Clan Armstrong. Invictus Maneo! Proud of my ancestors. They can say whatever they want about reivers. I'll say this. What would you do to make sure your children didn't die of starvation? What would you do to protect your family? You know what the right answer is.
@@sammhyde7589I'm sure u know the song bonny Dundee about graham an the 1689 uprising. The confederate song "riding a raid" is a direct descendant of "bonny Dundee". You are exactly the right, the same people. Scots. We are still here. We still fly our Southern cross of St. Andrew as well.
The name Armstrong is well entrenched around the Ballymena and County Antrim area. There is a small Wind swept Island near Bangor where As a child of about 7 or so, I used to spend a weekend off and on with an Armstrong family. I never once heard them refer to themselves as Scots Irish, which is a term Developed by Americans in an attempt to differ themselves from being Irish. Further, an old friend of Mine named George Elliott who was a Policeman in Perth WA and hailed from Sandy Row in Belfast was called Paddy by everyone and celebrated St Patrick’s Day every Year without fail, never referred To himself as anything but Irish. He was a Policeman in the RUC before moving to Australia and never Introduced himself as anything else but Paddy. So, a lot of good descendants of Border Reivers become Fine upstanding Irish in spite of King James intent for it to be otherwise. Neil Armstrong refers to himself As being of Irish Ancestry, not Scottish, or that stupid Scott’s Irish expression,
The Rievers or Borderers were as one until the Reformation when Scotland became Calvinist and Englend became Anglican then the language( and allegiences) on the borders changed. Their lawless ways were caused by poverty (poor quality land) and the machinations of the English and Scottish Kings. Unfortunatly for the Englisg Rievers there was no one like Sir Walter Scott to record their ballads - only one remains in existance - so it remains more in the Scottish psyche than the English psyche due to the overwhelming influence of Lodon. Nevertheless I am proud to be of Riever heritage. ATB to all those of border heritage.
thanks! I wonder if childress is got connections with scots-irish. I have heard that many childress families went to Ireland and it has been found in lowland scotland. I know there was an explosion of childress' in west Virginia and North Carolina in the early to mid 1700s. 4 or 5 childress fought at Kings Mountain. ironically two of those childress boys are from wilkes where my family line goes back to. they say most of the fighters were scots-irish. childress is originally a Yorkshire name.
