The witnesses to the baptisms of all known children of Peter an Jane were a Peter and Thomas DIDDIP / DIDDIPPS / DIDDUP.
Neither were immediately obvious as witnesses to any of the other RUNCIMAN baptisms in Dunbar around this time, so were possibly relations of Jane's.
Her parents now look to be John SMITH and Betty DIDDUP.
There's a record that by 1813, a Peter DIDDEP was "writer in Haddington" when his daughter Isabella married. She was born in 1793, placing this Peter as born at latest say 1770, which would be a trifle young to witness a 1780 baptism, but he could be older of course[7][8][9]
Sources
Source: S103 Title: OPR East Lothian Scotlands People RUNCIMAN Marriages, Author Address: http://scotlandspeople.gov.uk, Recipient Address: East Lothian, Scotland Abbreviation: OPR East Lothian SctP RUNCIMAN Marriages 1538-1854 Author: Scotlands People Index Publication: 1538-1854 Note: All RUN*MAN*; County = East Lothian (ELN); 140 records in total; Earliest 1603 (Pencaitland), latest 1854 (5 over 3 parishes); Number of parishes: 19 (out of 25 in all). (In progress - refer <a href="p3.htm"> ELN (Scotland) RUNCIMAN</a>) CONT For further information on coverage of ELN parish records, eg gaps, see also the https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/East_Lothian_(or_Haddingtonshire),_Scotland;Family Search Wiki for East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) Repository: #R146
Source: S2868 Title: Google Books, Url: books.google.com Abbreviation: Google Books
Source: S2921 Title: Dunbar, ELN OPR transcr. by Barbara Samples (on Steve Gibbs), Subject: Dunbar, ELN OPR (transcripts by Barbara Samples), Location: Dunbar, East Lothian, Film Number: http://www.guernsey.net/~sgibbs/runciman/dunbar-opr.html Abbreviation: Dunbar, ELN OPR ex Barbara Samples (GIBBS) Publication: Bap (1687-1854); Marriages (1651 - 1820); Deaths (1737 - 1819)
Source: S55 Title: Scottish Birth, Marriage, Burial entries (to 1854), Record Type: Scottish BMDB entries (to 1854), File Number: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.php Abbreviation: BDM: Scotlands People entries to 1854
Source: S56 Title: Scottish Birth, Marriage, Death entries (from 1855), Record Type: Scottish BMDB entries (from 1855), File Number: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.php Abbreviation: BDM: Scotlands People certs from 1855
↑ Source: #S56 Page: Dth 4 Sep 1880 Thomas s/o Peter RUNCIMAN & Jane SMITH, wdr/o Isobella CRAIG, Dunbar, ELN 706/00 0063, copy d/loaded Feb 2010
↑ Source: #S1597 Page: Bap. 23 Jan 1751 Jane d/o John SMITH & Betty DIDDUP, Dunbar, East Lothian, from Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 batch C11706-4 film 1067796, extracted from index May 2013
↑ Source: #S55 Page: Dth 3 Jan 1830 Jean RUNCIMAN, "wife of Peter", Dunbar, ELN 706/00 0080 0234, (indexed as Joan) copy d/loaded May 2013
↑ Source: #S1597 Page: Bap. 23 Jan 1751 Jane d/o John SMITH & Betty DIDDUP, Dunbar, East Lothian, from Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 batch C11706-4 film 1067796, extracted from index May 2013
↑ Source: #S103 Page: Marr. 3 Jun 1778 Peter RUNCIMAN & Jean SMITH, Dunbar, 706/ 0050 0051, extracted from index Feb 2010
↑ Source: #S2923 Page: Marr. 3 Jun 1778 Peter RUNCIMAN & Jean SMITH, extracted Feb 2010
↑ Source: #S2921 Page: Birth 25th Bap. 28th Feb 1791 Thomas s/o Peter RUNCIMAN & Jean SMITH, Dunbar, East Lothian, extracted May 2013
↑ Source: #S2868 Page: Marr. 2 Apr 1813 Isabella d/o Peter DIDDEP Esq writer Haddington; Hugh FRASER Esq agent of the Bank of Scotland, Haddington, East Lothian, from The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 75, extracted May 2013
↑ Source: #S1597 Page: Bap. 23 Jan 1751 Jane d/o John SMITH & Betty DIDDUP, Dunbar, East Lothian, from Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 batch C11706-4 film 1067796, extracted from index May 2013
Acknowledgments
Thank you to L Henderson for creating WikiTree profile Smith-46040 through the import of RUNCIMANThomasGRIEVEAlison4WikiTreePlaceUpdated.ged on Jun 15, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by L and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jane by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jane: