The people of the Scottish Borders, 1650-1800

Dobson, David, 1940-2012

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This book from Dr. David Dobson identifies persons who lived in the counties of Berwickshire, Peebles-shire, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire, the region known as the Scottish Borders. Located in southeastern Scotland, mainly along the border with England, the Scottish Borders region was associated from the Middle Ages through the early 17th century with near continuous conflict caused by invading armies and also by raiders who crossed the border to steal goods and rustle livestock. The latter were known as the reivers and were generally composed of members of the same extended family, often bearing the same distinctive surname. The royal union of Scotland and England in 1603 resulted in better law enforcement along the border, breaking the power and influence of the reiving families (e.g., Cranston, Gilchrist, Rutherford, Carruthers, Laidlaw, Moffat, Turner), some of whom either opted to fight in foreign wars or immigrate to Ireland. It was the Agricultural Revolution of the following century, however, that accelerated the out-migration from the Scottish Borders to either the industrial towns of the Scottish Lowlands, England, the Americas, or, later, to Australasia