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Month: October 2015

The joy of researching the Border reiver families

October 31, 2015July 7, 2023 adminaa 28 Comments

What are the chances of being able to research ordinary Scottish ancestors from the 16th century ? Normally, the answer has to be next to none. If you weren’t nobility or titled then almost certainly no records will survive to even hint at your existence. Its too early for almost all surviving church records , […]

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Bondagers in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire

October 25, 2015March 24, 2020 adminaa 5 Comments

One of the fascinating things about looking at old censuses is the glimpse that you get into a world which has entirely disappeared. Return to around 1860 and large numbers of rural women and girls were working as bondagers in a system peculiar to the Eastern Borders and Northumberland. A married ploughman (known as a […]

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