• 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"
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.
See also the DNA Wanted! pages as we would like to prove the theory that the Alexanders with Jane Hepburn and Isabella Dow are one and the same
DNA Tested line
  • John0 Runciman (Inchture; m. Susan Donaldson) (say 1758 - )
    • Susan Donaldson (circa 1762 - aft. 1841)
      • Elizabeth1 Runciman (circa Aug 1786 - )
      • Margaret1 Runciman (circa Sep 1788 - )
      • John1 Runciman (circa Sep 1790 - )
      • Mary1 Runciman (circa Jul 1792 - )
      • Susan1 Runciman (circa Jun 1794 - Jan 1875)
        • Alexander McFarlane (circa 1795 - aft. 1875)
      • Andrew1 Runciman (circa Jul 1796 - )
      • George1 Runciman (circa Jun 1798 - )
      • Alexander1 Runciman (circa Aug 1800 - Oct 1858)
        • ?
          • Ann2 Runciman (circa 1832 - Sep 1917)
            • William Robertson (circa 1835 - )
        • Jane Hepburn (say 1805 - )
          • Alexander2 Runciman (circa 1831 - Mar 1902)
            • Elizabeth Boyd (circa 1829 - bet. 1871 - 1876)
              • William B.3 Runciman (Aug 1855 - Sep 1928)
                • Christina Scotland (circa 1854 - 1936)
                  • Alexander4 Runciman (Jun 1876 - aft. 1911)
                    • Elizabeth Lamb (Apr 1877 - aft. 1911)
                      • William5 Runciman (Feb 1907 - aft. 1911)
                      • Alexander5 Runciman (Sep 1909 - aft. 1911)
                      • James5 Runciman (May 1911 - aft. 1911)
                  • James R. B.4 Runciman (circa 1880 - aft. 1913)
                    • Bessie Shiells
                      • Alexander M. S.5 Runciman (Aug 1913 - Mar 1987)
                        • Daisy W. Norris (May 1920 - Apr 2000)
                  • Christina H. H.4 Runciman (Feb 1882 - Apr 1944)
                    • James Crighton (circa 1872 - bet. 1905 - 1944)
                  • William B.4 Runciman (Nov 1884 - 1975)
                    • Annie McAllum (Feb 1889 - 1937)
                      • William5 Runciman (Oct 1906 - Oct 1918)
                      • Janet5 Runciman (Feb 1910 - Feb 1910)
                      • Dougald5 Runciman (May 1911 - 1988)
                        • Hazel J. Stanford (Sep 1910 - Feb 2007)
                      • George F.5 Runciman (Jun 1913 - Jan 1994)
                        • Marceline UnknownSurname (say 1914 - )
                        • Gemma Gordon (Dec 1919 - Oct 1985)
                      • Mildred5 Runciman (say 1915 - 2002)
                      • Alexander C.5 Runciman (circa 1917 - Oct 1992)
                      • Wilma5 Runciman (say 1920 - 1975)
                      • Donald R.5 Runciman (Feb 1925 - Feb 2002)
                        • Marion Carkner
                  • John4 Runciman (circa 1887 - aft. 1891)
                  • Andrew4 Runciman (circa 1888 - aft. 1908)
                    • Margaret Cowper (circa 1885 - )
                  • George4 Runciman (circa 1891 - aft. 1901)
                  • Richard4 Runciman (circa 1897 - aft. 1901)
              • Alexander M.3 Runciman (Oct 1857 - May 1950)
                • Jemima P. Paterson (circa 1858 - 1924)
                  • Beatrice S.4 Runciman (circa 1883 - )
                  • Alexander4 Runciman (1883 - 1962)
                    • Evelyn H. Anderson (circa 1884 - 1969)
                      • Alexander M.5 Runciman (1914 - Dec 2000)
                        • Marjorie E. Dick (Jun 1920 - Oct 2003)
                      • Joan S.5 Runciman (1917 - aft. 2000)
                        • Male Hyndman
                      • James5 Runciman (circa 1922 - aft. 2000)
                  • James P.4 Runciman (Feb 1886 - aft. 1971)
                    • Annie G. Andrew (circa 1891 - Oct 1971)
                      • Eleanora P.5 Runciman (1918 - 1999)
                        • John R. Pearson (Jun 1921 - Dec 2008)
                  • Ralph W.4 Runciman (1888 - )
              • James R. B.3 Runciman (Jul 1859 - Nov 1938)
                • Helen B. Lornie (circa 1862 - Jul 1941)
                  • Walter W.4 Runciman (Aug 1891 - aft. 1903)
                  • James L.4 Runciman (circa 1896 - Apr 1917)
                  • David B.4 Runciman (circa 1898 - aft. 1919)
            • Jane Lornie (circa 1831 - 1918)
              • David L.3 Runciman (1877 - 1963)
                • Mary M. Connan (circa 1875 - 1947)
                  • Alexander H.4 Runciman (Jun 1907 - Oct 1963)
                    • Helen D. Hegine (May 1912 - Jun 1998)
                      • David J. W.5 Runciman (May 1939 - Nov 2007)
                  • Jane A.4 Runciman (Apr 1910 - )
        • Isabella Dow (circa 1815 - bet. 1881 - 1887)
          • Susan2 Runciman (circa Mar 1842 - )
          • Elizabeth2 Runciman (circa Jan 1844 - )
          • Peter2 Runciman (circa Feb 1846 - Jan 1936)
            • Magdalene Fraser (circa 1863 - 1940)
              • George F.3 Runciman (1887 - aft. 1935)
                • Mary Martin (circa 1914 - 1989)
              • Magdalen R.3 Runciman (circa 1890 - 1973)
              • Alexander3 Runciman (Mar 1891 - 1980)
                • Annie Reid (circa 1890 - 1963)
              • Robert S.3 Runciman (1895 - aft. 1936)
          • Isabella2 Runciman (circa Apr 1848 - )
          • Alexander2 Runciman (circa Aug 1853 - 1858)
          • James M. J.2 Runciman (Jun 1855 - aft. 1901)
          • William H.2 Runciman (1858 - 1861)
      • Ann1 Runciman (circa Mar 1803 - )
      • James1 Runciman (circa Apr 1805 - 1879)
        • Ann Moncrief (circa 1834 - Aug 1905)
          • Robert2 Runciman (1851 - 1918)
            • Elizabeth Munro (circa 1855 - 1920)
              • James3 Runciman (circa 1880 - aft. 1881)
              • Robert M.3 Runciman (Apr 1884 - Oct 1957)
                • Helen S. Brodie (circa 1889 - )
                • Ann P. E. Sangster (Apr 1889 - Apr 1974)
                  • Robert M.4 Runciman (Jul 1919 - Jul 1998)
              • Daniel3 Runciman (circa 1887 - aft. 1901)
              • Susan3 Runciman (circa 1889 - aft. 1901)
              • John3 Runciman (circa 1889 - aft. 1901)
              • William3 Runciman (circa 1891 - aft. 1901)
          • Jane2 Runciman (circa 1856 - aft. 1871)
          • John2 Runciman (Aug 1856 - 1920)
            • Catherine Mulheron (circa 1854 - aft. 1901)
              • John M.3 Runciman (Aug 1896 - 1964)
              • Robert3 Runciman (Nov 1897 - Jan 1958)
                • Agnes S. Bryson (Mar 1893 - Feb 1974)
                  • Stanley R.4 Runciman (Oct 1929 - 2001)
          • Ann2 Runciman (Jun 1859 - Oct 1932)
            • William Paterson (Apr 1860 - Oct 1927)
          • Susan2 Runciman (1869 - )
DNA Tested line