Cavers, home of the Balliols and later of the Black Douglases

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Puffer wrote:-

I Have 2 ???

1. The LOCATION of the "Castle" ???
2. Any idea of who was in possession of the LAND ( Estate) in 1600-1620s ???

1. I am sworn to secrecy as to the precise location. It is well known however that it is located somewhere within the extensive Cavers estate in Roxburghshire in the south of Scotland. I was unable to find the correct location mapped on the internet (though I did find one or two websites which wrongly located it). Indeed I would NEVER have found this if the present owner of the ruins had not agreed to take me there. Getting there involved walking among the trees along a path which was not clearly defined and the site is entirely surrounded by pine plantation.
2. According to this site
http://haygenealogy.com/hay/scotland...gedouglas.html
Cavers would have belonged to Sir James or Sir William Douglas, 8th or 9th of Cavers around those dates.
Bear in mind there were other branches of the black Douglas family by the 1600's, and that other black Douglases also lived at Drumlanrig's Tower in Hawick and at Drumlanrig Castle near Dumfries.
See these threads:-
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/d...ght=drumlanrig
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/d...ght=drumlanrig