• 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"
Of Dunbar, possible parents for four lines
Theoretical linkages to children (read the intro on Thomas' page for the theory).
We would like to see if each of the descendant lines listed can be proven to belong to Thomas and Jean despite preliminary DNA information, which shows two representatives don't match each other, but a third (from the line of John and May (WEATHERLY) line) does match Lineage 1.
This chart only shows the top few generations and which lines have a test representative. See the individual sons' lines also included in the Wanted! page for fuller details where representatives may be able to be found.
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.
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DNA Tested Lines
  • Thomas0 Runciman (m. Jean SIMPSON) (circa Jul 1762 - bet. 1841 - 1851)
    • Jean Simpson (bet. 1756 - 1761 - bet. 1841 - 1851)
      • John1 Runciman (m. Mary Wetherly) (May 1784 - bet. 1816 - 1841)
        • Mary Wetherly (Jan 1784 - bet. 1861 - 1871)
          • Isabella2 Runciman (Mar 1808 - aft. 1871)
            • Robert Home (circa 1814 - aft. 1871)
          • Thomas2 Runciman (m. Alison Currie) (Sep 1811 - bet. Jun 1888 - Sep 1888)
            • Alison Currie (circa 1821 - bet. Mar 1898 - Jun 1898)
          • John2 Runciman (Feb 1814 - May 1871)
            • Dorothea Bruce (circa 1812 - aft. 1871)
          • James2 Runciman (Sep 1816 - )
      • Alexander1 Runciman (of Meikle Pinkerton: m. Joan Manderson) (say 1786 - bet. 1831 - 1841)
        • Joan Manderson (circa 1788 - bet. 1851 - 1861)
          • Thomas2 Runciman (Jun 1811 - bet. 1816 - 1818)
          • Isabel2 Runciman (Jul 1812 - aft. 1841)
          • Alexander2 Runciman (May 1816 - Oct 1872)
            • Margaret Cairns (circa 1815 - aft. 1872)
          • Thomas2 Runciman (Jul 1818 - May 1868)
            • Joan Watterston (circa 1827 - Dec 1913)
          • Joan2 Runciman (circa 1821 - aft. 1851)
          • Mary2 Runciman (Mar 1824 - )
          • John2 Runciman (circa 1829 - aft. 1901)
            • Ann Souness (circa 1831 - aft. 1901)
          • Agnes2 Runciman (circa 1831 - bet. 1861 - 1868)
            • George Runciman (circa 1834 - Jun 1892)
      • Thomas1 Runciman (m. Mary REDPATH) (circa 1791 - Dec 1885)
        • Mary Redpath (circa 1791 - Jul 1859)
          • Catharine2 Runciman (circa Oct 1813 - )
          • Thomas2 Runciman (May 1816 - Jul 1895)
            • Margaret Renton (circa 1816 - bet. 1881 - 1891)
          • John2 Runciman (Oct 1818 - Sep 1874)
            • Isabella Palmer (circa 1818 - aft. 1874)
          • Jean2 Runciman (May 1821 - aft. 1881)
            • George Smith (circa 1820 - aft. 1881)
          • William2 Runciman (m. Elizabeth Hastie) (Apr 1826 - aft. 1880)
            • Elizabeth Hastie (Mar 1819 - Apr 1896)
      • Robert1 Runciman (m. Agnes KING) (circa 1794 - May 1869)
        • Agnes King (circa 1792 - bet. 1851 - 1869)
          • John2 Runciman (Nov 1816 - Mar 1880)
            • Margaret D. Howden (circa 1817 - aft. 1851)
          • Janet2 Runciman (Nov 1818 - )
          • Thomas2 Runciman (Dec 1821 - Feb 1866)
            • Agnes Howden (circa 1827 - 1869)
          • Robert2 Runciman (Dec 1823 - 1887)
            • Mary Nisbet (circa 1823 - )
          • David2 Runciman (Oct 1826 - aft. 1869)
            • Mary Skirven (circa 1827 - aft. 1861)
          • Alexander2 Runciman (circa 1829 - bet. 1871 - 1881)
            • Janet Grieve (circa 1830 - aft. 1881)
          • William2 Runciman (circa 1832 - aft. 1901)
            • Ellen Yates (circa 1839 - aft. 1901)
      • George1 Runciman (marr. Janet Darling) (Sep 1798 - bet. 1841 - 1851)
        • Janet Darling (circa 1799 - aft. 1861)
          • Thomas2 Runciman (circa 1821 - Jan 1877)
            • Jane Mossman (circa 1831 - aft. 1871)
          • David2 Runciman (circa 1826 - Nov 1893)
            • Barbara A. Hogg (circa 1829 - bet. 1891 - 1893)
          • Agnes2 Runciman (Mar 1828 - )
            • Robert Daughty (circa 1829 - aft. 1851)
          • John2 Runciman (circa 1832 - bet. 1891 - 1901)
            • Janet Davidson (Jun 1831 - 1902)
          • George2 Runciman (circa 1834 - Jun 1892)
            • Agnes Runciman (circa 1831 - bet. 1861 - 1868)
            • Elizabeth Davidson (circa 1843 - Jan 1886)
          • Darling2 Runciman (Oct 1837 - 1919)
            • Elizabeth Ainslie (circa 1842 - aft. 1901)
      • William1 Runciman (circa 1804 - Dec 1858)
        • Janet Paxton (circa 1802 - Jan 1855)
          • Thomas2 Runciman (circa 1826 - aft. 1858)
          • John2 Runciman (Apr 1829 - Jun 1894)
            • Margaret Allan (circa 1827 - aft. 1893)
          • William2 Runciman (Sep 1832 - Sep 1912)
            • Catherine Gardner (circa 1837 - Aug 1902)
          • George2 Runciman (circa 1835 - bet. Jun 1872 - Sep 1872)
            • Mary Naysmith (circa 1837 - aft. 1881)
          • Margaret2 Runciman (Apr 1841 - aft. 1851)
          • Elizabeth2 Runciman (circa 1846 - aft. 1861)
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