• 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 1c 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, 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.
Refer also to the Runciman DNA Wanted! pages as this line has contradictory information between paper trails and dna evidence needing to be resolved.
DNA Tested line
  • Thomas0 Runciman (m. Mary REDPATH) (circa 1791 - Dec 1885)
    • Mary Redpath (circa 1791 - Jul 1859)
      • Catharine1 Runciman (circa Oct 1813 - )
      • Thomas1 Runciman (May 1816 - Jul 1895)
        • Margaret Renton (circa 1816 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
          • Thomas2 Runciman (circa 1847 - Jan 1897)
            • Isabella Bolton (circa 1850 - bet. Mar 1903 - Jun 1903)
              • John3 Runciman (1877 - aft. 1911)
                • Elizabeth A. Blyth (circa 1881 - aft. 1911)
              • Thomas3 Runciman (1881 - aft. 1925)
                • Ada Waters (bet. Mar 1886 - Jun 1886 - bet. Jun 1945 - Sep 1945)
              • Henry A.3 Runciman (circa 1885 - bet. Mar 1906 - Jun 1906)
          • John2 Runciman (circa 1854 - aft. 1911)
            • Flora Fullerton (circa 1861 - aft. 1911)
      • John1 Runciman (Oct 1818 - Sep 1874)
        • Isabella Palmer (circa 1818 - aft. 1874)
          • Thomas2 Runciman (circa 1842 - aft. 1901)
            • Sarah Hewetson (circa 1835 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
              • Fenwick H.3 Runciman (bet. Jun 1863 - Sep 1863 - bet. Sep 1937 - Dec 1937)
                • Barbara A. Caisley (circa 1865 - aft. 1911)
                  • John R.4 Runciman (bet. Sep 1889 - Dec 1889 - Jul 1916)
                    • Hannah M. Carver (say 1880 - )
                      • Fenwick H.5 Runciman (bet. Jan 1913 - Mar 1913 - bet. Jan 1967 - Mar 1967)
                  • Fenwick4 Runciman (bet. Mar 1890 - Jun 1890 - bet. Mar 1896 - Jun 1896)
                  • George4 Runciman (circa 1894 - aft. 1901)
                  • Fenwick H.4 Runciman (circa Feb 1901 - bet. Jan 1956 - Mar 1956)
                  • James4 Runciman (bet. Mar 1903 - Jun 1903 - bet. Jan 1977 - Mar 1977)
                    • Eva M. Harkin (Feb 1903 - bet. Mar 1974 - Jun 1974)
              • John T.3 Runciman (bet. Sep 1866 - Dec 1866 - bet. Jan 1938 - Mar 1938)
                • Catherine Potter (circa 1866 - bet. Jan 1908 - Mar 1908)
                  • Fenwick4 Runciman (bet. Jan 1889 - Mar 1889 - bet. Mar 1951 - Jun 1951)
                    • Sarah J. Myers (say 1890 - )
                      • Fenwick5 Runciman (bet. Jan 1919 - Mar 1919 - bet. Mar 1954 - Jun 1954)
                  • John T.4 Runciman (bet. Jan 1893 - Mar 1893 - aft. 1901)
              • George3 Runciman (circa 1872 - aft. 1913)
                • Isabella Watt (circa 1874 - aft. 1913)
                  • James4 Runciman (circa 1899 - aft. 1911)
                  • William4 Runciman (circa Feb 1901 - bet. 1901 - 1911)
                  • Thomas4 Runciman (circa 1904 - aft. 1911)
                  • George P. W.4 Runciman (Jun 1909 - bet. Jan 1979 - Mar 1979)
                    • Lily O. Johnson
                  • Fenwick H.4 Runciman (Dec 1913 - bet. Jun 1977 - Sep 1977)
          • George2 Runciman (Apr 1849 - aft. 1901)
            • Jane Stockdale (circa 1849 - aft. 1901)
              • John G.3 Runciman (bet. Mar 1875 - Jun 1875 - May 1930)
                • Amy Whittaker (Oct 1879 - Apr 1951)
              • Charles W.3 Runciman (bet. Jan 1877 - Mar 1877 - )
          • John2 Runciman (circa 1859 - aft. 1911)
            • Mary A. Dowdle (circa 1858 - aft. 1911)
              • John W.3 Runciman (bet. Mar 1879 - Jun 1879 - )
              • Albert E.3 Runciman (bet. Jan 1889 - Mar 1889 - )
                • Margaret J. Farry (say 1890 - )
      • Jean1 Runciman (May 1821 - aft. 1881)
        • George Smith (circa 1820 - aft. 1881)
      • William1 Runciman (m. Elizabeth Hastie) (Apr 1826 - aft. 1880)
        • Elizabeth Hastie (Mar 1819 - Apr 1896)
          • William H.2 Runciman (Jul 1855 - aft. 1900)
          • John W.2 Runciman (circa 1863 - aft. 1910)
            • Elizabeth R. A. Morgan (circa 1864 - aft. 1910)
              • Joseph W.3 Runciman (circa 1888 - aft. 1930)
                • Ethel UnknownSurname (circa 1895 - aft. 1930)
                  • Harold W.4 Runciman (Jun 1922 - Apr 1994)
              • Thomas P.3 Runciman (circa 1891 - )
                • Florence UnknownSurname (circa 1888 - aft. 1930)
                  • Gilbert L.4 Runciman (Dec 1920 - Dec 2003)
                    • Cynthia M. Holden (Jun 1923 - 1995)
DNA Tested line