THESE 22 LAST NAMES WERE HUNTED BY TWO KINGDOMS — IS ONE OF THEM YOURS?
Anglo Origins
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In 1587 the Parliament of Scotland wrote out a list of surnames. Not to record them. To be rid of the people who carried them. Sixteen years later a Scottish king took the English throne, the border was abolished overnight, and that list became the basis for hangings, confiscations and one mass deportation by sea. Twenty two Border Reiver surnames, counting down, each with the record it rests on, and the road they took through Ulster into Appalachia.
Sources:
Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, the roll of the Border clans, 8 July 1587
https://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?acti...
The Border Papers, Calendar of Letters and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the Borders of England and Scotland, ed. Joseph Bain, Vol. 2, 1595-1603
https://archive.org/details/borderpap...
Historical Manuscripts Commission, The Manuscripts of Lord Muncaster and Others (1885), the commissioners' papers on the transportation of the Grahams
https://archive.org/details/manuscrip...
Robert Bell, "Sheep stealers from the north of England: the Riding Clans in Ulster", History Ireland 2:4 (1994)
https://historyireland.com/sheep-stea...
Byrne et al., "Insular Celtic population structure and genomic footprints of migration", PLOS Genetics 14:1 (2018)
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...
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THESE 22 LAST NAMES WERE HUNTED BY TWO KINGDOMS — IS ONE OF THEM YOURS?
Anglo Origins
5,075 views
In 1587 the Parliament of Scotland wrote out a list of surnames. Not to record them. To be rid of the people who carried them. Sixteen years later a Scottish king took the English throne, the border was abolished overnight, and that list became the basis for hangings, confiscations and one mass deportation by sea. Twenty two Border Reiver surnames, counting down, each with the record it rests on, and the road they took through Ulster into Appalachia.
Sources:
Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, the roll of the Border clans, 8 July 1587
https://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?acti...
The Border Papers, Calendar of Letters and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the Borders of England and Scotland, ed. Joseph Bain, Vol. 2, 1595-1603
https://archive.org/details/borderpap...
Historical Manuscripts Commission, The Manuscripts of Lord Muncaster and Others (1885), the commissioners' papers on the transportation of the Grahams
https://archive.org/details/manuscrip...
Robert Bell, "Sheep stealers from the north of England: the Riding Clans in Ulster", History Ireland 2:4 (1994)
https://historyireland.com/sheep-stea...
Byrne et al., "Insular Celtic population structure and genomic footprints of migration", PLOS Genetics 14:1 (2018)
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...