English Border Reivers | The Great Riding Families | Part 3 

I don't mind in the least. The music lends to the mood and is a great touch. I appreciate the effort. No reivers in my lineage..... I have Welsh ancestry 🐲🐏🎵.

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Is this what happened with your Ahasverus video? I can no longer locate it

How can I find part 4 ..

Need part 4

That's a very common border name in the USA, I've lived in western and southern states and there's always an Armstrong family nearby. Checked on forebears and there's 175,000 with the surname alone.

You really sound like a riever. "No Prince but Percy".👍

One day, my friend.

We need them now.

I was born Bell and brother and I are members of Clan Bell North America.

I'm a Robson as well and that story has always been one of my favorites.

The Robson were latterly allied to the Armstrongs... it was a never-ending shift of alliances and blood feuding.

The Forster/Fosters were intermarried with the Robsons of Northumberland.

Brilliant comment especially the demeanor part

This is a ballad of my 12th Great Grandfather Johnnie Armstrong (Sir John Armstrong) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MHwgujRbroA.html

I can relate. :)

😂

What's the CLAN Hall? They never called themselves CLANS... they called themselves families and you'd have been ridiculed to death if you called them a clan!

My mothers father was a hall..minted..im black douglas denholm..

@@DFMSelfprotection ..sept clans..usally black douglas hall..im sure..im black douglas denholm..and im romany welsh and irish gypsy..im a hearn gypsy..hurrant in ireland..small world eh..mate

I'm an Anglo-Irish - Dodds and Doherty... @@johndenholm7702

I’m also a Musgrave descendant. James Anderson Musgrave born in Tn and migrated to SW Arkansas in 1832. My Musgrave line is heavily married into the Young’s, Thompson’s and Halls. Still not 100% sure who Andersons’s parents are. No definitive proof.

I forgot to add that I do know Anderson was raised a Quaker bc he had no slaves an had issues w Arkansas conscription. I’ve also studied Musgrave lines in the borders. Family lore is we were kicked out of the border and moved to Ulster and then to Pn with the Quakers. Just can’t pin down past Anderson.

I am originally a Milburn as well and from Newcastle UK. My grandmother was a Hedley and my other grandma a Hall. Both were related to the Charlton's as well. In Liverpool Milburn is a very rare name.

Were known as bravehearts its on my family crest..the heart..blue bonnets...all our family names are stamped on jedburgh cathidrial..we have a village called DENHOLM..in the scottish borders..between jedburgh and hawick..my family run a scrap yard in jedburgh..lovely history..mate..

Im sure milburn are the charolton family as well north humberland..our familys sat around the same fires mate..warrior blood..have a grand day mate..from scotland

@@marieyenson9929 ..my mothers father was a hall..minted..border riever..hats off to you..im a black douglas denholm..

Small world eh folks..minted

Hey cuz!

another Thompson here descended from Newcastle area moved to Leicester

:-)

Glad you enjoyed mate

Cheers fella

Our families probably killed one another at some point. (Mitford family... at some point half the family took to spelling it Medford for some reason. Still haven't been able to track down the reason why)

@@ianmedford4855 Often because of internal family feuding. Look at the Kerrs, Kers and Carrs for example.

@@DFMSelfprotection that makes a lot of sense... cant believe it never occurred to me. Thanks.

Hail brother

Oliver was a village at the mouth of Liddlesdale (many families were named from where they lived or gave their name to villages) - during the Rough Wooing it was burned to the ground... I don't think it was ever rebuilt. It is mentioned in the song Lock the Door Lariston. Lock the door Lariston, lion of Liddlesdale, Lock the door Lariston, Lowther comes on, The Armstrongs are flying, Their widows are crying, Castleton is burning, and Oliver is gone. Lock the door Lariston, See high on the weather gleams, Sassanach plumes they bob on the sky, Yeoman and Carbernier, Billmen and Halbedier, Fierce is the foray and far is the cry. Bewcastle brandishes high his broad scimitar, Ridley is riding his fleet footed grey, Hedley and Howard there. Wandale and Windermere, Lock the door Lariston hold them at bay. Oh why dee yer smile noble Elliott of Lariston, Why dee the joy candles gleam in thy eye, Yer bold border ranger, beware of yer danger, Yer foes are relentless, determined and nigh, Little nair you of the hearts I have hidden here, Little know you of the mosstropper's might, I have Lindhope and Sorbie true, Sundhope and Milburn too, Gentle in manner but fierce in the fight. Lock the door Lariston, lion of Liddlesdale, Lock the door Lariston, Lowther comes on, The Armstrongs are flying, Their widows are crying, Castleton is burning, and Oliver is gone. I have Mangerton and Oglivie, Raeburn and Netherby, Old Sim o' Whitram and his array, So, come all Northumberland, Teessdale and Cumberland, Here at the Bre'kin tower, End shall the fray. The Sun scowled over the links of green Liddlesdale, Red as a beacon wight tipped he the wold, Many a bold martial eye, Mirrored that morning sky, Never so oped on its orbit of gold. See how they wane, the proud file of Cumberland, Howard a woe to thy hopes of the day, With a wild welkin' cry, Hear the Scots' shouts descend, "Elliott of Lariston, "Elliott for aye!". Lock the door Lariston, lion of Liddlesdale, Lock the door Lariston, Lowther comes on, The Armstrongs are flying, Their widows are crying, Castleton is burning, and Oliver is gone. If I've remembered all the words correctly...

Cheers man!

It’s cool to see other Beattie’s! The Book Steel Bonnets gives a little bit of info on raids the Beattie’s were apart of. In the book it says we used to back the Armstrong’s in their raids.

Would like to speak with you as my line are Robson as well!

A Forster here my first Mrs was a Elliott

Todd, you’ve got Pennsylvania Elliotts? My great grandfather I believe it was , James Elliott ended up in Pennsylvania. His sisters in Ohio.

@@YoungBloodWASP I have to see if there's a connection! My family moved to Ohio, Indiana then settled in Illinois, farming along the way. My brother has the Elliott milk bottle and label from their dairy in Illinois. There must be a connection! John D. was in Welsh Run, PA in the 1880 census. I believe his father was from England prior. John was born in PA in 1829.

Anywhere near Mitford/Morpeth? I need someone to send me a few stones from Mitford castle... (I'm in America) my dad recently passed, and covid stomped on the trip we had planned to Northumberland. I'd really like to put something from the ancestral lands with him. He left England when he was a kid and just never made it past Liverpool the few times he went back. There was always gonna be more time.

@@ianmedford4855 Hi, sorry to hear about your father. sadly not i'm afraid my father's side was originally from up that way. I'm a bit south of m'boro. best bet is to maybe find Mitford local group on twitter or facebook. i'm sure someone will be able to help you out.

Lol y'all are lucky they moved most of our families to the South and USA. Border families make around 10%+ of American families. Tennessee and Kentucky have a majority of Borderer population especially with the Hall family being the largest. Idk if you saw the episode in "The Crown" where half of the US astronauts that went to the moon visited the royals but we're far more interested to see the border history instead!

After searching into my Charlton family history recently, I recently read that the Charlton family 'lifted' several hundred of the Graham's sheep and headed home. Only to find out the sheep had 'sheep scab', which led to their sheep also being infected.

That's interesting mate, cheers. I didn't know that tale. Would be nice to know if the Grahams did that deliberately, knowing the sheep would be taken or if it was just bad luck on the Charletons part.

Nunquam Non Paratus!

Or the feud between them and the Maxwells

Check out my most recent video, it’s specifically on the Kerrs!

I'm all so a Kerr storie😂 from Australia

Mostly Scottish, will be in part 4! Many thanks!

@@TheJollyReiver excellent! Can’t wait!

Me too..! 🎉

Most of the DODDS families I have meet are from the Newcastle area

My mom’s family had Moffetts and my dad, Johnstones . . . Any wonder they didn’t see eye to eye?