New Social Group: Steel Bonnets

[Morris at Heathfield]

Ive got Chisholm
Armstrong, Grieve, Elliot ,Scott,Carruthers and Murray so i guess i qualify too

Thanks! I've been wondering about a possible ancestor with the surname "Rieve". It had me stumped for a long time, but now I think there's a good possibility the name was a misspelling of "Grieve".

If my Graham genealogy has been done right (and I'm not terribly certain of that), I'm a descendant of Border Grahams, Rutherfords, Eliots, and (G)rieves.

[Kid Cossack]

GMF (may light perpetual shine upon him) wrote of the fighting abilities of the Border Reivers in his autobiographical account of the Burma Campaign of WWII, Quartered Safe Out Here -- the modern-day descendents of the Reivers fighting the Japanese.

Regards,

Todd

You know, if anything, I think I enjoyed QSOH more than I enjoyed any of the Flashman books, and I enjoyed them a great deal. Oddly enough, I was just recently rereading Quartered Safe Out Here for the third or fourth time.

They don't make 'em like GMF any more. "The past is another country. They do things differently there."

[Bruce Scott]

Thanks! I've been wondering about a possible ancestor with the surname "Rieve". It had me stumped for a long time, but now I think there's a good possibility the name was a misspelling of "Grieve".

If my Graham genealogy has been done right (and I'm not terribly certain of that), I'm a descendant of Border Grahams, Rutherfords, Eliots, and (G)rieves.

Perhaps a variation of Reeve. According to Black (The Surnames of Scotland) , derived from the office of bailiff or steward. Adam the reeve of Machan was juror on an inquisition by the sherrif of Lanark in 1263.

[Weasel Mender]

Another Kerr here

Weasel :ootd:

[Fox]

"Yonder fellow, who stops so impudently to look at us, as if he were engaged in the most lawful sport in the world -- I guess him, by his trotting hobbler, his rusty head piece with the cock's feather, and long two handed sword, to be the follower of some of the southland lords -- men who live so near the Southron, that the black jack is never off their backs, and who are as free of their blows as they are light in their fingers."

"My name is the Devil's Dick of Hellgarth, well known in Annandale for a gentle Johnstone.
I follow the stout Laird of Wamphray, who rides with his kinsman the redoubted Lord
of Johnstone, who is banded with the doughty Earl of Douglas; and the earl and the
lord, and the laird and I, the esquire, fly our hawks where we find our game, and
ask no man whose ground we ride over."

"the Annandale man added:
"And take you this to boot, to keep you in mind that you met the Devil's Dick, and to teach you another time to beware how you spoil the sport of any one who wears the flying spur on his shoulder."

"snapping his fingers and throwing his hand out with an air of defiance, spurred his horse into a neighbouring bog, through which he seemed to flutter like a wild duck, swinging his lure round his head, and whistling to his hawk all the while, though any other horse and rider must have been instantly bogged up to the saddle girths."
excerpted from The Fair Maid of Perth, by Sir Walter Scott

[Daibhidh O'Baoighill]

Potts here.....I know I'm coming a little late to the party!

[Bob C]

My Cairns ancestors lived in the borders and built Orchardton Tower there.

As a side note, I had an unpleasant encounter with an Armstrong just this afternoon.

[ghostlight]

...a gentle Johnstone.

Aye Ready!