • James4 Runciman (Apr 1937 - Jan 1995)
          • John T.2 Runciman (bet. Sep 1866 - Dec 1866 - bet. Jan 1938 - Mar 1938)
            • Catherine Potter (circa 1866 - bet. Sep 1886 - Dec 1886 - bet. Jan 1908 - Mar 1908)
              • Martha A.3 Runciman (bet. Jun 1887 - Sep 1887 - bet. Mar 1888 - Jun 1888)
              • Fenwick3 Runciman (bet. Jan 1889 - Mar 1889 - bet. Mar 1951 - Jun 1951)
                • Sarah J. Myers (say 1890 - bet. Jan 1913 - Mar 1913)
                  • Percy4 Runciman (bet. Mar 1915 - Jun 1915 - Jul 1944)
                  • Fenwick4 Runciman (bet. Jan 1919 - Mar 1919 - bet. Mar 1954 - Jun 1954)
              • Sarah J.3 Runciman (circa Aug 1890 - )
              • John T.3 Runciman (bet. Jan 1893 - Mar 1893 - aft. 1901)
          • George2 Runciman (circa 1872 - aft. 1913)
            • Isabella Watt (circa 1874 - bet. Jun 1896 - Sep 1896 - aft. 1913)
              • Catherine3 Runciman (circa 1898 - )
              • James3 Runciman (circa 1899 - aft. 1911)
              • Sarah3 Runciman (circa 1900 - )
              • William3 Runciman (circa Feb 1901 - bet. 1901 - 1911)
              • Thomas3 Runciman (circa 1904 - aft. 1911)
              • Alice E.3 Runciman (circa 1908 - )
              • George P. W.3 Runciman (Jun 1909 - bet. Jan 1979 - Mar 1979)
              • Fenwick H.3 Runciman (Dec 1913 - bet. Jun 1977 - Sep 1977)
      • Isabel1 Runciman (circa 1844 - )
      • Mary1 Runciman (May 1846 - )
      • George1 Runciman (Apr 1849 - aft. 1911)
        • Jane Stockdale (circa 1849 - bet. Jun 1873 - Sep 1873 - aft. 1901)
          • John G.2 Runciman (bet. Mar 1875 - Jun 1875 - May 1930)
            • Amy Whittaker (Oct 1879 - Feb 1897 - Apr 1951)
              • George3 Runciman (circa 1899 - )
                • Margaret Calverley (say 1899 - bet. Sep 1918 - Dec 1918)
                  • Catherine4 Runciman (Dec 1920 - May 1997)
                  • William4 Runciman (Sep 1927 - bet. Sep 1980 - Dec 1980)
              • Walter3 Runciman (circa 1904 - )
              • Arthur3 Runciman (Dec 1914 - 1981)
          • Charles W.2 Runciman (Feb 1877 - )
          • James W.2 Runciman (circa 1879 - bet. Mar 1912 - Jun 1912)
          • Arthur S.2 Runciman (bet. Jun 1886 - Sep 1886 - aft. 1911)
          • Florence J.2 Runciman (circa Mar 1891 - )
      • Cathrine1 Runciman (circa 1852 - )
      • John1 Runciman (bet. Mar 1858 - Jun 1858 - aft. 1911)
        • Mary A. Dowdle (circa 1858 - bet. Jun 1878 - Sep 1878 - aft. 1911)
          • John W.2 Runciman (bet. Mar 1879 - Jun 1879 - )
          • Maud2 Runciman (circa Sep 1880 - bet. Sep 1965 - Dec 1965)
          • Martha A.2 Runciman (bet. Jun 1886 - Sep 1886 - bet. Mar 1935 - Jun 1935)
          • Albert E.2 Runciman (bet. Jan 1889 - Mar 1889 - bet. Jun 1966 - Sep 1966)
          • Catherine E.2 Runciman (circa 1892 - )
DNA Tested line