to a woman of uncommon strength, with old-fashioned piety of a robust, practical type, and a spirit which the trials of her after-life—­and they were many—­could not subdue.  Her husband set up in the wine trade in Edinburgh.  For many years they lived in the Old Town, then a respectable neighbourhood, among a cultivated and well-bred society, in which they moved as equals, entertaining, with others, such a man as Dr. Thomas Brown, the professor of philosophy, a great light in his own day, and still conspicuous in the constellation of Scotch metaphysicians.

John Adair, = Mary, cousin of Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw,
of Little Genoch. | hereditary Sheriff of Wigtownshire.
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Capt.  Thomas Adair, = Jean Ross, of Balsarroch, great-aunt of Sir
of Little Genoch. | John Ross, the Arctic explorer,
| of Sir Hew Dalrymple, and of Sir
| Hew Dalrymple Ross.
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Rev. = Isobel Dr. Mrs. Cath. = Rev. John
Andrew McDouall, Adair, Maitland Adair | James Ruskin
Adair, of of grand- | Twaddle, (1732- Minister Logan Quebec mother | of 1780)
of and of | Glen- |
Whithorn London J.E. | luce |
Maitland | |
of | |
Kenmure | |
Castle | |
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Cath. = James Cath. = John Margt. = Capt.  Other
Mactaggart | Tweddale, Tweddale| Ruskin Ruskin | Cox issue
(aunt of | of (1765- | of (b. 1756)| of
Sir John | Glen- 181[?]) | Edinburgh | Yarmouth
Joseph Mactaggart, | laggan | (1761- | (1757- Severn Bart., M.P., | | 1812[?]) | 1789[?])
of of | | |
Rome Ardwell) | | |
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+-+ +——­+ +——­+==+ +====+—–­+ | | | | | | | | George = Cath. | Peter = Jessie J.J. = Margaret Bridget= Mr. | Agnew, |Tweddale| Richard- | Ruskin Ruskin, | Cox Cox |Richard-| hered- | | son, | of | (1781- | son | itary | +----+ of | Billiter | 1871) | of | Sheriff- | | Bridgend,| Street | | Market | clerk | Other Perth | and | | Street, | of | isssue | Denmark | | Croydon | Wigtown |