• 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"
Descendants of William PARKER and Charlotte PARKERSON: Other surnames - CLINTON, GIBSON
My direct line
  • Charlotte0 Parkerson (T2b4a) (say 1765 - )
    • William Parker (bef. 1769 - )
      • Jemima1 Parker (Feb 1793 - Apr 1861)
        • William Clinton (say Apr 1776 - bet 1830 - 1841)
          • Sarah2 Clinton
          • William2 Clinton
          • Henry2 Clinton
          • James2 Clinton
            • Jane Thompson (cir. 1822 - Nov 1880)
              • William H.3 Clinton
                • Emily Tiley (Mar 1850 - Jul 1931)
                  • James E.4 Clinton
                    • Rachel Randall (say 1872 - )
                  • Albert H.4 Clinton
                    • Florence C. Lindsay (Sep 1877 - Sep 1910)
                      • Forence E.5 Clinton
                      • Emily V.5 Clinton
                        • Arthur M. L. Forecast (Sep 1901 - Jun 1986)
                      • Albert V.5 Clinton
                        • Edna Archibald
                    • Christine L. Witt (1887 - 1951)
                      • James H.5 Clinton
                        • Bernice UnknownSurname
                      • Merle U.5 Clinton
                        • Daniel P. Crowe
                  • William E.4 Clinton
                    • Gerty A. Davey (Mar 1879 - Aug 1969)
                      • Alma G. I.5 Clinton
                        • John Pape (Oct 1892 - Dec 1952)
                        • Donald T. White (Jun 1889 - Apr 1970)
                      • Clyde W.5 Clinton
                        • Elizabeth A. Mundy
                      • Malcolm T.5 Clinton
                        • Phyllis V. McDonough
                  • Caroline E.4 Clinton
                    • John A. Thomson (cir. 1861 - Nov 1930)
                      • James5 Thomson
                        • Emilie E. UnknownSurname ?Bennett
                      • Janie5 Thomson
                        • John J. Quirke
                      • Colin G.5 Thomson
                        • Una E. Martin
                        • Marie UnknownSurname (1924 - 2010)
                      • Wallace R.5 Thomson
                        • Jean H. UnknownSurname
                  • Emily M.4 Clinton
                    • John Draper (say 1881 - )
                  • Harold E.4 Clinton
                    • Evelyn F. Harris (1883 - )
                      • Harold C.5 Clinton
                  • Elsie L.4 Clinton
                    • E Murray (say 1886 - )
                  • Frederick T.4 Clinton
                    • Elsie Jones (say 1890 - )
                      • Phillip W.5 Clinton
                      • Ronald E.5 Clinton
              • James S.3 Clinton
                • Mary Lynch (say 1848 - )
                  • William4 Clinton
                  • James E.4 Clinton
                    • Emma Williams (say 1878 - )
                  • Florence M.4 Clinton
                    • Henry J. Edwards (say 1875 - )
                  • Herbert V.4 Clinton
                    • E R. James (say 1882 - )
                  • Mabel P. C.4 Clinton
                    • James Bourke (say 1884 - )
                  • William4 Clinton
                  • Frederick4 Clinton
                  • Henry J.4 Clinton
                  • Norman H.4 Clinton
                    • Amelia V. Black (say 1895 - cir. Mar 1985)
              • Emma J.3 Clinton
                • James Glover (say 1850 - )
              • John S.3 Clinton
            • Margaret Thompson (cir. 1831 - Jan 1877)
              • David T.3 Clinton
                • Agnes T. Heeps (Mar 1860 - Sep 1942)
                  • Margaret E.4 Clinton
                    • William G. Barber (1874 - 1935)
                      • Doris A. M.5 Barber
                        • Frank Ram
                      • William A. D.5 Barber
                  • Emily A.4 Clinton
                    • Albert H. J. Wynne (1877 - )
                      • Lester A.5 Wynne
                        • Enid Truscott
                      • Jeanette E.5 Wynne
                        • Ian McPherson
                        • Bob Heath
                  • Annie P.4 Clinton
                  • Florence D.4 Clinton
                    • Edward O. Drake (Apr 1883 - May 1936)
                      • John N.5 Drake
                      • Mary A.5 Drake
                        • Robert L. Denig Jr (Nov 1909 - Feb 1986)
                  • Harold D. J.4 Clinton
                    • Florence Carter (say 1888 - aft. 1975)
                      • Harold5 Clinton
                      • Irena A.5 Clinton
                        • Gordon O. S. Greer (May 1906 - Feb 1979)
                  • John L.4 Clinton
                    • Ann O'Hare (say 1890 - )
                      • Margaret A.5 Clinton
                        • Austin Hanrahan
                      • Wilfred H.5 Clinton
                        • Lorna McCormack
                  • Irene V.4 Clinton
          • Mary A.2 Clinton
          • Frederick2 Clinton
          • Emma P.2 Clinton (Mar 1827 - Jun 1894)
            • William Austin (cir. 1829 - aft. Feb 1854)
              • Caroline E.3 Austin (Jan 1854 - Jan 1899)
                • Matthias Rowe (Oct 1852 - Dec 1901)
                  • Henry M.4 Rowe
                    • Margaret J. Phillips (Dec 1889 - Oct 1924)
                      • Mervyn J.5 Rowe
                        • Nola W. Austin (Dec 1923 - 2013)
                    • Laura M. Sanger (1904 - Jun 1979)
                  • Honor4 Rowe
                    • George E. Andrews (Jun 1881 - Dec 1944)
                      • Veta E.5 Andrews
                        • Joseph M. Hickford (Sep 1907 - Oct 1976)
                      • Hazel M.5 Andrews
                        • ?
                        • Jeffrey G. Cox (Jan 1908 - Mar 1969)
                      • Jessie A.5 Andrews (Dec 1912 - Mar 2005)
                        • Leslie A. Henderson (Mar 1913 - Apr 1995)
                      • Mary H.5 Andrews
                      • Grace E.5 Andrews
                        • Bernhard B. Kuch (May 1905 - Feb 1978)
                      • Hilda M.5 Andrews
                        • Joe W. Allomes (Jan 1919 - Dec 1962)
                      • Ruth E.5 Andrews
                        • Ivan B. Julian (Oct 1914 - Dec 2000)
                      • Eva J.5 Andrews
                        • Robert N. Smith (May 1922 - Feb 1957)
                        • Martin R. Taylor
                  • Clara E.4 Rowe
                    • Charlie Young (1888 - Aug 1964)
                      • Lucretia5 Young
                      • Austin J.5 Young
            • Capt John Gibson (Jun 1825 - Nov 1908)
              • John3 Gibson
                • Edna Dale (bet Jan 1862 - Mar 1862 - Apr 1933)
                  • Iris E.4 Gibson
                    • Francis G. Yeates (Aug 1883 - Mar 1955)
                      • Francis W.5 Yeates
                        • Lois Kasper (Nov 1905 - Aug 1961)
                        • Maisie UnknownSurname
                      • Malcolm N. D.5 Yeates
                        • Ivy E. Turnbull (Sep 1910 - 2002)
                    • Cecil F. L. P. Way (Jan 1880 - 1956)
                  • Elsie E.4 Gibson
                    • George W. Gibson (Feb 1888 - Jan 1988)
                      • Elsie E.5 Gibson
                      • Erina E. J.5 Gibson
                        • Vincent C. Simmonsen (1902 - Feb 1979)
                      • Sydney W.5 Gibson
                        • Shirley M. Marsh (say 1920 - )
                  • Robert4 Gibson
                  • Ellen E.4 Gibson
                    • Robert Irvine (1887 - Oct 1965)
                      • Ken5 Irvine
                        • Dorothy Patallo
                      • Hilda5 Irvine
                        • Ern Rodgers
                      • Margaret5 Irvine
                        • Norm Waugh
                      • Norman5 Irvine
                        • Alb Eames
                      • John M.5 Irvine
                  • William H.4 Gibson
                  • Mabel I.4 Gibson
                    • Frederick W. Irvine (1876 - Aug 1951)
                      • Maisie A.5 Irvine
                        • Edgar P. J. Crabbe (Aug 1908 - 1972)
                      • Jack5 Irvine
                        • June M. Hawkins (Mar 1927 - 1998)
                  • Jessie H. C.4 Gibson
                  • John H.4 Gibson
                    • Violet K. Gould (Mar 1898 - Mar 1977)
                  • Sydney E.4 Gibson
                  • Norman P.4 Gibson
                    • Sheila J. East (Aug 1908 - Jul 1981)
                      • Joan M.5 Gibson
                        • Christian Ewers (say 1934 - Jun 2001)
                      • Brenda V.5 Gibson
                        • Robert M. McMurray (say 1936 - )
                      • John B.5 Gibson
                        • Shirley L. Deane (Feb 1940 - Dec 2012)
                      • Miriam E.5 Gibson
                        • Ronald Jackson
                  • Lance V.4 Gibson
                    • Nellie Humphrey (Dec 1897 - Dec 1954)
                      • Kathleen H.5 Gibson
                        • Allan D. E. Pettigrew (Oct 1920 - Jan 2005)
                      • Ritihia5 Gibson
                        • Charles J. Ryan (Mar 1912 - Dec 1990)
                      • Humphrey K.5 Gibson
                  • Vivian P.4 Gibson
                    • Richard A. Sargent (1895 - 1969)
              • James3 Gibson
              • William H.3 Gibson
          • Henry2 Clinton
My direct line