Border Reiver Surnames Map

One of the most powerful families in the whole border, both as reivers and as officers. Text is available under the creative commons attribution. Each clans story will be accessible on this webpage, but if we don’t get anything written for a clan it will be listed but have nothing to say for it and that just should not be the case.

Unlike most of the famous clans of the scottish highlands, they all lack that celtic element ‘mac’, (the gaelic word meaning ‘son of’), which occurs in. N ames will be added only when there is documentary evidence that a family was established in the borders during the 16th century being the time when reiving was. Til a border collie named rico was the subject of the first published study on gifted dogs.

The border reiver heritage society is for the descendants and by the descendants so help us write our stories.

Edward aglionby writes to burghley in 1592 (calender of border papers) as follows: Far more porous and less formal, they also depended on local relationships as much as national, either with individual lords or corporations like the great abbeys. Walter scott of buccleuch, his grandson known variously as the bold buccleuch, god’s curse, etc.), walter scott (auld wat) of haren. Based on a map supplied by tullie house museum to the rotary club of penrith 2015.