CLAN CARRUTHERS – BORDER REIVERS – 1585 LANDOWNERS IN WEST MARCH, DUMFRIES

CLAN CARRUTHERS INT SOCIETY CCIS                                     PROMPTUS ET FIDELIS

 

Robert Charteris of Kelwood, James Charteris, his son, Alexander Livingstone of

Kilarne, James Lindsay of Sergirth, James Lindsay, his son, John Lindsay of

Auchengarth, Herbert Lindsay of the Mains, John Wilson in Elliston;

 

Caerlaverock:

John Maxwell of Conheath, Edward Maxwell of Isle, Thomas Edgar in

the Bowhouse, John Edgar in Blackshaw, John Martin there, John MacQuharrie

there, Matthew Nicolson there, John Ford there, Peter Jaffray there, Peter Nicolson

there, Nicol Martin there, Matthew Martin there, William Borsbe there, John Brown

there, John Beattie there, Tom Martin there, Andrew Dun there, Steven Blackstock

there, Peter Dun there, John Forsyth there, John Dickson there, Edward Dickson

there, Willie Dickson there, Tom Dickson there in Cherington, John Drysdale in

Blackshaw, John Edgar in Cherington, Will Ferguson there, Charles Edgar in

Glenhowan, John Rawling there, John Edgar there, John Edgar in High Mains, Robert

Edgar there, Thomas Maxwell there, Charles Rawling in Glencaple, Mark Rawling

there, Thomas Heron there, John Smith in Bankend, John Edgar in Carmunnock,

Herbert Edgar in Woodend, Simon Adamson in Lochwood, Gavin Forsyth there,

Clement Dickson there, John Dickson there, Cuthbert Dickson there, John Edgar,

son to Thomas Edgar in Bowhouse, Clement Edgar, his brother, Thomas Maxwell,

son to Robert Maxwell of Kelton, John Maxwell, his brother, John Maxwell in

Bowerlands; Dumfries: Robert Maxwell of Kelton, Walter Gladstanes of Craigs, John

Mosset in Garpol, John Maxwell in Craigs, John Beattie in Rig, Thomas Maxwell

there, Edward MacKinnell in Auchincrieff, Willie Sluithman there, William

Kirkpatrick in Closeburn, John Murray, Clonyard, Geordie Maxwell, Thomas

Maxwell, John Edgar, writer, Nicol Dickson; Kirkmahoe: William Maxwell of

Carnsalloch, Homer Maxwell there, Herbert Maxwell in Kirktoun, Robert Maxwell

there, Herbert Edgar there, John Thomson in Millhead, Thomas Thomson, his

brother, John Edgar in Christinghill, Thomas Edgar in Holme, John Edgar in

Carnscelot, Patrick Maxwell, John Wallace, elder, in Carzield, John Wallace, his son,

Nicol Thomson there, John Wallace there, Thomas Wallace there, David Frissell

there, Robert Frissell there, John Frissell there, John Ireland there, Andrew Ireland

there, John Wallace there, Thomas Wallace there, Robert Wallace there, William

Wallace there, Hob Wallace there, Alexander Wallace there, Thomas Wallace there,

John Wallace, son to Robert Wallace there, William Woll in Kirktoun, Robert

Shortrig there, Adam Shortrig there, John Charteris in Riddingwood, John Nicolson

in Corriewood, Will Robson there, Nicol Aitkin there, Roger Robson there, David

Robson there, Roger Thomson there, John Thomson there, Roger Thomson there,

his sons, James Thomson, smith there, David Thomson, his son there, John

Thomson  of Know there, John and Will Robson there, Thomas Robson, William,

brother there, Steven Robson there, Andrew Robson there, John Robson in

Dunknowe, Robert Robson there, John Scharpro there, Roger Robson there, John

Wilson in Hawthorn there, John Wilson, Nicholas Iok there, Thomas Robson there,

David Lowrie there, John Robson, miller there, Robert Robson in Brigend there,

Robert Lowrie there, John Aitken, John Wilson Townhead there, Adam Wilson

there, Nicol and Thomas Wilson there, John Rodden there, John Beck there, Andrew

and Willie Hellis there, Tom Glessill there, Florence Beck there, Robert Beck there,

John Wilson in Neuk, John and Herbert Wilson there, John Edgar, traveller there,

John Donald there, Nicol Donald there, Andrew Hill there, John and Robert Adies;

 

Holywood:

James Maxwell in Prorak, John, Mungo and Edward Maxwell, his

brother, Robert Maxwell, Fourmerkland, James Maxwell in Killielong, Robert,

Thomas, George and Edward Maxwell, his sons, George Maxwell in Blengaber, John

Werslie in Burnfoot, David Edgar in Gullyhill, Robert Edgar in Brownrig, Geordie

Edgar in Ford, Thomas Edgar there, Andrew Edgar in Newtoun, John Jackson in

Killylung, John MacMillan in Craigenputtock, John Smith in Whiteside, John Smith

there, David Welsh there in Collieston, John Smith in Serdingrass, Robert Muirhead

there, John Maxwell in Straquhan, Andrew MacKenney in Skinford, Cubbie Welsh

there, David Wilson in Speddoch, John Scott in Stepford, Robert Lowrie there, John

Muring in Merrington, John Muirhead in Barrachan, John and Thomas Scott there,

Adam Scott there, Roger Grier under the Wood, James Purl, John Maxwell in

Stedstoun, Geordie Edgar in Gribton, David Haning there, Alexander Haning in

Burnside, David Jackson, Mureside, John Jackson there, John Jackson, younger,

Homer Gillieson, David Carrellie, John Greir in Dallowoodie, Robert Caill, Bartle

Findlaw, John Cairns in Brumrig, James Maxwell in Bowhill, David Haning at the

Brig, Robert Grier in Kirkbride, Roger Grier in Barndannoch, Thomas Grier in

Barjarg, Gilbert Grier in Midkeir, James Greir in Beoch, Malcolm Dalrymple in

Waterside, James Porter in Midkeir, Gilbert Grier in Capenoch, Roger Grier in Buss,

Roger Kirkpatrick in Clinstoun; Drumsleet: Adam Sturgeon in Millerlands, Thomas

Milligan in Cargen, Willie Edgar there, William Maxwell there, John Wright there,

John Sturgeon there, John Pane there, John Sturgeon there, John Edgar there,

William Maxwell there, Thomas Maxwell, John Kennand there, James Anderson in

Terraughtie, William Cunningham in Lincluden; New Abbey: Master Gilbert Brown,

abbot of Sweetheart, John MacGee, notary, Thomas and Gilbert Brown, brother,

Thomas Brown of Lochhill, Thomas MacCartney of Arbour, John Turner of Ardwell,

Thomas Maxwell in Littlewar, John Turner of the Hill, Thomas Brown of

Shambellie, Robert Brown of Ingleston, John Stewart in Clachan, John Gracie, Tom

Nicolson, John Peden, John Drysdale, John Sanderson, John Maxwell, John Dickson,

John Sanderson, John Archibaldson, Andrew Gibson, John Turner in Carse, John

Thomson, John Wilson, Andrew Bell, Robert Newall, Willie Edgar, Tom Turner, John

Maxwell, Willie Maxwell, Pat Newall, John Newall, Wattie Newall, John Peden, John

Murray, James Murray, James Kirkconnell, Wattie, Tom Gilbert and John Paterson,

John Donaldson, John Albert, John Stute, Pat Heron, Harry Clerk, John Blackstock,

John Kennand, John Murray, Willie Sanderson, William Maxwell of Airds, Dick,

Adam and John Turner, John Pane, Willie Dickson, John Allan, Robert Clerk, John

Breich, John Gregan, John Beattie, John Garmery, John Maxwell, Hobbie MacKay,

John Dickson, John Davidson, Hobbie Smith, John Peden;

Kirkbean: Herbert

Maxwell in Cavens, Hugh Maxwell in Preston, Andrew Sturgeon in Corses, William

Sturgeon there, Andrew Sturgeon, his son, Herbert Sturgeon there, Richard

Mitchelson there, Edward Clauchrie there, Andrew Dickson there, John Edgar

there, John Michael there, Barney Kay there, John MacKay there, John Turner there,

Hobbie Wilson there, Matthew Clerk there, Matthew MacKay there, Roger Maxwell

in Ladyland, John Dronand there, James Maxwell, Andrew Sturgeon there, Tom and

John Dronnand, James Maxwell there, Robert Ewart in Little Airdrie, Willie Watson

there, Pat Montgomery, John Edgar, David Ewart there, John Williamson in

Numbelly, Adam Turner there, Pat Turner there, Pat Wilson there, John Wilson

there, Robert and Andrew Marshall there, James Gourlay there, David Newall there,

Andrew Williamson there, Henry Williamson there, William Brig in Fallowair, Tom

Brig there, Willie Brig there, Andrew MacBrum in Kirkbean, John MacIlvain there,

John MacNiven there, Willie Kenen there, John Williamson in Preston, Hobbie

MacKay there, Willie Costing there, Hobbie Duart there, Hobbie Martin there, John

Lanark there, John and Willie Martin there, Peter Gibson there, John Wilson there,

Sandy Clerk there, John Dickson there, John Newall, Tom Newall there, Willie

Williamson there, Christie MacIlren there, John Mitchelson there, Edmond

Anderson in Glenwada, Andrew Forsyth there, Hobbie Dawson there, John Gibson

there, Adam Dickson there, Thomas Maxwell there, Willie MacKay there, John

Maxwell in Mersehead, Matthew Costing there, Willie Costing there, Hobbie

Churrie there, Jockie Wilson in Mirhead, Matthew Blackstock there, John Sturgeon

in Wreaths, Herbert Sturgeon there, Jockie Watson there, Hobbie Young there,

Willie Gregane there, Willie Glassenwright there, William Sturgeon there, John

Sturgeon, younger, James Sturgeon there, David Dickson in Cavens, Andrew Brown

there, John MacCraith there, Tom Calyell there, William MacTraith there, Sandy

Sitleintoun, John MacQuharrie there, […] Wilson there;

Kirkpatrick Durham: John

Gordon of Troquhain, John Edgar in Auchenhay, Andrew MacCubbin there, John

Gordon there, Andrew Braturch there, Thomas Braturch there, Roger Gordon in

Overbar, Geordie MacMullan in Nether Barr, Roland MacMullan there, John

MacMullan there, Ninian Crichton there, Andrew MacClune in Drumtonquhra, John

Crocket in Nether Drumtonquhra, William Braturch there, John Gordon in

Kirklebride, Nicol Maxwell in Kirkland, Roland Twynomie in Bardarroch,

Alexander Gordon in Margley, John MacKnight of Kilquhennand, Robert MacKnight

in Two Merkland, John Scott in Tarbreoch, Patrick Dronnand in Barmosotty, John

Dronnand in Knockwalloch, John Wilson in Kirkland, Thomas Wilson there,

William Sinclair in Garmarting, Albert Neilson in Tulshangane, William Hannay

there, Fergus Hannay there, John Carmont, Hutcheon Twynome there in

Kirkwalloch, Willie Twynome there, Willie Martinson in Monydow, Thomas

Mertinson there, John Wilson there, John Ousting there, Fergus MacKnight in

Culside, Henry MacKnight there, John MacKnight there, John MacKnight there, John

Smith in Mule, Roger Gordon in Lochenkit, John Gordon there, John Scott in Crofts,

William Henderson in Brockloch, James Henrison there, John Henrison in

MacQuhir, John Williamson there, Roger and John Neilson there, Gillespie

MacKnight in Little MacQuhir, Fergus Carsan there, William Short in […], Fergus

Andrew and John Neilson there, Robert Auchinleck, William Gibson, Peter

Henderson, William Neilson in Bartalye;

Corsemichael: James Graham in

Auchindolly, John Graham there, Tom Edgar there, John Stewart there, Edward

Maxwell in Glengap, Gillespie MacKnight there, James Callen in Trodell, William

Brown there, John Clinyeane there, James MacKno in Larg End, Robert Graham

there, Cuthbert Gilneif there, Bartle William, Gilbert James, Roger and Dowin

MacCartney there, James Quhire there, George and John MacCartney there, James

MacKnight in Ernealmery, John MacKnight there, Richard Brown in Meikle

Dryburgh, David Gall there, John Garmerie there, William Hannay there, John

MacQuharrie in Little Dryburgh, John Carson there, John Milligan there, Tom

Milligan in Dynharg, James MacGill there, Andrew Lewris in Blackerne, James

Garren, Alexander Burn there, Herbert MacCartney in Ernespie, Nicol Dobie there,

Paul Martin there, Arthur Hillo in Hillington, Herbert MacCartney there, George

Hillo there, James Murray in Blackpark, George MacManis in Fussok, Tom MacQuha

there, William Graham in Chapmanton, Alexander Jardine there, Simon MacQuhan

there, John MacGill in Mains, Andrew Graham there, John MacMullan there, Arthur

Stewart there, Paul Scott there, Andrew Croik there, John MacMan there, Alexander

MacGuffock there, Andrew Gaw in Crofts, John Gaw there, John MacKno there,

James Johnston there, Richard Stewart in Culgruff, John Anderson there, John

MacCroik there, James Crillan there, John Matheson in Kirkland, John Purves there,

John Martin there, John Muir there, Gilbert Bannoch there, James MacWhinnie

there, John Corrie in Blarony, John Torrie there, Matthew Corbick there, John Callan

in Drumcrago, Kirk Miller there, John MacMychin there, John Young there, Thomas

Thomson there, William Anderson there, George Gall in Lulnotre, John MacKnight

there, John Garran there, Luke MacCubbin there, James Murray in Ernemery, James

Murray there, Gilbert Camok there, John Crocket there, James Bannoch, James

Williamson in Nether Ernemery, John MacCartney there, John Robert and Michael

MacManis there, John Greenlaw in Clarebrand, John Brown in Mollance, Tom

MacManis there, Tom Martin there, Donald Pearson in Arnemyning, John Greir

there, Jock Hair there, George Brown in Garrieston, Robert MacCartney there, John

Garren there;

Buittle: John Maxwell in Balgreddan, Robert Maxwell in Braecroft,

George Mayre in Haughmuir, James Muir in Dalveen, Alexander Gordon in Slognay,

David Max[well] in Trowgrain, John MacGill in Knock, Allan Muir, Robert Lowrie in

Little Knock, George Carns in Munches, John Gourlay in Castelgower, John Gordon

in Cuil, David Neilson in Ha Cleuch, Thomas MacCartney in Craigton, John Smith in

Guffogland, John Smith in Corbartoun, John MacCallolby in Lochdougan, Herbert

Paterson there, John MacGee there, Paul Fowler there, John Hannay there;

 

Annandale: George Carruthers of Holmains, elder, John Carruthers of Holmains,

younger, Christie Carruthers in Dormont, Sim Carruthers in Rammerscales, Sim

Carruthers in Isle, Robert Carruthers in Brydgill, John Carruthers in Raffles,

Andrew Carruthers in Robbiewhat, John Carruthers in Danebie, Robert and John

Carruthers there, Roland Lindsay there, John Carruthers in Butterquhat, Willie

Carruthers in Fourteen Acre, John Carruthers, his son, Andrew Carruthers in

Almtgill, John Carruthers in Dormont, Robert Carruthers there, John Cunningham

in Dormont, Leonard Hutchison there, William Carruthers in Middlerow, Roland

Carruthers there, John Carruthers in Hallhill, Cuthbert Carruthers there, John Kerr

there, John Halliday there, younger and elder, Robert and William Archibaldson,

Herbert Walker in Dalton, George, William, Gavin and Thomas Walker there,

Thomas Park there, John Carruthers there, Mungo Carruthers there, Gilbert

Henderson there, Thomas Carruthers in Dyke, Herbert and John Carruthers there,

Nicol Gask there, John Rae there, John Gask there, William Mosscrop there, Mark

Gask there, Simon Graham in Howath, Matthew Bell there, John Robson in Raffles,

John Carruthers there, John Carruthers in Kirkhill, John Nicolson there, David

Copeland there, John Cau in Hope, John Blythman, there, David Neilson there,

Richard Nicolson there, Robert Rae there, James Allanson there, Nicol Gask in

Inchfauld, John Kerr in Hoill, John Dowbem there, John Palmer in Butterquhat, John

Palmer, younger, there, James Carruthers there, George Hauch in Close, James

Nicolson there, Robert Nicolson, John Beattie in Topwood, John Graham in Dalton

Heugh, Thomas Graham there, Matthew Bell there, Hugh Beattie there, Archie Horn

in Bengall, John Bell there, William Carruthers in Kirkland, John Archibaldson

there, John Rae there, William Paterson there, Thomas Rae there, Matthew Gibson

there, Thomas and John Gibson there, John Wright there, Gilbert Bell in Gavilburn,

John Bell in Midshaw, John Park in Southside, William Bellit, called Butler Willie,

Andrew Rae in Castlemilk, George Carruthers in Egeschaw, Richard Carruthers

there, Andrew Bell in Longdyke, John Bell there, Thomas Bell in Cowthat, John

Davidson in Castlebank, Robert Carruthers in Hartwood, John Latimer there, James

Copeland there, John Ferguson in Rowell, John Clerk there, John Paterson there,

Thomas Craik in Carthwood, John Latimer there, John Clerk there, Patrick Clerk

there, Adam Johnston there, Edward Wheldon there, John Johnston there, Edward

Craik there, John Wallace there, Rob Dickson there, Peter Clerk there, George Gask

there, James Mons there, Roger Kirkpatrick there, Rowe Bell in Rockvale, Adam

Caldwell in Cocksfield, William Bell in Neuk Ranie, John and Watt, his brothers,

Oswald Bell, Tom Bell in Seedhill, John Bell in Dyke, John Bell, his brother, Tom Bell

of Yett, John Bell, son to Tom Bell in Sheilgrein, Alexander Bell in Williambie,

William, John and Tom Bell, his brothers, William Bell in Williambiehalls, John Bell

in Woodhead, David Bell, his brother, Matthew and William Calbart, John

Whitehead, Jock Bell, Humphrey Bell in Bank, Job Bell, William Bell, his son, Wat

Bell in Middlebiehill, John Bell in Clynt, Tom and Jinkin Bell, brothers, Andrew Bell

in Longdyke, Dick Bell, Christie Bell in Clynthill, Archie Bell, his brother, John Bell

of Land, John Davidson, William Bell in Blackathouse, Wat, Tom, Francis, Richie and

John Bell, brothers to the said William, William Graham, son to Will Graham,

Christie Irving in Woodend, Edward Irving, his son, David Irving in Vyisbie, Gib,

Will and John Irving there, Mungo and William Robson, Geordie and John Bell,

Andrew Turner, Nicky Bell, Gib Nekie, Tom Black, William Bell, called Little Willie,

Edward Irving in Kirkpatrick, Wattie, Francis, Abraham and Richard Irving, his

sons, Dick, Gavin, William, Walter and John Irving, sons to Dick, amongst the

Rasches, William Bell in Merse, David, Richard, Edward and William Bell, his sons,

Wattie Coltart, Humphrey Ferres, Tom Gibson, John Richardson, Edward

Richardson, David and Dick Richardson, Richard Ferguson, Herbert Wilkin, Andrew

Little, Cuthbert Paterson, Ninian Neilson, John Ferris, Gavin Irving, Walter Irving in

Robgill, Matthew, David and Cuthbert Irving, Robert Rae, Cuthbert Murray, bailie of

Annandale, John Dick, John and Archie Wilson, Ade Bell, James Prenderguest, Ade

and Robert White, Richie Alison, William White, Mark Rae, Andrew Turner,

Geordie Wilson, Nicky Bell, Christie Wilson, John Rae, William Rae, John Rae, James

White, Matthew Irving in Hurkledale, Richie Irving there, Jock Irving, his man,

Matthew Hill in Stanebrigs, Christie Irving in Wood, Hobbie Irving, his brother,

John Johnston in Hychill, Richie Irving in Murrays, Edward Irving, his brother, John

Gass, John Davidson in Cummertrees, Matthew Irving, called Meg’s Matthew, John,

nephew to Meg, Wat Bell in Wiltoun, Andrew Davidson, Christie Davidson, William

Thomson in Clynt, Andrew and John Thomson, his brothers there, Thomas

Carruthers of Wormanby, Charles and William Carruthers, his sons, John Irving,

laird of Skaill, Dick Irving, his son, Hugh Little in Skaill, Hobbie Irving there, Tom

Douglas there, Willie Pott there, Paton Bell in Highmure, Tom Bell in Cowthat,

Andrew Bell in Owlcotts, Dick Bell in Clynt, Ninian Bell in Middlebiekirk, Alexander

and Paton Bell, his brothers, William Johnston in Redhall, John David, Willie,

Edward, Gavin and Geordie Johnston, sons to the said William, David Johnston,

brother to William of Redhall, Charlie Johnston in Redhall, Gib and John Johnston

there, Christie Bell there, John Beattie there, Tom Murray there, Hobbie Dickson

there, John Johnston of Gretna, Lenny Irving in Gretnahill, John Johnston in

Righeads, James Johnston in Broomhill, Matthew MacKettrick in Cawartisholme,

John Ferguson there, Sim Dalgleish there, Geordie and Rowe and John Hope there,

Cubie and John Haliday there, John Irving in Sloistis, Lenny Irving in Gretna, Wat

Irving in Gretnahill, Francis and […] Irving, his sons, Edward Irving in Sowron, Tom

Carruthers there, Willie Irving in Gretnahill, John, Matthew and Edward Irving, his

sons, Richie Irving in Gretnahill, Jock Tully, Jock Brown, Ninian Irving, Edward

Irving in Gretnahill, Willie Irving, his son, Adie Bell, Wat Irving in Gretnahill,

younger, James Carruthers, Mungo Irving in Braidlea, Hobbie Irving, his son, David

Bell, John Irving in Stellhill, Hobbie Irving, his son, Wat Richardson, David Irving,

son to Jock’s Willie, Willie Brown, Andrew Murray of Morequhat, David Murray of

Morrach, Herbert Irving in Sowood, Peter Young in Morrach, Geordie Murray there,

Richie Palmer there, John Murray there, Patrick Hope there, Geordie Irving there,

James Pott in Annan, John Quarrier there, Adam Hair there, Willie Rig there,

Christie Irving of Cowthat, John Jenkin, Cubie, William and Christie Irving, sons [to]

the said Christie, Arthur Graham of Blawart Wood, John and David Graham, his

sons, Tom Rome in Bidoch, James, Andrew, John, Herbert, Jamie and John Rome

there, Ade and Peter Bratton there, David and John Marshall there, Ade Rome,

James Bratton, John Wallace there, Peter Rome, son to Jock, Jock Birrell, elder, in

Stokes, John Bell in Stokes, John Rome, son to Nicky, Tom Gask in Hirst, Pat Kelton

in Bochill, Roger Lawson there, Tom Davidson there, Hobbie and Jamie Clerk there,

Jinkin Lawson in Blawart Wood, John Richardson there, Richie Graham in

Longriggs, Robert Graham, his son, John Cruton in Longriggs, Geordie Steel there,

Jeffrey Tullie there, Geordie Lawson there, Tom Johnston in Priestwoodside,

Gilbert, Cuthbert, Francie and Tom Johnston there, David Johnston, son to Gib;

Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopdale: David Beattie in Blacketlees, Rowe, Hugh, John

and David Beattie, his sons, Andrew Beattie in Blacket, Archie and Ninian Beattie

there, Ninian Ewart there, James Thomson there, Tom Scott there, Willie and

Robbie Beattie there, Laurie Pot there, David Dalgleish in Wotcariok, David Beattie

there, Jamie Aitchison there, Ade Glendinning there, Adie Graham there, David

Beattie in Calkin, John and Wat Beattie, his brothers, John Beattie of Burn, son to

Adam, Hugh, John, Geordie, Jinkin, Wattie and Adie Beattie, the said John’s

brothers, Jamie Beattie, Mungo’s Jamie in Killclewis, Wattie and Mungo Beattie, his

sons, John Beattie, son to Mungo in Rennaldburn, Wattie, Rowe and Tom Beattie, his

brother, John Beattie, son to Arthur, John Beattie in Carlesgill, Geordie, Nicky,

David, Wattie, Sim and Wat Beattie there, Jock Andrew, Jamie, Jock, Andrew Beattie

there, Adam Beattie in Yett Byre, Charlie Beattie there, Matthew Beattie, his son,

Jamie Beattie there, Nicky Beattie in Whitehaugh, Robbie Beattie there, Robbie

Beattie in Byre, Sim Beattie there, Matthew Beattie, son to Long Andrew, Geordie

and Andrew Beattie, Steven, Sim and David Beattie, three brothers, Wat Beattie of

the Sheil, Jock Beattie, his brother, David and Nicky Beattie, two brothers, John

Beattie in Bank Head, John Beattie, Braid, John Beattie of the Corse, Andrew, Sandy

and Wattie Beattie, three brothers, John Beattie, his man, Jock Beattie, son to the

Bra, Andrew Beattie, son to Trurie, Adie Beattie, his brother, John Beattie in

Glenbervell, John Glendinning, crowner, John Glendinning, alias Felhour, John

Beattie of Davington, John, Willie, Wattie, Geordie, Hobbie Beattie, sons to the said

John, Robbie, Jock, John, Peter, Andrew and Hugh Beattie, Jock Gillespie, Adie Little,

Andrew Beattie, son to Hugh, David Nicol and Jock Aitkin, John Rae, Christie and

Jock Little, Jamie Bennett, Tom Rae, Jock Ranick, Jamie, Jock and Sim Briggs, Ade

Thomson, Rowe MacCrae, Sim MacCrae, Naving Beattie, John Aitkin, John

Glendinning, John Dalgleish, Andrew Beattie, Edward, John and Sim Thomson, John

Thomson, alias Rowll, John, Peter and Jamie Beattie, Dick and Will Thomson,

Geordie and Wattie Beattie, John Beattie, alias Nicky, John, Archie, Nicky, Adam,

Wattie and David Beattie, Alie Beattie in Trowholes, Andrew Beattie, his brother,

John and Jamie Glendinning, John Halliday, Matthew Glendinning in Castlehill,

Archie Glendinning there, Rowe Beattie in Westerkirk, Christie, Archie and Willie

Beattie, John Brown in Crossdykes, John Brown, younger, Peter Glendinning, Peter

Graham, Jock Glendinning, Wattie Craik, John Beattie in Millgill, Bartle

Glendinning, Sim Glendinning, Berny Cooper, Andrew Beattie, Sim Scott, Sim

Beattie, Nicky Scott, Willie Barnet, John Boy, John Little, George Graham in

Carruthers Park, Andrew Graham, his brother, Wattie and Tom Graham there, John

Beck, John Bell there, Richie Bell in Hotts, Nicol Moffat, Adam Haliday, Ranie Bell,

John Beattie of the Lyneholm, Andrew Beattie, his servant, Tom Beattie of the

Lyneholm, his brother, John Bell there, Rowe Beattie there, Nicky Beattie there,

Tom Little, elder, in the Cuil, Tom Little, younger, there, John Andrew and Matthew

Little there, Nicky Title in Dalwhat, Jock, Andrew, Sim, Archie, Clement and David

Little there, John and Jock Little there, Pat Little in Craigmeikle, Wat Little in Stank,

Wat Little there, John Little in Singland, Rowe, Jamie, Alexander, Andrew and Sim

Little there, John Little in Burnfoot, Geordie Little there, Cuddy Little in

Staplegordon, Andrew, Willie and Wattie Little there, John Little in Pollorane,

Archie Little in Potholm, Adie Little in Dowglen, Nicky Little in Millholm, Wattie

and Francie Little, his sons, Rowe Little there, Rowe Little, called Archie’s Rowe,

Tom Little there, Sim Little there, Sim Little in Bankhead, Nicky Little in Breconrae,

Andrew Little there, Archie Little there, Rowe Little there, David Little in Clois,

John, Tom and Persell Little there, Matthew, John Little there, David and Jock Little

there, Andrew Little, son to Wat, Wat Little in Ogle, Rowe Little there, John Irving in

Over Dowglen, Richie and Christie Irving there, Bartle Irving in Dowglencleuch,

David, Jock and Alexander Irving there, Christie Armstrong in Barnglies, John

Murray, his man, Christie Murray, Andrew Carruthers, Tom Bell, Robert Haliday,

Will Bell the Stell, John Little, Jock Hook, John Thomson, Jock Bell, his servants,

John Armstrong of Calfield, John Routledge, Dand Armstrong, James Roger, Will

Mitchelson, Thomas Aikenhead, John Hook, Ninian Armstrong of the Neis, Christie

Armstrong, his son, John Little, John Crosset, John Armstrong in the Hollows†,

John Armstrong in Glinger, Andrew Armstrong, his son, Rowe, William and Christie

Armstrong, brothers to the said John, Will Armstrong in Teikmie, Tom Armstrong

in Glinger, Geordie Armstrong in Blackbackhead, John Irving in Sinkhead, Geordie,

John and Christie Irving, sons to Gib in Blackbackside, John Irving in Hag, Jock

Moffat in Glinger, Armstrong in Thorniewhats, John Turner there, Ninian Turner

there, Archie Armstrong in Tarkima, Archie and Robert Armstrong, sons to Christie

in Langholm, Ingrie Armstrong of Ralton, Richie Irving in Auchinrivock, Sandie

Irving there, John Carruthers in Glinger, Christie Mitchelson in Tomleucharburn,

John Mitchelson, his son, there, Will Coltart there, Tom Wilson there, Andrew

Turner there, Archie Armstrong, merchant, William Armstrong, called Kinmont,

John, Geordie, Francie, Tom, Sandy, John and Ringan Armstrong, sons to Kinmont,

Robert Graham, dwelling on Serk Water, William Scott there, Thomas Redpath,

John Linton there, Willie Bell there, Geordie Little there, Martin Thomson there,

Dave Beattie there, Jamie Cowan there, Andrew Gifford there, Robert MacVitie,

writer to Kinmont, Archie and Adam Thomson, Nicol Beattie in Carlesgill, Will

Little, alias Pyk Ekie, Dick and Wat Little, Ninian, Tom, George and Will Elliott, John

Armstrong in Wauchopdale, Henry, Ade, Archie, John and Sim Little, John

Armstrong, alias Ralton, Will, Sandy and Jock Armstrong, George Beattie in Nether

Crossdykes, Ninian Palmer, John Purton, Jamie Irving, Dandy, Andrew and Christie

Armstrong, John Armstrong, Tom Graham, Jamie Armstrong in Capelgill, Jenkin

Graham in Logan, Peter Graham there, Pat Bell there, Matthew Irving, Matthew

Beattie, John Lindsay, Mark Alexander and Tom Carruthers, Jock and Archie

Beattie, Geordie Thomson in Kirkgill, Jock Thomson there, Adie and Jock Thomson,

his brothers, Wat in Allebasterland, John Thomson there, John Thomson in Kirkgill,

Archie Thomson in Allebasterland, Nicky and Jock Thomson there, John Thomson in

Pollorane, Hector Armstrong in Stubholme, Geordie Armstrong in Arkleton, Ninian,

Geordie, Martin, Dandy and Mungo Armstrong, his sons, Ninian and Hobbie

Armstrong, Andrew Little, Willie Brown, Willie Nielson, Edward Little, John

Armstrong alias Rakass, Willie Graham, Tom Scott in Blackhall, John Scott, his son,

John Elliott in Woodend, Rowe Elliott of the Hill, Hob and Will Elliott, [his] brothers,

Richie Graham in Woodend, Willie Ellio[tt], Lord Archie Armstrong in Arkleton,

John Armstrong, his son, Adam Scott in Mosspeeble, John Scott, his son, John,

Geordie and Will Scott, Jock Scott in Arkleton, Archie Irving there, Jock Elliott in

Bowgranis, Ninian Armstrong, the laird’s Ninian, Jock Armstrong, his son, John

Armstrong, Howgill, Andrew Armstrong, Tom Kirkpatrick, Andrew Turner, John

Armstrong in Mungbyhurst, John, Ninian and Christie Armstrong, brothers, Rowe

Armstrong, the laird’s Rowe, John and Ringane Armstrong, his sons, Jenkin, Archie

and Willie Nicolson, John Johnston, Tom Armstrong of Chingills, Abe Ringane,

Christie, Archie, Tom, Jock and Ade Armstrong, his sons, Wattie, Matthew, George,

Sim and John Little, Ade Glendinning, Tom Coltart, Ade Hope, Rowe Armstrong of

Broomholm, Tom Armstrong, son to the laird’s Rowe, Geordie Thomson, George

Armstrong in Catgill, William Wilson, John Moffat, Ade and John Beattie, John

Purves, James Waugh, Ringane Armstrong of Auchinbedrig, Sim, Thomas and

Robert Armstrong, James and Alexander Halliday, Christie, John, Arthur and Tom

Bell, Andrew Lowrie, Archie Tawart, Adam Pott, George Armstrong in Betholme,

Paton Armstrong there, Rob Haliday, Andrew Beattie, John Graham in Hole, David

and Archie Graham, Simon Graham in Logan, George, Robbie and Jock Beattie,

Martin Moffat, Jock and Tom Wilson, Serge Haliday, Humphrey Rule, John Irving,

Tom Henderson in Brekanquhat, Humphrey Bell, alias Lamb, John Corrie, John

Kirkpatrick, Willie Miller, Serge Armstrong, brother to Kinmont, John Johnston,

Jeffrey Irving, Archie Irving, Jock Graham, Rob Clerk, Willie Kirkpatrick, David

Watson, Wattie Graham, Thomas Johnston, Adam, George and Richie Rae, Christie

Armstrong in Carron, Quentin, Andrew and Geordie Armstrong, [his] brothers,

Christie Armstrong, son to Quentin, Jock Armstrong, son to Andrew, Ninian

Armstrong, son to Paton’s Ninian, Geordie Armstrong in Thorniewhats, Christie

Armstrong, called Armstrong’s Christie, John Turner in Thorniewhats, Jamie

Armstrong in Carron, Tom Armstrong of Chingills, son to Andrew, Ade Murray,

Willie Drynan, Jamie and Archie Little, Archie Beattie, Matthew Little, Jamie Little,

Edward, Ringane and Lance Armstrong, Willie Scott, Ade Scott, Alie, Archie and

Geordie Armstrong, Ade and Jamie Graham, Roger Armstrong, Ekie Armstrong,

Chingills, Andrew Armstrong, his son, Tom Armstrong, Hob and Alie Wilson,

Geordie Armstrong, Nicky Graham, Jenkin, Davie, Gibbie, John, Jock, Bartie and

Sandy Little, Peter, Jock and Alexander Bell, Cuddie Little, Jock Irving, Andrew Bell,

Jamie Bell, Alexander Armstrong of the Chingills, Tom Armstrong in Craig, son to

Alexander, Matthew Little there, Archie, Willie and Hugh Armstrong, brothers, of

the Chingills, Sim Little, laird of Meikledale, Archie, Wattie, John and Adie Little,

John Scott, Andrew Little, Jock Turner in Kirkton, Cuddie Little there, John Scott

there, Willie Stevenson there, George Armstrong, Howgill, Andrew Henderson

there, Tom Armstrong of the Wrae, Jock Armstrong, Will Little in Bombie, Geordie

and John Little, brothers, Jasper Geordie, Will, Rob, Nicky and Jock Little there, Jock

Little, son to John Little, Wattie Little there, Ninian Armstrong in Broomholm, John,

Ekie and Anthony Armstrong there, Herbert Irving there, Captain John Maxwell of

Aikenhead, Lieutenant Thomas Martin, Ensign Thomas MacBlair, Sergeant James

Newall, Sergeant Robert Gourlay, Corporal Thomas Salwright, Corporal William

Steill, Corporal William Sinclair, Lieutenant John Carruthers, Lieutenant John

Thomson, Lieutenant Andrew Glencorse, furrier, Thomas Welsh, Taburrie, Thomas

MacCaddow, John Kyd, John Wilson, Gilbert Barncleuth, Thomas Gledstanes, […]

Gledstanes, his brother, John Maxwell in Isle, Jamie Carruthers, Archie Boyd,

Cubbie Roddick, Willie MacCrae, Nicol Edgar, John Maxwell in Barchell, Malcolm

MacKenney, John Napier, David Welsh, Jamie Grier, John Glencorse, Tom

Carruthers, John Edgar in Holme, Willie Edgar, John Maxwell, tailor, Thomas

Martin, tailor, Willie Martin, John Martin, Matthew MacCrae, John Dickson, Robert

Maxwell, Geordie Maxwell, Pat Shetlington, Tom Spence, Roger Muirhead, Thomas

Wallace, Fergie Neilson, Herbert Carruthers, John Wilson, cook, Willie MacMorran,

John Thomson, Watty White, Steven Robson, John Brown, William Irving, John

Lowrie, John Rodan, Andrew Lowrie, John Maxwell, Fourmerkland, Robert Smith,

William Maxwell, Malcolm MacKinnel, David MacMath, Robert Reid, Herbert

Carlisle, Andrew Dickson, Herbert Duncan, Robert Frissell, John Anderson, David

Welsh, Jamie Clerk, John Scott, Thomas Milligan, Archibald Carruthers, Adam

Black, Peter Miller, Thomas Wallace, John MacKean, William Stewart, Thomas

Potter, Nicol Haddow, George Maxwell, James Thomson, Amer Grier, James Porter,

Edward Maxwell, Steven Glencorse, Archie Welsh, John MacFadyen, James Reid,

Robert Hutcheson, Willie Anderson, Thomas Hapyland, Cuthbert Miller, Edward

Duncan, Corporal Richard Lockhart, David Edgar, smith, John Maxwell, Craigs,

Hugh Moffat, James Dempster, James Carmont, Patrick Sanderson, Andrew

Maxwell, James Milligan, Peter Williamson, Sandy Bratton, James Carrick, John

Edgar, John Kelton, John Campbell, James Kinnear, Andrew Miller, John Davidson,

John Mein, Hugh Montgomery, Patrick Maxwell, Allan Hamilton, John Gordon,

Thomas Kirkpatrick, John Sharper, John MacKay, swordslipper, Martin Murdoch,

Robert Miller, Geordie Latimer, Andrew Bratton, Thomas Wright, John MacKay,

Herbert Maxwell, Andrew Wilson, Richard Herries, Robert Herries, James Irving,

Robert Forsyth, Herbert Clerk, Jamie Gaw, Robert Horner, Willie Calley, John

Gilsang, Lebody, Thomas Hannay, Thomas Herries, Roger MacMorran, Gilbert

Reston, Robert Fleming, Thomas Darioch, Robert Rogie, Robert Balmanno, William

Shanks, William Graham, John Woodhall, David MacKean, Andrew MacLellan,

Sandy Lowrie, Alexander Black, Patrick Lewis, Martin Murdoch, Matthew Tinning,

Henry Calseir, John MacWalter, John Carmichael, Gilbert Eddislaw, Richie Bell,

Alexander MacCulloch, John Johnston, John Pott, Lieutenant David Oliphant,

Captain Thomas Dawson, Captain Simon Moffat, Sergeant James Heriot, Sergeant

Gilbert Caldwell, Sergeant John Dickson, Sergeant Robert Birkmyre, Captain James

Fraser, Lieutenant James Friend, Ensign John Cunningham, Corporal Patrick Kay,

Corporal Thomas Barry, John Gaw, Lieutenant John Dempster, William Yule,

Edward Meikle, William Phaup, Thomas Hannay, John Hook, John Barbour, John

Gayton, Cuthbert Meek, John Lightbody, Donald Hay, William Graham, William

Cunningham, Gillespie MacNaught, John Stewart, John Cunningham, John

Learmonth, Alexander MacClellan, Ninian Muirhead, James Gibson, John Mundell,

David MacKean, Charles Crawford, Thomas Crichton, David Hay, John Wilson,

Corporal John MacCulloch, William Heron, Andrew Archibaldson, Walter Irving,

David Richardson, Robert Gardiner, Ringane Kirkpatrick, Adam Paulin, Homer

Bodden, Patrick Asloan, Robert Stewart, William MacCullie, Lieutenant Alexander

Bog, Thomas Dodds, John Edgar, James Rae, William MacEwan, Archibald Oliver,

James Brown, John Keil, Thomas Raining, James Grier, Robert Haining, James

MacEwan, Thomas MacCartney, William Cunningham, John Martin, Perforce

William Scott, John Montgomery, George MacMurrich, Thomas Spence, Edward

Law, Jamie Grier, elder, John Muir, Thomas Muir, Gilbert MacNelly, John Barry,

Patrick Gibson, John Panton, Fergus MacDowall, Andrew MacBroom, James Baxter,

William Copeland, Gilbert Meikle, John MacCowell, William Montgomery, John

Hook, Adam Loch, David Richardson, younger, Thomas Suirt, Captain William

Maxwell, Lieutenant David Oliphant, Ensign Thomas MacBrair, Sergeant John Vaus,

John Glessell, Robert Maxwell, Corporal Clement Edgar, Lieutenant David

Anderson, Lieutenant Nicol Scrimgeour, Matthew Hairstains, Thomas Adamson,

John Littlejohn, James MacKenzie, John Smith, Adam Walker, Alexander

Glendinning, William Maxwell, William Maitland, John Short, Andrew Main, John

Charteris, John Wilson, turner, Andrew Dargavell, Robert Crawford, Robert Greig,

John Ferguson, weaver, Robert Wilson, John MacMorran, John Edgar, Cuddie Kay,

John Hunter, Ellis Maxwell, Gavin Kirkpatrick, John Hornet, John MacKennell, John

MacDowall, Andrew MacKay, William Charters, Patrick Asloan, Edward Rawling,

William Guffock, John Keaton, Thomas Richardson, Thomas Williamson, John Kay,

Simon MacNacht, David Hind, John Hind, John Edgar, minister, John Kennand, John

MacBurney, William Palmer, John White, John Hoggan, James Burn, Herbert

Dickson, John Hastie, Andrew Aslowan, Andrew Aitkin, William Murray, John Finn,

John Frood, Adam Raining, Fergus Reid, Thomas Moffat, James Kirkpatrick, Jamie

Shaw, John Whitman, John Henderson, David Wilson, Ninian Smart, Matthew

Tinning, Michael Uchtredson, William Cowan, John Yair, John Mitchelson, John

Heron, Hobbie MacKay, Robert Dun, James MacGill, William Abercrombie, William

Clerk, Thomas Rich, John Woodhall, Adam Thomson, Matthew Turnour, Henry

Milligan, William Johnston; Lockerbie: Robert Fleming, Gilbert MacClannachan,

Andrew Johnston, Richard Bell, John Moffat, John Tullibody, Mungo Maxwell,

Andrew Gray, John MacGubb, John Rawling, Robert Crawford, John and Roger

Kirkpatrick, William Neilson, Herbert Johnston, Robert Miller, Nicol Forest, James

Lawson, Thomas MacKay, John Dickson, English, William Johnston, Andrew Brown,

James Byres, John Palmer, Anthony Wild, John Kay, Fergus Reid, William Clerk, John

Breck, George Moffat, Robert Edgar, Richie Thomson, John MacCulloch, John Kay,

Geordie Wallace, John Corsan, John Rowall, John Gledstanes, younger, Herbert

Cunningham, saddler, Cubbie Cunningham, Robert Panterson, Andrew Robson,

Herbert Birkmyre, Andrew Blackstock, Willie Shortrig, Michael Anderson, Robert

Murdoch, Mark Wardlaw, Gilbert Beattie, John Hairstains, John Duncan, John

Ferguson, John Luke, John Kirk, Matthew Irving, John Mundell, Robert Forsyth, John

Cunningham, tailor, David Gordon, Willie Hope, Robert Greir, Hobbie Dickson,

Jamie Welsh, John Rawling, Nicol Forsyth, Willie Edgar, Andrew Grier, Adam

Walker, James Maxwell, David Maxwell, John Paterson, Robert Newall, Matthew

Tait, Cubbie Hewat, John Paterson, Captain John Maxwell of Newlaw, Cornet

Alexander Maxwell in Logan, Quartermaster James Hunter in Drumshinnoch,

Quartermaster Andrew Lindsay of Sergirth, Trumpet Willie Dickson, Roger Gordon

in Kirkconnell, James Cannon, John Carruthers in Holmends, Herbert Hunter in

Drumshinnoch, James MacClellan in Netherthird, William Douglas in Pennerie,

Cuthbert Murray, Charlie Murray of Aiket, Wat Irving of Robgill, Francie Carlisle,

son to Jock, Cubbie Milligan, laird [of] Wormanby, younger, Willie Carruthers, his

brother, Tom MacBrair, John Kirkpatrick, Thomas Maxwell, James Maxwell,

Priestslands, Paton Bell, High Mure, David Bell, Holme Head, Wattie Bell in

Middlebiehill, Steven Glencorse of that Ilk, John Carruthers of Danbie, Wattie Bell,

son to Jock, Richie Bell, his brother, Will Graham, clothman, Geordie Bell of Annan,

Robert Murray of Clonyet, Alexander Camon, John Murray, John Gordon, Leonard

Roddick, Francie Armstrong of Kinmont, Jamie Armstrong in Cannonbie, Francie

Armstrong in Whitehaugh, Francie Carlisle, son to Alexander, John Johnston of

Land, Geordie Graham of Carruthers, Ninian Armstrong of Auchinbedrig, Francie

Irving of Kirkpatrick, Wat Irving, his brother, Dick Irving among the Rashes, Richie

Bell, Slagon, Humphrey MacGowan, John Johnston in Cummertrees, Richie Murray,

Aiket, Sandy Armstrong, Kinmont, Francie Armstrong, Flatt, James Hunter, Robert

Murray, John Johnston, Tundergarth, Andrew Johnston, Muirhead, Robert

Armstrong, Hobbie Graham, John Graham, Captain George Carruthers of

Holmends, Cornet Charles Carruthers, his son, Quartermaster Hugh Maxwell in

Balgreddan, Quartermaster Edward Irving of Kirkpatrick, Abraham and Edward

Irving, his sons, Christie Carruthers, Dormont, Willie Carruthers, his brother,

George Graham, Medhope, Hobbie Sturgeon, Andrew Sturgeon, John Carruthers,

Ramerschallis, Matthew Carruthers, John Bell, David Irving, Robgill, Willie

Armstrong, Twedane, Willie Johnston, Priestdykes, Richie Graham, Midhope, John,

Francie, Sim, Fergus and Wattie Graham, his sons, Wattie Graham, Aikenshaw Hill,

William Graham, Beddoskholme, William Blackburn, John Robson, John

Carruthers, John Gibson, Willie Graham, Blawart Wood, Robert Graham, Longriggs,

Jamie Rome, Cordoche, Sim Graham, Serk Jeffrey, Will Irving, Wat Irving,

Cawartisholme, Hobbie Sturgeon, Richie Irving, Willie Irving in Millflat, Andrew

Bell, Holmhead, Andrew Wrightson, Geordie Graham, William Wright, Sim

Carruthers, Patrick Dunbar, William Menzies in Castlehill, Archibald Menzies,

Alexander Douglas, John Maxwell, Mersehead.

 

**  CHARTERS, CHARTERIS AND CRICHTON HAVE A DNA LINK TO CARRUTHERS BUT NO RESEARCH TO DATE IS KNOW TO BEEN DONE

 

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CLAN CARRUTHERS – LANG SANDY OF ROWANBURN

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LANG SANDY OF ROWANBURN

 

For many years a wooden statue of Alexander Armstrong has stood in the Scottish Borders village of Rowanburn; up to 1552 Rowanburn was part of the notorious Debateable Land, one of the most dangerous places in Europe. The Debateable Land was a small area of the English Scottish Border country that belonged to neither country but which was contested by both.

Lang-Sandy-of-Rowanburn-Canonbie-Scottish-Borders

Known as ‘Lang (Long) Sandy’ because of his prodigious height, he was executed in 1606 because of his involvement in the murder of Sir John Carmichael, Scottish West March Warden, in 1600.

The wooden statue has succumbed to age and the elements, its very framework rotting. Recently a magnificent stone replacement was commissioned. That now stands in pride of place where the ‘old’ wooden Sandy once reigned supreme.

The-2011-Stone-Statue-of-Lang-Sandy-Armstrong

So what to do with the original wooden Sandy? Consign him to the fire or endeavour to preserve him? Give him peace and rest after the long years he has stood sentinel in the centre of the lovely village of Rowanburn, guarding the ground in front of where his formidable fortified  tower home once stood?
Refuge for the ‘old boy’ was the clamour from the lovers of Border Reiver history. After some deliberation it was agreed that Sandy should be looked after, nurtured, and spend his last days and dotage indoors. The Clan Armstrong Museum (see http://www.armstrongclan.org.uk/) in Langholm just over the hills to the west of Rowanburn, was the obvious place to ‘retire’ the great Scottish Reiver.

Accordingly Lang Sandy was removed from his watch over Rowanburn, laid on his back and transported to Langholm to spend the next few weeks prostrate outside the door of the Clan Armstrong Museum.

At the end of January I, with three burly mechanics from my place of work, descended on Ewesdale and Langholm – our goal – the Clan Armstrong Trust and defenceless Lang Sandy. Armed with jacks and lifting gear we soon had the great Scottish Border Reiver through the door of the museum.

Now he stands sentinel there, looking towards the scant remains of Langholm castle, ever watchful of the English rogues who forage north and head west at this point, bent on raiding Annandale.

Sandy will soon get a make-over. Once re-juvenated, he will be a superb attraction for the Armstrong museum and fit and strong to contest any raid into Langholm and Ewesdale.

 

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CLAN CARRUTHERS – BORDER REIVERS-PACIFICATION

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BORDER REIVERS – PACIFICATION

 

In 1603, James V1 of Scotland became king of England when Elizabeth1 of England died without issue. He was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots who was the grand-daughter of James 1V of Scotland and his wife Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry V111, king of England. The blood of the English Tudors then ran through James’ veins; thus he always had the major claim on the English throne.

From early in his reign as king of both realms James decreed that the Border Marches, the lands of England and Scotland which lay on both sides of the Border Line and the haunt of the notorious Border Reivers, would exist no longer, they were to be ‘vanishe and delete’. They were to be known as the Middle Shires of a new United Kingdom. The Border Reivers, both English and Scottish, used and abused by the monarchs of both nations for centuries, were now an embarrassment to a king who sought to stamp his rule over both kingdoms.

Ill or Busy Week

The Border Reivers had lived a life of theft, murder, extortion and blackmail for generations, from the time of the Scottish Wars of Independence, beginning about the dawn of the 14^th century. They knew that now a monarch ruled over both nations their days were numbered. They had many scores still to settle as James Stuart made his royal progress to London, the crown of England and untold wealth. Feud and blood-feud were the ‘canker’ of the Border folk. The Reivers would take one last swipe at enemies both in their own country and across the Border in the other.

The Border Marches showing the Border Line between England and Scotland

The Border Reivers believed that the rule of law was held in abeyance between the death of a monarch and installation of a successor. It was the perfect opportunity to bring to a head the differences that might, in some cases, have existed for generations. And all achieved without any comeback.

The time between Elizabeth’s death and James’ investiture in the crown of England was known, in the rich and sarcastic parlance of the Reivers, as Ill Week or Busy Week. The Border, from the Solway in the west to the North Sea in the east was awash with crime, theft and murder as the clans and families made one last attempt to get the better of sworn enemies.

The River Sark where it enters the Solway Firth

 On his accession James had said that the crimes committed in  Busy or Ill Week should be disregarded but now, in a move which was typical of the man, he demanded that those who were caught up in the endless raids at that time, were guilty of ‘foul and insolent outrages… in the Borders’ and should submit to his mercy.

James V1 of Scotland and 1 of England would use the crime of Ill Week to his advantage within a short time of ascending the throne of England. The Scottish and English Lords who fawned at his knee would become benefactors of his largesse when he decreed that the lands of the Border Reivers should be confiscated as a result of the turmoil and violence which had followed the days immediately following the death of Elizabeth.

The Graham family of the lands of the river Esk were particularly signalled out for callous retribution.

The River Esk into the Solway Firth (The Lake District Mountains to the South)

A Border Commission

By 1605 James had set up a Commission on the Borders ostensibly to punish the Border people for their centuries of waywardness. It was made up of five Englishmen and five Scots under the direction of Sir Wilfred Lawson. Their brief was to rid the Border country of the malefactors, the Border Reivers, whose families had created havoc in the area for years. The Commission was granted authority to scour the whole of the Border country, both English and Scottish, for the leading members of the clans and surnames (families) and to deal with them as they saw fit. Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, the palatinate of Durham on the south and Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, Dumfries and Kirkcudbright and Annandale on the north of the Border, were to be the areas to be relentlessly targeted.

 Under the auspices of the Duke of Cumberland, a man with an insatiable desire for land and its revenue, the focus of the Commission would take a different turn. Though the latter had the responsibility of clearing the whole Border of its miscreant tribes, an undue emphasis was placed on clearing the lands of the river Esk in the west, a rich and fertile land yielding abundant crops and succulent pasture and the haunt of the family of the English Grahams. It had been for centuries. The avarice of Cumberland would direct the Commission to his own desires and ends.

The Commission set to with a vengeance to punish the Grahams.

What’s in a Reiving Name?

Not everyone with a name identified with the calling was a Border Reiver. Many families with reiving names did their utmost to follow decent lives despite the constant war of attrition that surrounded them. To the men of the Commission and the veritable armies that followed them an Armstrong, an Elliot, a Graham and a Milburn, to name but few, were Border Reivers and dealt with accordingly, irrespective of their backgrounds. The Grahams, many peaceful and law-abiding, were very harshly dealt with. Their history shows that they were the major force on the English Scottish Border, had often provided the men of arms who created a buffer state against the Scots. And all at the invitation of successive English monarchs who wished to hold their northern neighbours in check. Yet following the Union of the Crowns they were hounded from their lands, summarily executed, or transported.

The Reiving Clans are Persecuted

Many of the men of the reiving Clans were rounded up and hanged. Mass hangings became a familiar sight in the Borderlands in the first decade of the 17th century. Most often the punishment was inflicted without trial. Whilst there were many who deserved their fate, others suffered just for their name.

Avaricious eyes, purportedly on the side of law and order, saw the potential of ridding the land of its former tenants, the Border Reivers, and acquiring riches beyond their dreams. Thus began an era of ethnic cleansing. The lands of the river Esk were of particular interest to the Duke of Cumberland and he ensured that the Commission directed their efforts to clearing the Grahams from the area. Their chief of men were hanged or drowned, their homes and crops burned, their dependants, wives and children, left destitute in the wake of unconditional greed ostensibly carried out in the name of the law.

The Reivers and Holland

One of the options to remove the Reivers from the Borders was to send them to the Cautionary Towns of Holland where English garrisons existed at Flushing, Brill, Ramekins and Walcherin. These places were held by the English as insurance against a huge loan made by Elizabeth 1 to aid the Dutch in their war against Catholic Spain.

The Grahams of Netherby and Mote were singled out for this dubious distinction. Taken from imprisonment, many of them in Carlisle, (almost thirty had escaped on the hearing of their fate), they were shipped to Holland never to see wives or children again.

Reivers Transported

Within a few short years of James coming to the throne of England yet another enterprise to rid the Middle Shires of the reiving clans was pronounced.

It was decided to transport the clans and families to Ireland, to the bogs of Roscommon. They were rounded up and taken to the west Cumberland ports and shipped to a life of subsistence and penury. This was a particularly harrowing time in the history of the Armstrongs, the Grahams and others. Yet they were hard, obdurate people and many survived. Within a few generations their descendants had emigrated to all corners of the world.

The Highland Clearances, so well documented and lamented over, were not the first in Scottish history.

A hundred and fifty years before the clansmen of the Highlands were flushed from the homes they had inhabited for centuries and a way of life that had little changed in a millennium, a similar action was taking place in the Borders. And for the same underlying reason: avarice. To clear the lands of the Border tribes especially the valleys and holmes of lower Eskdale, home of the Grahams, provided wealth and eminence for the Lords who would ignore rationality and common-sense justice, eschew any sympathy in the quest of self-aggrandisement.

It was a harrowing time for the Grahams of Esk, signalled out by a Scottish king who had previously been often thwarted by their presence and power, a monarch who harboured an irrational hatred of all of the name.

True to the resilience of the Border Reiver, the Grahams would re-appear in their native lands again. Indeed they are still there today.

Testimony surely to a people who were hard to subdue.

 

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CLAN CARRUTHERS-THE AFTERMATH OF THE RESCUE OF KINMONT WILLIE

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THE AFTERMATH OF THE RESCUE OF KINMONT WILLIE

 

In mid April 1596,in a daring and unprecedented raid on Carlisle castle, Kinmont Willie Armstrong, the most formidable of the Scottish Border Reivers, was rescued by a small party of Reivers who hailed from the Scottish Border lands: Liddesdale, Teviotdale and Annandale. About eighty had made the journey south into England on a night in which the dark, thundering clouds had broken and poured their relentless content on the whole of the Scottish/English Border Lands hour after hour. Only five entered the castle; enough given the English help from within. The remainder stayed outside on the banks of the river Eden or  were placed at strategic places at two and ten miles distant from the castle. Should the Hue and Cry be raised in Carlisle as aftermath of the raid they would be ready  to contest, to ambush any English armed contingent that might follow the rescue party  as it hared its way back to Scotland.

The Scottish Border Reivers  reached the lands of Eskdale to the north of the English Scottish Border without incident and Kinmont Willie went into hiding whilst Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch, the leader and organiser of the rescue, and the others who had risked life and limb to rescue Kinmont,returned  to their homes.

News of the rescue soon became known, was hailed throughout Europe as an audacious act of bravery and bravado by the Scots,whilst the English, totally humiliated, fumed with futility and numb resentment yet  with hopes of future  vengeance.

Feelings ran riot within the corridors of power of the English, even the Queen, Elizabeth 1, safely esconced in London, demanded retribution and that Walter Scott of Branxholm and Buccleuch be turned over to the English. Her letters to James V1 of Scotland are replete with demand and veiled threat.

At a local level, at Carlisle on the Borders  between the two nations of England and Scotland, the English West March Warden, Thomas Lord Scrope, endeavoured to justify the capture of Kinmont  without avail. He was humiliated at every turn, frustrated and demeaned by how his persona had taken a headlong fall, yet resolved, following his pathetic attempts to justify the illegal capture of Kinmont, to exact some form of reckoning.

It is well documented that Thomas Lord Scrope, in August 1596, initiated a great raid into Liddesdale in the Scottish Borders.  The inference, it would seem, as portrayed by many sources, being that it was some form of retribution  for the humiliation that had pervaded his life since the rescue of Kinmont. Scrope, in his first communication to his superiors  in London, in the Privy Council of the land, had stated that Carlisle castle had been attacked by five hundred men, not the five who had stole through the western postern gate which still stands with memories of the night that it was entered with ease, having been opened from the inside by English who were in league with the Scottish Border Reivers. Imagine then his chagrin as the true story unfolded: a castle watch, weary of the pouring rain who, instead of diligently sticking to their roles, had covered themselves with acrimony and derision by hiding themselves under ‘coverlets’ as protection from the incessant and teeming rain. Some had even fallen asleep.

On 28^th August 1596  a Scottish Hand (unknown) wrote:

Last of all Captain Carvell with 2000 waigit (paid) men, by Lord Scrope’s special command, burnt ‘sex myle of boundes in Liddesdale, took sundrie puir (poor) men and band them twa and twa (bound them two by two) in leisches and cordes, and that naiket  (naked), taking them prisoner to England, foraying the haill cuntrey ( stealing and burning the whole country on the return to England, a distance today of about thirty miles), took away 1000 ky (cows) and oxen, 2000 sheep and six scoir of hors and meiris (mares) to the great wrak (misfortune) of the puir subjectis.

The women and children of these captured men were left to fend for themselves , were homeless and destitute, deprived of what was, at the best of times, a very meagre livelihood.

It has often been reported down the ages since that fateful day in August 1596 that Thomas Lord Scrope, still smarting from the humiliation of the rescue of Kinmont Willie from Carlisle castle, his domain and the second strongest castle in the whole of the English Scottish Border region, could not withhold his desire for revenge.

Some reports of the time tell us that some of the Liddesdale children left bereft as a result of this horrific incursion into their homelands on the orders of the English West March Warden, Thomas Lord Scrope, died of hypothermia in the days following the raid.

It is true to say that this report was written by a Scottish hand and, given the place and time in which these people lived, was naturally prone to bias and exaggeration.

Kinmont Willie Captured

Should one, however, peruse the raids of the Scots into England in the year following Kinmont’s rescue, although in report just as horrific, especially those laid at the door of Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch, it is soon obvious that the same level of bias is prevalent in the English hearsay , easily detected given the turmoil that existed throughout the Borders.

Scrope wrote to Henry Leigh on 14^th April 1596:

That Buccleuch has ever been the chief enemy (and still is) to the quiet of the Border. Before he was officer (i.e. made Keeper of Liddesdale) he was principal at taking Captain Belles and ‘hewinge in peeces’ divers of his soldiers. Afterwards at the killing of some of Captaine Bestones soldiers at Hexham and some of Captaine Ellice in this March ( the English West March).

Since he was officer, he was in person at the murder of some of the Queene’s subjects on the Middle March – has caused many ‘herschippes’  (forays) in this west wardenry, once in person at that of Richie’s Will ( a Graham) another time in the house of Geordies Sandy Graime (Graham), to have carried him off and lastly at the assault and enforcing of the Queen’s castle and officer ((the rescue of Kinmont). He has now got all the Grahams to join him. He brags ‘that he hopeth to be the man that shall make the firste roade (raid) into England in revenge of the death of the Kinge’s mother. (Mary , Queen of Scots who was executed on the orders of Elizabeth 1 in 1587). You shall earnestly press that her majesty be moved to deal roundly with the Scottishe King for immediate delivery of Buccleuch’s body without condition, to receive due punishment and exemplary justice.

 Sir William Bowes wrote to Lord Burghley with the following words:

The Scots commissioners ‘brought forward a bill against Lord Scrope for commanding a great force including waged men of the Queen’s, to invade, burn and spoil in Liddesdale about 10^th August and then reset (received) them in his house… Yet I could not justify this act of Lord Scrope’s without her majestye’s pleasure , yet it appears a justifiable reprisal by the law of the nations, the civil law and the law of this land (the Border Laws). I could wish, if it seems good to you, that by the advice of those learned in both laws, the nature of a lawful reprisal might be set down to defend Lord Scrope’s actions, and be a precedent for the wardens hereafter how to act ‘whilst the denial of justice is yet greene’ on fitting occasions’ .

 

words are unjustifiable, written in a manner that turn the precepts of the Border Law upside down. Had it been that Buccleuch had refrained from attacks on the English and Scrope’s actions stood in isolation, then they would have had no justification. In the melee that followed the Kinmont affair  they just blend into the brutal disorder that existed in such violent times.   PIC: scropes tomb

 

CLAN CARRUTHERS-THE BATTLE OF DRYFE SAND

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The Battle of Dryfe Sand

 

During the sixteenth century the Johnstones and the Maxwells competed for primacy in the Scottish West March.  Johnstone and Maxwell chiefs each served at various times as Wardens of the Scottish West March. Their respective clans continued a deadly blood feud for almost a century.  In late 1593 John, seventh Lord Maxwell, Earl of Morton, and Warden of the Scottish West March, assembled 2,000 armed horsemen and, displaying the King’s banner, invaded the mountainous district of Annandale, land of the Johnstones.  Whatever the official reason, Lord Maxwell’s personal intention was once and for all to destroy his family’s ancient enemies and rivals for power in southwestern Scotland.

Sir James Johnstone of Dunskellie, Chief of the Johnstones, received advance warning of the approaching army and realized that his clan would soon have a desperate fight for continued existence.  He summoned help from Grahams, Scotts, Carrutherses, Irvings, Elliots, Bells and others, and quickly raised a force of perhaps 800.  Lord Maxwell had offered his followers a reward for the head or hand of the Laird of Johnstone, and Sir James in turn offered his followers a reward for the head or hand of Lord Maxwell.

 

All through the feud between the Maxwells and the Johnstones, the Carruthers family at Holmains played a considerable role in support of the Maxwells.  However, no evidence has been provided that they fought at Dryfe Sands.  It could have been that, since George Carruthers, 2nd Baron Holmains had just died the previous year, his successor John Carruthers, previously known as John Carruthers of Harthwat and Rammerscales, had lived near the Johnstones while he was at Harthwat and Rammerscales.  In any event, it was the Carruthers of Dormont who went to the Johnstones aid.

 

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