• 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 at least one branch in Dalkeith - and an "Australian royalty" rep.

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.
Duplicate
DNA Tested line
Relationship assumed
  • John0 Runciman (say 1735 - )
    • Jean Watt (say 1735 - )
      • Agnis1 Runcayman (Oct 1760 - )
      • Daniel1 Runciman (say 1762 - aft. 1813)
        • Janet Blair (say 1762 - )
          • Christian2 Runciman (Oct 1784 - )
          • Jean2 Runciman (Jan 1790 - )
          • John2 Runciman (May 1791 - )
          • Robert2 Runciman (Jul 1793 - )
          • Susan2 Runciman (Nov 1795 - )
            • George Ramsay (say 1790 - )
          • Helen2 Runciman (Nov 1797 - )
          • Elizabeth2 Runciman (Jun 1800 - )
      • George1 Runciman (Oct 1763 - )
      • Ann1 Runcyman (Oct 1766 - )
      • James1 Runciman (Jun 1776 - Dec 1839)
        • Mary Thomson (bet. 1786 - 1790 - bet. 1841 - 1851)
          • William2 Runciman (Feb 1806 - bet. 1807 - 1808)
          • John2 Runciman (Oct 1807 - aft. 1851)
            • Isabella Stewart (circa 1821 - Apr 1887)
              • George3 Runciman (circa 1839 - circa 1877)
                • Mary Duggan (circa 1850 - aft. 1902)
                  • John B.4 Runciman (Feb 1867 - Jun 1931)
                    • Emma M. McElenry (circa 1870 - )
                      • Dorothy G.5 Runciman (Sep 1895 - aft. 1939)
                      • Winifred M. L.5 Runciman (Mar 1897 - Dec 1998)
                      • George A.5 Runciman (Sep 1898 - Nov 1963)
                        • Winifred McLinden (Sep 1897 - Apr 1984)
                          • George D.6 Runciman (May 1925 - bet. Mar 1970 - Jun 1970)
                            • Margaret M. Furlong (Aug 1926 - Aug 1998)
                      • Christina E.5 Runciman (Apr 1900 - )
                      • Eleanor5 Runciman (circa 1904 - )
                      • John W.5 Runciman (bet. Mar 1907 - Jun 1907 - Jun 1961)
                        • Beatrice Tennant (Mar 1911 - Dec 1992)
                  • George B.4 Runciman (Jul 1869 - Jan 1902)
                  • Frances M. S.4 Runciman (1872 - 1941)
                    • Robert A. Henderson (Jun 1866 - May 1915)
                  • Norman4 Runciman (1876 - aft. 1923)
                    • Elizabeth UnknownSurname (say 1880 - )
          • William2 Runciman (Nov 1808 - )
          • James2 Runciman (Oct 1810 - Mar 1845)
          • George2 Runciman (Nov 1813 - Sep 1856)
            • Isabella Stewart (circa 1821 - Apr 1887)
              • James3 Runciman (circa 1847 - Aug 1851)
              • Mary3 Runciman (circa 1849 - 1892)
                • Thomas Carey (circa 1842 - )
              • Jacoby3 Henrick (circa Feb 1851 - Dec 1851)
          • Thomas2 Runchaman (circa 1814 - Mar 1836)
Duplicate
DNA Tested line
Relationship assumed