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| Topic | Title | Synopsis | Size Description | Issue No | Author |
| Lauder | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Abbey St Bathans | Some Purves families in Duns Berwickshire | A well known Berwickshire name Purves, a family from Duns in 1634 and his heirs. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mrs. Evelyn Carlson |
| Abbey St Bathans | Abbey St Bathans, Cranshaws and Longformacus | A brief description of 3 neighbouring parishes and the records available. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Abbey St Bathans | Ecclesiastical Education in Berwickshire What the records have to tell | Ecclesiastical education of Berwickshire and where to find useful information | 2 pages or more | 38 | Dr Charles Hoy |
| Aberfoyle | Border - Line Experiences Of a Canadian Researcher | The Ainslie born in Lilliesleaf and how a trip from Canada to research the family. It ended in a book. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert L. Morden |
| Adelaide | Two stories of 19th century emigration to Australia and New Zealand | Two stories from the 19th century of emigration to the New World. Andrew Rutherford and his family. | less than 1 page | 12 | Elsie Ahrens |
| Advertiser | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Africa | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Aikwood Tower | Shillinglaw Walls | Shillinglaw Tower not far from Traquair it is not only a heap of stones - an interesting tale. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Jean Shillinglaw Ridley |
| Ainlslie | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser 1855-1900 | A transcription of death notices in rhe local newspaper. There are too many names ot list them all. Only those with extended entries are indexed. | 10 pages or more | 69 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Ainlslie | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Ainslie | The Ainslies--Some notes | The name Ainslie, from 1066 onwards, a full and detailed family history. | 1 page or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Ainslie | Border - Line Experiences Of a Canadian Researcher | The Ainslie born in Lilliesleaf and how a trip from Canada to research the family. It ended in a book. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert L. Morden |
| Ainslie | Border Murders | This is a stroll around the Borders looking into, with some depth, the murders in the 1800s. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Norrie Mcleish |
| Ainslie | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Ainslie | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| Ainslie | John Ainslie Map Maker | John Ainslie who was described at a conference in Edinburgh in 1971 as Scotland's greatest cartographer. | 2 pages or more | 4 | C.M. Ainslie |
| Aitchson | Guess Who’s Missing | The descendants of William Steel Story who lived in Yetholm, Morebattle, Hobkirk, who married Elizabeth Aitchson, daughter of Francis Aitchson and Elizabeth Hogg around 1806. | 1 page or more | 64 | E .Helen Ball |
| Aitken | Adam moves to the Borders | Adam Brown bought a small plot of land in West Linton in 1839 after which he emigrated to Australia with seven of his nine children-this story covers their history. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Helen M. Booth |
| Aitkenhead | Who was Gordon Stewart of Hawick? | Intriguing investigation into an adopted great uncle who died in World War I, and turned out to be a blood relative. | 3 pages or more | 65 | Anne Golden |
| Akeld | A Hogarth Family Tree | There came into James Hogarth's possession a manuscript family tree covering seven or eight generations of the Hogarth family, also, where they came from. | 1 page or more | 27 | James Hogarth |
| Alberta | About the Shillinglaw | Family history about the Shillinglaws family. | 1 page or more | 5 | Ada Elizabeth Shillinglaw |
| Alderman | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth century | The burgh of Selkirk, their trades, who controlled them. The baillies sergents and how they came into being. Continued from issue 25. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Peter Symms |
| Alderne | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Alexander | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Aliens | Edinburgh Aliens Register | A register of aliens resident in Edinburgh during the French Reveloutionary Wars | less than 1 page | 0 | |
| Allan | Know your Parish-Polwarth | Description of the village of Polwarth, its history, the inhabitants, and their occupations. | 1 page or more | 28 | |
| Allan | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Allan | Grantshouse and the Turner family | History of the family from around 1840. Continued from issue 27. | 1 page or more | 28 | James Burns |
| Allan | Kelso's Ragged school | Case histories and fate of children in the 1800s who went to a Ragged School. These three names from the excellent book that Audrey has written will make you want to purchase this book. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Allan | Isabella Smith 1814-1904 | Account of Isabella Smith from Coldingham. Berwickshire; and her descendants. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Mary Newbery |
| Allan Line | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Allerdean | Mrs Euphemia Voy | Obituary of Euphemia Voy, first wife of William Voy, who died at Coldstream on 24th March 1891. | 1 page or more | 23 | Benjamin Moody |
| Altarstone | The Altarstone at Stobo | Stobo Slate Quarry "inferior to no slate whatever". Also a connection to Merlin and Arthur. | 1 page or more | 10 | Isobel Jardine |
| America | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Deaths 1890-1900 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 53 | Marjorie Gavin |
| America | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Deaths 1879-1889 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 52 | Marjorie Gavin |
| America | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser -Deaths 1857-1878 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 5 pages or more | 51 | Marjorie Gavin |
| America | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Marriages 1872-1875 | Marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | less than 1 page | 49 | Marjorie Gavin |
| America | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Marriages 1876-1900 | Marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 50 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Amos | Travellers Tales in the Borders | This is the text of Fred's talk to the Society on 25th April 2004. Absorbing review of public road transport in the Borders mainly in the 20th century. | 9 pages or more | 55 | Fred Kennington |
| Amos | Bowden School Records | Bowden School admission records from 1872. Also lists their parent or guardian. | 2 pages or more | 25 | |
| Amos | On the Buses | An article from The Southern Reporter of October 29th 1959 about George Turnbull's working life from 1913 to 1959, as a chauffeur or mechanic until 1924, then various jobs for a local bus company. | 2 pages or more | 66 | Charles Borthwick |
| Anchor line | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Ancrum | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Ancrum | John Ainslie Map Maker | John Ainslie who was described at a conference in Edinburgh in 1971 as Scotland's greatest cartographer. | 2 pages or more | 4 | C.M. Ainslie |
| Ancrum | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| Ancrum | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Anderson | Border Influences on the Dark Continent | Borderers who played a part in the exploration and settlement of Africa. Mungo Park, Thomas Pringle, John Leyden. | 2 pages or more | 27 | Donald Whyte |
| Anderson | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Anderson | Forgotten Borderers | James Grieve and his interesting contribution to the lowly apple. | 1 page or more | 28 | Jean M. Smith |
| Anderson | Anderson Family Legend | Three brothers shared their last sixpence at Kelso Fair and then parted company. How a lady searched for relatives | less than 1 page | 8 | Mrs. Steele |
| Anderson | Notes on the Ancestry of the Ettrick Shepherd | James Hogg (1770-1835) where he and his ancestors lived in the Borders, also who they married. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Donald Wyte |
| Anderson | Baillie John Smail of Galashiels | Baillie Smail, born at Clovenfords, was First Baillie in 1867, and was renowned for severe punishment . He died of chronic alcoholism. | 1 page or more | 36 | |
| Anderson | After Gallipoli | After Gallipoli was written as a sequel to "For King and Country" and the Scottish Borderers and continues the story of the 1/4 th (Border) Battalion the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. | 3 pages or more | 21 | Gavin Richardson |
| Anderson | On the Buses | An article from The Southern Reporter of October 29th 1959 about George Turnbull's working life from 1913 to 1959, as a chauffeur or mechanic until 1924, then various jobs for a local bus company. | 2 pages or more | 66 | Charles Borthwick |
| Anderson | A Canadian Connection | Copies of letters sent from Canada in 1864 - they make very interesting reading. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Jenifer Payne |
| Andrea Ferares | Savages of the North | Short letter from James Usher to Walter Scott 1828 | 1 page or more | 14 | Vivienne S. Moore |
| Antigua | Scots in Antigua | Note about St John's Cathedral, Antigua where the author found an splendid marble memorial for Robert Peddie, surgeon, native of Kelso. | 1 page or more | 61 | Diana Pirrie |
| Applegarth | Recording the Jardines - A one-name study | 17 years of research of the Jardine Clan Society. A history of the Clan and the worldwide story of the Jardines. | 4 pages or more | 27 | Violet Jardine |
| Applegirth | The Jardine Clan Society | Formed in 1977. Came from France 1066, settled in Anndale; now, branches of the family world wide. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Family History News |
| Archdale | The Genealogical Society of Utah | The history, and the Mormons with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Society has grown to be the largest family history reseach organisation and resource in the world. | 2 pages or more | 28 | Mr Rogers |
| Archives | Scottish Borders Council Archives - Hawick Heritage Hub | Information about the new ‘state of the art’ Council archives due to open in May 2007. | 2 pages or more | 63 | Rachel Hosker |
| Armstrong | The Berwick Sensation | This story would make a very good murder mystery, the research that has gone into this story would be long and time consuming. For anyone interested in Berwick history you should read it. | 3 pages or more | 35 | F. L. Kennington |
| Armstrong | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Armstrong | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Artisans | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 2 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses wages of artisans, workers’ household budget, unemployment, poor relief, and medical assistance. Continued from issue 44, and in issue 46. | 6 pages or more | 45 | Peter Munro |
| Ashton | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser 1855-1900 | A transcription of death notices in rhe local newspaper. There are too many names ot list them all. Only those with extended entries are indexed. | 10 pages or more | 69 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Atcheson | The Dimma and Dickson Families of the Borders Region, Scotland | The Dimma family from Eckford, who they married, and where they settled in Ontario. This is a well researched article into a old Border family. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Thomas Dimma Minster |
| Atkin | Thistle and Shamrock | A very well researched article on family history covering Rutherford, Brown, Atkin, and more. The Irish connection would make it very difficult . | 2 pages or more | 9 | John L. Alton |
| Atkins | So You've Found A Soldier | The trials that you may find looking for your connection with a soldier that was in the British Army. | 2 pages or more | 14 | Capt. John E. Grey |
| Atkinson | Border Marriges Boon for "Priests" and Bane for Searchers | The rise and fall of the "Irregular Marriages" From Gretna to Lamberton. | 4 pages or more | 30 | Northumberland and Durham History Soc. |
| Auchope | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued in issue 42. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Jim Wilson |
| Australia | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Australia | Convicts Transported to Western Australia in 1858 aboard the 'Edwin Fox' | A list of Scottish convicts transported to Australia on the "Edwin Fox". Reprinted from Bedfordshire Family History Society Journal | 2 pages or more | 70 | Lynn Manning |
| Australia | Records of a Noble Life - Rev Archibald William Murray 1811 to 1892 | Born in Jedburgh, he was a missionary to Samoa and New Guinea, afterwards living in Australia till his death. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Ronald Morrison |
| Australia | Australian Intimations in Hawick Advertiser | Deaths 1862-1900, in Australia of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 8 pages or more | 55 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Australia | Harvey Settlers Reunion | This was the evening address to the reunion, about why they were in the Borders and Northumberland, and about the author's Australian cousins. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Australia | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Australia | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Australia | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Australia | Australian Deaths Recorded in the Hawick Advertiser 1854-1873 | A list of people from Hawick who died in or on the way to Australia. Very comprehensive. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Marjory Gavin |
| Australia | Australian Intimations in Hawick Advertiser | Births 1858-1897, Marriages 1854-1900, Deaths 1853-1862, in Australia of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 8 pages or more | 54 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Australia | Journey to Australia | The vivid descriptions of life at sea recorded in James Stewart's diary will be of interest to all of us whose ancestors left these shores in the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 37 | Dr J. B. Sproule |
| Australia | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Ayton | Memories of Ayton | Mrs. Patricia Payne was so interested in the articles on 'The Ayton Bard' that she felt the need to record some of her memories of Ayton before all was forgotten. | less than 1 page | 18 | Patricia Payne |
| Ayton | The Aytons of Ayton | The parish of Ayton from the Norman family De-Vesci who changed their name to Ayton to a history of the village. | 2 pages or more | 17 | James Eaton |
| Ayton | The Breadford Family Search | A tale of family that moved from Northumberland to Berwickshre. All were farm servants some labourers some farm stewards. There are irregular marriages, name changes and a possible pioneering birth using chloroform. | 6 pages or more | 72 | Bill Bradford |
| Ayton | The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Ayton | The Ayton Bard Robert Mennon 1797-1885 | This is a two part article abridged from the book of the title written by A. Michael Mennim. A copy of the complete book together with maps, photgraphs and poems is in Scottish Borders Council Library Headquartors with a family tree | 4 pages or more | 15 | Michael Mennon |
| Bain | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Baird | Rev. John Baird (1799-1861)--Friend of the Gypsies | John Baird was Minister at Kirk Yetholm. He was responsible for the new bridge , rebuilding the Kirk and School. He also educated the Gypsies and brought them into the community. was a founder member of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Donald Whyte |
| Baird | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Baker | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Balaclava | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Balaclava | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Balfour | A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| Balfour | Letters of Slains 1569--A family puzzle | An intriguing tale of death and complaint in 1569. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Jean Smithers |
| Balfour Hays of Yester | Links with old Peebles Families | A investigating search into old Peebles families. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Rena Stewart |
| Ballie | A forgotten village-Huguenot refugees at Polwarth | The story of the Huguenot refugees who landed at Berwick on Tweed and travelling inland alighted on this secluded spot to settle there, is known, perhaps only by their descendants. | 3 pages or more | 6 | Colin Wood |
| Balliol | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Bankhouse | Grantshouse and the Turner family | The history of Grantshouse and one of its sons, James Turner. Continued in issue 28. | 3 pages or more | 27 | James Burns |
| Baptie | Tweedmount House Tweedmount Road Melrose | A great deal of research has gone into this article on a house from when the land was bought to when it was last sold. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Valerie Mackay |
| Barclay | My Barclay Ancestors | The author's great grandfather, Joseph Edgely Barclay, and other relatives. | 2 pages or more | 50 | Liz Butchart |
| Barony | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| Barossa | William Coulthard: Emigrant to South Australia | Captain A. J. Coultherd has sent a moving account of an intrepid explorer who moved to Austrailia in 1836. | less than 1 page | 7 | Alfred J. Coultherd |
| Bartoun | Church and School Connections in the Borders: 1717-1869 and earlier | Account of various Hoy ancestors, many connected with the Church. A lot of research has gone into this. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Charles Hoy |
| Batavia | The Leyden Family | From U.S.A. an article on the name Leyden with particular reference to Dr John Leyden. | less than 1 page | 12 | Ronald Spencer |
| Bathgate | Following in the Footsteps of Robert Redpath. | The story of one man's journey to mine gold in Australia. There is reference to two diaries kept by othe men on the voyage from Glasgow to Townsville, Queensland. | 3 pages or more | 69 | Irene J Redpath |
| Baton Rouge | William Kerr--Portrait of a Canadian Immigrant | John Kerr from Peebles emigrated to America fought in the war Civil War was honorably discharged and settled down to a farmers life. | 1 page or more | 12 | Colin Wood |
| Battle of Chickamauga | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Battle of Murphreesboro | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Battle of Nashville | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Battle of Shiloh | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Baumholder | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Baxter | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Baxter | Who Was Lizzie Jardine ? | The author's start on her family history - mainly ordinary working folk in the Borders. | 3 pages or more | 51 | Carol Trotter |
| Beanburn | The Ayton Bard Robert Mennon 1797-1885 | This is a two part article abridged from the book of the title written by A. Michael Mennim. A copy of the complete book together with maps, photgraphs and poems is in Scottish Borders Council Library Headquartors with a family tree | 4 pages or more | 15 | Michael Mennon |
| Beattie | BEATTIEs | Langholm Archive Centre is looking for Beattie volunteers to take part in a DNA project. Participation is completely free and available to all male Beatties not immediately related who can provide a little family tree information and full results will be made available. | less than 1 page | 67 | Bruce McCartney |
| Beattie | Who was Little Arthur Foster? Elliots at court 1675-1682 | Border Reivers Court sittings in the 1600's. How Cautioners upheld the Law.Also in 5 pages in issue 30 covering the same subject. | 5 pages or more | 29 | Michael Robson |
| Beattie | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Bedrule | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Bedrule | The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Befinells | The Way We Were | Berwickshire farm servants wages from 1751 and how the farm hand had to make the hovel of a house more habitable. It was not the good old days, it was slavery. | 1 page or more | 15 | Colin Wood |
| Beggars badges | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Belfast | Recording the Jardines - A one-name study | 17 years of research of the Jardine Clan Society. A history of the Clan and the worldwide story of the Jardines. | 4 pages or more | 27 | Violet Jardine |
| Belford | Know your Parish--Morebattle | A history of Morebattle Parish. And the surrounding area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Elespeth Ewan |
| Bell | A Rutherfurd family | Notes on the name Rutherfurd taken from the book 'Rutherfurds of that Ilk'. | 2 pages or more | 21 | James Selkirk |
| Bell | Excerpts from the Diaries of the Rev William Bell | Biography of Rev Bell who emigrated from Scotland in 1817 to lead a pioneer life in Perth, in the wilderness of Upper Canada. | 3 pages or more | 48 | Malcolm & Jennifer Sissons |
| Bell | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Bell | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| Bell | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Bell | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Bells | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Belses | Station Master of Belses | How history turned up in a sack of rubbish and some one brought it back to life. | 1 page or more | 15 | Jed Squirrel |
| Belses | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Beltane | Know your parish -Peebles | Arms of the Burgh Chartes. Families. Fairs, Transport A good history of the town and tale or two. | 3 pages or more | 26 | Jean Moffat |
| Bemersyde | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| Bennet | Know your Parish--Morebattle | A history of Morebattle Parish. And the surrounding area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Elespeth Ewan |
| Bennet | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Benrig | Stoddart | Margaret Stoddart, born 1831, and her very interesting history. From stot-herd,one who tended cattle 1376. Earliest mention in Douglas Barony of Buittle. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Berrywell | The Ainslies--Some notes | The name Ainslie, from 1066 onwards, a full and detailed family history. | 1 page or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Berwick | William Lewins 1785-1848 | Account of William Lewins' life. | 1 page or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Berwick | Crossing the Border | Notes on Linda Bankier's talk to the Society on 20th February 2005, mainly about the differences between English and Scottish records, irregular marriages, and the Berwick Record Office's holdings. | 1 page or more | 57 | [Linda Bankier] |
| Berwick | The Story of a Stray | Account of Robert Burgon, a fisherman from Berwick who was drowned in 1850 with William Burgeon, Joseph Cowlin, George Swinton, and the boy David Lyle, and buried in Inverbervie. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Murray Nicoll |
| Berwick | Migration From Glendale To New Brunswick, Canada | Account of the families who migrated from Berwick-upon-Tweed to New Brunswick, Canada, and the hazards they faced. Includes a list of families families with Glendale or Border origins were granted land. | 4 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Berwick | The Berwick Sensation | This story would make a very good murder mystery, the research that has gone into this story would be long and time consuming. For anyone interested in Berwick history you should read it. | 3 pages or more | 35 | F. L. Kennington |
| Berwick | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Berwick on Tweed | Berwick-upon-Tweed Twixt Thistle and Rose-A Family Historian's Nightmare | Locations and types of marriages in and on the Border. Types of sources, also Parish Registers for 18th and 19th century. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Linda Bankier |
| Berwickshire | The Parish Churches Of Berwickshire | A talk by the author given to the Society on 22nd March, 1998. | 5 pages or more | 51 | G A C Binnie |
| Berwickshire | Maps | Brief notes about Borders maps available from the Society, and on the Internet. | 1 page or more | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Berwickshire | CD Review - Kelso Poor House and Ragged School | Interesting review of the content of this much loved publication, and a bit on the social context of the Poor House and the Ragged School in Kelso. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Berwickshire | Bondagers of the Borders | Liz Taylor presented a most informative talk to members of the society, this is a short story of Bondagers. | 1 page or more | 9 | Liz Taylor |
| Berwickshire | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Beveridge | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Bews | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Biggiesknowe | Know your parish -Peebles | Arms of the Burgh Chartes. Families. Fairs, Transport A good history of the town and tale or two. | 3 pages or more | 26 | Jean Moffat |
| Bird | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Bird | Tweedmount House Tweedmount Road Melrose | A great deal of research has gone into this article on a house from when the land was bought to when it was last sold. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Valerie Mackay |
| Birgham | Rob of Trows | Born at Birgham, Rob was a favorite with anglers of all classes "peer and peasant alike". A boatman of great distinction on the Tweed. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Mrs M. E. Mason |
| Birgham | Ecclesiastical Education in Berwickshire What the records have to tell | Ecclesiastical education of Berwickshire and where to find useful information | 2 pages or more | 38 | Dr Charles Hoy |
| Birth | Australian Intimations in Hawick Advertiser | Births 1858-1897, Marriages 1854-1900, Deaths 1853-1862, in Australia of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 8 pages or more | 54 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Birth | American Intimations in the Hawick Advertiser Births 1859-1900 and Marriages 1855-1872 | Births and marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 4 pages or more | 48 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Births | Canadian Intimations in the "Hawick Advertiser" 1855 - 1898 | A list of births and marriages of Canadians intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1898, with brief additional notes on some items. | 4 pages or more | 47 | Marjory Gavin |
| Births | New Zealand Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1861-1896 | Births and marriages, 1861-1896, in New Zealand of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Births | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Black | Who was Gordon Stewart of Hawick? | Intriguing investigation into an adopted great uncle who died in World War I, and turned out to be a blood relative. | 3 pages or more | 65 | Anne Golden |
| Black | Rob of Trows | A very prince of a Tweed boatman. That was the description of Rob by Sir Robert Maxwell in his Book "The Story of the Tweed". | 2 pages or more | 19 | |
| Blackethouse | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Blacksmith | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Blacksmith | Fountainhall Smiddy 1793-1945 | Account of the Hislop / Dick family who worked in the smiddy (blacksmith's shop) for five generations. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Margaret Dick |
| Blacksmiths | The Famous and Infamous of the Jeffrey Family | Absorbing biography of James Jeffrey, son of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Sinton, and his career as a famous gardener. | 3 pages or more | 46 | George Martin |
| Blaikie | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Blaikie | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Blair | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Blake | The Alternative Relationship | The Alternative Relationship and how it can be used. Also an interesting research into the Cavers and Cammond families. | 3 pages or more | 4 | Mrs H. Crammond |
| Blakelaw | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Blindburn | Jean Fleming | A young shepherd gets lost in the snow and is frozen to death. There's also a specification for shepherds boots. | 2 pages or more | 69 | Snowstorm in the Cheviots |
| Blyndlee | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Blyth | The Gypsy King and the President | Relationship between President Clinton and Charles Blyth, king of the gypsies. Reprinted from the Sunday Telegraph. | less than 1 page | 23 | |
| Blythe | Rev. John Baird (1799-1861)--Friend of the Gypsies | John Baird was Minister at Kirk Yetholm. He was responsible for the new bridge , rebuilding the Kirk and School. He also educated the Gypsies and brought them into the community. was a founder member of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Donald Whyte |
| Bombay | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Bookless | A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| boots | Jean Fleming | A young shepherd gets lost in the snow and is frozen to death. There's also a specification for shepherds boots. | 2 pages or more | 69 | Snowstorm in the Cheviots |
| Border Games | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Border Magazine | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| Borders | Scottish Borders Council Archives - Hawick Heritage Hub | Information about the new ‘state of the art’ Council archives due to open in May 2007. | 2 pages or more | 63 | Rachel Hosker |
| Borders | Harvey Settlers Reunion | This was the evening address to the reunion, about why they were in the Borders and Northumberland, and about the author's Australian cousins. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Borders FHS | Borders Family History Society - from its beginning | The story of the foundation and growth of the Borders FHS. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Borders Hardie | Brave Borderland | Connections between the Borders and the Canadian state of Ontario, some poetry, and 2 buses. | 3 pages or more | 63 | Fred Kennington |
| Borrowman | The Descendents of James Borrowman (1744-1813) | The history of the name Borrowman from Edinburgh down to Peebles and beyond, with a pedigree chart. | 2 pages or more | 17 | Philip r Borrowman |
| Borthwick | Is Anybody Out There ? | The author's search for an ancestor's home. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Jean Currie |
| Borthwick | The Banker's Revenge | Extract from the History of Banking in Scotland by A W Kerr concerning some aspects of William Borthwick's behaviour. | less than 1 page | 13 | Colin Woods |
| Borthwick | The Bankers Revenge | The rise and fall of a Bank in East Lothian. | less than 1 page | 10 | A. W. Kerr |
| Borthwick water | Who was Little Arthur Foster? Elliots at court 1675-1682 | Border Reivers Court sittings in the 1600's. How Cautioners upheld the Law.Also in 5 pages in issue 30 covering the same subject. | 5 pages or more | 29 | Michael Robson |
| Boston | The Boston Family of Gattonside | A tale of hand loom weavers from Gattonside who decided to visit a sister in Canada. How they eventually decided to emigrate over to Canada and they walked from New York to Upper Canada. Most of the family are buried in Melrose Church Yard. | 2 pages or more | 39 | M.C.Lawson |
| Bothwell | Know your parish -Peebles | Arms of the Burgh Chartes. Families. Fairs, Transport A good history of the town and tale or two. | 3 pages or more | 26 | Jean Moffat |
| Bovina | From Roxburghshire to Delaware County: The 19th Century Miller Letters - Part 1 | Account of letters written between 1818 and 1864 from Scotland to David Miller (1795-1883), and his wives, and relatives. David Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, a beadle of Roberton Kirk. | 4 pages or more | 64 | John W. Hoy |
| Bowden | The Dimma and Dickson Families of the Borders Region, Scotland | The Dimma family from Eckford, who they married, and where they settled in Ontario. This is a well researched article into a old Border family. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Thomas Dimma Minster |
| Bowden | CD Review - Bowden Monumental Inscriptions | Review of the content of this publication, and suggestions of other useful publications. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Bowden | Bowden School Records | Bowden School admission records from 1872. Also lists their parent or guardian. | 2 pages or more | 25 | |
| Bowden | McKenzie's around the River Ale | An account of McKenzies in and around the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 49 | W E McKenzie |
| Bowden School | Bowden School Records | Transcribed admission register of pupils admitted 1864-1872, showing addresses, dates of birth, and parents. Continued in issue 25. | 2 pages or more | 24 | |
| Bowhill | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Bowie | The Case of Agnes Gray | Taken from the Session Minutes of Melrose Parish Registers (1723-1741) A sad tale of a young girl who was cited to present herself before the Kirk Session. | 1 page or more | 19 | |
| Bowling | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Bowmaker | Bowmakers and Currys in the new world | The history of the Bowmakers and Currys before and after they emigrated to the New World. | 1 page or more | 10 | Norman Bowmaker |
| Bowmaker | Bowmakers and Currys in the New World | Border origins of author's family, and arrivals in New York and Montreal. | 1 page or more | 13 | Norman J Bowmaker |
| Bowshank | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Boyd | The Border Archive-For Queen and County | This is a list of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert Miller |
| Boyd | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Boyle | Douglas of Springwood Park | The name Douglas would run fear into many Englishmen. This distinguished Border family and its history | 3 pages or more | 31 | Donald Whyte |
| Bradford | The Breadford Family Search | A tale of family that moved from Northumberland to Berwickshre. All were farm servants some labourers some farm stewards. There are irregular marriages, name changes and a possible pioneering birth using chloroform. | 6 pages or more | 72 | Bill Bradford |
| Braidford | The Breadford Family Search | A tale of family that moved from Northumberland to Berwickshre. All were farm servants some labourers some farm stewards. There are irregular marriages, name changes and a possible pioneering birth using chloroform. | 6 pages or more | 72 | Bill Bradford |
| Bramton | A Hogarth Family Tree | There came into James Hogarth's possession a manuscript family tree covering seven or eight generations of the Hogarth family, also, where they came from. | 1 page or more | 27 | James Hogarth |
| Brandt | The Homes of Paxton House | A fascinating piece of Borders family history came to light when a 200 year-old Berwickshire mansion was gifted to the nation. Along with the history of the family of Home's. love is a wondrous thing ! | 2 pages or more | 11 | Violet Jardine |
| Branxholm | From Hawick to Kirkpatrick-Durham by way of Moscow | Notes of Grieves of Kirkpatrick-Durham in Kirkcudbrightshire, who were descendants of Walter Grieve of Branxholm Park, most of whom were farmers, but also included two eminent doctors who were physicians to the Russian court in the 18th century. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Linda M Chapman |
| Brewster | James Veitch - Border Astronomer | Shot extract of a talk given by Mr. Bill Veitch to the Society on the 15th of May 1994. | less than 1 page | 26 | Bill Veitch |
| Brewster | William Lorrain-Borders Schoolmaster | During the last war attics were cleared of paper and, from an attic in Jedburgh there appeared a collection of papers concerning the Rector of Jedburgh Grammar School, William Lorrain. | less than 1 page | 27 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Brice | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| Brisbane house | Sir Thomas Brisbane | From a request to Kelso Museum for details on Sir Thomas Brisbane. A history of Makerston and the City of Brisbane He was also a keen astronomer. Very interesting. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Zilla Oddy |
| British Linen Bank | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Brittain | Station Master of Belses | How history turned up in a sack of rubbish and some one brought it back to life. | 1 page or more | 15 | Jed Squirrel |
| Brixton | Forgotten Borderers--Andrew Walker (1808-1896) | Andrew Walker, born Earlston, worked at Newton Don and moved eventually to Camden and started a Ragged School. He emigrated to Troy in New York and died there. | less than 1 page | 30 | |
| Broadlee | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Broderbund | Family Tree Maker | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Unsworth |
| Broderbund | Family Tree Maker Online | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program with the Internet | 2 pages or more | 40 | Allan McVittie |
| Brodie | Life in Melrose--150 years ago | This is the account of family life in Melrose in the first half of last century, from an autobiography of Catherine Helen Spence. | 3 pages or more | 11 | Colin Wood |
| Brodies | Life in Melrose--150 years ago | This is the account of family life in Melrose in the first half of last century, from an autobiography of Catherine Helen Spence. | 3 pages or more | 11 | Colin Wood |
| Brogdale | Forgotten Borderers | James Grieve and his interesting contribution to the lowly apple. | 1 page or more | 28 | Jean M. Smith |
| Brook | Travellers Tales in the Borders | This is the text of Fred's talk to the Society on 25th April 2004. Absorbing review of public road transport in the Borders mainly in the 20th century. | 9 pages or more | 55 | Fred Kennington |
| Brooke | Sidelines on the Borders Railway | Nowadays, the only railway line in the Borders is the main east coast line in Berwickshire. Lady Gibson has discovered, however, that the history of the railways has plenty of interest for family historians. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jane Gibson |
| Broomiesdyke | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued in issue 42. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Jim Wilson |
| Brown | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Brown | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| Brown | My dig into the Past | How a birthday party of Melrose Bridge led to a very interesting tale of one man's family search. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Mr Turner |
| Brown | One of the many Brown Families | A family tree of Browns in Galashiels, Selkirk areas. | 1 page or more | 26 | I.M. Brown |
| Brown | Who was Little Arthur Foster? Elliots at court 1675-1682 | Border Reivers Court sittings in the 1600's. How Cautioners upheld the Law.Also in 5 pages in issue 30 covering the same subject. | 5 pages or more | 29 | Michael Robson |
| Brown | Strayed far from Berwickshire | This is a small article on Berwickshire strays in the township of Canden East in the county of Lennox and Addington in Ontario, Canada. | 2 pages or more | 30 | G.H. Jeffery |
| Brown | Adam moves to the Borders | Adam Brown bought a small plot of land in West Linton in 1839 after which he emigrated to Australia with seven of his nine children-this story covers their history. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Helen M. Booth |
| Brown | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Brown | Canadian Strays | Some discoveries of Lowland strays from Grey township, Ontario | 1 page or more | 30 | J. Hislop |
| Brown | Thistle and Shamrock | A very well researched article on family history covering Rutherford, Brown, Atkin, and more. The Irish connection would make it very difficult . | 2 pages or more | 9 | John L. Alton |
| Brown | Australian Deaths Recorded in the Hawick Advertiser 1854-1873 | A list of people from Hawick who died in or on the way to Australia. Very comprehensive. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Marjory Gavin |
| Brown | Bowden School Records | Bowden School admission records from 1872. Also lists their parent or guardian. | 2 pages or more | 25 | |
| Brown | My dig into the past | Peebleshire family and from other parts of the Borders, an interesting tale. Also history of various bridges over the Tweed. | 3 pages or more | 34 | A. Turner |
| Brown | The Case of Agnes Gray | Taken from the Session Minutes of Melrose Parish Registers (1723-1741) A sad tale of a young girl who was cited to present herself before the Kirk Session. | 1 page or more | 19 | |
| Browne | The People of the Lammermuirs | Detailed history of the Lammermuirs from Celtic times to the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 23 | Norrie McLeish |
| Browning | Kings Own Scottish Borderers | A list of men who died in the Boer War in outlying places. | 1 page or more | 32 | Helen Rreichenbach |
| Bruce | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| Brunton | Roxburgh Here ! | Extract from the memoirs of the late John Fairbairn, born 28th March 1912, married in 1937, who died on 20th July 2003. He worked for the Kelso Chronicle, and later was the editor of the Hobart Mercury, Tasmania. | 4 pages or more | 54 | John Fairbairn |
| Brydon | The Border Archive-For Queen and County | This is a list of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert Miller |
| Brydon | Mike Brydon | Biopic of Mike Brydon, then Vice-Chairman of the Society. | 1 page or more | 40 | Mike Brydon |
| Brydon | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Brymer | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Buchan | The Altarstone at Stobo | Stobo Slate Quarry "inferior to no slate whatever". Also a connection to Merlin and Arthur. | 1 page or more | 10 | Isobel Jardine |
| Buchan | The Tweedsmuir Connection | Report of the society's summer outing to Upper Tweeddale. | 1 page or more | 13 | Violet Jardine |
| Buckholm | Thistle and Shamrock | A very well researched article on family history covering Rutherford, Brown, Atkin, and more. The Irish connection would make it very difficult . | 2 pages or more | 9 | John L. Alton |
| Buglass | A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| Bukles | Letters of Slains 1569--A family puzzle | An intriguing tale of death and complaint in 1569. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Jean Smithers |
| Bunzie | The Case of Agnes Gray | Taken from the Session Minutes of Melrose Parish Registers (1723-1741) A sad tale of a young girl who was cited to present herself before the Kirk Session. | 1 page or more | 19 | |
| Burgeon | The Story of a Stray | Account of Robert Burgon, a fisherman from Berwick who was drowned in 1850 with William Burgeon, Joseph Cowlin, George Swinton, and the boy David Lyle, and buried in Inverbervie. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Murray Nicoll |
| Burgon | The Story of a Stray | Account of Robert Burgon, a fisherman from Berwick who was drowned in 1850 with William Burgeon, Joseph Cowlin, George Swinton, and the boy David Lyle, and buried in Inverbervie. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Murray Nicoll |
| Burial | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Burials | Death is for the Living | Second part of the talk given to the Society on 15th September 2002. | 7 pages or more | 52 | Anne Gordon |
| Burials | Death is for the Living | The first part of the talk given to the Society on 15th September 2002. | 7 pages or more | 51 | Anne Gordon |
| Burke | The Berwick Sensation | This story would make a very good murder mystery, the research that has gone into this story would be long and time consuming. For anyone interested in Berwick history you should read it. | 3 pages or more | 35 | F. L. Kennington |
| Burnet | The Reverand Alexander Naughley | A very interesting account of a Parish Clergyman from Stow to Threlkeld and his life story. | 2 pages or more | 31 | Eddie Wren |
| Burnett | Old Uncle | Brief biopic about Alexander Virtue, sometime schoolmaster at Nenthorn. | less than 1 page | 20 | Margery V. Turnbull |
| Burns | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Burns | The Kidstons of Stow | A very comprehensive account of the early Rev. Kidston from Stow and their thirteen children and who they married | 1 page or more | 12 | John Kidston Tait |
| Burns | The Berwick Sensation | This story would make a very good murder mystery, the research that has gone into this story would be long and time consuming. For anyone interested in Berwick history you should read it. | 3 pages or more | 35 | F. L. Kennington |
| Bus | Travellers Tales in the Borders | This is the text of Fred's talk to the Society on 25th April 2004. Absorbing review of public road transport in the Borders mainly in the 20th century. | 9 pages or more | 55 | Fred Kennington |
| Caberston | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Caddonfoot | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| Caddonfoot | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Cadell | Wisdom lingers: Adventures of an ex-officer | From 1908 the Territorial movement through the First World War. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Stanly Gordon Ayer |
| Cairncross | The Cairncross family - an example of a 16th-17th century family of feuars | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society on 18th September 2005 titled 'Cairncross, a Border Family'. Outline of a typical noted old family in the Lauderdale/Melrose/Galashiels district, with descriptions of some of the local areas and ownership. | 12 pages or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Cairns | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Calder | The Descendents of James Borrowman (1744-1813) | The history of the name Borrowman from Edinburgh down to Peebles and beyond, with a pedigree chart. | 2 pages or more | 17 | Philip r Borrowman |
| Calgary | Early Days | Excerpts from the account of early years of her marrige written by Mrs Minerve Gibson from Calgary, Alberta, in 1980 at the age of 107. | 3 pages or more | 19 | Jane Gibson |
| California | Thomas Lewins 1816-1858 | Account of Thomas Lewins' life, emigration to Canada, his family, and eventual re-migration to California. | 7 pages or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Cambrai | After Gallipoli | After Gallipoli was written as a sequel to "For King and Country" and the Scottish Borderers and continues the story of the 1/4 th (Border) Battalion the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. | 3 pages or more | 21 | Gavin Richardson |
| Cameron | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Cameron | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Cameron | Canadian Strays | Some discoveries of Lowland strays from Grey township, Ontario | 1 page or more | 30 | J. Hislop |
| Cameron | Strayed far from Berwickshire | This is a small article on Berwickshire strays in the township of Canden East in the county of Lennox and Addington in Ontario, Canada. | 2 pages or more | 30 | G.H. Jeffery |
| Cameron | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| Cameron | Wisdom lingers: Adventures of an ex-officer | From 1908 the Territorial movement through the First World War. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Stanly Gordon Ayer |
| Cameron | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Cammond | The Alternative Relationship | The Alternative Relationship and how it can be used. Also an interesting research into the Cavers and Cammond families. | 3 pages or more | 4 | Mrs H. Crammond |
| Campbell | Polwarth on the Green | A history of Polwarth that was handed out by Colin Wood on the outing to Polwarth, Oct 1988. | 1 page or more | 8 | Colin Wood |
| Campbell | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| Campbell | Strayed far from Berwickshire | This is a small article on Berwickshire strays in the township of Canden East in the county of Lennox and Addington in Ontario, Canada. | 2 pages or more | 30 | G.H. Jeffery |
| Campbell-Renton | A walk around Foulden in the thirties and forties | The following article was written by Jean Greenland for her granddaughters. She lived in the Manse at Foulden and traveled mostly on foot to all the surrounding area with her parents. Very good. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Mrs. Jean Greenland |
| Canada | Thomas Lewins 1816-1858 | Account of Thomas Lewins' life, emigration to Canada, his family, and eventual re-migration to California. | 7 pages or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Canada | Excerpts from the Diaries of the Rev William Bell | Biography of Rev Bell who emigrated from Scotland in 1817 to lead a pioneer life in Perth, in the wilderness of Upper Canada. | 3 pages or more | 48 | Malcolm & Jennifer Sissons |
| Canada | Kennington/Cowe Family History | The story of the family's arrival in Berwickshire and their life there until they departed to Canada | 9 pages or more | 70 | Fred Kennington |
| Canada | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Canada | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Canada | More Canadian Intimations in the Hawick Advertiser 1864-1868 | List of deaths in Canada mainly of persons who had connections with Hawick and the surrounding area. | 1 page or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Canada | The Dumma Family of Kelso | James Dumma, born 1790, in Kelso; Helen Hay, and their descendants, many of whom went to England, USA, and Canada. | 2 pages or more | 48 | Shirley Dumma |
| Canada | A Tale of Two Sisters | A Wanless family’s emigration from Yetholm to Canada. | 3 pages or more | 49 | Gordon Roy Fairbairn |
| Canada | Two stories of 19th century emigration to Australia and New Zealand | Two stories from the 19th century of emigration to the New World. Andrew Rutherford and his family. | less than 1 page | 12 | Elsie Ahrens |
| Canada | Migration From Glendale To New Brunswick, Canada | Account of the families who migrated from Berwick-upon-Tweed to New Brunswick, Canada, and the hazards they faced. Includes a list of families families with Glendale or Border origins were granted land. | 4 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Canada | The Lowland Clearances | Talk given on 19 November 2006, about the Lowland Clearances which preceded the much more infamous Highland Clearances. | 7 pages or more | 66 | Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell |
| Canada | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| Canada | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Canada | Canadian Intimations in the "Hawick Advertiser" 1857 – 1863 | Deaths extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued in issue 43. | 1 page or more | 40 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Canada | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Canada Hardie | Brave Borderland | Connections between the Borders and the Canadian state of Ontario, some poetry, and 2 buses. | 3 pages or more | 63 | Fred Kennington |
| Canadian Expeditionary Force | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Cannobie | My Namesake | About the Telford family from the Hawick area. He moved around from Langlee, Ancrum. They were buried in Melrose | less than 1 page | 3 | Helen (Telford) Reichenbach |
| Canonbie | Update on Surnames and Clansmen | Additional notes, about the lands of Fantalane, relating to the author's book. | 1 page or more | 43 | Michael Robson |
| Canonbie | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Cape Town | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Captain Widderington | Who was Little Arthur Foster? Elliots at court 1675-1682 | Border Reivers Court sittings in the 1600's. How Cautioners upheld the Law.Also in 5 pages in issue 30 covering the same subject. | 5 pages or more | 29 | Michael Robson |
| Cardigan | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Carham | Who am I | History of the Cockburns who all came from Duns parish. It also looks into the history of Edinshall Broch. | 1 page or more | 37 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Carnegie | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Carolside | Whiteslade, Berwickshire, and its Owners | Many have seen this ruin on the way from Greenlaw to Lauder, and often wondered about the history of this once great fortress. This article covers it magnificently. | 2 pages or more | 31 | G.M.S. Lauder Frost |
| Carr | A Stitch in Time | Account of a sampler and the search for its creator in the family tree. | 1 page or more | 47 | Patricia Williamson |
| Castleton | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Castletown | Hermitage - Grim Guardian of the Borders | History of Hermitage castle and its occupants. Continued in issue 14. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Castletown | Hermitage---Grim Guardian of the Borders- | The history of Hermitage Castle and its inhabitants from 1207 right through. Continued in the issue 11. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Catherine Glen | Adam moves to the Borders | Adam Brown bought a small plot of land in West Linton in 1839 after which he emigrated to Australia with seven of his nine children-this story covers their history. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Helen M. Booth |
| Catherine II | The Barons Folly | The Barons Folly at Lilliards Edge. Built by Sir John Rutherford of Edgerston. He was a Russian Baron. It was as a banker he first made his mark and connections with the Russian navy, he made his fortune. | 2 pages or more | 38 | John D. Wood |
| Caverhill | John Ainslie Map Maker | John Ainslie who was described at a conference in Edinburgh in 1971 as Scotland's greatest cartographer. | 2 pages or more | 4 | C.M. Ainslie |
| Cavers | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Cavers | A quest for Scottish Roots in the Middle Marches | This article was first printed in the Laidlaw Family Journal of October 1995 and has been reprinted in this issue. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Kenneth Laidlaw |
| Cavers | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Cavers | The Ainslies--Some notes | The name Ainslie, from 1066 onwards, a full and detailed family history. | 1 page or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Cavers | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Cavers | William Elliot, Architect | The family history of William Elliot and descriptions of some of the fine house's he built. | 3 pages or more | 15 | Kathleen Stewart |
| Cavers | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Cavers | The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Cawderstanes | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Census | The Clovenfords District and the Census | Clovenfords and notable residents mainly in the 19th century. | 4 pages or more | 48 | Mike Brydon |
| Census | Borders Family History Inaugural Lecture | Inaugural talk on the basic sources for looking into your family history. Dealing with Parochial Registers. Census returns, etc. | 5 pages or more | 1 | Donald Whyte |
| Census | Longformacus | A cautionary tale from 1871 and some extracts from the school log book, | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Cessford | Borders family origins | Border family origins, surname derivations, and various aspects of family history . | 1 page or more | 33 | Michael Robson |
| Chamberlin | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth century | The burgh of Selkirk, their trades, who controlled them. The baillies sergents and how they came into being. Continued from issue 25. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Peter Symms |
| Chandler | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| Channelkirk | Lauder and Lauderdale | This is the text of the talk given by Ian Miller, president of Old Gala House on the 18th April 1999 | 5 pages or more | 41 | Ian Miller |
| Chaplehope | A quest for Scottish Roots in the Middle Marches | This article was first printed in the Laidlaw Family Journal of October 1995 and has been reprinted in this issue. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Kenneth Laidlaw |
| Charteris | Old Emigrant’s Diaries | Extract from diary of Margaret Charteris, wife of Thomas Hinshelwood, emigrant from Jedburgh, ship ‘Nebo’, to Queensland, in 1883. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Jane Gibson |
| Chatton | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Chatton | Bowmakers and Currys in the new world | The history of the Bowmakers and Currys before and after they emigrated to the New World. | 1 page or more | 10 | Norman Bowmaker |
| Chelsea | So You've Found A Soldier | The trials that you may find looking for your connection with a soldier that was in the British Army. | 2 pages or more | 14 | Capt. John E. Grey |
| Chelsea | Old soldiers of the eighteenth century | This is a list and some extracts from War Office records at the Public Record Office at Kew. If you are studying shoemakers - read this. | 1 page or more | 11 | E. A. Gray |
| Chelsea Hospital | Ways of Arguing in the Social Sciences | This article is an extended version of a talk given to the Society on 17th September 2000, and follows an earlier article in the "Scottish Genealogist" in 1997 on the theme of methods of approach for family history researchers. Uses Hoy ancestors for examples. | 3 pages or more | 46 | Charles Hoy |
| Cherrytrees | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Cheswick | Mrs Euphemia Voy | Obituary of Euphemia Voy, first wife of William Voy, who died at Coldstream on 24th March 1891. | 1 page or more | 23 | Benjamin Moody |
| Chevy Chase | Life in Melrose--150 years ago | This is the account of family life in Melrose in the first half of last century, from an autobiography of Catherine Helen Spence. | 3 pages or more | 11 | Colin Wood |
| Chiholm | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Children | An act anent murthering of children | Act of Assembly May 26th 1762 for reading the 21st Act of Parliament of the second session of parliament of King William and Queen Mary dated July 19th 1690 about murdering of children. | less than 1 page | 21 | Margaret Steele |
| Chile | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Chirnside | Cockburns face to face | Cockburns and there likeness seems to have been the great asset of this family. From 1650 onwards this family have a interesting history. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Anne Cockburn |
| Chirnside | Life in Melrose--150 years ago | This is the account of family life in Melrose in the first half of last century, from an autobiography of Catherine Helen Spence. | 3 pages or more | 11 | Colin Wood |
| Chirnside | The Breadford Family Search | A tale of family that moved from Northumberland to Berwickshre. All were farm servants some labourers some farm stewards. There are irregular marriages, name changes and a possible pioneering birth using chloroform. | 6 pages or more | 72 | Bill Bradford |
| Chirnside | Border Murders | This is a stroll around the Borders looking into, with some depth, the murders in the 1800s. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Norrie Mcleish |
| Chirnside | Letters of Slains 1569--A family puzzle | An intriguing tale of death and complaint in 1569. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Jean Smithers |
| Chirnside | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Part 1 of an account of George Henderson of Chirnside, a medical doctor, who also found time for his interests in local history and customs, botany and poetry. | 12 pages or more | 62 | |
| Chirnside | The Ayton Bard Robert Mennon 1797-1885 | This is a two part article abridged from the book of the title written by A. Michael Mennim. A copy of the complete book together with maps, photgraphs and poems is in Scottish Borders Council Library Headquartors with a family tree | 4 pages or more | 15 | Michael Mennon |
| Chisholm | The Chisholms: Highland Names in the Borders? | This is not just about the Chisholms, it delves into place names in the Borders, why they changed their names and the Highland connections. | 4 pages or more | 28 | Michael Robson |
| Chisholm | The Chisholm Highland Connection | The story of the Chisholm family, their involvement in medieval wars and their move from the Borders to the Highlands. | 5 pages or more | 73 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Cholera | William Lewins 1785-1848 | Account of William Lewins' life. | 1 page or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Christening | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Christison | Border - Line Experiences Of a Canadian Researcher | The Ainslie born in Lilliesleaf and how a trip from Canada to research the family. It ended in a book. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert L. Morden |
| Church | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Church | Full of Egotism, Diaries of Rev John Hastie | This is the text of Ronald's talk to the Society on 21st March 2004. It was about a diary which should appeal to those with an interest in local history, a snapshot of life in a rural Parish between 1797 and 1822, and for those connected to Edrom - an opportunity to ‘meet the ancestor’. | 2 pages or more | 55 | Ronald Morrison |
| Churches | The Parish Churches Of Berwickshire | A talk by the author given to the Society on 22nd March, 1998. | 5 pages or more | 51 | G A C Binnie |
| Clark | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Clark | The Pedigree of the Selkirk Family of Selkirk , Scotland | A family tree of the Selkirk Family. | 2 pages or more | 2 | James Selkirk |
| Clark | North Dumfries, Ontario | North Dumfries, Ontario - how John Clark set up and built a settlement. | 1 page or more | 31 | Mr G. Clark |
| Clark | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Clark | From Crosslee to Salt Lake City | The journry of William Scott Clark from Ettrick to Idaho. | 2 pages or more | 71 | George Clark |
| Clark | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Clavering Place, Newcastle | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This article, reprinted by permission of Northumberland and Durham FHS, is a list of persons in communion rolls, who had moved from the Scottish Borders. | 1 page or more | 20 | Don Mason |
| Clay | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Clay Station | Thomas Lewins 1816-1858 | Account of Thomas Lewins' life, emigration to Canada, his family, and eventual re-migration to California. | 7 pages or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Clearances | The Lowland Clearances | Talk given on 19 November 2006, about the Lowland Clearances which preceded the much more infamous Highland Clearances. | 7 pages or more | 66 | Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell |
| Cleghorn | Marth’s Marmalad and Diet Loaf | Some letters which brought life to the bare bones of the author's family tree. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Marjorie Dybeck |
| Cleughbrae | Miriam Fish | One of the band of grave yard inscription recorders, she gives a interesting description of her youth. | 1 page or more | 31 | Miriam Fish |
| Clevland | Ednam and Captain Cook | A Cleveland lady spent time and effort tracing Captain Cook. Herein lies the Ednam Connection | less than 1 page | 25 | John Newlands |
| Clinton | The Gypsy King and the President | Relationship between President Clinton and Charles Blyth, king of the gypsies. Reprinted from the Sunday Telegraph. | less than 1 page | 23 | |
| Clovenfords | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Clovenfords | The Clovenfords District and the Census | Clovenfords and notable residents mainly in the 19th century. | 4 pages or more | 48 | Mike Brydon |
| Cobbler | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Coburn | Strayed far from Berwickshire | This is a small article on Berwickshire strays in the township of Canden East in the county of Lennox and Addington in Ontario, Canada. | 2 pages or more | 30 | G.H. Jeffery |
| Cochrane | K.O.S.B. Memories | This is a look at the talk given by Gavin Richardson, who must be the best informed on the first world war and Gallipoli. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Gavin Richardson |
| Cockburn | Whiteslade, Berwickshire, and its Owners | Many have seen this ruin on the way from Greenlaw to Lauder, and often wondered about the history of this once great fortress. This article covers it magnificently. | 2 pages or more | 31 | G.M.S. Lauder Frost |
| Cockburn | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Cockburn | Who am I | History of the Cockburns who all came from Duns parish. It also looks into the history of Edinshall Broch. | 1 page or more | 37 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Cockburn | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Cockburn | Cockburns of that ilk | The origins of Cockburns in Berwickshire | 3 pages or more | 36 | Russell Wilson Cockburn |
| Cockburn | A Cockburn Family in Berwickshire and Its Descendants - The Book | The author's Cockburn family history - mostly recent. | 3 pages or more | 24 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Cockburn Castle | Cockburns face to face | Cockburns and there likeness seems to have been the great asset of this family. From 1650 onwards this family have a interesting history. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Anne Cockburn |
| Cockburn Law | Cockburns of that ilk | The origins of Cockburns in Berwickshire | 3 pages or more | 36 | Russell Wilson Cockburn |
| Cockburnspath | Kennington/Cowe Family History. Part 2 - Emigration to New Brunswick 1837 - James Cowe & Isabella Donaldson | Details of the lives of further branches of the Cowe family including one that emigrated to New Brunswick. | 6 pages or more | 71 | Fred Kennington |
| Cockburnspath | Kennington/Cowe Family History | The story of the family's arrival in Berwickshire and their life there until they departed to Canada | 9 pages or more | 70 | Fred Kennington |
| Coldingham | Liddles Abroad | Family pictures awaken an intrest in family history. The author made contact with relatives in Australia, descendants of a blacksmith who'd emigrated fron Heughhead, Reston. | 2 pages or more | 72 | Bill Stewart |
| Coldingham | The Aytons of Ayton | The parish of Ayton from the Norman family De-Vesci who changed their name to Ayton to a history of the village. | 2 pages or more | 17 | James Eaton |
| Coldingham | The Breadford Family Search | A tale of family that moved from Northumberland to Berwickshre. All were farm servants some labourers some farm stewards. There are irregular marriages, name changes and a possible pioneering birth using chloroform. | 6 pages or more | 72 | Bill Bradford |
| Coldingham | Coldingham mortcloth records | The mortcloth records are fascinating as they list every occasion when a mortcloth was hired out for a burial. This covers the Coldingham mortcloth. | 1 page or more | 28 | Vivienne S. Dunstan |
| Coldingham | From Coldstream to Canada | The Galbraith history from Coldstream to Toronto University. A comprehensive account of the Galbraiths. | 3 pages or more | 26 | James Burns |
| Coldingham priory | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Coldstream | Border Marriges Boon for "Priests" and Bane for Searchers | The rise and fall of the "Irregular Marriages" From Gretna to Lamberton. | 4 pages or more | 30 | Northumberland and Durham History Soc. |
| Coldstream | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Coldstream | Poor Relief in the 1840s | A review of the operation of the poor relief in the early 19th century. It includes the size of the allwances paid and an estimate of the cost of living at the time. | 4 pages or more | 71 | Peter Munro |
| Coldstream | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Coldstream | Female Suffrage by "Titwillow" | This article was first published in a family magazine produced and edited by his grandfather Robert Hogg who farmed at Fireburnmill Coldstream. | 4 pages or more | 38 | John C. Gill |
| Coldstream | Old soldiers of the eighteenth century | This is a list and some extracts from War Office records at the Public Record Office at Kew. If you are studying shoemakers - read this. | 1 page or more | 11 | E. A. Gray |
| Coldstream | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| Coldstream | Poor Relief in the 1840s | Talk given at the Society’s Open Meeting on 16th September 2001, about how poor relief cases were determined, and how much they received in 1843 in Coldstream. | 4 pages or more | 47 | Peter Munro |
| Coldstream | Border Marriage Records | The history of Irregular Marriages up and down the country. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Donald Whyte |
| Coldstream | From Simprim Kirk session records 1705--A case of Drunkenness | Drink was the downfall of two friends after a session in Coldstream in 1705. | 1 page or more | 7 | Colin Wood |
| Coldstream | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Coldstream | Berwick-upon-Tweed Twixt Thistle and Rose-A Family Historian's Nightmare | Locations and types of marriages in and on the Border. Types of sources, also Parish Registers for 18th and 19th century. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Linda Bankier |
| Coldstream | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Coldstream | Jerdan Family History | The family history of the Jerdans, who they married, and where they lived in the Borders. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Fred Kennington |
| Coldstream | Notes on the Halliburton Family | The Halliburton family who were well known landowners in the Borders from the 13th to 18th centuries. The Halliburtons intermarried with other well known Border families. | 2 pages or more | 6 | C.D. Wickenden |
| Coldstream | Kelso's Ragged school | Case histories and fate of children in the 1800s who went to a Ragged School. These three names from the excellent book that Audrey has written will make you want to purchase this book. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Cole | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Colingham | Grantshouse and the Turner family | The history of Grantshouse and one of its sons, James Turner. Continued in issue 28. | 3 pages or more | 27 | James Burns |
| Collingwood | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Collison | A Stitch in Time | Account of a sampler and the search for its creator in the family tree. | 1 page or more | 47 | Patricia Williamson |
| Colmeslie | The Cairncross family - an example of a 16th-17th century family of feuars | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society on 18th September 2005 titled 'Cairncross, a Border Family'. Outline of a typical noted old family in the Lauderdale/Melrose/Galashiels district, with descriptions of some of the local areas and ownership. | 12 pages or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Colombo | The Descendents of James Borrowman (1744-1813) | The history of the name Borrowman from Edinburgh down to Peebles and beyond, with a pedigree chart. | 2 pages or more | 17 | Philip r Borrowman |
| Coltbridge | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Coltman | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Coltman | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Colvile | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Commercial Bank | The Walter Mason Papers | The Walter Mason Papers. This is a brief description of the collection held by the museum services of Scottish Borders Council. | 1 page or more | 19 | Walter Elliot |
| Commercial Bank | Selkirk Protocol Books. An amazing Discovery | A hidden hoard of 16th and 17th century documents from Selkirk. | less than 1 page | 7 | |
| Commissary | Wills and Testaments | Scots law on wills and testaments-the difference. With a good description on how and where to find information on the subject. | 3 pages or more | 22 | James Galbraith |
| Common Riding | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Common-land | The Lowland Clearances | Talk given on 19 November 2006, about the Lowland Clearances which preceded the much more infamous Highland Clearances. | 7 pages or more | 66 | Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell |
| Communion Rolls | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This article, reprinted by permission of Northumberland and Durham FHS, is a list of persons in communion rolls, who had moved from the Scottish Borders. | 1 page or more | 20 | Don Mason |
| Compton | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Computers | Family Tree Maker | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Unsworth |
| Confederate States Army | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Conklin | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Conquergood | A Remarkable Coincidence | Anecdote of a visit to the Society's library. | less than 1 page | 40 | Mike Brydon |
| Conroy | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Convicts | Convicts Transported to Western Australia in 1858 aboard the 'Edwin Fox' | A list of Scottish convicts transported to Australia on the "Edwin Fox". Reprinted from Bedfordshire Family History Society Journal | 2 pages or more | 70 | Lynn Manning |
| Cook | Grantshouse and the Turner family | The history of Grantshouse and one of its sons, James Turner. Continued in issue 28. | 3 pages or more | 27 | James Burns |
| Cook | James Thomson, Capt. James Cook R.N., Ednam and Cleveland | The connection of Rev. James Thomson and Capt. Cook with the village of Ednam. | 1 page or more | 27 | P. D. Thomson |
| Cook | Captain Cook's Border Background | The history of Captain James Cook and the Ednam connection. | 1 page or more | 6 | Dr Jim Trainer |
| Cook | Ednam and Captain Cook | A Cleveland lady spent time and effort tracing Captain Cook. Herein lies the Ednam Connection | less than 1 page | 25 | John Newlands |
| Copeland | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued from issue 41. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Jim Wilson |
| Coppin | Thomas Lewins 1816-1858 | Account of Thomas Lewins' life, emigration to Canada, his family, and eventual re-migration to California. | 7 pages or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Cormack | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Cornelius | Migration From Glendale To New Brunswick, Canada | Account of the families who migrated from Berwick-upon-Tweed to New Brunswick, Canada, and the hazards they faced. Includes a list of families families with Glendale or Border origins were granted land. | 4 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Cornhill | Anderson Family Legend | Three brothers shared their last sixpence at Kelso Fair and then parted company. How a lady searched for relatives | less than 1 page | 8 | Mrs. Steele |
| Cornhill | The Alternative Relationship | The Alternative Relationship and how it can be used. Also an interesting research into the Cavers and Cammond families. | 3 pages or more | 4 | Mrs H. Crammond |
| Cornhill | William Lewins 1785-1848 | Account of William Lewins' life. | 1 page or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Cornhill | Berwick-upon-Tweed Twixt Thistle and Rose-A Family Historian's Nightmare | Locations and types of marriages in and on the Border. Types of sources, also Parish Registers for 18th and 19th century. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Linda Bankier |
| Cornhill | Border Marriage Records | The history of Irregular Marriages up and down the country. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Donald Whyte |
| Cost | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Cost of living | Poor Relief in the 1840s | A review of the operation of the poor relief in the early 19th century. It includes the size of the allwances paid and an estimate of the cost of living at the time. | 4 pages or more | 71 | Peter Munro |
| Coultherd | William Coulthard: Emigrant to South Australia | Captain A. J. Coultherd has sent a moving account of an intrepid explorer who moved to Austrailia in 1836. | less than 1 page | 7 | Alfred J. Coultherd |
| Coupar | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| Cout of Keelder | Hermitage - Grim Guardian of the Borders | History of Hermitage castle and its occupants. Continued in issue 14. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Covenanters | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Covin | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Covington | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Cowan | North Dumfries, Ontario | North Dumfries, Ontario - how John Clark set up and built a settlement. | 1 page or more | 31 | Mr G. Clark |
| Cowan | My dig into the Past | How a birthday party of Melrose Bridge led to a very interesting tale of one man's family search. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Mr Turner |
| Cowe | Kennington/Cowe Family History. Part 2 - Emigration to New Brunswick 1837 - James Cowe & Isabella Donaldson | Details of the lives of further branches of the Cowe family including one that emigrated to New Brunswick. | 6 pages or more | 71 | Fred Kennington |
| Cowe | Kennington/Cowe Family History | The story of the family's arrival in Berwickshire and their life there until they departed to Canada | 9 pages or more | 70 | Fred Kennington |
| Cowe | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Cowie | Susanna Pringle's Birthday book | This Pringle tale goes from Browndeanlaw to Yetholm, London, New Brunswick and beyond-very interesting. | 4 pages or more | 16 | Maxine Flaherty |
| Cowlin | The Story of a Stray | Account of Robert Burgon, a fisherman from Berwick who was drowned in 1850 with William Burgeon, Joseph Cowlin, George Swinton, and the boy David Lyle, and buried in Inverbervie. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Murray Nicoll |
| Cown | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Crafts | The Ancient Crafts of Selkirk | The history of crafts in Selkirk from 1113 with the building of the Border abbeys through to the Union of the Crowns. | 1 page or more | 32 | Jim Newlands |
| Craig | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Craig | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Craige Knowe | Know your parish Longformacus | The history, and how Longformacus got its name. Its population and parish records. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Craik | Notes on the Ancestry of the Ettrick Shepherd | James Hogg (1770-1835) where he and his ancestors lived in the Borders, also who they married. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Donald Wyte |
| Crailing | A grave look at the Borders | This must be one of the great stories ever to be printed in our magazine - it is the story of grave snatchers, and how one brave chap got his just reward. | 4 pages or more | 21 | Ian Abernethy |
| Crailing | Rob of Trows | Born at Birgham, Rob was a favorite with anglers of all classes "peer and peasant alike". A boatman of great distinction on the Tweed. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Mrs M. E. Mason |
| Crailing | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Crailing | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Crailing | William Elliot, Architect | The family history of William Elliot and descriptions of some of the fine house's he built. | 3 pages or more | 15 | Kathleen Stewart |
| Cram | A DNA Revelation | The author's discovery of a direct link to a blood cousin with the name of CRAM, and the surmise that CRAMMOND got shortened along the passage of time. | less than 1 page | 57 | Gordon Crammond |
| Crammon | The Crammond Family of Smailholm | Notes about a Crammond family of Smailholm and their children. | 1 page or more | 57 | Hazel Crammond |
| Crammond | The Crammond Family of Smailholm | Notes about a Crammond family of Smailholm and their children. | 1 page or more | 57 | Hazel Crammond |
| Crammond | A DNA Revelation | The author's discovery of a direct link to a blood cousin with the name of CRAM, and the surmise that CRAMMOND got shortened along the passage of time. | less than 1 page | 57 | Gordon Crammond |
| Cramond | Know your parish -Peebles | Arms of the Burgh Chartes. Families. Fairs, Transport A good history of the town and tale or two. | 3 pages or more | 26 | Jean Moffat |
| Cranshaws | Abbey St Bathans, Cranshaws and Longformacus | A brief description of 3 neighbouring parishes and the records available. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Cranston | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Cranston | The Dimma and Dickson Families of the Borders Region, Scotland | The Dimma family from Eckford, who they married, and where they settled in Ontario. This is a well researched article into a old Border family. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Thomas Dimma Minster |
| Crawford | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Crawhill | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Crichton | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Crime | Convicts Transported to Western Australia in 1858 aboard the 'Edwin Fox' | A list of Scottish convicts transported to Australia on the "Edwin Fox". Reprinted from Bedfordshire Family History Society Journal | 2 pages or more | 70 | Lynn Manning |
| Crimea | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Crimea | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Criminal Records | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Crockett | The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Crooklaw | Ecclesiastical Education in Berwickshire What the records have to tell | Ecclesiastical education of Berwickshire and where to find useful information | 2 pages or more | 38 | Dr Charles Hoy |
| Crouse | At The Beginning | A tale of one mans delve into family history from the U.K. to Canada and beyond | 2 pages or more | 1 | Peter Elliot |
| Crowe | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Croyser | The Parish of Langlands | The parish of Langlands and the history of old leper hospital at Rutherford. Also the history of Langton that was absorbed into Wilton. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Michael Langlands |
| Crozier | North West passage-the Melrose connection | It is 150 years since the explorer, Sir John Franklin, vanished. This is the tale of a Melrose man who was with him on the long journey to find the North West Passage. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Cumming | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Curly Burn | Shillinglaw Walls | Shillinglaw Tower not far from Traquair it is not only a heap of stones - an interesting tale. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Jean Shillinglaw Ridley |
| Currie | Elusive Curries | The author's and other members' interests in the surname Currie. | 1 page or more | 51 | Jean Currie |
| Currie | Is Anybody Out There ? | The author's search for an ancestor's home. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Jean Currie |
| Currie | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| Currie | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Currie | From Simprim Kirk session records 1705--A case of Drunkenness | Drink was the downfall of two friends after a session in Coldstream in 1705. | 1 page or more | 7 | Colin Wood |
| Curry | Bowmakers and Currys in the new world | The history of the Bowmakers and Currys before and after they emigrated to the New World. | 1 page or more | 10 | Norman Bowmaker |
| Curry | Bowmakers and Currys in the New World | Border origins of author's family, and arrivals in New York and Montreal. | 1 page or more | 13 | Norman J Bowmaker |
| Customs | Death is for the Living | Second part of the talk given to the Society on 15th September 2002. | 7 pages or more | 52 | Anne Gordon |
| Customs | Death is for the Living | The first part of the talk given to the Society on 15th September 2002. | 7 pages or more | 51 | Anne Gordon |
| Dalgety | A walk around Foulden in the thirties and forties | The following article was written by Jean Greenland for her granddaughters. She lived in the Manse at Foulden and traveled mostly on foot to all the surrounding area with her parents. Very good. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Mrs. Jean Greenland |
| Dantzic | The Bankers Revenge | The rise and fall of a Bank in East Lothian. | less than 1 page | 10 | A. W. Kerr |
| Danzig | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Dardanells | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| Darling | Mrs Euphemia Voy | Obituary of Euphemia Voy, first wife of William Voy, who died at Coldstream on 24th March 1891. | 1 page or more | 23 | Benjamin Moody |
| Darling | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Darling | From Simprim Kirk session records 1705--A case of Drunkenness | Drink was the downfall of two friends after a session in Coldstream in 1705. | 1 page or more | 7 | Colin Wood |
| Darnick | Savages of the North | Short letter from James Usher to Walter Scott 1828 | 1 page or more | 14 | Vivienne S. Moore |
| Darnick | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| David Seton | Links with old Peebles Families | A investigating search into old Peebles families. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Rena Stewart |
| Davidson | Who Was Lizzie Jardine ? | The author's start on her family history - mainly ordinary working folk in the Borders. | 3 pages or more | 51 | Carol Trotter |
| Davidson | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Davidson | Jerdan Family History | The family history of the Jerdans, who they married, and where they lived in the Borders. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Fred Kennington |
| Davies | An Unexpected Homecoming | An Englishman migrates to the Borders when Riddell House changes hands. He marries a local lass with links to Innerleithen. | 2 pages or more | 71 | David Rudram |
| Davison | Death duty register | Extracts from the death duty registers (seen at the public record office, Chancery Lane, London). Relating to Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. | 3 pages or more | 4 | |
| Dawyck | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| De Bolebeck | Hermitage - Grim Guardian of the Borders | History of Hermitage castle and its occupants. Continued in issue 14. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| De Soulis | Hermitage - Grim Guardian of the Borders | History of Hermitage castle and its occupants. Continued in issue 14. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Deans | Brave Borderland | Connections between the Borders and the Canadian state of Ontario, some poetry, and 2 buses. | 3 pages or more | 63 | Fred Kennington |
| Death | Canadian Intimations in the "Hawick Advertiser" 1857 – 1863 | Deaths extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued in issue 43. | 1 page or more | 40 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Death | Australian Intimations in Hawick Advertiser | Births 1858-1897, Marriages 1854-1900, Deaths 1853-1862, in Australia of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 8 pages or more | 54 | Marjorie Gavin |
| death | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser 1855-1900 | A transcription of death notices in rhe local newspaper. There are too many names ot list them all. Only those with extended entries are indexed. | 10 pages or more | 69 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Deaths | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Deaths 1879-1889 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 52 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Deaths | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser -Deaths 1857-1878 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 5 pages or more | 51 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Deaths | Death is for the Living | The first part of the talk given to the Society on 15th September 2002. | 7 pages or more | 51 | Anne Gordon |
| Deaths | Death is for the Living | Second part of the talk given to the Society on 15th September 2002. | 7 pages or more | 52 | Anne Gordon |
| Deaths | Morebattle St Lawrence Church Death Register | Transcription of the death register (1848-1862) from Morebattle St Lawrence Church. | 2 pages or more | 49 | Transcribed by Jean Sanderson |
| Deaths | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Deaths 1890-1900 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 53 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Delaware | The Miller Family of Hawick, Scotland and Delaware County, New York | This Miller family who emigrated from Hawick or Roberton-they set up a farm in the Catskill mountains of New York. | 2 pages or more | 34 | C. Raymond La Fever |
| Deloraine | William Lorrain-Borders Schoolmaster | During the last war attics were cleared of paper and, from an attic in Jedburgh there appeared a collection of papers concerning the Rector of Jedburgh Grammar School, William Lorrain. | less than 1 page | 27 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Denbie | The Jardine Clan Society | Formed in 1977. Came from France 1066, settled in Anndale; now, branches of the family world wide. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Family History News |
| Denholm | The Leyden Family | From U.S.A. an article on the name Leyden with particular reference to Dr John Leyden. | less than 1 page | 12 | Ronald Spencer |
| Denholm | A Denholm Family And My Border Memories | A journey through time in Denholm. From Post office, Lord Minto and his new bride to preserves cooking on the range in Meg Purness' draper's shop. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Jean Kelly |
| Dere Street | Know your Parish--Hounam | The history of Hounam. | 1 page or more | 16 | |
| Devil's Acre | Forgotten Borderers--Andrew Walker (1808-1896) | Andrew Walker, born Earlston, worked at Newton Don and moved eventually to Camden and started a Ragged School. He emigrated to Troy in New York and died there. | less than 1 page | 30 | |
| Diary | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Dick | Fountainhall Smiddy 1793-1945 | Account of the Hislop / Dick family who worked in the smiddy (blacksmith's shop) for five generations. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Margaret Dick |
| Dick | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Dick | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Dickins | A Hogarth Family Tree | There came into James Hogarth's possession a manuscript family tree covering seven or eight generations of the Hogarth family, also, where they came from. | 1 page or more | 27 | James Hogarth |
| Dickson | Recording the Jardines - A one-name study | 17 years of research of the Jardine Clan Society. A history of the Clan and the worldwide story of the Jardines. | 4 pages or more | 27 | Violet Jardine |
| Dickson | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| Dickson | The Dicksons | Notes on various Dicksons. | 1 page or more | 24 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Dickson | The Scots in Poland | The story of Scottish emigration to Poland as merchant's, engineers and farm managers. The parents of the author's mother came back to Scotland at the beginnig of the 20th century.. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Mona K. McLeod |
| Dickson | Forgotten Borderers | James Grieve and his interesting contribution to the lowly apple. | 1 page or more | 28 | Jean M. Smith |
| Dickson | Border Marriges Boon for "Priests" and Bane for Searchers | The rise and fall of the "Irregular Marriages" From Gretna to Lamberton. | 4 pages or more | 30 | Northumberland and Durham History Soc. |
| Dickson | Know Your Parish - Ednam | History of the parish of Ednam and some inhabitants. | 1 page or more | 24 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Dickson | North Dumfries, Ontario | North Dumfries, Ontario - how John Clark set up and built a settlement. | 1 page or more | 31 | Mr G. Clark |
| Dickson | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Dickson | Susanna Pringle's Birthday book | This Pringle tale goes from Browndeanlaw to Yetholm, London, New Brunswick and beyond-very interesting. | 4 pages or more | 16 | Maxine Flaherty |
| Diet | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 1 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses the Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law (Scotland), diet, and prices. Continued in issue 45. | 4 pages or more | 44 | Peter Munro |
| Dimma | The Dimma and Dickson Families of the Borders Region, Scotland | The Dimma family from Eckford, who they married, and where they settled in Ontario. This is a well researched article into a old Border family. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Thomas Dimma Minster |
| Dinwoodie | An Unusual Way Of Recording Family Trees | This is about a gravestone in the burial ground of Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries-shire which has a drawn family tree of the Jardine family. The article shows a picture of the gravestone. | 1 page or more | 66 | Colin McInnes |
| Dixon | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| DNA | Harvey Settlers Reunion | This was the evening address to the reunion, about why they were in the Borders and Northumberland, and about the author's Australian cousins. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| DNA | BEATTIEs | Langholm Archive Centre is looking for Beattie volunteers to take part in a DNA project. Participation is completely free and available to all male Beatties not immediately related who can provide a little family tree information and full results will be made available. | less than 1 page | 67 | Bruce McCartney |
| DNA | Bringing Science to Genealogy - DNA Testing | Have you got a family rumour of relationships between families that you cannot prove ? Perhaps you’re curious whether or not you’ve some undiscovered relations out there somewhere in the world, or a brick wall that stubbornly refuses to budge. Then possibly you should consider DNA testing. The author set up three surname DNA projects for SINTON, FAIRBAIRN and RUNCIMAN. | 2 pages or more | 67 | Lorna Henderson |
| DNA | DNA Records for Genealogy | Obtaining the genetic records for your paternal line is important for identification of your cousins and ancestors who share your recent paternal line descent with you. | 1 page or more | 60 | |
| DNA | Update to 'Bringing science to genealogy' | An update on a DNA project that was first described in Volume 67, pages 1 -4 June 2008. | 4 pages or more | 72 | Lorna Henderson |
| Dobson | Rev. Robert Douglas, 1747-1820 The father of Galashiels | The Rev. Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, 1747-1820, was a man of great ability and served his parishioners so well he was called "The Father of Galashiels". | 2 pages or more | 37 | Donald Whyte |
| Dobson | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Doctors | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| Doddington | Bowmakers and Currys in the new world | The history of the Bowmakers and Currys before and after they emigrated to the New World. | 1 page or more | 10 | Norman Bowmaker |
| Dodds | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Dodds | Jerdan Family History | The family history of the Jerdans, who they married, and where they lived in the Borders. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Fred Kennington |
| Dodds | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Dods | The Berwick Sensation | This story would make a very good murder mystery, the research that has gone into this story would be long and time consuming. For anyone interested in Berwick history you should read it. | 3 pages or more | 35 | F. L. Kennington |
| Dolphinston | The Ainslies--Some notes | The name Ainslie, from 1066 onwards, a full and detailed family history. | 1 page or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Don | Forgotten Borderers--Andrew Walker (1808-1896) | Andrew Walker, born Earlston, worked at Newton Don and moved eventually to Camden and started a Ragged School. He emigrated to Troy in New York and died there. | less than 1 page | 30 | |
| Donaldson | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Donaldson | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | For anyone with a Renton in the family this is very interesting with full name, where, and the date they were born, and more. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Donaldson | Blind Jamie Donaldson | Account of James Donaldson, whose tombstone is in Melrose Abbey churchyard. | 1 page or more | 47 | Margaret Lawson |
| Donaldson | Kennington/Cowe Family History | The story of the family's arrival in Berwickshire and their life there until they departed to Canada | 9 pages or more | 70 | Fred Kennington |
| Douglas | Letters of Slains 1569--A family puzzle | An intriguing tale of death and complaint in 1569. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Jean Smithers |
| Douglas | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Douglas | Douglas of Springwood Park | The name Douglas would run fear into many Englishmen. This distinguished Border family and its history | 3 pages or more | 31 | Donald Whyte |
| Douglas | Rev. Robert Douglas, 1747-1820 The father of Galashiels | The Rev. Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, 1747-1820, was a man of great ability and served his parishioners so well he was called "The Father of Galashiels". | 2 pages or more | 37 | Donald Whyte |
| Douglas | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Douglas | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Douglas | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Douglas | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Douglas | Robert Lauder of that Ilk | This is the story of the background and demise of Robert Lauder of that ilk (d.1598), one of the last to be recorded with that appellation. | 3 pages or more | 29 | G.M.S. Lauder-Frost |
| Douglas | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Douglas | The Homes of Paxton House | A fascinating piece of Borders family history came to light when a 200 year-old Berwickshire mansion was gifted to the nation. Along with the history of the family of Home's. love is a wondrous thing ! | 2 pages or more | 11 | Violet Jardine |
| Douglas | The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 4 pages or more | 31 | A. V. Tokley |
| Douglas | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Douglas Hamilton | Douglas of Springwood Park | The name Douglas would run fear into many Englishmen. This distinguished Border family and its history | 3 pages or more | 31 | Donald Whyte |
| Down Law | The Barons Folly | The Barons Folly at Lilliards Edge. Built by Sir John Rutherford of Edgerston. He was a Russian Baron. It was as a banker he first made his mark and connections with the Russian navy, he made his fortune. | 2 pages or more | 38 | John D. Wood |
| Dr Binnie | Ecclesiastical Education in Berwickshire What the records have to tell | Ecclesiastical education of Berwickshire and where to find useful information | 2 pages or more | 38 | Dr Charles Hoy |
| Drumelzier | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Drumelzier Castle | The Wild Bunch | History of the Tweedie clan. Includes line drawings of ruins of Tinnies and Drumelzier castles. | 4 pages or more | 24 | Norrie McLeish |
| Drumlanrig’s Tower | Scottish Borders Council Archives - Hawick Heritage Hub | Information about the new ‘state of the art’ Council archives due to open in May 2007. | 2 pages or more | 63 | Rachel Hosker |
| Drummond | A Six Year Family History Investigation | Absorbing account of James Drummond, botanist, born at Hawthornden (near Lasswade), and Thomas Drummond (also a botanist). | 5 pages or more | 23 | Andrew Brown |
| Drummond | The mole catchers of Lilliesleaf | The story of a mole and rabbit catcher in the Lilliesleaf area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Mrs S.J. Hodgkinson |
| Dryburgh | My dig into the past | Peebleshire family and from other parts of the Borders, an interesting tale. Also history of various bridges over the Tweed. | 3 pages or more | 34 | A. Turner |
| Dryden | North Dumfries, Ontario | North Dumfries, Ontario - how John Clark set up and built a settlement. | 1 page or more | 31 | Mr G. Clark |
| Duffes | History in the Graveyard | Body Snatching in the Borders and how it was fought. | less than 1 page | 10 | Violet Jardine |
| Duke of Argyle | The Langlands | How a family can be traced with the help of a family Bible | 3 pages or more | 36 | Mrs. Prue Langlands |
| Dumfries | A light-hearted tale--Epitaphs | We will never know what is written on our headstone, this article it gives you some ideas. | 1 page or more | 31 | Ian Abernethy |
| Dumma | The Dumma Family of Kelso | James Dumma, born 1790, in Kelso; Helen Hay, and their descendants, many of whom went to England, USA, and Canada. | 2 pages or more | 48 | Shirley Dumma |
| Dunbar | Ecclesiastical Education in Berwickshire What the records have to tell | Ecclesiastical education of Berwickshire and where to find useful information | 2 pages or more | 38 | Dr Charles Hoy |
| Dunbar | Wisdom lingers: Adventures of an ex-officer | From 1908 the Territorial movement through the First World War. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Stanly Gordon Ayer |
| Dunbar | The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Dunbar | The Bankers Revenge | The rise and fall of a Bank in East Lothian. | less than 1 page | 10 | A. W. Kerr |
| Duncan | Captain Cook's Border Background | The history of Captain James Cook and the Ednam connection. | 1 page or more | 6 | Dr Jim Trainer |
| Duncan | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| Duncan | James Thomson, Capt. James Cook R.N., Ednam and Cleveland | The connection of Rev. James Thomson and Capt. Cook with the village of Ednam. | 1 page or more | 27 | P. D. Thomson |
| Duncan | Ednam and Captain Cook | A Cleveland lady spent time and effort tracing Captain Cook. Herein lies the Ednam Connection | less than 1 page | 25 | John Newlands |
| Duncan | Marth’s Marmalad and Diet Loaf | Some letters which brought life to the bare bones of the author's family tree. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Marjorie Dybeck |
| Dunn | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| Dunnon | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| Dunoon | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| Duns | Border Murders | This is a stroll around the Borders looking into, with some depth, the murders in the 1800s. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Norrie Mcleish |
| Duns | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| Duns | Cockburns face to face | Cockburns and there likeness seems to have been the great asset of this family. From 1650 onwards this family have a interesting history. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Anne Cockburn |
| Duns | Longformacus | A cautionary tale from 1871 and some extracts from the school log book, | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Duns | Who am I | History of the Cockburns who all came from Duns parish. It also looks into the history of Edinshall Broch. | 1 page or more | 37 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Duns | The Ainslies--Some notes | The name Ainslie, from 1066 onwards, a full and detailed family history. | 1 page or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Dunse | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| Dye | Know your parish Longformacus | The history, and how Longformacus got its name. Its population and parish records. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Earl of Bothwell | Hermitage--Grim Guardian of the Borders | Lord Soulis and how he came to his rather barbaric death. It follows the history of Hermitage through the years. Very interesting. | 3 pages or more | 14 | Norrie McLeish |
| Earl of Douglas | The battle of Otterburn 600th Anniversary | The history of the battle of Otterburn and the families that took part, also, Walter Scotts version is different to that of the English version in The Chevy chase. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Earl of Haddington | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Earlston Black Hill | Lauder and Lauderdale | This is the text of the talk given by Ian Miller, president of Old Gala House on the 18th April 1999 | 5 pages or more | 41 | Ian Miller |
| East Lothian Banking Co | The Banker's Revenge | Extract from the History of Banking in Scotland by A W Kerr concerning some aspects of William Borthwick's behaviour. | less than 1 page | 13 | Colin Woods |
| Easton | A Stitch in Time | Account of a sampler and the search for its creator in the family tree. | 1 page or more | 47 | Patricia Williamson |
| Eccles | A Cockburn Family in Berwickshire and Its Descendants - The Book | The author's Cockburn family history - mostly recent. | 3 pages or more | 24 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Eckford | Fairbairn | A modern day manipulator who could be better than a Doctor for pains. Got Rugby players who got hurt at the weekend and she would fix them up. | 2 pages or more | 36 | kind permission of Kelso Museum |
| Eckford | A grave look at the Borders | This must be one of the great stories ever to be printed in our magazine - it is the story of grave snatchers, and how one brave chap got his just reward. | 4 pages or more | 21 | Ian Abernethy |
| Eckford | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Eckford | Fredrick Thomas Eckford | Biography of F T Eckford, Second Lieutenant, 12th (Green’s) Tennessee Cavalry Regt. | 1 page or more | 43 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Eddermouth | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Eddlestone | Fairbairn | A modern day manipulator who could be better than a Doctor for pains. Got Rugby players who got hurt at the weekend and she would fix them up. | 2 pages or more | 36 | kind permission of Kelso Museum |
| Eddystone | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Edgar | Longformacus | A cautionary tale from 1871 and some extracts from the school log book, | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Edinburgh | The Descendents of James Borrowman (1744-1813) | The history of the name Borrowman from Edinburgh down to Peebles and beyond, with a pedigree chart. | 2 pages or more | 17 | Philip r Borrowman |
| Edmonton | Susanna Pringle's Birthday book | This Pringle tale goes from Browndeanlaw to Yetholm, London, New Brunswick and beyond-very interesting. | 4 pages or more | 16 | Maxine Flaherty |
| Ednam | Ednam and Captain Cook | A Cleveland lady spent time and effort tracing Captain Cook. Herein lies the Ednam Connection | less than 1 page | 25 | John Newlands |
| Ednam | Know Your Parish - Ednam | History of the parish of Ednam and some inhabitants. | 1 page or more | 24 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Ednam | Captain Cook's Border Background | The history of Captain James Cook and the Ednam connection. | 1 page or more | 6 | Dr Jim Trainer |
| Ednam | James Thomson, Capt. James Cook R.N., Ednam and Cleveland | The connection of Rev. James Thomson and Capt. Cook with the village of Ednam. | 1 page or more | 27 | P. D. Thomson |
| Edrington | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Edrington | Robert Lauder of that Ilk | This is the story of the background and demise of Robert Lauder of that ilk (d.1598), one of the last to be recorded with that appellation. | 3 pages or more | 29 | G.M.S. Lauder-Frost |
| Edrom | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Edrom | Full of Egotism, Diaries of Rev John Hastie | This is the text of Ronald's talk to the Society on 21st March 2004. It was about a diary which should appeal to those with an interest in local history, a snapshot of life in a rural Parish between 1797 and 1822, and for those connected to Edrom - an opportunity to ‘meet the ancestor’. | 2 pages or more | 55 | Ronald Morrison |
| Edrom | From Coldstream to Canada | The Galbraith history from Coldstream to Toronto University. A comprehensive account of the Galbraiths. | 3 pages or more | 26 | James Burns |
| Elder | A Rutherfurd family | Notes on the name Rutherfurd taken from the book 'Rutherfurds of that Ilk'. | 2 pages or more | 21 | James Selkirk |
| Elibank | Langshaw Mill Decree of 1608 | Extract Decree relating to Langshaw Mill. The Decree is interesting for genealogists because of the very considerable number of people mentioned in it. | 1 page or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Elibank | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Elie | The Descendents of James Borrowman (1744-1813) | The history of the name Borrowman from Edinburgh down to Peebles and beyond, with a pedigree chart. | 2 pages or more | 17 | Philip r Borrowman |
| Eliza | "My Great Grandfather died at sea" | A ships Master from Irvine in Ayrshire. How Bill researched the history of a remarkable seaman. 'One of his best'. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Bill Murray |
| Elizabeth Bay | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| Ellemford | Abbey St Bathans, Cranshaws and Longformacus | A brief description of 3 neighbouring parishes and the records available. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Ellemford | Know your parish Longformacus | The history, and how Longformacus got its name. Its population and parish records. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Elliot | William Elliot, Architect | The family history of William Elliot and descriptions of some of the fine house's he built. | 3 pages or more | 15 | Kathleen Stewart |
| Elliot | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Elliot | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| Elliot | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Elliot | At The Beginning | A tale of one mans delve into family history from the U.K. to Canada and beyond | 2 pages or more | 1 | Peter Elliot |
| Elliot | Two stories of 19th century emigration to Australia and New Zealand | Two stories from the 19th century of emigration to the New World. Andrew Rutherford and his family. | less than 1 page | 12 | Elsie Ahrens |
| Elliot | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Elliot | The Border Archive-For Queen and County | This is a list of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert Miller |
| Elliot | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Elliot | Who was Little Arthur Foster? Elliots at court 1675-1682 | Border Reivers Court sittings in the 1600's. How Cautioners upheld the Law.Also in 5 pages in issue 30 covering the same subject. | 5 pages or more | 29 | Michael Robson |
| Elliot | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Elliots | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Elliott | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Elphinstone | The Kidstons of Stow | A very comprehensive account of the early Rev. Kidston from Stow and their thirteen children and who they married | 1 page or more | 12 | John Kidston Tait |
| Elwin | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| emigration | The Scots in Poland | The story of Scottish emigration to Poland as merchant's, engineers and farm managers. The parents of the author's mother came back to Scotland at the beginnig of the 20th century.. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Mona K. McLeod |
| Emigration | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Emigration | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Emigration | Kennington/Cowe Family History | The story of the family's arrival in Berwickshire and their life there until they departed to Canada | 9 pages or more | 70 | Fred Kennington |
| Emigration | From Crosslee to Salt Lake City | The journry of William Scott Clark from Ettrick to Idaho. | 2 pages or more | 71 | George Clark |
| emigration | Following in the Footsteps of Robert Redpath. | The story of one man's journey to mine gold in Australia. There is reference to two diaries kept by othe men on the voyage from Glasgow to Townsville, Queensland. | 3 pages or more | 69 | Irene J Redpath |
| Emigration | Kennington/Cowe Family History. Part 2 - Emigration to New Brunswick 1837 - James Cowe & Isabella Donaldson | Details of the lives of further branches of the Cowe family including one that emigrated to New Brunswick. | 6 pages or more | 71 | Fred Kennington |
| Emigration | Convicts Transported to Western Australia in 1858 aboard the 'Edwin Fox' | A list of Scottish convicts transported to Australia on the "Edwin Fox". Reprinted from Bedfordshire Family History Society Journal | 2 pages or more | 70 | Lynn Manning |
| Emigration | Liddles Abroad | Family pictures awaken an intrest in family history. The author made contact with relatives in Australia, descendants of a blacksmith who'd emigrated fron Heughhead, Reston. | 2 pages or more | 72 | Bill Stewart |
| Emigration | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Emonds | Death in the Borders: 19th Century Border Murder Cases | This is the review of a book by Norrie McLeish, Border Murder Cases with a great deal of research that has gone into this volume. Gypsies, Landlords, and farm workers. | 2 pages or more | 30 | Norrie McLeish .(Review by Hugh K. Mackay) |
| Emperor Nudd | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| England | Crossing the Border | Notes on Linda Bankier's talk to the Society on 20th February 2005, mainly about the differences between English and Scottish records, irregular marriages, and the Berwick Record Office's holdings. | 1 page or more | 57 | [Linda Bankier] |
| Epsom | The Langlands | How a family can be traced with the help of a family Bible | 3 pages or more | 36 | Mrs. Prue Langlands |
| Eskdalemuir | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Etal | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This article, reprinted by permission of Northumberland and Durham FHS, is a list of persons in communion rolls, who had moved from the Scottish Borders. | 1 page or more | 20 | Don Mason |
| Etterick | An Elephantine trip to St Mary's Loch | George Reavly in his history of Galashiels notes that fifty years ago not a gig could be got to hire. One of the largest trips that ever left Galashiels propelled by horse power. On the trip to St Marys Loch. | 2 pages or more | 22 | K. MsRae |
| Ettrick | Rob of Trows | A very prince of a Tweed boatman. That was the description of Rob by Sir Robert Maxwell in his Book "The Story of the Tweed". | 2 pages or more | 19 | |
| Ettrick | From Crosslee to Salt Lake City | The journry of William Scott Clark from Ettrick to Idaho. | 2 pages or more | 71 | George Clark |
| Eyemouth | A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| Eyemouth | The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Eyemouth | Memories of Ayton | Mrs. Patricia Payne was so interested in the articles on 'The Ayton Bard' that she felt the need to record some of her memories of Ayton before all was forgotten. | less than 1 page | 18 | Patricia Payne |
| Faa | Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 5 pages or more | 32 | A. V. Tokley |
| Faa | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Faa Blythe | The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 4 pages or more | 31 | A. V. Tokley |
| Fairbairn | Update to 'Bringing science to genealogy' | An update on a DNA project that was first described in Volume 67, pages 1 -4 June 2008. | 4 pages or more | 72 | Lorna Henderson |
| Fairbairn | Bringing Science to Genealogy - DNA Testing | Have you got a family rumour of relationships between families that you cannot prove ? Perhaps you’re curious whether or not you’ve some undiscovered relations out there somewhere in the world, or a brick wall that stubbornly refuses to budge. Then possibly you should consider DNA testing. The author set up three surname DNA projects for SINTON, FAIRBAIRN and RUNCIMAN. | 2 pages or more | 67 | Lorna Henderson |
| Fairburn | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Fairburn | Know Your Parish - Ednam | History of the parish of Ednam and some inhabitants. | 1 page or more | 24 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Fairbvairn | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Fairholm Erebus | North West passage-the Melrose connection | It is 150 years since the explorer, Sir John Franklin, vanished. This is the tale of a Melrose man who was with him on the long journey to find the North West Passage. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Fairington | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Falahill | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth Century | The Burgesses, and how they looked after Selkirk. The privileges that they gave themselves. Continued in issue 26. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Peter Symms |
| Falstone | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This article, reprinted by permission of Northumberland and Durham FHS, is a list of persons in communion rolls, who had moved from the Scottish Borders. | 1 page or more | 20 | Don Mason |
| Family Tree | An Unusual Way Of Recording Family Trees | This is about a gravestone in the burial ground of Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries-shire which has a drawn family tree of the Jardine family. The article shows a picture of the gravestone. | 1 page or more | 66 | Colin McInnes |
| Family Tree Maker | Family Tree Maker Online | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program with the Internet | 2 pages or more | 40 | Allan McVittie |
| Family Tree Maker | Family Tree Maker | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Unsworth |
| Fantalane | Update on Surnames and Clansmen | Additional notes, about the lands of Fantalane, relating to the author's book. | 1 page or more | 43 | Michael Robson |
| Farquarson | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Farquharsons | Kelso's Ragged school | Case histories and fate of children in the 1800s who went to a Ragged School. These three names from the excellent book that Audrey has written will make you want to purchase this book. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Fauldshope | Notes on the Ancestry of the Ettrick Shepherd | James Hogg (1770-1835) where he and his ancestors lived in the Borders, also who they married. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Donald Wyte |
| Feeney | Kings Own Scottish Borderers | A list of men who died in the Boer War in outlying places. | 1 page or more | 32 | Helen Rreichenbach |
| Fenham | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Ferguson | James Ferguson Schoolmaster, 1814-1894 | How the memory of a clock led the author to research this ancestor. | less than 1 page | 32 | J Ferguson |
| Ferguson | William Coulthard: Emigrant to South Australia | Captain A. J. Coultherd has sent a moving account of an intrepid explorer who moved to Austrailia in 1836. | less than 1 page | 7 | Alfred J. Coultherd |
| Ferguson | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Fiddes | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Fife | The Case of Agnes Gray | Taken from the Session Minutes of Melrose Parish Registers (1723-1741) A sad tale of a young girl who was cited to present herself before the Kirk Session. | 1 page or more | 19 | |
| Finlay | One of the many Brown Families | A family tree of Browns in Galashiels, Selkirk areas. | 1 page or more | 26 | I.M. Brown |
| Fisabad | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Fische | Miriam Fish | One of the band of grave yard inscription recorders, she gives a interesting description of her youth. | 1 page or more | 31 | Miriam Fish |
| Fish | Miriam Fish | One of the band of grave yard inscription recorders, she gives a interesting description of her youth. | 1 page or more | 31 | Miriam Fish |
| Fishwick | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| FitzWalter | Who was Gordon Stewart of Hawick? | Intriguing investigation into an adopted great uncle who died in World War I, and turned out to be a blood relative. | 3 pages or more | 65 | Anne Golden |
| FitzWalter | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Fitzwalter | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Flanders | A forgotten village-Huguenot refugees at Polwarth | The story of the Huguenot refugees who landed at Berwick on Tweed and travelling inland alighted on this secluded spot to settle there, is known, perhaps only by their descendants. | 3 pages or more | 6 | Colin Wood |
| Fleming | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Fleming | Greenlaw Jail | List of prisoners in Greenlaw Jail in the 1851 census. | 1 page or more | 35 | Carol Trotter |
| Fleming | The Wild Bunch | History of the Tweedie clan. Includes line drawings of ruins of Tinnies and Drumelzier castles. | 4 pages or more | 24 | Norrie McLeish |
| Fleming's Regiment | Ways of Arguing in the Social Sciences | This article is an extended version of a talk given to the Society on 17th September 2000, and follows an earlier article in the "Scottish Genealogist" in 1997 on the theme of methods of approach for family history researchers. Uses Hoy ancestors for examples. | 3 pages or more | 46 | Charles Hoy |
| Flemington | Anderson Family Legend | Three brothers shared their last sixpence at Kelso Fair and then parted company. How a lady searched for relatives | less than 1 page | 8 | Mrs. Steele |
| Fleshers | The Ancient Crafts of Selkirk | The history of crafts in Selkirk from 1113 with the building of the Border abbeys through to the Union of the Crowns. | 1 page or more | 32 | Jim Newlands |
| Fletcher | Miriam Fish | One of the band of grave yard inscription recorders, she gives a interesting description of her youth. | 1 page or more | 31 | Miriam Fish |
| Fletcher | The Flowers of the Forest--Borderers who fell at Flodden | The Fletcher brothers from Selkirk and were they at Flodden? Probably. | 1 page or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Flintlock | James Paris Lee 1831--1904 His Rifles reigned supreme | Born in Hawick, the very man who designed the Lee Enfield Rifle, emigrated to Canada, The Percussion Cap, a development by Rev Alexander Forsyth. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Donald Whyte |
| Flodden | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Flodden | Mennims of Norham | The history of Norham, its castle, and how it got its name. | 3 pages or more | 25 | A.M.Mennim |
| Flodden | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Flodden | The Walter Mason Papers | The Walter Mason Papers. This is a brief description of the collection held by the museum services of Scottish Borders Council. | 1 page or more | 19 | Walter Elliot |
| Flodden | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Flodden | The Flowers of the Forest--Borderers who fell at Flodden | The Fletcher brothers from Selkirk and were they at Flodden? Probably. | 1 page or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Flodden | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Flodden | The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 4 pages or more | 31 | A. V. Tokley |
| Fogo | Yorkie, the Gentle Shepherd | Note about a tramp, known as Yorkie, as well as his picture on the cover. | less than 1 page | 52 | Carol Trotter |
| Forbes | The Descendents of James Borrowman (1744-1813) | The history of the name Borrowman from Edinburgh down to Peebles and beyond, with a pedigree chart. | 2 pages or more | 17 | Philip r Borrowman |
| Fordyce | Memories of Ayton | Mrs. Patricia Payne was so interested in the articles on 'The Ayton Bard' that she felt the need to record some of her memories of Ayton before all was forgotten. | less than 1 page | 18 | Patricia Payne |
| Forfar | A Six Year Family History Investigation | Absorbing account of James Drummond, botanist, born at Hawthornden (near Lasswade), and Thomas Drummond (also a botanist). | 5 pages or more | 23 | Andrew Brown |
| Forrest | Scots in Antigua | Note about St John's Cathedral, Antigua where the author found an splendid marble memorial for Robert Peddie, surgeon, native of Kelso. | 1 page or more | 61 | Diana Pirrie |
| Forsyth | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Forsyth | James Paris Lee 1831--1904 His Rifles reigned supreme | Born in Hawick, the very man who designed the Lee Enfield Rifle, emigrated to Canada, The Percussion Cap, a development by Rev Alexander Forsyth. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Donald Whyte |
| Forsythe | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Fortune | Grantshouse and the Turner family | History of the family from around 1840. Continued from issue 27. | 1 page or more | 28 | James Burns |
| Foster | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Foul Ford | A grave look at the Borders | This must be one of the great stories ever to be printed in our magazine - it is the story of grave snatchers, and how one brave chap got his just reward. | 4 pages or more | 21 | Ian Abernethy |
| Foulden | Farms And Smallholdings at Foulden - 1920-21 | Transcription of Valuation Rolls for Foulden | 1 page or more | 50 | Brian Patten |
| Foulden | Smallholdings at Foulden, Mordington and Lamberton | A summary of Brian Patten’s talk on 17th March 2002. | 3 pages or more | 49 | Brian Patten |
| Foulden | A walk around Foulden in the thirties and forties | The following article was written by Jean Greenland for her granddaughters. She lived in the Manse at Foulden and traveled mostly on foot to all the surrounding area with her parents. Very good. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Mrs. Jean Greenland |
| Fouldon | Robert Lauder of that Ilk | This is the story of the background and demise of Robert Lauder of that ilk (d.1598), one of the last to be recorded with that appellation. | 3 pages or more | 29 | G.M.S. Lauder-Frost |
| Foulis | The Ainslies--Some notes | The name Ainslie, from 1066 onwards, a full and detailed family history. | 1 page or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Fountainhall | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Fountainhall | Fountainhall Smiddy 1793-1945 | Account of the Hislop / Dick family who worked in the smiddy (blacksmith's shop) for five generations. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Margaret Dick |
| Fowlis | The Descendents of James Borrowman (1744-1813) | The history of the name Borrowman from Edinburgh down to Peebles and beyond, with a pedigree chart. | 2 pages or more | 17 | Philip r Borrowman |
| Frain | Rob of Trows | Born at Birgham, Rob was a favorite with anglers of all classes "peer and peasant alike". A boatman of great distinction on the Tweed. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Mrs M. E. Mason |
| Frame | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| France | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Franklin | North West passage-the Melrose connection | It is 150 years since the explorer, Sir John Franklin, vanished. This is the tale of a Melrose man who was with him on the long journey to find the North West Passage. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Fraser | Borders family origins | Border family origins, surname derivations, and various aspects of family history . | 1 page or more | 33 | Michael Robson |
| Fraser | The Wild Bunch | History of the Tweedie clan. Includes line drawings of ruins of Tinnies and Drumelzier castles. | 4 pages or more | 24 | Norrie McLeish |
| Fraser | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Frater | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| Frazer | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Freemasonry | The Dicksons | Notes on various Dicksons. | 1 page or more | 24 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Friar | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Friendly Societies | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 2 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses wages of artisans, workers’ household budget, unemployment, poor relief, and medical assistance. Continued from issue 44, and in issue 46. | 6 pages or more | 45 | Peter Munro |
| Fruid | Know Your Parish - Tweedsmuir | Hstory of the parish of Tweedsmuir, and notable people. Drawing of Polmood in ruins. | 2 pages or more | 23 | Jean Moffatt |
| Fullar | The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Fullar | The Ayton Bard Robert Mennon 1797-1885 | This is a two part article abridged from the book of the title written by A. Michael Mennim. A copy of the complete book together with maps, photgraphs and poems is in Scottish Borders Council Library Headquartors with a family tree | 4 pages or more | 15 | Michael Mennon |
| Furness | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Gainslaw | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Galashiels | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Galashiels | The Walter Mason Papers | The Walter Mason Papers. This is a brief description of the collection held by the museum services of Scottish Borders Council. | 1 page or more | 19 | Walter Elliot |
| Galashiels | One of the many Brown Families | A family tree of Browns in Galashiels, Selkirk areas. | 1 page or more | 26 | I.M. Brown |
| Galashiels | Baillie John Smail of Galashiels | Baillie Smail, born at Clovenfords, was First Baillie in 1867, and was renowned for severe punishment . He died of chronic alcoholism. | 1 page or more | 36 | |
| Galashiels | Rev. Robert Douglas, 1747-1820 The father of Galashiels | The Rev. Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, 1747-1820, was a man of great ability and served his parishioners so well he was called "The Father of Galashiels". | 2 pages or more | 37 | Donald Whyte |
| Galashiels | Parochial Return of the Parish of Galashiels | This is a transcript of a list of Galashiels men willing to serve their country during the Napoleonic times as pioneers, guides, and providing horses, carts, and drivers. This information was obtained from a document lent by Murray Dickson of the Old Gala Club. | 1 page or more | 47 | |
| Galashiels | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Galashiels | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Galashiels | The Cairncross family - an example of a 16th-17th century family of feuars | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society on 18th September 2005 titled 'Cairncross, a Border Family'. Outline of a typical noted old family in the Lauderdale/Melrose/Galashiels district, with descriptions of some of the local areas and ownership. | 12 pages or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Galashiels | Know Your Parish - Ladhope | Description of Ladhope (now Galashiels) and historical notes. Includes a drawing of Ladhope Parish Church. | 1 page or more | 20 | |
| Galashiels | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth century | The burgh of Selkirk, their trades, who controlled them. The baillies sergents and how they came into being. Continued from issue 25. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Peter Symms |
| Galashiels | Newspapers published in the Borders | Border newspapers published in the Borders. 65 in total. | 2 pages or more | 5 | Peter Elliot |
| Galashiels | My Namesake | About the Telford family from the Hawick area. He moved around from Langlee, Ancrum. They were buried in Melrose | less than 1 page | 3 | Helen (Telford) Reichenbach |
| Galbraith | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Galbraith | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Galbraith | From Coldstream to Canada | The Galbraith history from Coldstream to Toronto University. A comprehensive account of the Galbraiths. | 3 pages or more | 26 | James Burns |
| Gallipoli | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| Gallipoli | After Gallipoli | After Gallipoli was written as a sequel to "For King and Country" and the Scottish Borderers and continues the story of the 1/4 th (Border) Battalion the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. | 3 pages or more | 21 | Gavin Richardson |
| Gallipoli | K.O.S.B. Memories | This is a look at the talk given by Gavin Richardson, who must be the best informed on the first world war and Gallipoli. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Gavin Richardson |
| Galloway | Stoddart | Margaret Stoddart, born 1831, and her very interesting history. From stot-herd,one who tended cattle 1376. Earliest mention in Douglas Barony of Buittle. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Galloway Levellers | The Lowland Clearances | Talk given on 19 November 2006, about the Lowland Clearances which preceded the much more infamous Highland Clearances. | 7 pages or more | 66 | Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell |
| Galsshiels | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Gardening | The Famous and Infamous of the Jeffrey Family | Absorbing biography of James Jeffrey, son of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Sinton, and his career as a famous gardener. | 3 pages or more | 46 | George Martin |
| Gardiner | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Garland | A forgotten village-Huguenot refugees at Polwarth | The story of the Huguenot refugees who landed at Berwick on Tweed and travelling inland alighted on this secluded spot to settle there, is known, perhaps only by their descendants. | 3 pages or more | 6 | Colin Wood |
| Garvald | Know your parish Longformacus | The history, and how Longformacus got its name. Its population and parish records. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Gattonside | My dig into the Past | How a birthday party of Melrose Bridge led to a very interesting tale of one man's family search. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Mr Turner |
| Gattonside | Will of Gibbie Hatley of Gattonside 1547 | Details of an interesting legacy to the Edinburgh Hangman. | less than 1 page | 74 | |
| Gattonside | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| Gattonside | The Boston Family of Gattonside | A tale of hand loom weavers from Gattonside who decided to visit a sister in Canada. How they eventually decided to emigrate over to Canada and they walked from New York to Upper Canada. Most of the family are buried in Melrose Church Yard. | 2 pages or more | 39 | M.C.Lawson |
| Geddes | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Gee | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Gefle | Totties in Sweden | Note about Thomas Tottie, from Jedburgh, born in 1664, a tobacco manufacturer, extracted from Th. A. Fischer’s The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907). | less than 1 page | 60 | |
| General Register House | Wills and Testaments | Scots law on wills and testaments-the difference. With a good description on how and where to find information on the subject. | 3 pages or more | 22 | James Galbraith |
| George Bell | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued in issue 42. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Jim Wilson |
| George Paris | James Paris Lee 1831--1904 His Rifles reigned supreme | Born in Hawick, the very man who designed the Lee Enfield Rifle, emigrated to Canada, The Percussion Cap, a development by Rev Alexander Forsyth. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Donald Whyte |
| Gibb | The Way We Were | Berwickshire farm servants wages from 1751 and how the farm hand had to make the hovel of a house more habitable. It was not the good old days, it was slavery. | 1 page or more | 15 | Colin Wood |
| Gibb | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Gibson | The Way We Were | Berwickshire farm servants wages from 1751 and how the farm hand had to make the hovel of a house more habitable. It was not the good old days, it was slavery. | 1 page or more | 15 | Colin Wood |
| Gibson | Early Days | Excerpts from the account of early years of her marrige written by Mrs Minerve Gibson from Calgary, Alberta, in 1980 at the age of 107. | 3 pages or more | 19 | Jane Gibson |
| Gibson | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Gill | Australian Deaths Recorded in the Hawick Advertiser 1854-1873 | A list of people from Hawick who died in or on the way to Australia. Very comprehensive. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Marjory Gavin |
| Gillies | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| Gilroy | A family of Tanish | George Tanish who married Catherine Gilroy from Selkirk and their decendants | 4 pages or more | 4 | P. Tanish- Hardie |
| Gladstain | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Gladstanes | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Gladstone | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Gladstone | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Gladstone | Female Suffrage by "Titwillow" | This article was first published in a family magazine produced and edited by his grandfather Robert Hogg who farmed at Fireburnmill Coldstream. | 4 pages or more | 38 | John C. Gill |
| Gladstone | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Glasgow | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Glass | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Glendinning | An Unexpected Homecoming | An Englishman migrates to the Borders when Riddell House changes hands. He marries a local lass with links to Innerleithen. | 2 pages or more | 71 | David Rudram |
| Glendinning | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Glendinning | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Glenmayne | An Elephantine trip to St Mary's Loch | George Reavly in his history of Galashiels notes that fifty years ago not a gig could be got to hire. One of the largest trips that ever left Galashiels propelled by horse power. On the trip to St Marys Loch. | 2 pages or more | 22 | K. MsRae |
| Glentress | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Godson & Lumgair | St Mary's Mill | From the start of the Mill in 1894 through good and bad times . How the mill was used through both world wars. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Jane Gibson |
| gold mining | Following in the Footsteps of Robert Redpath. | The story of one man's journey to mine gold in Australia. There is reference to two diaries kept by othe men on the voyage from Glasgow to Townsville, Queensland. | 3 pages or more | 69 | Irene J Redpath |
| Goodfellow | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Goodwin | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Gordon | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Gordon | A Cockburn Family in Berwickshire and Its Descendants - The Book | The author's Cockburn family history - mostly recent. | 3 pages or more | 24 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Gordon | The battle of Otterburn 600th Anniversary | The history of the battle of Otterburn and the families that took part, also, Walter Scotts version is different to that of the English version in The Chevy chase. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Gospatrick | Ecclesiastical Education in Berwickshire What the records have to tell | Ecclesiastical education of Berwickshire and where to find useful information | 2 pages or more | 38 | Dr Charles Hoy |
| Graeme | The battle of Otterburn 600th Anniversary | The history of the battle of Otterburn and the families that took part, also, Walter Scotts version is different to that of the English version in The Chevy chase. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Graham | The Homes of Paxton House | A fascinating piece of Borders family history came to light when a 200 year-old Berwickshire mansion was gifted to the nation. Along with the history of the family of Home's. love is a wondrous thing ! | 2 pages or more | 11 | Violet Jardine |
| Grant | Australian Deaths Recorded in the Hawick Advertiser 1854-1873 | A list of people from Hawick who died in or on the way to Australia. Very comprehensive. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Marjory Gavin |
| Grant | Grantshouse and the Turner family | The history of Grantshouse and one of its sons, James Turner. Continued in issue 28. | 3 pages or more | 27 | James Burns |
| Grant | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Grantshouse | Grantshouse and the Turner family | History of the family from around 1840. Continued from issue 27. | 1 page or more | 28 | James Burns |
| Gravestone Inscriptions | CD Review - Bowden Monumental Inscriptions | Review of the content of this publication, and suggestions of other useful publications. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Gravestones | Recording Monumental Inscriptions | How to record inscriptions on gravestones. Method used by Highland Family History Society to compile inscriprions for genealogical reference. | 4 pages or more | 54 | John Durham |
| Gray | The Case of Agnes Gray | Taken from the Session Minutes of Melrose Parish Registers (1723-1741) A sad tale of a young girl who was cited to present herself before the Kirk Session. | 1 page or more | 19 | |
| Gray | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Greenhead | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth century | The burgh of Selkirk, their trades, who controlled them. The baillies sergents and how they came into being. Continued from issue 25. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Peter Symms |
| Greenlaw | Poor Relief in the 1840s | A review of the operation of the poor relief in the early 19th century. It includes the size of the allwances paid and an estimate of the cost of living at the time. | 4 pages or more | 71 | Peter Munro |
| Greenlaw | The poor, crime and punishment,and the power of the Kirk in the Borders, 17th & 18th Centuries | When paupers died, the contents of their houses were sold by public roup. This is an account of one sale and the strength of the Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 31 | M. C. Lawson |
| Greenlaw | Greenlaw Jail | List of prisoners in Greenlaw Jail in the 1851 census. | 1 page or more | 35 | Carol Trotter |
| Greenlaw | Death in the Borders: 19th Century Border Murder Cases | This is the review of a book by Norrie McLeish, Border Murder Cases with a great deal of research that has gone into this volume. Gypsies, Landlords, and farm workers. | 2 pages or more | 30 | Norrie McLeish .(Review by Hugh K. Mackay) |
| Greenock | Accidents and Disasters in Scotland in the 19th Century | A list of major disasters in Scotland from 1801 to 1849. | 1 page or more | 29 | William P Cross |
| Greig | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Greig | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Gretna | Border Marriges Boon for "Priests" and Bane for Searchers | The rise and fall of the "Irregular Marriages" From Gretna to Lamberton. | 4 pages or more | 30 | Northumberland and Durham History Soc. |
| Gretna | Anderson Family Legend | Three brothers shared their last sixpence at Kelso Fair and then parted company. How a lady searched for relatives | less than 1 page | 8 | Mrs. Steele |
| Gretna Green | Border Marriage Records | The history of Irregular Marriages up and down the country. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Donald Whyte |
| Grieve | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Grieve | Grieve Families | Notes on Grieve families in the Borders, Edinburgh, Glasgow America, and Canada | 6 pages or more | 56 | Kathleen Stewart |
| Grieve | Forgotten Borderers | James Grieve and his interesting contribution to the lowly apple. | 1 page or more | 28 | Jean M. Smith |
| Grieve | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1869-1900) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | 8 pages or more | 46 | Marjory Gavin |
| Grieve | From Hawick to Kirkpatrick-Durham by way of Moscow | Notes of Grieves of Kirkpatrick-Durham in Kirkcudbrightshire, who were descendants of Walter Grieve of Branxholm Park, most of whom were farmers, but also included two eminent doctors who were physicians to the Russian court in the 18th century. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Linda M Chapman |
| Gucci | St Mary's Mill | From the start of the Mill in 1894 through good and bad times . How the mill was used through both world wars. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Jane Gibson |
| Guise | A light-hearted tale--Epitaphs | We will never know what is written on our headstone, this article it gives you some ideas. | 1 page or more | 31 | Ian Abernethy |
| Guthrie | The poor, crime and punishment,and the power of the Kirk in the Borders, 17th & 18th Centuries | When paupers died, the contents of their houses were sold by public roup. This is an account of one sale and the strength of the Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 31 | M. C. Lawson |
| Gypsies | The Gypsy King and the President | Relationship between President Clinton and Charles Blyth, king of the gypsies. Reprinted from the Sunday Telegraph. | less than 1 page | 23 | |
| Gypsies | Rev. John Baird (1799-1861)--Friend of the Gypsies | John Baird was Minister at Kirk Yetholm. He was responsible for the new bridge , rebuilding the Kirk and School. He also educated the Gypsies and brought them into the community. was a founder member of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Donald Whyte |
| Gypsies | Harvey Settlers Reunion | This was the evening address to the reunion, about why they were in the Borders and Northumberland, and about the author's Australian cousins. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Gypsum | The Barons Folly | The Barons Folly at Lilliards Edge. Built by Sir John Rutherford of Edgerston. He was a Russian Baron. It was as a banker he first made his mark and connections with the Russian navy, he made his fortune. | 2 pages or more | 38 | John D. Wood |
| Gypsy Royalty | Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 5 pages or more | 32 | A. V. Tokley |
| Hadden | The Trotters of Sprouston and Hadden - Part 1 | Absorbing account of the author's researches into her Trotter ancestry. | 7 pages or more | 52 | Jenny Fairman |
| Haggerston | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Haig | Notes on the Halliburton Family | The Halliburton family who were well known landowners in the Borders from the 13th to 18th centuries. The Halliburtons intermarried with other well known Border families. | 2 pages or more | 6 | C.D. Wickenden |
| Haigsfield | A Hogarth Family Tree | There came into James Hogarth's possession a manuscript family tree covering seven or eight generations of the Hogarth family, also, where they came from. | 1 page or more | 27 | James Hogarth |
| Haliburton | The Haliburtens of Sprouston | Origins of the Haliburtons William who had 12 children and their emigration to New Zealand. | less than 1 page | 12 | D.N. Haliburton |
| Hall | The Border Archive-For Queen and County | This is a list of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert Miller |
| Hall | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Hall | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Hall | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Hall | Jean Fleming | A young shepherd gets lost in the snow and is frozen to death. There's also a specification for shepherds boots. | 2 pages or more | 69 | Snowstorm in the Cheviots |
| Hall | Galashiels Murrays in New South Wales | Murrays first came to the fore in Eccles, follow them through generations. There is also a very touching letter in the article. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Donald Wyte |
| Hall | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Halliburton | Notes on the Halliburton Family | The Halliburton family who were well known landowners in the Borders from the 13th to 18th centuries. The Halliburtons intermarried with other well known Border families. | 2 pages or more | 6 | C.D. Wickenden |
| Hamilton | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Hamilton | Whiteslade, Berwickshire, and its Owners | Many have seen this ruin on the way from Greenlaw to Lauder, and often wondered about the history of this once great fortress. This article covers it magnificently. | 2 pages or more | 31 | G.M.S. Lauder Frost |
| Hamilton | Accidents and Disasters in Scotland in the 19th Century | A list of major disasters in Scotland from 1801 to 1849. | 1 page or more | 29 | William P Cross |
| Hamilton | A walk around Foulden in the thirties and forties | The following article was written by Jean Greenland for her granddaughters. She lived in the Manse at Foulden and traveled mostly on foot to all the surrounding area with her parents. Very good. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Mrs. Jean Greenland |
| Hamilton | Adam moves to the Borders | Adam Brown bought a small plot of land in West Linton in 1839 after which he emigrated to Australia with seven of his nine children-this story covers their history. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Helen M. Booth |
| Hamilton | The Lowland Clearances | Talk given on 19 November 2006, about the Lowland Clearances which preceded the much more infamous Highland Clearances. | 7 pages or more | 66 | Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell |
| Hammermen | The Ancient Crafts of Selkirk | The history of crafts in Selkirk from 1113 with the building of the Border abbeys through to the Union of the Crowns. | 1 page or more | 32 | Jim Newlands |
| Hangingshaw | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Hangman | Will of Gibbie Hatley of Gattonside 1547 | Details of an interesting legacy to the Edinburgh Hangman. | less than 1 page | 74 | |
| Hardie | A family of Tanish | George Tanish who married Catherine Gilroy from Selkirk and their decendants | 4 pages or more | 4 | P. Tanish- Hardie |
| Hardie | Brave Borderland | Connections between the Borders and the Canadian state of Ontario, some poetry, and 2 buses. | 3 pages or more | 63 | Fred Kennington |
| Hardwick | Border Marriage Records | The history of Irregular Marriages up and down the country. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Donald Whyte |
| Hardwick | Border Marriges Boon for "Priests" and Bane for Searchers | The rise and fall of the "Irregular Marriages" From Gretna to Lamberton. | 4 pages or more | 30 | Northumberland and Durham History Soc. |
| Harehope | The Chisholms: Highland Names in the Borders? | This is not just about the Chisholms, it delves into place names in the Borders, why they changed their names and the Highland connections. | 4 pages or more | 28 | Michael Robson |
| Harelaw | The mole catchers of Lilliesleaf | The story of a mole and rabbit catcher in the Lilliesleaf area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Mrs S.J. Hodgkinson |
| Harelaw | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Harestanes | My Namesake | About the Telford family from the Hawick area. He moved around from Langlee, Ancrum. They were buried in Melrose | less than 1 page | 3 | Helen (Telford) Reichenbach |
| Harewood | The Famous and Infamous of the Jeffrey Family | Absorbing biography of James Jeffrey, son of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Sinton, and his career as a famous gardener. | 3 pages or more | 46 | George Martin |
| Harkins | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Harkness | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1869-1900) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | 8 pages or more | 46 | Marjory Gavin |
| Harper | Travellers Tales in the Borders | This is the text of Fred's talk to the Society on 25th April 2004. Absorbing review of public road transport in the Borders mainly in the 20th century. | 9 pages or more | 55 | Fred Kennington |
| Harper | Harper Family Tree | This is a copy of a family tree on the Harper family. | 1 page or more | 7 | Mrs B. Logan |
| Harper Ridge | William Lewins 1785-1848 | Account of William Lewins' life. | 1 page or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Harris | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1869-1900) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | 8 pages or more | 46 | Marjory Gavin |
| Harvey | Station Master of Belses | How history turned up in a sack of rubbish and some one brought it back to life. | 1 page or more | 15 | Jed Squirrel |
| Harvey | Migration From Glendale To New Brunswick, Canada | Account of the families who migrated from Berwick-upon-Tweed to New Brunswick, Canada, and the hazards they faced. Includes a list of families families with Glendale or Border origins were granted land. | 4 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Harvey | Harvey Settlers Reunion | This was the evening address to the reunion, about why they were in the Borders and Northumberland, and about the author's Australian cousins. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Hassendean | Station Master of Belses | How history turned up in a sack of rubbish and some one brought it back to life. | 1 page or more | 15 | Jed Squirrel |
| Hastie | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Hastie | Full of Egotism, Diaries of Rev John Hastie | This is the text of Ronald's talk to the Society on 21st March 2004. It was about a diary which should appeal to those with an interest in local history, a snapshot of life in a rural Parish between 1797 and 1822, and for those connected to Edrom - an opportunity to ‘meet the ancestor’. | 2 pages or more | 55 | Ronald Morrison |
| Hastie | Church and School Connections in the Borders: 1717-1869 and earlier | Account of various Hoy ancestors, many connected with the Church. A lot of research has gone into this. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Charles Hoy |
| Hastings Neville | Border Marriges Boon for "Priests" and Bane for Searchers | The rise and fall of the "Irregular Marriages" From Gretna to Lamberton. | 4 pages or more | 30 | Northumberland and Durham History Soc. |
| Hatley | Will of Gibbie Hatley of Gattonside 1547 | Details of an interesting legacy to the Edinburgh Hangman. | less than 1 page | 74 | |
| Hawaii | At The Beginning | A tale of one mans delve into family history from the U.K. to Canada and beyond | 2 pages or more | 1 | Peter Elliot |
| Hawick | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Marriages 1876-1900 | Marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 50 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | It’s in the blood | Notes about why Anne, a member of the Society Council, became interested in family history. | 1 page or more | 57 | Anne Turnbull |
| Hawick | Sidelines on the Borders Railway | Nowadays, the only railway line in the Borders is the main east coast line in Berwickshire. Lady Gibson has discovered, however, that the history of the railways has plenty of interest for family historians. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jane Gibson |
| Hawick | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Marriages 1872-1875 | Marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | less than 1 page | 49 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Deaths 1879-1889 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 52 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | American Intimations in the Hawick Advertiser Births 1859-1900 and Marriages 1855-1872 | Births and marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 4 pages or more | 48 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser -Deaths 1857-1878 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 5 pages or more | 51 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | Border - Line Experiences Of a Canadian Researcher | The Ainslie born in Lilliesleaf and how a trip from Canada to research the family. It ended in a book. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert L. Morden |
| Hawick | The Leyden Family | From U.S.A. an article on the name Leyden with particular reference to Dr John Leyden. | less than 1 page | 12 | Ronald Spencer |
| Hawick | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Deaths 1890-1900 | Deaths in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 53 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | Canadian Intimations in the "Hawick Advertiser" 1855 - 1898 | A list of births and marriages of Canadians intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1898, with brief additional notes on some items. | 4 pages or more | 47 | Marjory Gavin |
| Hawick | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | New Zealand Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Deaths 1860-1900 | Deaths 1860-1900, in New Zealand of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Hawick | At The Beginning | A tale of one mans delve into family history from the U.K. to Canada and beyond | 2 pages or more | 1 | Peter Elliot |
| Hawick | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Hawick | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Hawick | The Miller Family of Hawick, Scotland and Delaware County, New York | This Miller family who emigrated from Hawick or Roberton-they set up a farm in the Catskill mountains of New York. | 2 pages or more | 34 | C. Raymond La Fever |
| Hawick | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Hawick | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Hawick | New Zealand Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1861-1896 | Births and marriages, 1861-1896, in New Zealand of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | More Canadian Intimations in the Hawick Advertiser 1864-1868 | List of deaths in Canada mainly of persons who had connections with Hawick and the surrounding area. | 1 page or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Hawick | The mole catchers of Lilliesleaf | The story of a mole and rabbit catcher in the Lilliesleaf area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Mrs S.J. Hodgkinson |
| Hawick | James Paris Lee 1831--1904 His Rifles reigned supreme | Born in Hawick, the very man who designed the Lee Enfield Rifle, emigrated to Canada, The Percussion Cap, a development by Rev Alexander Forsyth. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Donald Whyte |
| Hawick | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Hawick | Sir Thomas Brisbane | From a request to Kelso Museum for details on Sir Thomas Brisbane. A history of Makerston and the City of Brisbane He was also a keen astronomer. Very interesting. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Zilla Oddy |
| Hawick | The Chisholm Highland Connection | The story of the Chisholm family, their involvement in medieval wars and their move from the Borders to the Highlands. | 5 pages or more | 73 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Hawick | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | Death in the Borders: 19th Century Border Murder Cases | This is the review of a book by Norrie McLeish, Border Murder Cases with a great deal of research that has gone into this volume. Gypsies, Landlords, and farm workers. | 2 pages or more | 30 | Norrie McLeish .(Review by Hugh K. Mackay) |
| Hawick | Australian Intimations in Hawick Advertiser | Deaths 1862-1900, in Australia of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 8 pages or more | 55 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1869-1900) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | 8 pages or more | 46 | Marjory Gavin |
| Hawick | Scottish Borders Council Archives - Hawick Heritage Hub | Information about the new ‘state of the art’ Council archives due to open in May 2007. | 2 pages or more | 63 | Rachel Hosker |
| Hawick | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Hawick | James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) | Biography of James Murray, a linguist, philologist, teacher. He was one of the founders of the Oxford English dictionary. | 1 page or more | 45 | Valerie Mackay |
| Hawick | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Hawick | Canadian Intimations in the "Hawick Advertiser" 1857 – 1863 | Deaths extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued in issue 43. | 1 page or more | 40 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | Australian Intimations in Hawick Advertiser | Births 1858-1897, Marriages 1854-1900, Deaths 1853-1862, in Australia of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 8 pages or more | 54 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hawick | Newspapers published in the Borders | Border newspapers published in the Borders. 65 in total. | 2 pages or more | 5 | Peter Elliot |
| Hawick Academy | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Hawkshaw | Know Your Parish - Tweedsmuir | Hstory of the parish of Tweedsmuir, and notable people. Drawing of Polmood in ruins. | 2 pages or more | 23 | Jean Moffatt |
| Hawthornden | A Six Year Family History Investigation | Absorbing account of James Drummond, botanist, born at Hawthornden (near Lasswade), and Thomas Drummond (also a botanist). | 5 pages or more | 23 | Andrew Brown |
| Hay | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Hay | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Hay | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Hay | The Scots in Poland | The story of Scottish emigration to Poland as merchant's, engineers and farm managers. The parents of the author's mother came back to Scotland at the beginnig of the 20th century.. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Mona K. McLeod |
| Heard | Muckle Giggots and Sheep lost in the Snow | A memory of Tibbie Shiel by Margaret Turnbull, of James Thomson, the Shepherd of Whitehope, lost in the snow. | 2 pages or more | 64 | C S Borthwick |
| Heartrigg | The Chisholms: Highland Names in the Borders? | This is not just about the Chisholms, it delves into place names in the Borders, why they changed their names and the Highland connections. | 4 pages or more | 28 | Michael Robson |
| Heatherlieburn | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Heatlie | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Heaviside | A Sassenach Searches for his Scottish Ancestry | How the family name may have originated. Possible connections with Kelso. The Reiver Connections An interesting historical tale. | 5 pages or more | 39 | George Heaviside |
| Heavy Brigade | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Heber | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Heiton | A grave look at the Borders | This must be one of the great stories ever to be printed in our magazine - it is the story of grave snatchers, and how one brave chap got his just reward. | 4 pages or more | 21 | Ian Abernethy |
| Heiton | The Scots in Poland | The story of Scottish emigration to Poland as merchant's, engineers and farm managers. The parents of the author's mother came back to Scotland at the beginnig of the 20th century.. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Mona K. McLeod |
| Heligoland | Stoddart | Margaret Stoddart, born 1831, and her very interesting history. From stot-herd,one who tended cattle 1376. Earliest mention in Douglas Barony of Buittle. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Henderson | Greenlaw Jail | List of prisoners in Greenlaw Jail in the 1851 census. | 1 page or more | 35 | Carol Trotter |
| Henderson | A Denholm Family And My Border Memories | A journey through time in Denholm. From Post office, Lord Minto and his new bride to preserves cooking on the range in Meg Purness' draper's shop. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Jean Kelly |
| Henderson | Bowden School Records | Bowden School admission records from 1872. Also lists their parent or guardian. | 2 pages or more | 25 | |
| Henderson | A Rutherfurd family | Notes on the name Rutherfurd taken from the book 'Rutherfurds of that Ilk'. | 2 pages or more | 21 | James Selkirk |
| Henderson | Kings Own Scottish Borderers | A list of men who died in the Boer War in outlying places. | 1 page or more | 32 | Helen Rreichenbach |
| Henderson | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Henderson | The Breadford Family Search | A tale of family that moved from Northumberland to Berwickshre. All were farm servants some labourers some farm stewards. There are irregular marriages, name changes and a possible pioneering birth using chloroform. | 6 pages or more | 72 | Bill Bradford |
| Henderson | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Part 1 of an account of George Henderson of Chirnside, a medical doctor, who also found time for his interests in local history and customs, botany and poetry. | 12 pages or more | 62 | |
| Henlawshiels | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Hepburn | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Herefordshire Regiment | Ways of Arguing in the Social Sciences | This article is an extended version of a talk given to the Society on 17th September 2000, and follows an earlier article in the "Scottish Genealogist" in 1997 on the theme of methods of approach for family history researchers. Uses Hoy ancestors for examples. | 3 pages or more | 46 | Charles Hoy |
| Heriots Dyke | Lauder and Lauderdale | This is the text of the talk given by Ian Miller, president of Old Gala House on the 18th April 1999 | 5 pages or more | 41 | Ian Miller |
| Heritage | Hermitage--Grim Guardian of the Borders | Lord Soulis and how he came to his rather barbaric death. It follows the history of Hermitage through the years. Very interesting. | 3 pages or more | 14 | Norrie McLeish |
| Hermiston | Ecclesiastical Education in Berwickshire What the records have to tell | Ecclesiastical education of Berwickshire and where to find useful information | 2 pages or more | 38 | Dr Charles Hoy |
| Hermitage | Who was Little Arthur Foster? Elliots at court 1675-1682 | Border Reivers Court sittings in the 1600's. How Cautioners upheld the Law.Also in 5 pages in issue 30 covering the same subject. | 5 pages or more | 29 | Michael Robson |
| Hermitage | Hermitage - Grim Guardian of the Borders | History of Hermitage castle and its occupants. Continued in issue 14. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Hermitage | Hermitage---Grim Guardian of the Borders- | The history of Hermitage Castle and its inhabitants from 1207 right through. Continued in the issue 11. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Herring | The Story of a Stray | Account of Robert Burgon, a fisherman from Berwick who was drowned in 1850 with William Burgeon, Joseph Cowlin, George Swinton, and the boy David Lyle, and buried in Inverbervie. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Murray Nicoll |
| Herron | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| Hester | Kings Own Scottish Borderers | A list of men who died in the Boer War in outlying places. | 1 page or more | 32 | Helen Rreichenbach |
| Hetherington | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Hetterburn | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued in issue 42. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Jim Wilson |
| Heughhead | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Hewick | Station Master of Belses | How history turned up in a sack of rubbish and some one brought it back to life. | 1 page or more | 15 | Jed Squirrel |
| Hewie | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Hibernia | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Hillhouses | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Hillisland | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Hilson | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Hinshelwood | Old Emigrant’s Diaries | Extract from diary of Margaret Charteris, wife of Thomas Hinshelwood, emigrant from Jedburgh, ship ‘Nebo’, to Queensland, in 1883. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Jane Gibson |
| Hirsel | Notes on the Halliburton Family | The Halliburton family who were well known landowners in the Borders from the 13th to 18th centuries. The Halliburtons intermarried with other well known Border families. | 2 pages or more | 6 | C.D. Wickenden |
| Hislop | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Hislop | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Hislop | Fountainhall Smiddy 1793-1945 | Account of the Hislop / Dick family who worked in the smiddy (blacksmith's shop) for five generations. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Margaret Dick |
| Hobkirk | A quest for Scottish Roots in the Middle Marches | This article was first printed in the Laidlaw Family Journal of October 1995 and has been reprinted in this issue. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Kenneth Laidlaw |
| Hogarth | A Hogarth Family Tree | There came into James Hogarth's possession a manuscript family tree covering seven or eight generations of the Hogarth family, also, where they came from. | 1 page or more | 27 | James Hogarth |
| Hogarth | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Hogg | Know your parish Longformacus | The history, and how Longformacus got its name. Its population and parish records. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Hogg | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| Hogg | Notes on the Ancestry of the Ettrick Shepherd | James Hogg (1770-1835) where he and his ancestors lived in the Borders, also who they married. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Donald Wyte |
| Hogg | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hogg | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Hogg | William Lewins 1785-1848 | Account of William Lewins' life. | 1 page or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Hogg | The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 4 pages or more | 31 | A. V. Tokley |
| Hogg | Whatever happened to those adventurous Hoggs ? | Various anecdotes about the author's antecedents | 1 page or more | 64 | Ian Patterson |
| Hogg | Guess Who’s Missing | The descendants of William Steel Story who lived in Yetholm, Morebattle, Hobkirk, who married Elizabeth Aitchson, daughter of Francis Aitchson and Elizabeth Hogg around 1806. | 1 page or more | 64 | E .Helen Ball |
| Hogg | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Hogg Hill | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Holiwell | Know your Parish-Polwarth | Description of the village of Polwarth, its history, the inhabitants, and their occupations. | 1 page or more | 28 | |
| Holmburn | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Home | A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| Home | The Aytons of Ayton | The parish of Ayton from the Norman family De-Vesci who changed their name to Ayton to a history of the village. | 2 pages or more | 17 | James Eaton |
| Home | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Home | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Home | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Home | The Flowers of the Forest--Borderers who fell at Flodden | The Fletcher brothers from Selkirk and were they at Flodden? Probably. | 1 page or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Home | Death duty register | Extracts from the death duty registers (seen at the public record office, Chancery Lane, London). Relating to Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. | 3 pages or more | 4 | |
| Home | The Homes of Paxton House | A fascinating piece of Borders family history came to light when a 200 year-old Berwickshire mansion was gifted to the nation. Along with the history of the family of Home's. love is a wondrous thing ! | 2 pages or more | 11 | Violet Jardine |
| Hong Kong | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hood | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Hood | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Hood | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Hope | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Hopkins | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Hopkins | Two Sutherland Factors | Two brothers from Yair who were factors for Sutherland. It also covers the Highland Clearances right up to his death. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Jane Gibson |
| Horn Water Brigg | The Ayton Bard Robert Mennon 1797-1885 | This is a two part article abridged from the book of the title written by A. Michael Mennim. A copy of the complete book together with maps, photgraphs and poems is in Scottish Borders Council Library Headquartors with a family tree | 4 pages or more | 15 | Michael Mennon |
| Horsburgh | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Horsey | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| Horsill | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Horton | Kings Own Scottish Borderers | A list of men who died in the Boer War in outlying places. | 1 page or more | 32 | Helen Rreichenbach |
| Hosburghs | Two Sutherland Factors | Two brothers from Yair who were factors for Sutherland. It also covers the Highland Clearances right up to his death. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Jane Gibson |
| Hot Trod | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Hounam | Jean Fleming | A young shepherd gets lost in the snow and is frozen to death. There's also a specification for shepherds boots. | 2 pages or more | 69 | Snowstorm in the Cheviots |
| Hounam | Know your Parish--Morebattle | A history of Morebattle Parish. And the surrounding area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Elespeth Ewan |
| Hounam | Know your Parish--Hounam | The history of Hounam. | 1 page or more | 16 | |
| Household Budget | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 2 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses wages of artisans, workers’ household budget, unemployment, poor relief, and medical assistance. Continued from issue 44, and in issue 46. | 6 pages or more | 45 | Peter Munro |
| How | Borderers in the Victorian Marriage Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 5 pages or more | 16 | Barbara Turner |
| Howie | Church and School Connections in the Borders: 1717-1869 and earlier | Account of various Hoy ancestors, many connected with the Church. A lot of research has gone into this. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Charles Hoy |
| Hoy | Ways of Arguing in the Social Sciences | This article is an extended version of a talk given to the Society on 17th September 2000, and follows an earlier article in the "Scottish Genealogist" in 1997 on the theme of methods of approach for family history researchers. Uses Hoy ancestors for examples. | 3 pages or more | 46 | Charles Hoy |
| Hoy | The Delights and Drawbacks of Working with One's Web Pages | Text of the talk given at the Society’s Open Meeting on 16th September 2001. Suggestions on building a personal website. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Charles Hoy |
| Hoy | From Roxburghshire to Delaware County: The 19th Century Miller Letters - Part 1 | Account of letters written between 1818 and 1864 from Scotland to David Miller (1795-1883), and his wives, and relatives. David Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, a beadle of Roberton Kirk. | 4 pages or more | 64 | John W. Hoy |
| Hoy | Church and School Connections in the Borders: 1717-1869 and earlier | Account of various Hoy ancestors, many connected with the Church. A lot of research has gone into this. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Charles Hoy |
| Hub | Scottish Borders Council Archives - Hawick Heritage Hub | Information about the new ‘state of the art’ Council archives due to open in May 2007. | 2 pages or more | 63 | Rachel Hosker |
| Hugan | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Huguenot | A forgotten village-Huguenot refugees at Polwarth | The story of the Huguenot refugees who landed at Berwick on Tweed and travelling inland alighted on this secluded spot to settle there, is known, perhaps only by their descendants. | 3 pages or more | 6 | Colin Wood |
| Hume | Notes on the Halliburton Family | The Halliburton family who were well known landowners in the Borders from the 13th to 18th centuries. The Halliburtons intermarried with other well known Border families. | 2 pages or more | 6 | C.D. Wickenden |
| Hume | Polwarth on the Green | A history of Polwarth that was handed out by Colin Wood on the outing to Polwarth, Oct 1988. | 1 page or more | 8 | Colin Wood |
| Hume | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Hume | Know your Parish-Polwarth | Description of the village of Polwarth, its history, the inhabitants, and their occupations. | 1 page or more | 28 | |
| Hume | The Border Archive-For Queen and County | This is a list of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert Miller |
| Hume | A Canadian Connection | Copies of letters sent from Canada in 1864 - they make very interesting reading. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Jenifer Payne |
| Hume | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Hunter | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Hunter | The Altarstone at Stobo | Stobo Slate Quarry "inferior to no slate whatever". Also a connection to Merlin and Arthur. | 1 page or more | 10 | Isobel Jardine |
| Hunter | Miriam Fish | One of the band of grave yard inscription recorders, she gives a interesting description of her youth. | 1 page or more | 31 | Miriam Fish |
| Hunter | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Hunter | The Tweedsmuir Connection | Report of the society's summer outing to Upper Tweeddale. | 1 page or more | 13 | Violet Jardine |
| Hunter | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Hutcheson | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Hutcheson | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Hutton | Extracts of the Hutton Session Records Jun 19th 1819 - Dec 7th 1821 | Transcribed extracts of the Hutton Session Records mainly about donations to the Poor, and a list of ministers since 1688. Lots of names. | 2 pages or more | 50 | Heather Lough |
| Hutton | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Hutton | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | For anyone with a Renton in the family this is very interesting with full name, where, and the date they were born, and more. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Hutton | From Coldstream to Canada | The Galbraith history from Coldstream to Toronto University. A comprehensive account of the Galbraiths. | 3 pages or more | 26 | James Burns |
| Hutton | A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| Hutton | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Hutton | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Idaho | From Crosslee to Salt Lake City | The journry of William Scott Clark from Ettrick to Idaho. | 2 pages or more | 71 | George Clark |
| Imperial Tobacco | St Mary's Mill | From the start of the Mill in 1894 through good and bad times . How the mill was used through both world wars. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Jane Gibson |
| India | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| India | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| India | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Inglis | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Inglis | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Innerleithen | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| Innerleithen | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Innerleithen | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Innerleithen | An Unexpected Homecoming | An Englishman migrates to the Borders when Riddell House changes hands. He marries a local lass with links to Innerleithen. | 2 pages or more | 71 | David Rudram |
| Inscriptions | Recording Monumental Inscriptions | How to record inscriptions on gravestones. Method used by Highland Family History Society to compile inscriprions for genealogical reference. | 4 pages or more | 54 | John Durham |
| Internet | The Delights and Drawbacks of Working with One's Web Pages | Text of the talk given at the Society’s Open Meeting on 16th September 2001. Suggestions on building a personal website. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Charles Hoy |
| Internet | Family Tree Maker Online | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program with the Internet | 2 pages or more | 40 | Allan McVittie |
| Inverbervie | The Story of a Stray | Account of Robert Burgon, a fisherman from Berwick who was drowned in 1850 with William Burgeon, Joseph Cowlin, George Swinton, and the boy David Lyle, and buried in Inverbervie. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Murray Nicoll |
| Iowa | From Crosslee to Salt Lake City | The journry of William Scott Clark from Ettrick to Idaho. | 2 pages or more | 71 | George Clark |
| Ironmonger | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Ironmonger | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Irregular | Crossing the Border | Notes on Linda Bankier's talk to the Society on 20th February 2005, mainly about the differences between English and Scottish records, irregular marriages, and the Berwick Record Office's holdings. | 1 page or more | 57 | [Linda Bankier] |
| Irregular Marriages | The Breadford Family Search | A tale of family that moved from Northumberland to Berwickshre. All were farm servants some labourers some farm stewards. There are irregular marriages, name changes and a possible pioneering birth using chloroform. | 6 pages or more | 72 | Bill Bradford |
| Italy | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| J. Thomson | Fairbairn | A modern day manipulator who could be better than a Doctor for pains. Got Rugby players who got hurt at the weekend and she would fix them up. | 2 pages or more | 36 | kind permission of Kelso Museum |
| Jack | Old soldiers of the eighteenth century | This is a list and some extracts from War Office records at the Public Record Office at Kew. If you are studying shoemakers - read this. | 1 page or more | 11 | E. A. Gray |
| James Rutherford | Know your Parish--Hounam | The history of Hounam. | 1 page or more | 16 | |
| James Stuart | Shillinglaw Walls | Shillinglaw Tower not far from Traquair it is not only a heap of stones - an interesting tale. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Jean Shillinglaw Ridley |
| Jameson | Death duty register | Extracts from the death duty registers (seen at the public record office, Chancery Lane, London). Relating to Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. | 3 pages or more | 4 | |
| Jamie Cheuch | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| Jardine | Who Was Lizzie Jardine ? | The author's start on her family history - mainly ordinary working folk in the Borders. | 3 pages or more | 51 | Carol Trotter |
| Jardine | The battle of Otterburn 600th Anniversary | The history of the battle of Otterburn and the families that took part, also, Walter Scotts version is different to that of the English version in The Chevy chase. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Jardine | Recording the Jardines - A one-name study | 17 years of research of the Jardine Clan Society. A history of the Clan and the worldwide story of the Jardines. | 4 pages or more | 27 | Violet Jardine |
| Jardine | The Jardine Clan Society | Formed in 1977. Came from France 1066, settled in Anndale; now, branches of the family world wide. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Family History News |
| Jardine | Update on Surnames and Clansmen | Additional notes, about the lands of Fantalane, relating to the author's book. | 1 page or more | 43 | Michael Robson |
| Jardine | An Unusual Way Of Recording Family Trees | This is about a gravestone in the burial ground of Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries-shire which has a drawn family tree of the Jardine family. The article shows a picture of the gravestone. | 1 page or more | 66 | Colin McInnes |
| Java | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Jedbirgh | Convicts Transported to Western Australia in 1858 aboard the 'Edwin Fox' | A list of Scottish convicts transported to Australia on the "Edwin Fox". Reprinted from Bedfordshire Family History Society Journal | 2 pages or more | 70 | Lynn Manning |
| Jedburgh | James Veitch - Border Astronomer | Shot extract of a talk given by Mr. Bill Veitch to the Society on the 15th of May 1994. | less than 1 page | 26 | Bill Veitch |
| Jedburgh | Rev. Robert Douglas, 1747-1820 The father of Galashiels | The Rev. Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, 1747-1820, was a man of great ability and served his parishioners so well he was called "The Father of Galashiels". | 2 pages or more | 37 | Donald Whyte |
| Jedburgh | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| Jedburgh | William Lorrain-Borders Schoolmaster | During the last war attics were cleared of paper and, from an attic in Jedburgh there appeared a collection of papers concerning the Rector of Jedburgh Grammar School, William Lorrain. | less than 1 page | 27 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Jedburgh | Totties in Sweden | Note about Thomas Tottie, from Jedburgh, born in 1664, a tobacco manufacturer, extracted from Th. A. Fischer’s The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907). | less than 1 page | 60 | |
| Jedburgh | The Parish of Langlands | The parish of Langlands and the history of old leper hospital at Rutherford. Also the history of Langton that was absorbed into Wilton. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Michael Langlands |
| Jedburgh | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Jedburgh | Old Emigrant’s Diaries | Extract from diary of Margaret Charteris, wife of Thomas Hinshelwood, emigrant from Jedburgh, ship ‘Nebo’, to Queensland, in 1883. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Jane Gibson |
| Jedburgh | Border Murders | This is a stroll around the Borders looking into, with some depth, the murders in the 1800s. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Norrie Mcleish |
| Jedburgh | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Jedburgh | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Jedburgh | Newspapers published in the Borders | Border newspapers published in the Borders. 65 in total. | 2 pages or more | 5 | Peter Elliot |
| Jedburgh | Records of a Noble Life - Rev Archibald William Murray 1811 to 1892 | Born in Jedburgh, he was a missionary to Samoa and New Guinea, afterwards living in Australia till his death. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Ronald Morrison |
| Jedburgh | The Chisholms: Highland Names in the Borders? | This is not just about the Chisholms, it delves into place names in the Borders, why they changed their names and the Highland connections. | 4 pages or more | 28 | Michael Robson |
| Jedburgh | Jean Fleming | A young shepherd gets lost in the snow and is frozen to death. There's also a specification for shepherds boots. | 2 pages or more | 69 | Snowstorm in the Cheviots |
| Jedburgh | Maps | Brief notes about Borders maps available from the Society, and on the Internet. | 1 page or more | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Jedburgh | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Jedburgh | Death of Mr Alexander Jeffrey, Solicitor | Obituary that originally appeared in the Jedburgh Gazette and Border Courier in 1874. Alexander Jeffrey was a well-known Jedburgh antiquarian and historian. | 2 pages or more | 62 | |
| Jeffery | Ontario Genealogical Society summer camp | Where to research in Ontario for your Canadian cousins. | 2 pages or more | 37 | D. C. Jeffrey |
| Jeffery | A walk around Foulden in the thirties and forties | The following article was written by Jean Greenland for her granddaughters. She lived in the Manse at Foulden and traveled mostly on foot to all the surrounding area with her parents. Very good. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Mrs. Jean Greenland |
| Jeffery | A Sassenach Searches for his Scottish Ancestry | How the family name may have originated. Possible connections with Kelso. The Reiver Connections An interesting historical tale. | 5 pages or more | 39 | George Heaviside |
| Jeffrey | Death of Mr Alexander Jeffrey, Solicitor | Obituary that originally appeared in the Jedburgh Gazette and Border Courier in 1874. Alexander Jeffrey was a well-known Jedburgh antiquarian and historian. | 2 pages or more | 62 | |
| Jeffrey | The Infamous Jeffrey | Toll-roads in the Borders, toll bars, and William Jeffrey's involvement in protests against them. | 2 pages or more | 58 | George Martin |
| Jeffrey | The Famous and Infamous of the Jeffrey Family | Absorbing biography of James Jeffrey, son of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Sinton, and his career as a famous gardener. | 3 pages or more | 46 | George Martin |
| Jerdan | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Jerdan | Jerdan Family History | The family history of the Jerdans, who they married, and where they lived in the Borders. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Fred Kennington |
| Jethart | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| Jobson | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| Johannesburg | A 'Scot' Moves to South Africa | Biography of Archibald Little, born Melrose, 11th Jan 1829, died 13 Dec 1921, Johannesburg. Brief notes on his occupations, and service in the Basuto War. | 2 pages or more | 44 | Tony Little |
| Johnson | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Johnstone | Greenlaw Jail | List of prisoners in Greenlaw Jail in the 1851 census. | 1 page or more | 35 | Carol Trotter |
| Jones | Old soldiers of the eighteenth century | This is a list and some extracts from War Office records at the Public Record Office at Kew. If you are studying shoemakers - read this. | 1 page or more | 11 | E. A. Gray |
| Jones | The Boston Family of Gattonside | A tale of hand loom weavers from Gattonside who decided to visit a sister in Canada. How they eventually decided to emigrate over to Canada and they walked from New York to Upper Canada. Most of the family are buried in Melrose Church Yard. | 2 pages or more | 39 | M.C.Lawson |
| Joseph Bain | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| K.O.S.B. | Family history and the Military | Reseaching military records | less than 1 page | 4 | Lt-Col. D. C. R. Ward |
| Kabul | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Kaeside | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Kale Water | Know your Parish--Morebattle | A history of Morebattle Parish. And the surrounding area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Elespeth Ewan |
| Kedslie | The Scots in Poland | The story of Scottish emigration to Poland as merchant's, engineers and farm managers. The parents of the author's mother came back to Scotland at the beginnig of the 20th century.. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Mona K. McLeod |
| Keilder | James Ferguson Schoolmaster, 1814-1894 | How the memory of a clock led the author to research this ancestor. | less than 1 page | 32 | J Ferguson |
| Kellie | Coldingham mortcloth records | The mortcloth records are fascinating as they list every occasion when a mortcloth was hired out for a burial. This covers the Coldingham mortcloth. | 1 page or more | 28 | Vivienne S. Dunstan |
| Kelso | The Chisholms: Highland Names in the Borders? | This is not just about the Chisholms, it delves into place names in the Borders, why they changed their names and the Highland connections. | 4 pages or more | 28 | Michael Robson |
| Kelso | Forgotten Borderers--Andrew Walker (1808-1896) | Andrew Walker, born Earlston, worked at Newton Don and moved eventually to Camden and started a Ragged School. He emigrated to Troy in New York and died there. | less than 1 page | 30 | |
| Kelso | A Cockburn Family in Berwickshire and Its Descendants - The Book | The author's Cockburn family history - mostly recent. | 3 pages or more | 24 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Kelso | A Sassenach Searches for his Scottish Ancestry | How the family name may have originated. Possible connections with Kelso. The Reiver Connections An interesting historical tale. | 5 pages or more | 39 | George Heaviside |
| Kelso | Stoddart | Margaret Stoddart, born 1831, and her very interesting history. From stot-herd,one who tended cattle 1376. Earliest mention in Douglas Barony of Buittle. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Kelso | Bowmakers and Currys in the new world | The history of the Bowmakers and Currys before and after they emigrated to the New World. | 1 page or more | 10 | Norman Bowmaker |
| Kelso | Anderson Family Legend | Three brothers shared their last sixpence at Kelso Fair and then parted company. How a lady searched for relatives | less than 1 page | 8 | Mrs. Steele |
| Kelso | The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Kelso | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Kelso | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Kelso | CD Review - Kelso Poor House and Ragged School | Interesting review of the content of this much loved publication, and a bit on the social context of the Poor House and the Ragged School in Kelso. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Kelso | A grave look at the Borders | This must be one of the great stories ever to be printed in our magazine - it is the story of grave snatchers, and how one brave chap got his just reward. | 4 pages or more | 21 | Ian Abernethy |
| Kelso | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Kelso | Border Murders | This is a stroll around the Borders looking into, with some depth, the murders in the 1800s. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Norrie Mcleish |
| Kelso | Newspapers published in the Borders | Border newspapers published in the Borders. 65 in total. | 2 pages or more | 5 | Peter Elliot |
| Kelso | Kelso's Ragged school | Case histories and fate of children in the 1800s who went to a Ragged School. These three names from the excellent book that Audrey has written will make you want to purchase this book. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Kelso | A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| Kelso | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| Kelso | William Elliot, Architect | The family history of William Elliot and descriptions of some of the fine house's he built. | 3 pages or more | 15 | Kathleen Stewart |
| Kelso Abbey | A light-hearted tale--Epitaphs | We will never know what is written on our headstone, this article it gives you some ideas. | 1 page or more | 31 | Ian Abernethy |
| Kelso Combination | CD Review - Kelso Poor House and Ragged School | Interesting review of the content of this much loved publication, and a bit on the social context of the Poor House and the Ragged School in Kelso. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Kennedy | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Kennoway | Links with old Peebles Families | A investigating search into old Peebles families. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Rena Stewart |
| Kentucky Campaign | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Ker | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Kerr | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Kerr | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Kerr | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Kerr | Forgotten Borderers | James Grieve and his interesting contribution to the lowly apple. | 1 page or more | 28 | Jean M. Smith |
| Kerr | The Ainslies--Some notes | The name Ainslie, from 1066 onwards, a full and detailed family history. | 1 page or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Kerr | Canadian Strays | Some discoveries of Lowland strays from Grey township, Ontario | 1 page or more | 30 | J. Hislop |
| Kerr | William Kerr--Portrait of a Canadian Immigrant | John Kerr from Peebles emigrated to America fought in the war Civil War was honorably discharged and settled down to a farmers life. | 1 page or more | 12 | Colin Wood |
| Kerr | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Kerr | Coldingham mortcloth records | The mortcloth records are fascinating as they list every occasion when a mortcloth was hired out for a burial. This covers the Coldingham mortcloth. | 1 page or more | 28 | Vivienne S. Dunstan |
| Kerr | Canadian Strays | Some discoveries of Lowland strays from Grey township, Ontario | 1 page or more | 30 | J. Hislop |
| Kerr | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued from issue 41. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Jim Wilson |
| Kerrs | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth century | The burgh of Selkirk, their trades, who controlled them. The baillies sergents and how they came into being. Continued from issue 25. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Peter Symms |
| Kerrs | Rob of Trows | A very prince of a Tweed boatman. That was the description of Rob by Sir Robert Maxwell in his Book "The Story of the Tweed". | 2 pages or more | 19 | |
| Kidston | The Kidstons of Stow | A very comprehensive account of the early Rev. Kidston from Stow and their thirteen children and who they married | 1 page or more | 12 | John Kidston Tait |
| Kiel Canal | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Killiecrankie | James Veitch - Border Astronomer | Shot extract of a talk given by Mr. Bill Veitch to the Society on the 15th of May 1994. | less than 1 page | 26 | Bill Veitch |
| Kilmarnock | Accidents and Disasters in Scotland in the 19th Century | A list of major disasters in Scotland from 1801 to 1849. | 1 page or more | 29 | William P Cross |
| Kilmum | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| King | Coldingham mortcloth records | The mortcloth records are fascinating as they list every occasion when a mortcloth was hired out for a burial. This covers the Coldingham mortcloth. | 1 page or more | 28 | Vivienne S. Dunstan |
| King Harold | "My Great Grandfather died at sea" | A ships Master from Irvine in Ayrshire. How Bill researched the history of a remarkable seaman. 'One of his best'. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Bill Murray |
| King William | An act anent murthering of children | Act of Assembly May 26th 1762 for reading the 21st Act of Parliament of the second session of parliament of King William and Queen Mary dated July 19th 1690 about murdering of children. | less than 1 page | 21 | Margaret Steele |
| Kingsmeadows | My dig into the past | Peebleshire family and from other parts of the Borders, an interesting tale. Also history of various bridges over the Tweed. | 3 pages or more | 34 | A. Turner |
| Kinsale | Forgotten Borders Andrew Cocburn 1871- 1955 | Born Kelso 1871 of a Blacksmith. Second engineer on the Lusitania,he also had two terms on the Mauretania . | 2 pages or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Kirk | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Kirk Yetholm | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Kirk Yetholm | Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 5 pages or more | 32 | A. V. Tokley |
| Kirk Yetholm | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued from issue 41. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Jim Wilson |
| Kirknewton | Bowmakers and Currys in the new world | The history of the Bowmakers and Currys before and after they emigrated to the New World. | 1 page or more | 10 | Norman Bowmaker |
| Kirkpatrick | Cockburns of that ilk | The origins of Cockburns in Berwickshire | 3 pages or more | 36 | Russell Wilson Cockburn |
| Kirkpatrick-Durham | From Hawick to Kirkpatrick-Durham by way of Moscow | Notes of Grieves of Kirkpatrick-Durham in Kirkcudbrightshire, who were descendants of Walter Grieve of Branxholm Park, most of whom were farmers, but also included two eminent doctors who were physicians to the Russian court in the 18th century. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Linda M Chapman |
| Kirkton | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Kirna | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Klondike | Early Days | Excerpts from the account of early years of her marrige written by Mrs Minerve Gibson from Calgary, Alberta, in 1980 at the age of 107. | 3 pages or more | 19 | Jane Gibson |
| Knout | Hermitage---Grim Guardian of the Borders- | The history of Hermitage Castle and its inhabitants from 1207 right through. Continued in the issue 11. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Knout | Hermitage - Grim Guardian of the Borders | History of Hermitage castle and its occupants. Continued in issue 14. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Konigsberg | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| KOSB | K.O.S.B. Memories | This is a look at the talk given by Gavin Richardson, who must be the best informed on the first world war and Gallipoli. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Gavin Richardson |
| KOSB | Kings Own Scottish Borderers | A list of men who died in the Boer War in outlying places. | 1 page or more | 32 | Helen Rreichenbach |
| KOSB | After Gallipoli | After Gallipoli was written as a sequel to "For King and Country" and the Scottish Borderers and continues the story of the 1/4 th (Border) Battalion the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. | 3 pages or more | 21 | Gavin Richardson |
| KOSB | Who was Gordon Stewart of Hawick? | Intriguing investigation into an adopted great uncle who died in World War I, and turned out to be a blood relative. | 3 pages or more | 65 | Anne Golden |
| Kyber Massacre | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Kyle | Australian Deaths Recorded in the Hawick Advertiser 1854-1873 | A list of people from Hawick who died in or on the way to Australia. Very comprehensive. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Marjory Gavin |
| Kyle | Blind Jamie Donaldson | Account of James Donaldson, whose tombstone is in Melrose Abbey churchyard. | 1 page or more | 47 | Margaret Lawson |
| Kyle | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Kyle | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Ladhope | Know Your Parish - Ladhope | Description of Ladhope (now Galashiels) and historical notes. Includes a drawing of Ladhope Parish Church. | 1 page or more | 20 | |
| Lady Grisell | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Ladykirk | Bygone Days | This is the text of Eleanor's fascinating talk on Upsettlington (also known as Ladykirk) from the 12th century onwards, given to the Society on 19th October 2003. | 3 pages or more | 54 | Eleanor Moffat |
| Ladykirk | William Elliot, Architect | The family history of William Elliot and descriptions of some of the fine house's he built. | 3 pages or more | 15 | Kathleen Stewart |
| Laidlaw | Notes on the Ancestry of the Ettrick Shepherd | James Hogg (1770-1835) where he and his ancestors lived in the Borders, also who they married. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Donald Wyte |
| Laidlaw | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Laidlaw | Moffat Great-Grandparents | About the author's farming great grandfather, John Moffat. | 1 page or more | 60 | David W Kennedy |
| Laidlaw | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Laidlaw | A quest for Scottish Roots in the Middle Marches | This article was first printed in the Laidlaw Family Journal of October 1995 and has been reprinted in this issue. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Kenneth Laidlaw |
| Laidlawstiel | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Laing | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Lamberton | Berwick-upon-Tweed Twixt Thistle and Rose-A Family Historian's Nightmare | Locations and types of marriages in and on the Border. Types of sources, also Parish Registers for 18th and 19th century. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Linda Bankier |
| Lamberton | Border Marriges Boon for "Priests" and Bane for Searchers | The rise and fall of the "Irregular Marriages" From Gretna to Lamberton. | 4 pages or more | 30 | Northumberland and Durham History Soc. |
| Lamberton Toll | Border Marriage Records | The history of Irregular Marriages up and down the country. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Donald Whyte |
| Lambton | A Canadian Connection | Copies of letters sent from Canada in 1864 - they make very interesting reading. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Jenifer Payne |
| Lammermuir | Know your parish Longformacus | The history, and how Longformacus got its name. Its population and parish records. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Lammermuir Hills | The People of the Lammermuirs | Detailed history of the Lammermuirs from Celtic times to the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 23 | Norrie McLeish |
| Lammermuirs | Abbey St Bathans, Cranshaws and Longformacus | A brief description of 3 neighbouring parishes and the records available. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Langholm | William Coulthard: Emigrant to South Australia | Captain A. J. Coultherd has sent a moving account of an intrepid explorer who moved to Austrailia in 1836. | less than 1 page | 7 | Alfred J. Coultherd |
| Langholm | BEATTIEs | Langholm Archive Centre is looking for Beattie volunteers to take part in a DNA project. Participation is completely free and available to all male Beatties not immediately related who can provide a little family tree information and full results will be made available. | less than 1 page | 67 | Bruce McCartney |
| Langlands | The Parish of Langlands | The parish of Langlands and the history of old leper hospital at Rutherford. Also the history of Langton that was absorbed into Wilton. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Michael Langlands |
| Langnewton | Douglas of Springwood Park | The name Douglas would run fear into many Englishmen. This distinguished Border family and its history | 3 pages or more | 31 | Donald Whyte |
| Langshaw | Langshaw Mill Decree of 1608 | Extract Decree relating to Langshaw Mill. The Decree is interesting for genealogists because of the very considerable number of people mentioned in it. | 1 page or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Langton | Cockburns of that ilk | The origins of Cockburns in Berwickshire | 3 pages or more | 36 | Russell Wilson Cockburn |
| Lauder | The Chisholm Highland Connection | The story of the Chisholm family, their involvement in medieval wars and their move from the Borders to the Highlands. | 5 pages or more | 73 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Lauder | Robert Lauder of that Ilk | This is the story of the background and demise of Robert Lauder of that ilk (d.1598), one of the last to be recorded with that appellation. | 3 pages or more | 29 | G.M.S. Lauder-Frost |
| Lauder | Coldingham mortcloth records | The mortcloth records are fascinating as they list every occasion when a mortcloth was hired out for a burial. This covers the Coldingham mortcloth. | 1 page or more | 28 | Vivienne S. Dunstan |
| Lauder | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Lauder | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Lauder | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Lauder | Whiteslade, Berwickshire, and its Owners | Many have seen this ruin on the way from Greenlaw to Lauder, and often wondered about the history of this once great fortress. This article covers it magnificently. | 2 pages or more | 31 | G.M.S. Lauder Frost |
| Lauder | The Flowers of the Forest--Borderers who fell at Flodden | The Fletcher brothers from Selkirk and were they at Flodden? Probably. | 1 page or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Lauder | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| Lauder | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Lauderdale | The Cairncross family - an example of a 16th-17th century family of feuars | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society on 18th September 2005 titled 'Cairncross, a Border Family'. Outline of a typical noted old family in the Lauderdale/Melrose/Galashiels district, with descriptions of some of the local areas and ownership. | 12 pages or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Launceston | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Laurie | Coldingham mortcloth records | The mortcloth records are fascinating as they list every occasion when a mortcloth was hired out for a burial. This covers the Coldingham mortcloth. | 1 page or more | 28 | Vivienne S. Dunstan |
| Law | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Lawrie | Isabella Smith 1814-1904 | Account of Isabella Smith from Coldingham. Berwickshire; and her descendants. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Mary Newbery |
| Lawson | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Lawson | Adam moves to the Borders | Adam Brown bought a small plot of land in West Linton in 1839 after which he emigrated to Australia with seven of his nine children-this story covers their history. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Helen M. Booth |
| Learment | Church and School Connections in the Borders: 1717-1869 and earlier | Account of various Hoy ancestors, many connected with the Church. A lot of research has gone into this. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Charles Hoy |
| Learmond | Two stories of 19th century emigration to Australia and New Zealand | Two stories from the 19th century of emigration to the New World. Andrew Rutherford and his family. | less than 1 page | 12 | Elsie Ahrens |
| Learmont | Ways of Arguing in the Social Sciences | This article is an extended version of a talk given to the Society on 17th September 2000, and follows an earlier article in the "Scottish Genealogist" in 1997 on the theme of methods of approach for family history researchers. Uses Hoy ancestors for examples. | 3 pages or more | 46 | Charles Hoy |
| Learmonth | Kennington/Cowe Family History | The story of the family's arrival in Berwickshire and their life there until they departed to Canada | 9 pages or more | 70 | Fred Kennington |
| Learmouth | Kennington/Cowe Family History. Part 2 - Emigration to New Brunswick 1837 - James Cowe & Isabella Donaldson | Details of the lives of further branches of the Cowe family including one that emigrated to New Brunswick. | 6 pages or more | 71 | Fred Kennington |
| Ledgerwood | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Ledgerwood | About the Shillinglaw | Family history about the Shillinglaws family. | 1 page or more | 5 | Ada Elizabeth Shillinglaw |
| Lee | James Paris Lee 1831--1904 His Rifles reigned supreme | Born in Hawick, the very man who designed the Lee Enfield Rifle, emigrated to Canada, The Percussion Cap, a development by Rev Alexander Forsyth. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Donald Whyte |
| Lee Enfield | James Paris Lee 1831--1904 His Rifles reigned supreme | Born in Hawick, the very man who designed the Lee Enfield Rifle, emigrated to Canada, The Percussion Cap, a development by Rev Alexander Forsyth. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Donald Whyte |
| Lee Pen | Shillinglaw Walls | Shillinglaw Tower not far from Traquair it is not only a heap of stones - an interesting tale. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Jean Shillinglaw Ridley |
| Leenders | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Leghorn | The Barons Folly | The Barons Folly at Lilliards Edge. Built by Sir John Rutherford of Edgerston. He was a Russian Baron. It was as a banker he first made his mark and connections with the Russian navy, he made his fortune. | 2 pages or more | 38 | John D. Wood |
| Leitch | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Lennelhill | A Hogarth Family Tree | There came into James Hogarth's possession a manuscript family tree covering seven or eight generations of the Hogarth family, also, where they came from. | 1 page or more | 27 | James Hogarth |
| Leslie | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Levellers | The Lowland Clearances | Talk given on 19 November 2006, about the Lowland Clearances which preceded the much more infamous Highland Clearances. | 7 pages or more | 66 | Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell |
| Lever | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Lewins | Thomas Lewins 1816-1858 | Account of Thomas Lewins' life, emigration to Canada, his family, and eventual re-migration to California. | 7 pages or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Lewins | William Lewins 1785-1848 | Account of William Lewins' life. | 1 page or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Lewis | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| Leyden | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Leyden | The Leyden Family | From U.S.A. an article on the name Leyden with particular reference to Dr John Leyden. | less than 1 page | 12 | Ronald Spencer |
| Leyden | Border Influences on the Dark Continent | Borderers who played a part in the exploration and settlement of Africa. Mungo Park, Thomas Pringle, John Leyden. | 2 pages or more | 27 | Donald Whyte |
| Leyton | Mennims of Norham | The history of Norham, its castle, and how it got its name. | 3 pages or more | 25 | A.M.Mennim |
| Liddesdale | After Gallipoli | After Gallipoli was written as a sequel to "For King and Country" and the Scottish Borderers and continues the story of the 1/4 th (Border) Battalion the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. | 3 pages or more | 21 | Gavin Richardson |
| Liddesdale | Hermitage - Grim Guardian of the Borders | History of Hermitage castle and its occupants. Continued in issue 14. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Liddle | Liddles Abroad | Family pictures awaken an intrest in family history. The author made contact with relatives in Australia, descendants of a blacksmith who'd emigrated fron Heughhead, Reston. | 2 pages or more | 72 | Bill Stewart |
| life expectancy | An account of the number of people in Scotland in the year 1755 | A review of a document held by the National Archive of Scotland giving details of the population, life expectancy and religious affiliation, | 1 page or more | 69 | Peter Munro |
| Light Brigade | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Lile | Bowden School Records | Bowden School admission records from 1872. Also lists their parent or guardian. | 2 pages or more | 25 | |
| Lilley | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Lilliesleaf | Station Master of Belses | How history turned up in a sack of rubbish and some one brought it back to life. | 1 page or more | 15 | Jed Squirrel |
| Lilliesleaf | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| Lilliesleaf | An Unexpected Homecoming | An Englishman migrates to the Borders when Riddell House changes hands. He marries a local lass with links to Innerleithen. | 2 pages or more | 71 | David Rudram |
| Lilliico | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Lindesay | The battle of Otterburn 600th Anniversary | The history of the battle of Otterburn and the families that took part, also, Walter Scotts version is different to that of the English version in The Chevy chase. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Lindisfarrne | Mennims of Norham | The history of Norham, its castle, and how it got its name. | 3 pages or more | 25 | A.M.Mennim |
| Lindsay | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Lindsey | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| Linton | Jerdan Family History | The family history of the Jerdans, who they married, and where they lived in the Borders. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Fred Kennington |
| Linton | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Little | A 'Scot' Moves to South Africa | Biography of Archibald Little, born Melrose, 11th Jan 1829, died 13 Dec 1921, Johannesburg. Brief notes on his occupations, and service in the Basuto War. | 2 pages or more | 44 | Tony Little |
| Little | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Little Billy | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Part 1 of an account of George Henderson of Chirnside, a medical doctor, who also found time for his interests in local history and customs, botany and poetry. | 12 pages or more | 62 | |
| Little York | Ontario Genealogical Society summer camp | Where to research in Ontario for your Canadian cousins. | 2 pages or more | 37 | D. C. Jeffrey |
| Liverpool | Journey to Australia | The vivid descriptions of life at sea recorded in James Stewart's diary will be of interest to all of us whose ancestors left these shores in the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 37 | Dr J. B. Sproule |
| Lloyd | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Lloyd George | Stoddart | Margaret Stoddart, born 1831, and her very interesting history. From stot-herd,one who tended cattle 1376. Earliest mention in Douglas Barony of Buittle. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Lockie | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Log Books | Abbey St Bathans, Cranshaws and Longformacus | A brief description of 3 neighbouring parishes and the records available. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Logan | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Logan | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Logan | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Logan | Death duty register | Extracts from the death duty registers (seen at the public record office, Chancery Lane, London). Relating to Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. | 3 pages or more | 4 | |
| Logan | Harper Family Tree | This is a copy of a family tree on the Harper family. | 1 page or more | 7 | Mrs B. Logan |
| Logie | The Kidstons of Stow | A very comprehensive account of the early Rev. Kidston from Stow and their thirteen children and who they married | 1 page or more | 12 | John Kidston Tait |
| London | Ways of Arguing in the Social Sciences | This article is an extended version of a talk given to the Society on 17th September 2000, and follows an earlier article in the "Scottish Genealogist" in 1997 on the theme of methods of approach for family history researchers. Uses Hoy ancestors for examples. | 3 pages or more | 46 | Charles Hoy |
| Londonderry | The Kidstons of Stow | A very comprehensive account of the early Rev. Kidston from Stow and their thirteen children and who they married | 1 page or more | 12 | John Kidston Tait |
| Longformacus | Longformacus | A cautionary tale from 1871 and some extracts from the school log book, | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Longformacus | Know your parish Longformacus | The history, and how Longformacus got its name. Its population and parish records. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Longformacus | Abbey St Bathans, Cranshaws and Longformacus | A brief description of 3 neighbouring parishes and the records available. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Longformacus | Poor Relief in the 1840s | A review of the operation of the poor relief in the early 19th century. It includes the size of the allwances paid and an estimate of the cost of living at the time. | 4 pages or more | 71 | Peter Munro |
| Longstaffe | James Thomson, Capt. James Cook R.N., Ednam and Cleveland | The connection of Rev. James Thomson and Capt. Cook with the village of Ednam. | 1 page or more | 27 | P. D. Thomson |
| Lord Minto | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Lorrain | William Lorrain-Borders Schoolmaster | During the last war attics were cleared of paper and, from an attic in Jedburgh there appeared a collection of papers concerning the Rector of Jedburgh Grammar School, William Lorrain. | less than 1 page | 27 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Lothian | The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Lough | Bowmakers and Currys in the New World | Border origins of author's family, and arrivals in New York and Montreal. | 1 page or more | 13 | Norman J Bowmaker |
| Low | Death duty register | Extracts from the death duty registers (seen at the public record office, Chancery Lane, London). Relating to Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. | 3 pages or more | 4 | |
| Lowe | Canadian Strays | Some discoveries of Lowland strays from Grey township, Ontario | 1 page or more | 30 | J. Hislop |
| Lowick | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Lowlands | The Lowland Clearances | Talk given on 19 November 2006, about the Lowland Clearances which preceded the much more infamous Highland Clearances. | 7 pages or more | 66 | Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell |
| Lowrie | Bowden School Records | Bowden School admission records from 1872. Also lists their parent or guardian. | 2 pages or more | 25 | |
| Lucknow | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Lumgair | K.O.S.B. Memories | This is a look at the talk given by Gavin Richardson, who must be the best informed on the first world war and Gallipoli. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Gavin Richardson |
| Lumsden | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| Lunatic Asylum | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Lunn | The Border Archive-For Queen and County | This is a list of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert Miller |
| Lusitania | Forgotten Borders Andrew Cocburn 1871- 1955 | Born Kelso 1871 of a Blacksmith. Second engineer on the Lusitania,he also had two terms on the Mauretania . | 2 pages or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Lyle | The Story of a Stray | Account of Robert Burgon, a fisherman from Berwick who was drowned in 1850 with William Burgeon, Joseph Cowlin, George Swinton, and the boy David Lyle, and buried in Inverbervie. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Murray Nicoll |
| Lylestone | Brave Borderland | Connections between the Borders and the Canadian state of Ontario, some poetry, and 2 buses. | 3 pages or more | 63 | Fred Kennington |
| Lynn | Old soldiers of the eighteenth century | This is a list and some extracts from War Office records at the Public Record Office at Kew. If you are studying shoemakers - read this. | 1 page or more | 11 | E. A. Gray |
| MaCaskill | About the Shillinglaw | Family history about the Shillinglaws family. | 1 page or more | 5 | Ada Elizabeth Shillinglaw |
| MacCorquodale | Update on Surnames and Clansmen | Additional notes, about the lands of Fantalane, relating to the author's book. | 1 page or more | 43 | Michael Robson |
| MacDonald | Scots in Antigua | Note about St John's Cathedral, Antigua where the author found an splendid marble memorial for Robert Peddie, surgeon, native of Kelso. | 1 page or more | 61 | Diana Pirrie |
| Mack | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Mackerkindale | Update on Surnames and Clansmen | Additional notes, about the lands of Fantalane, relating to the author's book. | 1 page or more | 43 | Michael Robson |
| Mackintosh | A Six Year Family History Investigation | Absorbing account of James Drummond, botanist, born at Hawthornden (near Lasswade), and Thomas Drummond (also a botanist). | 5 pages or more | 23 | Andrew Brown |
| Maclehose | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Macleod | My dig into the Past | How a birthday party of Melrose Bridge led to a very interesting tale of one man's family search. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Mr Turner |
| Madagascar | North West passage-the Melrose connection | It is 150 years since the explorer, Sir John Franklin, vanished. This is the tale of a Melrose man who was with him on the long journey to find the North West Passage. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Maddox | The Pedigree of the Selkirk Family of Selkirk , Scotland | A family tree of the Selkirk Family. | 2 pages or more | 2 | James Selkirk |
| Maidstone | William Kerr--Portrait of a Canadian Immigrant | John Kerr from Peebles emigrated to America fought in the war Civil War was honorably discharged and settled down to a farmers life. | 1 page or more | 12 | Colin Wood |
| Maitland | Robert Lauder of that Ilk | This is the story of the background and demise of Robert Lauder of that ilk (d.1598), one of the last to be recorded with that appellation. | 3 pages or more | 29 | G.M.S. Lauder-Frost |
| Majoribanks | Two Sutherland Factors | Two brothers from Yair who were factors for Sutherland. It also covers the Highland Clearances right up to his death. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Jane Gibson |
| Makdougall | Sir Thomas Brisbane | From a request to Kelso Museum for details on Sir Thomas Brisbane. A history of Makerston and the City of Brisbane He was also a keen astronomer. Very interesting. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Zilla Oddy |
| Makerstoun | Rob of Trows | A very prince of a Tweed boatman. That was the description of Rob by Sir Robert Maxwell in his Book "The Story of the Tweed". | 2 pages or more | 19 | |
| Makerstoun | Rob of Trows | Born at Birgham, Rob was a favorite with anglers of all classes "peer and peasant alike". A boatman of great distinction on the Tweed. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Mrs M. E. Mason |
| Makerstoun | The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Makerstoun | Thistle and Shamrock | A very well researched article on family history covering Rutherford, Brown, Atkin, and more. The Irish connection would make it very difficult . | 2 pages or more | 9 | John L. Alton |
| Makerstoun | Sir Thomas Brisbane | From a request to Kelso Museum for details on Sir Thomas Brisbane. A history of Makerston and the City of Brisbane He was also a keen astronomer. Very interesting. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Zilla Oddy |
| Malta | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Mamion | Mennims of Norham | The history of Norham, its castle, and how it got its name. | 3 pages or more | 25 | A.M.Mennim |
| Manchester | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Mangerton | Update on Surnames and Clansmen | Additional notes, about the lands of Fantalane, relating to the author's book. | 1 page or more | 43 | Michael Robson |
| Manitoulin Island | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| March | Know your Parish-Polwarth | Description of the village of Polwarth, its history, the inhabitants, and their occupations. | 1 page or more | 28 | |
| Marchmont | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Marco Polo | Journey to Australia | The vivid descriptions of life at sea recorded in James Stewart's diary will be of interest to all of us whose ancestors left these shores in the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 37 | Dr J. B. Sproule |
| Marjorybanks | Full of Egotism, Diaries of Rev John Hastie | This is the text of Ronald's talk to the Society on 21st March 2004. It was about a diary which should appeal to those with an interest in local history, a snapshot of life in a rural Parish between 1797 and 1822, and for those connected to Edrom - an opportunity to ‘meet the ancestor’. | 2 pages or more | 55 | Ronald Morrison |
| Marmion | The Aytons of Ayton | The parish of Ayton from the Norman family De-Vesci who changed their name to Ayton to a history of the village. | 2 pages or more | 17 | James Eaton |
| Marriage | American Intimations in the Hawick Advertiser Births 1859-1900 and Marriages 1855-1872 | Births and marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 4 pages or more | 48 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Marriage | Crossing the Border | Notes on Linda Bankier's talk to the Society on 20th February 2005, mainly about the differences between English and Scottish records, irregular marriages, and the Berwick Record Office's holdings. | 1 page or more | 57 | [Linda Bankier] |
| Marriage | Australian Intimations in Hawick Advertiser | Births 1858-1897, Marriages 1854-1900, Deaths 1853-1862, in Australia of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 8 pages or more | 54 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Marriage | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Marriages | New Zealand Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1861-1896 | Births and marriages, 1861-1896, in New Zealand of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Marriages | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Marriages 1872-1875 | Marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | less than 1 page | 49 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Marriages | Canadian Intimations in the "Hawick Advertiser" 1855 - 1898 | A list of births and marriages of Canadians intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1898, with brief additional notes on some items. | 4 pages or more | 47 | Marjory Gavin |
| Marriages | American Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Marriages 1876-1900 | Marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 50 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Marshall | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| Martine | Ways of Arguing in the Social Sciences | This article is an extended version of a talk given to the Society on 17th September 2000, and follows an earlier article in the "Scottish Genealogist" in 1997 on the theme of methods of approach for family history researchers. Uses Hoy ancestors for examples. | 3 pages or more | 46 | Charles Hoy |
| Martine | Church and School Connections in the Borders: 1717-1869 and earlier | Account of various Hoy ancestors, many connected with the Church. A lot of research has gone into this. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Charles Hoy |
| Mason | The Walter Mason Papers | The Walter Mason Papers. This is a brief description of the collection held by the museum services of Scottish Borders Council. | 1 page or more | 19 | Walter Elliot |
| Masterton | The Tweedsmuir Connection | Report of the society's summer outing to Upper Tweeddale. | 1 page or more | 13 | Violet Jardine |
| Mather | Death in the Borders: 19th Century Border Murder Cases | This is the review of a book by Norrie McLeish, Border Murder Cases with a great deal of research that has gone into this volume. Gypsies, Landlords, and farm workers. | 2 pages or more | 30 | Norrie McLeish .(Review by Hugh K. Mackay) |
| Mather | A walk around Foulden in the thirties and forties | The following article was written by Jean Greenland for her granddaughters. She lived in the Manse at Foulden and traveled mostly on foot to all the surrounding area with her parents. Very good. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Mrs. Jean Greenland |
| Matheson | My Namesake | About the Telford family from the Hawick area. He moved around from Langlee, Ancrum. They were buried in Melrose | less than 1 page | 3 | Helen (Telford) Reichenbach |
| Mattthew Little | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Mauldsheugh | On the Buses | An article from The Southern Reporter of October 29th 1959 about George Turnbull's working life from 1913 to 1959, as a chauffeur or mechanic until 1924, then various jobs for a local bus company. | 2 pages or more | 66 | Charles Borthwick |
| Maunsell | Susanna Pringle's Birthday book | This Pringle tale goes from Browndeanlaw to Yetholm, London, New Brunswick and beyond-very interesting. | 4 pages or more | 16 | Maxine Flaherty |
| Mauritaina | Forgotten Borders Andrew Cocburn 1871- 1955 | Born Kelso 1871 of a Blacksmith. Second engineer on the Lusitania,he also had two terms on the Mauretania . | 2 pages or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Mavis Bank | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Mavisbank | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Maxton | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Maxton | The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Maxton | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| Maxwell | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Maxwell | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Maxwell | The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Maxwellheugh | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Mc Cracken | A family of Tanish | George Tanish who married Catherine Gilroy from Selkirk and their decendants | 4 pages or more | 4 | P. Tanish- Hardie |
| Mc Farland | The Altarstone at Stobo | Stobo Slate Quarry "inferior to no slate whatever". Also a connection to Merlin and Arthur. | 1 page or more | 10 | Isobel Jardine |
| Mc Lean | The mole catchers of Lilliesleaf | The story of a mole and rabbit catcher in the Lilliesleaf area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Mrs S.J. Hodgkinson |
| McClean | Thistle and Shamrock | A very well researched article on family history covering Rutherford, Brown, Atkin, and more. The Irish connection would make it very difficult . | 2 pages or more | 9 | John L. Alton |
| McDonald | Scots in Antigua | Note about St John's Cathedral, Antigua where the author found an splendid marble memorial for Robert Peddie, surgeon, native of Kelso. | 1 page or more | 61 | Diana Pirrie |
| McEwan | Polwarth on the Green | A history of Polwarth that was handed out by Colin Wood on the outing to Polwarth, Oct 1988. | 1 page or more | 8 | Colin Wood |
| Mcgill | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| McKay | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| McKenzie | McKenzie's around the River Ale | An account of McKenzies in and around the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 49 | W E McKenzie |
| McKinlay Tariff | St Mary's Mill | From the start of the Mill in 1894 through good and bad times . How the mill was used through both world wars. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Jane Gibson |
| McLaren | The Pedigree of the Selkirk Family of Selkirk , Scotland | A family tree of the Selkirk Family. | 2 pages or more | 2 | James Selkirk |
| McLeish | The People of the Lammermuirs | Detailed history of the Lammermuirs from Celtic times to the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 23 | Norrie McLeish |
| McLeish | Border Murders | This is a stroll around the Borders looking into, with some depth, the murders in the 1800s. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Norrie Mcleish |
| McMath | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| McNaught | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| McNeile | K.O.S.B. Memories | This is a look at the talk given by Gavin Richardson, who must be the best informed on the first world war and Gallipoli. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Gavin Richardson |
| McNiele | The men who marched away | If you have heard Gavin speak you will know how he has devoted his all spare time to this subject this is the K.O.S.B. part in Gallipoli, another Flodden. Men missing Gala 54, Hawick 52, Jedburgh 18, and so on. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Gavin Richardson |
| McVittie | Family Tree Maker Online | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program with the Internet | 2 pages or more | 40 | Allan McVittie |
| Meadowbank house | Tweedmount House Tweedmount Road Melrose | A great deal of research has gone into this article on a house from when the land was bought to when it was last sold. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Valerie Mackay |
| Medals | Grandad's Medals | A description of the campaigh medals awarded to servicemen and women in WW I. The medal records are often the only record of a forebears service in the army during that conflict. | 1 page or more | 72 | David Rudram |
| Medical Assistance | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 2 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses wages of artisans, workers’ household budget, unemployment, poor relief, and medical assistance. Continued from issue 44, and in issue 46. | 6 pages or more | 45 | Peter Munro |
| Medicine | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Part 1 of an account of George Henderson of Chirnside, a medical doctor, who also found time for his interests in local history and customs, botany and poetry. | 12 pages or more | 62 | |
| Meikledale | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Melbourne | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Melbourne | Journey to Australia | The vivid descriptions of life at sea recorded in James Stewart's diary will be of interest to all of us whose ancestors left these shores in the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 37 | Dr J. B. Sproule |
| Melbourne | Adam moves to the Borders | Adam Brown bought a small plot of land in West Linton in 1839 after which he emigrated to Australia with seven of his nine children-this story covers their history. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Helen M. Booth |
| Melbourne | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Mellerstain | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Melrose | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Melrose | A 'Scot' Moves to South Africa | Biography of Archibald Little, born Melrose, 11th Jan 1829, died 13 Dec 1921, Johannesburg. Brief notes on his occupations, and service in the Basuto War. | 2 pages or more | 44 | Tony Little |
| Melrose | The Boston Family of Gattonside | A tale of hand loom weavers from Gattonside who decided to visit a sister in Canada. How they eventually decided to emigrate over to Canada and they walked from New York to Upper Canada. Most of the family are buried in Melrose Church Yard. | 2 pages or more | 39 | M.C.Lawson |
| Melrose | The Cairncross family - an example of a 16th-17th century family of feuars | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society on 18th September 2005 titled 'Cairncross, a Border Family'. Outline of a typical noted old family in the Lauderdale/Melrose/Galashiels district, with descriptions of some of the local areas and ownership. | 12 pages or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Melrose | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Melrose | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| Melrose | A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| Melrose | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Melrose | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| Melrose | Langshaw Mill Decree of 1608 | Extract Decree relating to Langshaw Mill. The Decree is interesting for genealogists because of the very considerable number of people mentioned in it. | 1 page or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Melrose | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| Melrose | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Melrose | My dig into the Past | How a birthday party of Melrose Bridge led to a very interesting tale of one man's family search. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Mr Turner |
| Melrose | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Melrose | The Case of Agnes Gray | Taken from the Session Minutes of Melrose Parish Registers (1723-1741) A sad tale of a young girl who was cited to present herself before the Kirk Session. | 1 page or more | 19 | |
| Melrose | Blind Jamie Donaldson | Account of James Donaldson, whose tombstone is in Melrose Abbey churchyard. | 1 page or more | 47 | Margaret Lawson |
| Melrose | Kelso's Ragged school | Case histories and fate of children in the 1800s who went to a Ragged School. These three names from the excellent book that Audrey has written will make you want to purchase this book. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Melrose | My dig into the past | Peebleshire family and from other parts of the Borders, an interesting tale. Also history of various bridges over the Tweed. | 3 pages or more | 34 | A. Turner |
| Melrose | McKenzie's around the River Ale | An account of McKenzies in and around the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 49 | W E McKenzie |
| Melrose | Life in Melrose--150 years ago | This is the account of family life in Melrose in the first half of last century, from an autobiography of Catherine Helen Spence. | 3 pages or more | 11 | Colin Wood |
| Memories | Scottish Borders Memory Bank Website | Brief note about the launch of the website and its contents. | less than 1 page | 46 | |
| Mennim | Mennims of Norham | The history of Norham, its castle, and how it got its name. | 3 pages or more | 25 | A.M.Mennim |
| Mennon | The Ayton Bard Robert Mennon 1797-1885 | This is a two part article abridged from the book of the title written by A. Michael Mennim. A copy of the complete book together with maps, photgraphs and poems is in Scottish Borders Council Library Headquartors with a family tree | 4 pages or more | 15 | Michael Mennon |
| Mennon | The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Menzies | Rob of Trows | Born at Birgham, Rob was a favorite with anglers of all classes "peer and peasant alike". A boatman of great distinction on the Tweed. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Mrs M. E. Mason |
| merchants | The Scots in Poland | The story of Scottish emigration to Poland as merchant's, engineers and farm managers. The parents of the author's mother came back to Scotland at the beginnig of the 20th century.. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Mona K. McLeod |
| Mermaid | Douglas of Springwood Park | The name Douglas would run fear into many Englishmen. This distinguished Border family and its history | 3 pages or more | 31 | Donald Whyte |
| Mexico | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Middleburg | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth Century | The Burgesses, and how they looked after Selkirk. The privileges that they gave themselves. Continued in issue 26. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Peter Symms |
| Middlemist | Old Emigrant’s Diaries | Extract from diary of Margaret Charteris, wife of Thomas Hinshelwood, emigrant from Jedburgh, ship ‘Nebo’, to Queensland, in 1883. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Jane Gibson |
| Midlem | CD Review - Bowden Monumental Inscriptions | Review of the content of this publication, and suggestions of other useful publications. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Midside Maggie Midside Maggie | Brave Borderland | Connections between the Borders and the Canadian state of Ontario, some poetry, and 2 buses. | 3 pages or more | 63 | Fred Kennington |
| Mill | Langshaw Mill Decree of 1608 | Extract Decree relating to Langshaw Mill. The Decree is interesting for genealogists because of the very considerable number of people mentioned in it. | 1 page or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Millar | In the hands of the Turk | The story of a collection to pay a ransom of a man who fell into the hands of a Turk. This is as told in the Register of the Privy Council for the year 1677. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jane Gibson |
| Millar | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| Miller | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Miller | From Roxburghshire to Delaware County: The 19th Century Miller Letters - Part 1 | Account of letters written between 1818 and 1864 from Scotland to David Miller (1795-1883), and his wives, and relatives. David Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, a beadle of Roberton Kirk. | 4 pages or more | 64 | John W. Hoy |
| Miller | Thomas Lewins 1816-1858 | Account of Thomas Lewins' life, emigration to Canada, his family, and eventual re-migration to California. | 7 pages or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Miller | A Denholm Family And My Border Memories | A journey through time in Denholm. From Post office, Lord Minto and his new bride to preserves cooking on the range in Meg Purness' draper's shop. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Jean Kelly |
| Miller | Australian Deaths Recorded in the Hawick Advertiser 1854-1873 | A list of people from Hawick who died in or on the way to Australia. Very comprehensive. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Marjory Gavin |
| Miller | The Miller Family of Hawick, Scotland and Delaware County, New York | This Miller family who emigrated from Hawick or Roberton-they set up a farm in the Catskill mountains of New York. | 2 pages or more | 34 | C. Raymond La Fever |
| Miller | My dig into the Past | How a birthday party of Melrose Bridge led to a very interesting tale of one man's family search. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Mr Turner |
| Mills | Bowmakers and Currys in the New World | Border origins of author's family, and arrivals in New York and Montreal. | 1 page or more | 13 | Norman J Bowmaker |
| Ministers | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| Minnydow | From Hawick to Kirkpatrick-Durham by way of Moscow | Notes of Grieves of Kirkpatrick-Durham in Kirkcudbrightshire, who were descendants of Walter Grieve of Branxholm Park, most of whom were farmers, but also included two eminent doctors who were physicians to the Russian court in the 18th century. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Linda M Chapman |
| Minto | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Minto | A Denholm Family And My Border Memories | A journey through time in Denholm. From Post office, Lord Minto and his new bride to preserves cooking on the range in Meg Purness' draper's shop. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Jean Kelly |
| Minto | One of the many Brown Families | A family tree of Browns in Galashiels, Selkirk areas. | 1 page or more | 26 | I.M. Brown |
| Minto | The Parish of Langlands | The parish of Langlands and the history of old leper hospital at Rutherford. Also the history of Langton that was absorbed into Wilton. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Michael Langlands |
| Minto | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Minto | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Mis | Abbey St Bathans, Cranshaws and Longformacus | A brief description of 3 neighbouring parishes and the records available. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Mitchell | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Mitchell | Ontario Genealogical Society summer camp | Where to research in Ontario for your Canadian cousins. | 2 pages or more | 37 | D. C. Jeffrey |
| Mitchell | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Mitchell-Innes | Memories of Ayton | Mrs. Patricia Payne was so interested in the articles on 'The Ayton Bard' that she felt the need to record some of her memories of Ayton before all was forgotten. | less than 1 page | 18 | Patricia Payne |
| Mitchells | Kelso's Ragged school | Case histories and fate of children in the 1800s who went to a Ragged School. These three names from the excellent book that Audrey has written will make you want to purchase this book. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Mithag | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth century | The burgh of Selkirk, their trades, who controlled them. The baillies sergents and how they came into being. Continued from issue 25. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Peter Symms |
| Moffat | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Moffat | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Moffat | Old Uncle | Brief biopic about Alexander Virtue, sometime schoolmaster at Nenthorn. | less than 1 page | 20 | Margery V. Turnbull |
| Moffat | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| Moffat | Moffat Great-Grandparents | About the author's farming great grandfather, John Moffat. | 1 page or more | 60 | David W Kennedy |
| Moffatt | William Lewins 1785-1848 | Account of William Lewins' life. | 1 page or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Moffet | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Molle | A Sassenach Searches for his Scottish Ancestry | How the family name may have originated. Possible connections with Kelso. The Reiver Connections An interesting historical tale. | 5 pages or more | 39 | George Heaviside |
| Monasteries | The Parish Churches Of Berwickshire | A talk by the author given to the Society on 22nd March, 1998. | 5 pages or more | 51 | G A C Binnie |
| Moncreiff | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Mons | After Gallipoli | After Gallipoli was written as a sequel to "For King and Country" and the Scottish Borderers and continues the story of the 1/4 th (Border) Battalion the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. | 3 pages or more | 21 | Gavin Richardson |
| Mons | Who was Gordon Stewart of Hawick? | Intriguing investigation into an adopted great uncle who died in World War I, and turned out to be a blood relative. | 3 pages or more | 65 | Anne Golden |
| Montgomery | Death duty register | Extracts from the death duty registers (seen at the public record office, Chancery Lane, London). Relating to Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. | 3 pages or more | 4 | |
| Montieth Mausoleum | The Barons Folly | The Barons Folly at Lilliards Edge. Built by Sir John Rutherford of Edgerston. He was a Russian Baron. It was as a banker he first made his mark and connections with the Russian navy, he made his fortune. | 2 pages or more | 38 | John D. Wood |
| Montose | In the hands of the Turk | The story of a collection to pay a ransom of a man who fell into the hands of a Turk. This is as told in the Register of the Privy Council for the year 1677. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jane Gibson |
| Montreal | Bowmakers and Currys in the New World | Border origins of author's family, and arrivals in New York and Montreal. | 1 page or more | 13 | Norman J Bowmaker |
| Montreal | The Descendents of James Borrowman (1744-1813) | The history of the name Borrowman from Edinburgh down to Peebles and beyond, with a pedigree chart. | 2 pages or more | 17 | Philip r Borrowman |
| Monumental | Recording Monumental Inscriptions | How to record inscriptions on gravestones. Method used by Highland Family History Society to compile inscriprions for genealogical reference. | 4 pages or more | 54 | John Durham |
| Monumental Inscriptions | CD Review - Bowden Monumental Inscriptions | Review of the content of this publication, and suggestions of other useful publications. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Moor | Greenlaw Jail | List of prisoners in Greenlaw Jail in the 1851 census. | 1 page or more | 35 | Carol Trotter |
| Moor | Greenlaw Jail | List of prisoners in Greenlaw Jail in the 1851 census. | 1 page or more | 35 | Carol Trotter |
| Moore | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Mordington | The Chisholm Highland Connection | The story of the Chisholm family, their involvement in medieval wars and their move from the Borders to the Highlands. | 5 pages or more | 73 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Mordington | A walk around Foulden in the thirties and forties | The following article was written by Jean Greenland for her granddaughters. She lived in the Manse at Foulden and traveled mostly on foot to all the surrounding area with her parents. Very good. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Mrs. Jean Greenland |
| Mordinton | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Morebattle | Know your Parish--Hounam | The history of Hounam. | 1 page or more | 16 | |
| Morebattle | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Morebattle | Morebattle St Lawrence Church Death Register | Transcription of the death register (1848-1862) from Morebattle St Lawrence Church. | 2 pages or more | 49 | Transcribed by Jean Sanderson |
| Morebattle | Know your Parish--Morebattle | A history of Morebattle Parish. And the surrounding area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Elespeth Ewan |
| Morgan | The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh | Extracts from a talk given by Joan Ferguson on the Royal College of Physicians from 1681 right through the years. | 4 pages or more | 39 | Joan Ferguson |
| Morgan | A light-hearted tale--Epitaphs | We will never know what is written on our headstone, this article it gives you some ideas. | 1 page or more | 31 | Ian Abernethy |
| Mormons | The Genealogical Society of Utah | The history, and the Mormons with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Society has grown to be the largest family history reseach organisation and resource in the world. | 2 pages or more | 28 | Mr Rogers |
| Morrison | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Morrison & Co | Forgotten Borders Andrew Cocburn 1871- 1955 | Born Kelso 1871 of a Blacksmith. Second engineer on the Lusitania,he also had two terms on the Mauretania . | 2 pages or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Morrison & Co | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Morsafes | History in the Graveyard | Body Snatching in the Borders and how it was fought. | less than 1 page | 10 | Violet Jardine |
| Mortcloth | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Mortcloth records | Coldingham mortcloth records | The mortcloth records are fascinating as they list every occasion when a mortcloth was hired out for a burial. This covers the Coldingham mortcloth. | 1 page or more | 28 | Vivienne S. Dunstan |
| Mortcloths | Death is for the Living | Second part of the talk given to the Society on 15th September 2002. | 7 pages or more | 52 | Anne Gordon |
| Moscrip | Death in the Borders: 19th Century Border Murder Cases | This is the review of a book by Norrie McLeish, Border Murder Cases with a great deal of research that has gone into this volume. Gypsies, Landlords, and farm workers. | 2 pages or more | 30 | Norrie McLeish .(Review by Hugh K. Mackay) |
| Moscript | A Remarkable Coincidence | Anecdote of a visit to the Society's library. | less than 1 page | 40 | Mike Brydon |
| Mosside | A Rutherfurd family | Notes on the name Rutherfurd taken from the book 'Rutherfurds of that Ilk'. | 2 pages or more | 21 | James Selkirk |
| Mossman | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Mounsey | From Hawick to Kirkpatrick-Durham by way of Moscow | Notes of Grieves of Kirkpatrick-Durham in Kirkcudbrightshire, who were descendants of Walter Grieve of Branxholm Park, most of whom were farmers, but also included two eminent doctors who were physicians to the Russian court in the 18th century. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Linda M Chapman |
| Mounsey | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| Moysen | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Muir | Wisdom lingers: Adventures of an ex-officer | From 1908 the Territorial movement through the First World War. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Stanly Gordon Ayer |
| Mungo | A Six Year Family History Investigation | Absorbing account of James Drummond, botanist, born at Hawthornden (near Lasswade), and Thomas Drummond (also a botanist). | 5 pages or more | 23 | Andrew Brown |
| Mungo | Border Influences on the Dark Continent | Borderers who played a part in the exploration and settlement of Africa. Mungo Park, Thomas Pringle, John Leyden. | 2 pages or more | 27 | Donald Whyte |
| Mungo Noble | Who was Little Arthur Foster? Elliots at court 1675-1682 | Border Reivers Court sittings in the 1600's. How Cautioners upheld the Law.Also in 5 pages in issue 30 covering the same subject. | 5 pages or more | 29 | Michael Robson |
| Mungo Park | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Munro | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Murder | Border Murders | This is a stroll around the Borders looking into, with some depth, the murders in the 1800s. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Norrie Mcleish |
| Murdoch | James Paris Lee 1831--1904 His Rifles reigned supreme | Born in Hawick, the very man who designed the Lee Enfield Rifle, emigrated to Canada, The Percussion Cap, a development by Rev Alexander Forsyth. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Donald Whyte |
| Murray | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Murray | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Murray | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Murray | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Murray | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | For anyone with a Renton in the family this is very interesting with full name, where, and the date they were born, and more. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Murray | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Murray | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Murray | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth century | The burgh of Selkirk, their trades, who controlled them. The baillies sergents and how they came into being. Continued from issue 25. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Peter Symms |
| Murray | Some Purves families in Duns Berwickshire | A well known Berwickshire name Purves, a family from Duns in 1634 and his heirs. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mrs. Evelyn Carlson |
| Murray | Galashiels Murrays in New South Wales | Murrays first came to the fore in Eccles, follow them through generations. There is also a very touching letter in the article. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Donald Wyte |
| Murray | Records of a Noble Life - Rev Archibald William Murray 1811 to 1892 | Born in Jedburgh, he was a missionary to Samoa and New Guinea, afterwards living in Australia till his death. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Ronald Morrison |
| Murray | Langshaw Mill Decree of 1608 | Extract Decree relating to Langshaw Mill. The Decree is interesting for genealogists because of the very considerable number of people mentioned in it. | 1 page or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Murray | The Flowers of the Forest--Borderers who fell at Flodden | The Fletcher brothers from Selkirk and were they at Flodden? Probably. | 1 page or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Murray | James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) | Biography of James Murray, a linguist, philologist, teacher. He was one of the founders of the Oxford English dictionary. | 1 page or more | 45 | Valerie Mackay |
| Murray | Border Influences on the Dark Continent | Borderers who played a part in the exploration and settlement of Africa. Mungo Park, Thomas Pringle, John Leyden. | 2 pages or more | 27 | Donald Whyte |
| Murray | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Murray | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Murray | Death duty register | Extracts from the death duty registers (seen at the public record office, Chancery Lane, London). Relating to Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. | 3 pages or more | 4 | |
| Murray | Isabella Smith 1814-1904 | Account of Isabella Smith from Coldingham. Berwickshire; and her descendants. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Mary Newbery |
| Murray | Shillinglaw Walls | Shillinglaw Tower not far from Traquair it is not only a heap of stones - an interesting tale. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Jean Shillinglaw Ridley |
| Murray | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Murray | "My Great Grandfather died at sea" | A ships Master from Irvine in Ayrshire. How Bill researched the history of a remarkable seaman. 'One of his best'. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Bill Murray |
| Murray | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Murthering | An act anent murthering of children | Act of Assembly May 26th 1762 for reading the 21st Act of Parliament of the second session of parliament of King William and Queen Mary dated July 19th 1690 about murdering of children. | less than 1 page | 21 | Margaret Steele |
| Mustards | Kelso's Ragged school | Case histories and fate of children in the 1800s who went to a Ragged School. These three names from the excellent book that Audrey has written will make you want to purchase this book. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Audrey Mitchell |
| N. Robertson | Fairbairn | A modern day manipulator who could be better than a Doctor for pains. Got Rugby players who got hurt at the weekend and she would fix them up. | 2 pages or more | 36 | kind permission of Kelso Museum |
| Naesmiths | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Nantes | A forgotten village-Huguenot refugees at Polwarth | The story of the Huguenot refugees who landed at Berwick on Tweed and travelling inland alighted on this secluded spot to settle there, is known, perhaps only by their descendants. | 3 pages or more | 6 | Colin Wood |
| Napoleonic Wars | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| National Trust for Scotland | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| Naughley | The Reverand Alexander Naughley | A very interesting account of a Parish Clergyman from Stow to Threlkeld and his life story. | 2 pages or more | 31 | Eddie Wren |
| Needpath | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Neidpath Castle | Links with old Peebles Families | A investigating search into old Peebles families. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Rena Stewart |
| Neidpath Castle | Know your parish -Peebles | Arms of the Burgh Chartes. Families. Fairs, Transport A good history of the town and tale or two. | 3 pages or more | 26 | Jean Moffat |
| Nenthorn | Old Uncle | Brief biopic about Alexander Virtue, sometime schoolmaster at Nenthorn. | less than 1 page | 20 | Margery V. Turnbull |
| Nenthorn | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Nesbit | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Nesbit boat house | Thistle and Shamrock | A very well researched article on family history covering Rutherford, Brown, Atkin, and more. The Irish connection would make it very difficult . | 2 pages or more | 9 | John L. Alton |
| Ness | Berwick-upon-Tweed Twixt Thistle and Rose-A Family Historian's Nightmare | Locations and types of marriages in and on the Border. Types of sources, also Parish Registers for 18th and 19th century. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Linda Bankier |
| Nether Horsbrugh | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Netherby Hall | An Elephantine trip to St Mary's Loch | George Reavly in his history of Galashiels notes that fifty years ago not a gig could be got to hire. One of the largest trips that ever left Galashiels propelled by horse power. On the trip to St Marys Loch. | 2 pages or more | 22 | K. MsRae |
| Netherbyres | Memories of Ayton | Mrs. Patricia Payne was so interested in the articles on 'The Ayton Bard' that she felt the need to record some of her memories of Ayton before all was forgotten. | less than 1 page | 18 | Patricia Payne |
| New Brunswick | Migration From Glendale To New Brunswick, Canada | Account of the families who migrated from Berwick-upon-Tweed to New Brunswick, Canada, and the hazards they faced. Includes a list of families families with Glendale or Border origins were granted land. | 4 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| New Brunswick | Kennington/Cowe Family History. Part 2 - Emigration to New Brunswick 1837 - James Cowe & Isabella Donaldson | Details of the lives of further branches of the Cowe family including one that emigrated to New Brunswick. | 6 pages or more | 71 | Fred Kennington |
| New Guinea | Records of a Noble Life - Rev Archibald William Murray 1811 to 1892 | Born in Jedburgh, he was a missionary to Samoa and New Guinea, afterwards living in Australia till his death. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Ronald Morrison |
| New York | The Boston Family of Gattonside | A tale of hand loom weavers from Gattonside who decided to visit a sister in Canada. How they eventually decided to emigrate over to Canada and they walked from New York to Upper Canada. Most of the family are buried in Melrose Church Yard. | 2 pages or more | 39 | M.C.Lawson |
| New York | Bowmakers and Currys in the New World | Border origins of author's family, and arrivals in New York and Montreal. | 1 page or more | 13 | Norman J Bowmaker |
| New York | From Roxburghshire to Delaware County: The 19th Century Miller Letters - Part 1 | Account of letters written between 1818 and 1864 from Scotland to David Miller (1795-1883), and his wives, and relatives. David Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, a beadle of Roberton Kirk. | 4 pages or more | 64 | John W. Hoy |
| New York | Bowmakers and Currys in the new world | The history of the Bowmakers and Currys before and after they emigrated to the New World. | 1 page or more | 10 | Norman Bowmaker |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1861-1896 | Births and marriages, 1861-1896, in New Zealand of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Marjorie Gavin |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Deaths 1860-1900 | Deaths 1860-1900, in New Zealand of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Newbie | The Chisholms: Highland Names in the Borders? | This is not just about the Chisholms, it delves into place names in the Borders, why they changed their names and the Highland connections. | 4 pages or more | 28 | Michael Robson |
| Newcasleton | After Gallipoli | After Gallipoli was written as a sequel to "For King and Country" and the Scottish Borderers and continues the story of the 1/4 th (Border) Battalion the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. | 3 pages or more | 21 | Gavin Richardson |
| Newcastleton | Sidelines on the Borders Railway | Nowadays, the only railway line in the Borders is the main east coast line in Berwickshire. Lady Gibson has discovered, however, that the history of the railways has plenty of interest for family historians. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jane Gibson |
| Newcastleton | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Newfoundland | Rev. John Baird (1799-1861)--Friend of the Gypsies | John Baird was Minister at Kirk Yetholm. He was responsible for the new bridge , rebuilding the Kirk and School. He also educated the Gypsies and brought them into the community. was a founder member of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Donald Whyte |
| Newlands | Two stories of 19th century emigration to Australia and New Zealand | Two stories from the 19th century of emigration to the New World. Andrew Rutherford and his family. | less than 1 page | 12 | Elsie Ahrens |
| Newstead | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| Newton | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Newton Stewart | From Coldstream to Canada | The Galbraith history from Coldstream to Toronto University. A comprehensive account of the Galbraiths. | 3 pages or more | 26 | James Burns |
| Nichol | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Nichol | The poor, crime and punishment,and the power of the Kirk in the Borders, 17th & 18th Centuries | When paupers died, the contents of their houses were sold by public roup. This is an account of one sale and the strength of the Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 31 | M. C. Lawson |
| Nichol | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Nicol | The Dimma and Dickson Families of the Borders Region, Scotland | The Dimma family from Eckford, who they married, and where they settled in Ontario. This is a well researched article into a old Border family. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Thomas Dimma Minster |
| Nicol | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Nicoll | Stoddart | Margaret Stoddart, born 1831, and her very interesting history. From stot-herd,one who tended cattle 1376. Earliest mention in Douglas Barony of Buittle. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Nine Stane Rig | Hermitage---Grim Guardian of the Borders- | The history of Hermitage Castle and its inhabitants from 1207 right through. Continued in the issue 11. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Nine Stane Rig | Hermitage - Grim Guardian of the Borders | History of Hermitage castle and its occupants. Continued in issue 14. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Nisbet | The Aytons of Ayton | The parish of Ayton from the Norman family De-Vesci who changed their name to Ayton to a history of the village. | 2 pages or more | 17 | James Eaton |
| Nisbet | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Nisbet | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Nixson | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Norham | Mennims of Norham | The history of Norham, its castle, and how it got its name. | 3 pages or more | 25 | A.M.Mennim |
| North British Railway | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Northumberland | James Ferguson Schoolmaster, 1814-1894 | How the memory of a clock led the author to research this ancestor. | less than 1 page | 32 | J Ferguson |
| Northumberland | The Alternative Relationship | The Alternative Relationship and how it can be used. Also an interesting research into the Cavers and Cammond families. | 3 pages or more | 4 | Mrs H. Crammond |
| Northumberland | Harvey Settlers Reunion | This was the evening address to the reunion, about why they were in the Borders and Northumberland, and about the author's Australian cousins. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Ian Herbert |
| Northumberland | William Lewins 1785-1848 | Account of William Lewins' life. | 1 page or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Nova Scotia | Recording the Jardines - A one-name study | 17 years of research of the Jardine Clan Society. A history of the Clan and the worldwide story of the Jardines. | 4 pages or more | 27 | Violet Jardine |
| Nuriootpa | William Coulthard: Emigrant to South Australia | Captain A. J. Coultherd has sent a moving account of an intrepid explorer who moved to Austrailia in 1836. | less than 1 page | 7 | Alfred J. Coultherd |
| Ogilvie | Will H. Ogilvie - A Border Poet | Brief notes on Will Ogilvie and the cairn to him. | 1 page or more | 23 | |
| Oldham | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Oliver | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Oliver | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Oliver | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Oliver | Notes on the Ancestry of the Ettrick Shepherd | James Hogg (1770-1835) where he and his ancestors lived in the Borders, also who they married. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Donald Wyte |
| Oliver | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Oliver | A Sassenach Searches for his Scottish Ancestry | How the family name may have originated. Possible connections with Kelso. The Reiver Connections An interesting historical tale. | 5 pages or more | 39 | George Heaviside |
| Oliver | Nostalgic Memories | Sandra Devlin of Queensland sent a copy of a letter written in Langholm in 1934 by T. Ritchie to his cousin, Dr. T. Oliver. An abridged version is printed in this volume. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Sandra Devlin |
| Oliver | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued in issue 42. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Jim Wilson |
| Oliver | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Ontario | At The Beginning | A tale of one mans delve into family history from the U.K. to Canada and beyond | 2 pages or more | 1 | Peter Elliot |
| Ontario | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Ontario | Brave Borderland | Connections between the Borders and the Canadian state of Ontario, some poetry, and 2 buses. | 3 pages or more | 63 | Fred Kennington |
| Ontario | Ontario Genealogical Society summer camp | Where to research in Ontario for your Canadian cousins. | 2 pages or more | 37 | D. C. Jeffrey |
| Ord | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Ord | The People of the Lammermuirs | Detailed history of the Lammermuirs from Celtic times to the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 23 | Norrie McLeish |
| Orde | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Ormistane | Will of Gibbie Hatley of Gattonside 1547 | Details of an interesting legacy to the Edinburgh Hangman. | less than 1 page | 74 | |
| Ormiston | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Over Common | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Oxford | James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) | Biography of James Murray, a linguist, philologist, teacher. He was one of the founders of the Oxford English dictionary. | 1 page or more | 45 | Valerie Mackay |
| Oxford English dictionary | James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) | Biography of James Murray, a linguist, philologist, teacher. He was one of the founders of the Oxford English dictionary. | 1 page or more | 45 | Valerie Mackay |
| Oxton | Following in the Footsteps of Robert Redpath. | The story of one man's journey to mine gold in Australia. There is reference to two diaries kept by othe men on the voyage from Glasgow to Townsville, Queensland. | 3 pages or more | 69 | Irene J Redpath |
| Paisley | Accidents and Disasters in Scotland in the 19th Century | A list of major disasters in Scotland from 1801 to 1849. | 1 page or more | 29 | William P Cross |
| Paisley | An Unexpected Homecoming | An Englishman migrates to the Borders when Riddell House changes hands. He marries a local lass with links to Innerleithen. | 2 pages or more | 71 | David Rudram |
| Palestine | K.O.S.B. Memories | This is a look at the talk given by Gavin Richardson, who must be the best informed on the first world war and Gallipoli. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Gavin Richardson |
| Palestine | After Gallipoli | After Gallipoli was written as a sequel to "For King and Country" and the Scottish Borderers and continues the story of the 1/4 th (Border) Battalion the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. | 3 pages or more | 21 | Gavin Richardson |
| Palsey | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Parachute Regiment | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Parker | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Passengers | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| Paterson | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Paterson | Australian Deaths Recorded in the Hawick Advertiser 1854-1873 | A list of people from Hawick who died in or on the way to Australia. Very comprehensive. | 3 pages or more | 36 | Marjory Gavin |
| Paterson | The Case of Agnes Gray | Taken from the Session Minutes of Melrose Parish Registers (1723-1741) A sad tale of a young girl who was cited to present herself before the Kirk Session. | 1 page or more | 19 | |
| Paterson | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Paton | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Patrick Hume | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Patrick Pens | Hermitage--Grim Guardian of the Borders | Lord Soulis and how he came to his rather barbaric death. It follows the history of Hermitage through the years. Very interesting. | 3 pages or more | 14 | Norrie McLeish |
| Patrick Sanderson | Links with old Peebles Families | A investigating search into old Peebles families. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Rena Stewart |
| Patterson | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Patterson | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Patterson | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | For anyone with a Renton in the family this is very interesting with full name, where, and the date they were born, and more. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Patterson | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Patterson | Cockburns face to face | Cockburns and there likeness seems to have been the great asset of this family. From 1650 onwards this family have a interesting history. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Anne Cockburn |
| Patterson | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Pauper | The poor, crime and punishment,and the power of the Kirk in the Borders, 17th & 18th Centuries | When paupers died, the contents of their houses were sold by public roup. This is an account of one sale and the strength of the Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 31 | M. C. Lawson |
| Paxton | The Homes of Paxton House | A fascinating piece of Borders family history came to light when a 200 year-old Berwickshire mansion was gifted to the nation. Along with the history of the family of Home's. love is a wondrous thing ! | 2 pages or more | 11 | Violet Jardine |
| Paxton | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | For anyone with a Renton in the family this is very interesting with full name, where, and the date they were born, and more. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Paxton | The Chisholm Highland Connection | The story of the Chisholm family, their involvement in medieval wars and their move from the Borders to the Highlands. | 5 pages or more | 73 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Paxton | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Paxton | A walk around Foulden in the thirties and forties | The following article was written by Jean Greenland for her granddaughters. She lived in the Manse at Foulden and traveled mostly on foot to all the surrounding area with her parents. Very good. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Mrs. Jean Greenland |
| Paxton | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Paxton | Borders family origins | Border family origins, surname derivations, and various aspects of family history . | 1 page or more | 33 | Michael Robson |
| Pearson | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Pearson | Greenlaw Jail | List of prisoners in Greenlaw Jail in the 1851 census. | 1 page or more | 35 | Carol Trotter |
| Peatson | From Simprim Kirk session records 1705--A case of Drunkenness | Drink was the downfall of two friends after a session in Coldstream in 1705. | 1 page or more | 7 | Colin Wood |
| Peddie | Scots in Antigua | Note about St John's Cathedral, Antigua where the author found an splendid marble memorial for Robert Peddie, surgeon, native of Kelso. | 1 page or more | 61 | Diana Pirrie |
| Peebles | Maps | Brief notes about Borders maps available from the Society, and on the Internet. | 1 page or more | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Peebles | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Peebles | Recording the Jardines - A one-name study | 17 years of research of the Jardine Clan Society. A history of the Clan and the worldwide story of the Jardines. | 4 pages or more | 27 | Violet Jardine |
| Peebles | Newspapers published in the Borders | Border newspapers published in the Borders. 65 in total. | 2 pages or more | 5 | Peter Elliot |
| Peebles | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Peebles | Forgotten Borderers | James Grieve and his interesting contribution to the lowly apple. | 1 page or more | 28 | Jean M. Smith |
| Peebleshire | Maps | Brief notes about Borders maps available from the Society, and on the Internet. | 1 page or more | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Pefferlaw | Brave Borderland | Connections between the Borders and the Canadian state of Ontario, some poetry, and 2 buses. | 3 pages or more | 63 | Fred Kennington |
| Penang | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Peninsular Campaign | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Peninsular War | Elspeth Ewan’s talk on Army Military History | Synopsis of talk. | less than 1 page | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Penn | Isabella Smith 1814-1904 | Account of Isabella Smith from Coldingham. Berwickshire; and her descendants. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Mary Newbery |
| Pennyfeather | Anderson Family Legend | Three brothers shared their last sixpence at Kelso Fair and then parted company. How a lady searched for relatives | less than 1 page | 8 | Mrs. Steele |
| Percival | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Perkins | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Perrie | Canadian Strays | Some discoveries of Lowland strays from Grey township, Ontario | 1 page or more | 30 | J. Hislop |
| Perth | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Phaup | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Photography | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| Piper Laidlaw | Anderson Family Legend | Three brothers shared their last sixpence at Kelso Fair and then parted company. How a lady searched for relatives | less than 1 page | 8 | Mrs. Steele |
| Pirne | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Pitcairne | The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh | Extracts from a talk given by Joan Ferguson on the Royal College of Physicians from 1681 right through the years. | 4 pages or more | 39 | Joan Ferguson |
| Police Records | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Polmood | Know Your Parish - Tweedsmuir | Hstory of the parish of Tweedsmuir, and notable people. Drawing of Polmood in ruins. | 2 pages or more | 23 | Jean Moffatt |
| Polmood | The Wild Bunch | History of the Tweedie clan. Includes line drawings of ruins of Tinnies and Drumelzier castles. | 4 pages or more | 24 | Norrie McLeish |
| Polwarth | Know your Parish-Polwarth | Description of the village of Polwarth, its history, the inhabitants, and their occupations. | 1 page or more | 28 | |
| Polwarth | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| Polwarth | Polwarth on the Green | A history of Polwarth that was handed out by Colin Wood on the outing to Polwarth, Oct 1988. | 1 page or more | 8 | Colin Wood |
| Polwarth | A forgotten village-Huguenot refugees at Polwarth | The story of the Huguenot refugees who landed at Berwick on Tweed and travelling inland alighted on this secluded spot to settle there, is known, perhaps only by their descendants. | 3 pages or more | 6 | Colin Wood |
| Poor | Selkirk Poor Cases, 1844 | 16 cases of Selkirk Poor from the Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law (Scotland), 1844. | 2 pages or more | 54 | Peter Munro |
| Poor House | CD Review - Kelso Poor House and Ragged School | Interesting review of the content of this much loved publication, and a bit on the social context of the Poor House and the Ragged School in Kelso. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Poor Houses | Poor Borderers | Synopsis of a talk given by the author about provision for the poor. | 1 page or more | 20 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Poor Law | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 1 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses the Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law (Scotland), diet, and prices. Continued in issue 45. | 4 pages or more | 44 | Peter Munro |
| Poor Law | Poor Borderers | Synopsis of a talk given by the author about provision for the poor. | 1 page or more | 20 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Poor Law Cases | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 3 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses emigrants, and cites some poor law cases. Continued from issue 45. | 1 page or more | 46 | Peter Munro |
| Poor Relief | Poor Relief in the 1840s | A review of the operation of the poor relief in the early 19th century. It includes the size of the allwances paid and an estimate of the cost of living at the time. | 4 pages or more | 71 | Peter Munro |
| Poor Relief | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 2 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses wages of artisans, workers’ household budget, unemployment, poor relief, and medical assistance. Continued from issue 44, and in issue 46. | 6 pages or more | 45 | Peter Munro |
| Poor Relief | Poor Relief in the 1840s | Talk given at the Society’s Open Meeting on 16th September 2001, about how poor relief cases were determined, and how much they received in 1843 in Coldstream. | 4 pages or more | 47 | Peter Munro |
| Poorhouse | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| population | An account of the number of people in Scotland in the year 1755 | A review of a document held by the National Archive of Scotland giving details of the population, life expectancy and religious affiliation, | 1 page or more | 69 | Peter Munro |
| Port Phillip | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Potts | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Preacher | The Scots in Poland | The story of Scottish emigration to Poland as merchant's, engineers and farm managers. The parents of the author's mother came back to Scotland at the beginnig of the 20th century.. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Mona K. McLeod |
| Prentice | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Preston | Susanna Pringle's Birthday book | This Pringle tale goes from Browndeanlaw to Yetholm, London, New Brunswick and beyond-very interesting. | 4 pages or more | 16 | Maxine Flaherty |
| Price | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Prices | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 1 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses the Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law (Scotland), diet, and prices. Continued in issue 45. | 4 pages or more | 44 | Peter Munro |
| Priestfield | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Prigle | From Simprim Kirk session records 1705--A case of Drunkenness | Drink was the downfall of two friends after a session in Coldstream in 1705. | 1 page or more | 7 | Colin Wood |
| Primrose | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Primrose League | Female Suffrage by "Titwillow" | This article was first published in a family magazine produced and edited by his grandfather Robert Hogg who farmed at Fireburnmill Coldstream. | 4 pages or more | 38 | John C. Gill |
| Pringle | Susanna Pringle's Birthday book | This Pringle tale goes from Browndeanlaw to Yetholm, London, New Brunswick and beyond-very interesting. | 4 pages or more | 16 | Maxine Flaherty |
| Pringle | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Pringle | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Pringle | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Pringle | Border Influences on the Dark Continent | Borderers who played a part in the exploration and settlement of Africa. Mungo Park, Thomas Pringle, John Leyden. | 2 pages or more | 27 | Donald Whyte |
| Pringles | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Printer | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| Protocol books | Selkirk Protocol Books. An amazing Discovery | A hidden hoard of 16th and 17th century documents from Selkirk. | less than 1 page | 7 | |
| Prussia | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Purdie | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Purdom | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Purness | A Denholm Family And My Border Memories | A journey through time in Denholm. From Post office, Lord Minto and his new bride to preserves cooking on the range in Meg Purness' draper's shop. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Jean Kelly |
| Purves | Liddles Abroad | Family pictures awaken an intrest in family history. The author made contact with relatives in Australia, descendants of a blacksmith who'd emigrated fron Heughhead, Reston. | 2 pages or more | 72 | Bill Stewart |
| Purves | Know your parish Longformacus | The history, and how Longformacus got its name. Its population and parish records. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Purves | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Purves | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| Purves | Some Purves families in Duns Berwickshire | A well known Berwickshire name Purves, a family from Duns in 1634 and his heirs. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mrs. Evelyn Carlson |
| Purves | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Part 1 of an account of George Henderson of Chirnside, a medical doctor, who also found time for his interests in local history and customs, botany and poetry. | 12 pages or more | 62 | |
| Purves | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Purvishill | Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694 | An Innerleithen Poll Tax Roll, 1694; transcribed by John Ballantyne. Lots of people, their occupations, the rent values of their lands, and poll taxes due. A very useful and interesting document. | 7 pages or more | 43 | John Ballantyne |
| Pyle | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Pyle | The Dimma and Dickson Families of the Borders Region, Scotland | The Dimma family from Eckford, who they married, and where they settled in Ontario. This is a well researched article into a old Border family. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Thomas Dimma Minster |
| Quebec | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| Queen Mary | An act anent murthering of children | Act of Assembly May 26th 1762 for reading the 21st Act of Parliament of the second session of parliament of King William and Queen Mary dated July 19th 1690 about murdering of children. | less than 1 page | 21 | Margaret Steele |
| Queensland (Rockhampton) | Old Emigrant’s Diaries | Extract from diary of Margaret Charteris, wife of Thomas Hinshelwood, emigrant from Jedburgh, ship ‘Nebo’, to Queensland, in 1883. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Jane Gibson |
| Quixwood | Some Purves families in Duns Berwickshire | A well known Berwickshire name Purves, a family from Duns in 1634 and his heirs. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mrs. Evelyn Carlson |
| Rae | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Raffles | The Life and Family of Dr. John Leyden | Enthralling biography of the famous polymath (minister, surgeon, judge, linguist, poet and naturalist) who lived from 1775 to 1811. | 7 pages or more | 45 | Marjory Gavin |
| Ragged School | CD Review - Kelso Poor House and Ragged School | Interesting review of the content of this much loved publication, and a bit on the social context of the Poor House and the Ragged School in Kelso. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Ragged School | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Raglan | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Railway | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Railway Haugh | Lauder and Lauderdale | This is the text of the talk given by Ian Miller, president of Old Gala House on the 18th April 1999 | 5 pages or more | 41 | Ian Miller |
| Ramsay | The Days of Our Youth - Memories of Melrose | This article has been extracted from a much longer memoir that John Dick wrote when he retired around 1950. He was born in 1889, the second son of William Dick, an ironmonger in Melrose and his wife Isobella Lauder. He emigrated to Canada as a young man where he eventually became the Chief Cost Accountant for Sun Life Assurance Company. John served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I as a quarter-master sergeant. Although he was twice married he had no children. | 7 pages or more | 67 | John Dick |
| Ramsay | The Famous and Infamous of the Jeffrey Family | Absorbing biography of James Jeffrey, son of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Sinton, and his career as a famous gardener. | 3 pages or more | 46 | George Martin |
| Rangoon | "My Great Grandfather died at sea" | A ships Master from Irvine in Ayrshire. How Bill researched the history of a remarkable seaman. 'One of his best'. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Bill Murray |
| Ranulph | Hermitage---Grim Guardian of the Borders- | The history of Hermitage Castle and its inhabitants from 1207 right through. Continued in the issue 11. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Rathie | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Ravenswood | North West passage-the Melrose connection | It is 150 years since the explorer, Sir John Franklin, vanished. This is the tale of a Melrose man who was with him on the long journey to find the North West Passage. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Ray | Greenlaw Jail | List of prisoners in Greenlaw Jail in the 1851 census. | 1 page or more | 35 | Carol Trotter |
| Reavly | An Elephantine trip to St Mary's Loch | George Reavly in his history of Galashiels notes that fifty years ago not a gig could be got to hire. One of the largest trips that ever left Galashiels propelled by horse power. On the trip to St Marys Loch. | 2 pages or more | 22 | K. MsRae |
| Reay | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Redesdale | Miriam Fish | One of the band of grave yard inscription recorders, she gives a interesting description of her youth. | 1 page or more | 31 | Miriam Fish |
| Redesdale | The battle of Otterburn 600th Anniversary | The history of the battle of Otterburn and the families that took part, also, Walter Scotts version is different to that of the English version in The Chevy chase. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Redpath | Following in the Footsteps of Robert Redpath. | The story of one man's journey to mine gold in Australia. There is reference to two diaries kept by othe men on the voyage from Glasgow to Townsville, Queensland. | 3 pages or more | 69 | Irene J Redpath |
| Redpath | My dig into the Past | How a birthday party of Melrose Bridge led to a very interesting tale of one man's family search. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Mr Turner |
| Redpath | My dig into the past | Peebleshire family and from other parts of the Borders, an interesting tale. Also history of various bridges over the Tweed. | 3 pages or more | 34 | A. Turner |
| Regality | Langshaw Mill Decree of 1608 | Extract Decree relating to Langshaw Mill. The Decree is interesting for genealogists because of the very considerable number of people mentioned in it. | 1 page or more | 59 | Gregory Lauder-Frost |
| Relationships | A somewhat convoluted tree | An old music hall ditty about father and son marrying daughter and mother. | less than 1 page | 73 | |
| Rennie | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Renton | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Renton | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Renton | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Renton | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Renton | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | For anyone with a Renton in the family this is very interesting with full name, where, and the date they were born, and more. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Renton | Cockburns of that ilk | The origins of Cockburns in Berwickshire | 3 pages or more | 36 | Russell Wilson Cockburn |
| Renton | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Renwick | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Reston | Liddles Abroad | Family pictures awaken an intrest in family history. The author made contact with relatives in Australia, descendants of a blacksmith who'd emigrated fron Heughhead, Reston. | 2 pages or more | 72 | Bill Stewart |
| Rev. R. Malcolm | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Riddell | The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Ringan Oliver | James Veitch - Border Astronomer | Shot extract of a talk given by Mr. Bill Veitch to the Society on the 15th of May 1994. | less than 1 page | 26 | Bill Veitch |
| Ritchie | Nostalgic Memories | Sandra Devlin of Queensland sent a copy of a letter written in Langholm in 1934 by T. Ritchie to his cousin, Dr. T. Oliver. An abridged version is printed in this volume. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Sandra Devlin |
| Ritson | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Robb | Wisdom lingers: Adventures of an ex-officer | From 1908 the Territorial movement through the First World War. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Stanly Gordon Ayer |
| Robert Adam | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Robert Burns | The Ainslies--Some notes | The name Ainslie, from 1066 onwards, a full and detailed family history. | 1 page or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Robert the Bruce | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| Roberton | Susanna Pringle's Birthday book | This Pringle tale goes from Browndeanlaw to Yetholm, London, New Brunswick and beyond-very interesting. | 4 pages or more | 16 | Maxine Flaherty |
| Roberton | From Roxburghshire to Delaware County: The 19th Century Miller Letters - Part 1 | Account of letters written between 1818 and 1864 from Scotland to David Miller (1795-1883), and his wives, and relatives. David Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, a beadle of Roberton Kirk. | 4 pages or more | 64 | John W. Hoy |
| Roberton | The Border Archive-For Queen and County | This is a list of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert Miller |
| Roberton | The Border Archive - For Queen and County | Militia list of all men between 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 13 | |
| Roberton | The Miller Family of Hawick, Scotland and Delaware County, New York | This Miller family who emigrated from Hawick or Roberton-they set up a farm in the Catskill mountains of New York. | 2 pages or more | 34 | C. Raymond La Fever |
| Roberton | Rev. Robert Douglas, 1747-1820 The father of Galashiels | The Rev. Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, 1747-1820, was a man of great ability and served his parishioners so well he was called "The Father of Galashiels". | 2 pages or more | 37 | Donald Whyte |
| Roberts | On the Buses | An article from The Southern Reporter of October 29th 1959 about George Turnbull's working life from 1913 to 1959, as a chauffeur or mechanic until 1924, then various jobs for a local bus company. | 2 pages or more | 66 | Charles Borthwick |
| Robertson | William Elliot, Architect | The family history of William Elliot and descriptions of some of the fine house's he built. | 3 pages or more | 15 | Kathleen Stewart |
| Robertson | Know Your Parish - Ednam | History of the parish of Ednam and some inhabitants. | 1 page or more | 24 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Robertson | 15 PARA - Jumping for Joy | The author's talk to the Society on 30th April 2006 about life in the Parachute Regiment, its history, and some of its characters. | 9 pages or more | 61 | Alasdair Hutton |
| Robertson | Early Days | Excerpts from the account of early years of her marrige written by Mrs Minerve Gibson from Calgary, Alberta, in 1980 at the age of 107. | 3 pages or more | 19 | Jane Gibson |
| Rockhampton | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Rockhopper Copper | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Rogert Burns | John Ainslie Map Maker | John Ainslie who was described at a conference in Edinburgh in 1971 as Scotland's greatest cartographer. | 2 pages or more | 4 | C.M. Ainslie |
| Roosevelt | Family Tree Maker Online | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program with the Internet | 2 pages or more | 40 | Allan McVittie |
| Ross | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Rowanburn | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Roxburgh | Letters of Slains 1569--A family puzzle | An intriguing tale of death and complaint in 1569. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Jean Smithers |
| Roxburghshire | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Roxburghshire | CD Review - Bowden Monumental Inscriptions | Review of the content of this publication, and suggestions of other useful publications. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Roxburghshire | Maps | Brief notes about Borders maps available from the Society, and on the Internet. | 1 page or more | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Roxburghshire | CD Review - Kelso Poor House and Ragged School | Interesting review of the content of this much loved publication, and a bit on the social context of the Poor House and the Ragged School in Kelso. | 1 page or more | 67 | Norrie McLeish |
| Roxburghshire | The Costs of Church Services in Scottish Parishes | Structure of costs for church services, i.e. christenings, weddings and burials in Berwickshire and Roxburghshire between 1725 and 1832. | 4 pages or more | 53 | David Richardson |
| Roy | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Royal Scots Greys | Another Borderer at Balaclava | Comment about James Hunter, one of the participants in the Heavy Brigade who had the task of breaking through Russian lines at Balaclava, in respect of the talk given by Will Murray and Trevor Swan entitled a “Coldstream lad at the Charge” in issue No.58. | 1 page or more | 60 | Colin Miller |
| Royal Scotts | Wisdom lingers: Adventures of an ex-officer | From 1908 the Territorial movement through the First World War. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Stanly Gordon Ayer |
| Royal Scotts | The mole catchers of Lilliesleaf | The story of a mole and rabbit catcher in the Lilliesleaf area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Mrs S.J. Hodgkinson |
| Rule | Rules/Turnbulls of Rule water | A written account of the Rule family. His wife who was Mary Rule, traces her family directly to 1693 near Norham. | less than 1 page | 6 | John Simpson |
| Runciman | Update to 'Bringing science to genealogy' | An update on a DNA project that was first described in Volume 67, pages 1 -4 June 2008. | 4 pages or more | 72 | Lorna Henderson |
| Runciman | Bringing Science to Genealogy - DNA Testing | Have you got a family rumour of relationships between families that you cannot prove ? Perhaps you’re curious whether or not you’ve some undiscovered relations out there somewhere in the world, or a brick wall that stubbornly refuses to budge. Then possibly you should consider DNA testing. The author set up three surname DNA projects for SINTON, FAIRBAIRN and RUNCIMAN. | 2 pages or more | 67 | Lorna Henderson |
| Russell | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Russia | From Hawick to Kirkpatrick-Durham by way of Moscow | Notes of Grieves of Kirkpatrick-Durham in Kirkcudbrightshire, who were descendants of Walter Grieve of Branxholm Park, most of whom were farmers, but also included two eminent doctors who were physicians to the Russian court in the 18th century. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Linda M Chapman |
| Russia | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Rutherford | Rev. John Baird (1799-1861)--Friend of the Gypsies | John Baird was Minister at Kirk Yetholm. He was responsible for the new bridge , rebuilding the Kirk and School. He also educated the Gypsies and brought them into the community. was a founder member of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Donald Whyte |
| Rutherford | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Rutherford | The Parish of Langlands | The parish of Langlands and the history of old leper hospital at Rutherford. Also the history of Langton that was absorbed into Wilton. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Michael Langlands |
| Rutherford | The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Rutherford | Know your Parish--Hounam | The history of Hounam. | 1 page or more | 16 | |
| Rutherford | The Pedigree of the Selkirk Family of Selkirk , Scotland | A family tree of the Selkirk Family. | 2 pages or more | 2 | James Selkirk |
| Rutherford | A Stitch in Time | Account of a sampler and the search for its creator in the family tree. | 1 page or more | 47 | Patricia Williamson |
| Rutherford | Jean Fleming | A young shepherd gets lost in the snow and is frozen to death. There's also a specification for shepherds boots. | 2 pages or more | 69 | Snowstorm in the Cheviots |
| Rutherford | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Rutherford | Thistle and Shamrock | A very well researched article on family history covering Rutherford, Brown, Atkin, and more. The Irish connection would make it very difficult . | 2 pages or more | 9 | John L. Alton |
| Rutherford | Two stories of 19th century emigration to Australia and New Zealand | Two stories from the 19th century of emigration to the New World. Andrew Rutherford and his family. | less than 1 page | 12 | Elsie Ahrens |
| Rutherford | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Rutherfurd | A Rutherfurd family | Notes on the name Rutherfurd taken from the book 'Rutherfurds of that Ilk'. | 2 pages or more | 21 | James Selkirk |
| S.S. Samarie | A family of Tanish | George Tanish who married Catherine Gilroy from Selkirk and their decendants | 4 pages or more | 4 | P. Tanish- Hardie |
| Sacramento | Thomas Lewins 1816-1858 | Account of Thomas Lewins' life, emigration to Canada, his family, and eventual re-migration to California. | 7 pages or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Salt Lake City | The Genealogical Society of Utah | The history, and the Mormons with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Society has grown to be the largest family history reseach organisation and resource in the world. | 2 pages or more | 28 | Mr Rogers |
| Samoa | Records of a Noble Life - Rev Archibald William Murray 1811 to 1892 | Born in Jedburgh, he was a missionary to Samoa and New Guinea, afterwards living in Australia till his death. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Ronald Morrison |
| San Francisco | Tweedmount House Tweedmount Road Melrose | A great deal of research has gone into this article on a house from when the land was bought to when it was last sold. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Valerie Mackay |
| Sanderson | Galashiels Murrays in New South Wales | Murrays first came to the fore in Eccles, follow them through generations. There is also a very touching letter in the article. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Donald Wyte |
| Sark toll bar | Border Marriage Records | The history of Irregular Marriages up and down the country. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Donald Whyte |
| Saskatchewan | About the Shillinglaw | Family history about the Shillinglaws family. | 1 page or more | 5 | Ada Elizabeth Shillinglaw |
| Scar Heugh | Reminiscences of Sixty Years Ago | A poem about the Eastern Borders, Tweedside Water Eye. | less than 1 page | 26 | J.G. Stanly |
| School Log Book | Longformacus | A cautionary tale from 1871 and some extracts from the school log book, | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| School Records | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Schoolmaster | James Ferguson Schoolmaster, 1814-1894 | How the memory of a clock led the author to research this ancestor. | less than 1 page | 32 | J Ferguson |
| Scot | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Scotland | Crossing the Border | Notes on Linda Bankier's talk to the Society on 20th February 2005, mainly about the differences between English and Scottish records, irregular marriages, and the Berwick Record Office's holdings. | 1 page or more | 57 | [Linda Bankier] |
| ScotlandsPeople | Leading Genealogy Website Unearths Miser Scrooge’s Scottish Connections | Whether it’s merited or not, Scots have often labelled as being tight-fisted and now one of the world’s leading genealogy websites, ScotlandsPeople, (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) has unearthed records which prove that the miser Scrooge did indeed have Scottish roots. | 1 page or more | 60 | |
| Scott | Strayed far from Berwickshire | This is a small article on Berwickshire strays in the township of Canden East in the county of Lennox and Addington in Ontario, Canada. | 2 pages or more | 30 | G.H. Jeffery |
| Scott | The Langlands | How a family can be traced with the help of a family Bible | 3 pages or more | 36 | Mrs. Prue Langlands |
| Scott | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Scott | The Leyden Family | From U.S.A. an article on the name Leyden with particular reference to Dr John Leyden. | less than 1 page | 12 | Ronald Spencer |
| Scott | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Scott | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Scott | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Scott | Ainslies of Dolphinston to Manitoulin Island | Excellent article on the author's Ainslie forebears from Ancrum and Lilliesleaf to their arrival and life in Canada. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Robert L P Morden |
| Scott | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Scott | William Lorrain-Borders Schoolmaster | During the last war attics were cleared of paper and, from an attic in Jedburgh there appeared a collection of papers concerning the Rector of Jedburgh Grammar School, William Lorrain. | less than 1 page | 27 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Scott | A Denholm Family And My Border Memories | A journey through time in Denholm. From Post office, Lord Minto and his new bride to preserves cooking on the range in Meg Purness' draper's shop. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Jean Kelly |
| Scott | A Canadian Connection | Copies of letters sent from Canada in 1864 - they make very interesting reading. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Jenifer Payne |
| Scott | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Scott | The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 4 pages or more | 31 | A. V. Tokley |
| Scott | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Scott | School roll of the Hawick Academy 1857-1864 | Hawick Academy opened in 1857 with James A. H. Murray as its Headmaster. A list of pupils who went to the school from these dates. | 2 pages or more | 6 | Peter Ruthven-Murray |
| Scott | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Scott | Savages of the North | Short letter from James Usher to Walter Scott 1828 | 1 page or more | 14 | Vivienne S. Moore |
| Scott | Ontario Genealogical Society summer camp | Where to research in Ontario for your Canadian cousins. | 2 pages or more | 37 | D. C. Jeffrey |
| Scott | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Scott | Douglas of Springwood Park | The name Douglas would run fear into many Englishmen. This distinguished Border family and its history | 3 pages or more | 31 | Donald Whyte |
| Scott | The Border Archive-For Queen and County | This is a list of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 residing in Roberton in 1807. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert Miller |
| Scott | The Homes of Paxton House | A fascinating piece of Borders family history came to light when a 200 year-old Berwickshire mansion was gifted to the nation. Along with the history of the family of Home's. love is a wondrous thing ! | 2 pages or more | 11 | Violet Jardine |
| Scott | Shortreed Companion of Sir Walter Scott | Account of Sir Walter Scott's friendship with Robert Shortreed (1762-1829), and Robert's descendents. | 2 pages or more | 50 | Donald Whyte |
| Scott | More Canadian Intimations in the 'Hawick Advertiser' | Deaths (1863-1864) extracted from the "Hawick Advertiser" of people connected to the Borders, and other places in southern Scotland. Continued from issue 40. | less than 1 page | 43 | Marjory Gavin |
| Scott | Borders family origins | Border family origins, surname derivations, and various aspects of family history . | 1 page or more | 33 | Michael Robson |
| Scott | Border Influences on the Dark Continent | Borderers who played a part in the exploration and settlement of Africa. Mungo Park, Thomas Pringle, John Leyden. | 2 pages or more | 27 | Donald Whyte |
| Scott | Notes on the Halliburton Family | The Halliburton family who were well known landowners in the Borders from the 13th to 18th centuries. The Halliburtons intermarried with other well known Border families. | 2 pages or more | 6 | C.D. Wickenden |
| Scott | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Scott | Death in the Borders: 19th Century Border Murder Cases | This is the review of a book by Norrie McLeish, Border Murder Cases with a great deal of research that has gone into this volume. Gypsies, Landlords, and farm workers. | 2 pages or more | 30 | Norrie McLeish .(Review by Hugh K. Mackay) |
| Scott | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Scottish Motor Traction | Travellers Tales in the Borders | This is the text of Fred's talk to the Society on 25th April 2004. Absorbing review of public road transport in the Borders mainly in the 20th century. | 9 pages or more | 55 | Fred Kennington |
| Scottish Omnibuses | On the Buses | An article from The Southern Reporter of October 29th 1959 about George Turnbull's working life from 1913 to 1959, as a chauffeur or mechanic until 1924, then various jobs for a local bus company. | 2 pages or more | 66 | Charles Borthwick |
| Scotts | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Scotts | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Scouler | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Scrooge | Leading Genealogy Website Unearths Miser Scrooge’s Scottish Connections | Whether it’s merited or not, Scots have often labelled as being tight-fisted and now one of the world’s leading genealogy websites, ScotlandsPeople, (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) has unearthed records which prove that the miser Scrooge did indeed have Scottish roots. | 1 page or more | 60 | |
| Scutari | The Purves, Clays, and the Crimean War | This is the text of the authors' talk to the Society titled 'James Charles Purves: a Coldstream Lad at the Charge' on 20th March 2005 about one of the participants in the charge of the Light Brigade, the battle, and some of James' family. | 12 pages or more | 58 | Will Murray and Trevor Swan |
| Seaton Delaval | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This article, reprinted by permission of Northumberland and Durham FHS, is a list of persons in communion rolls, who had moved from the Scottish Borders. | 1 page or more | 20 | Don Mason |
| Selkirk | The Ancient Crafts of Selkirk | The history of crafts in Selkirk from 1113 with the building of the Border abbeys through to the Union of the Crowns. | 1 page or more | 32 | Jim Newlands |
| Selkirk | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Selkirk | Douglas of Springwood Park | The name Douglas would run fear into many Englishmen. This distinguished Border family and its history | 3 pages or more | 31 | Donald Whyte |
| Selkirk | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| Selkirk | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Selkirk | The Pedigree of the Selkirk Family of Selkirk , Scotland | A family tree of the Selkirk Family. | 2 pages or more | 2 | James Selkirk |
| Selkirk | The Langlands | How a family can be traced with the help of a family Bible | 3 pages or more | 36 | Mrs. Prue Langlands |
| Selkirk | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Selkirk | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Selkirk | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth Century | The Burgesses, and how they looked after Selkirk. The privileges that they gave themselves. Continued in issue 26. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Peter Symms |
| Selkirk | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Selkirk | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth century | The burgh of Selkirk, their trades, who controlled them. The baillies sergents and how they came into being. Continued from issue 25. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Peter Symms |
| Selkirk | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| Selkirk | The Walter Mason Papers | The Walter Mason Papers. This is a brief description of the collection held by the museum services of Scottish Borders Council. | 1 page or more | 19 | Walter Elliot |
| Selkirk | Bondagers of the Borders | Liz Taylor presented a most informative talk to members of the society, this is a short story of Bondagers. | 1 page or more | 9 | Liz Taylor |
| Selkirk | Maps | Brief notes about Borders maps available from the Society, and on the Internet. | 1 page or more | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Selkirk | A Canadian Connection | Copies of letters sent from Canada in 1864 - they make very interesting reading. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Jenifer Payne |
| Selkirk | Selkirk Poor Cases, 1844 | 16 cases of Selkirk Poor from the Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law (Scotland), 1844. | 2 pages or more | 54 | Peter Munro |
| Selkirk | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Selkirk | An Elephantine trip to St Mary's Loch | George Reavly in his history of Galashiels notes that fifty years ago not a gig could be got to hire. One of the largest trips that ever left Galashiels propelled by horse power. On the trip to St Marys Loch. | 2 pages or more | 22 | K. MsRae |
| Selkirk | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Selkirkshire | John Ainslie Map Maker | John Ainslie who was described at a conference in Edinburgh in 1971 as Scotland's greatest cartographer. | 2 pages or more | 4 | C.M. Ainslie |
| Selkirkshire | Maps | Brief notes about Borders maps available from the Society, and on the Internet. | 1 page or more | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Session Clerks | Borders Family History Inaugural Lecture | Inaugural talk on the basic sources for looking into your family history. Dealing with Parochial Registers. Census returns, etc. | 5 pages or more | 1 | Donald Whyte |
| Sessions | Extracts of the Hutton Session Records Jun 19th 1819 - Dec 7th 1821 | Transcribed extracts of the Hutton Session Records mainly about donations to the Poor, and a list of ministers since 1688. Lots of names. | 2 pages or more | 50 | Heather Lough |
| Shacklock | Tracing Your Family Tree May Not Always Be Pleasant | Account of research into one specific family. Very detailed - a lot of research. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Margaret C. Lawson |
| Sharpe | Border - Line Experiences Of a Canadian Researcher | The Ainslie born in Lilliesleaf and how a trip from Canada to research the family. It ended in a book. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert L. Morden |
| Sharplaw | Know your Parish--Hounam | The history of Hounam. | 1 page or more | 16 | |
| Shaw | The Miller Family of Hawick, Scotland and Delaware County, New York | This Miller family who emigrated from Hawick or Roberton-they set up a farm in the Catskill mountains of New York. | 2 pages or more | 34 | C. Raymond La Fever |
| Shepherd | Jean Fleming | A young shepherd gets lost in the snow and is frozen to death. There's also a specification for shepherds boots. | 2 pages or more | 69 | Snowstorm in the Cheviots |
| Sheriff Court | Wills and Testaments | Scots law on wills and testaments-the difference. With a good description on how and where to find information on the subject. | 3 pages or more | 22 | James Galbraith |
| Sherlaw | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Sherlaw | Isabella Smith 1814-1904 | Account of Isabella Smith from Coldingham. Berwickshire; and her descendants. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Mary Newbery |
| Sherlock Holmes | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Sherriff | The People of the Lammermuirs | Detailed history of the Lammermuirs from Celtic times to the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 23 | Norrie McLeish |
| Shiel | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued from issue 41. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Jim Wilson |
| Shields | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Shiels | Canadian Strays | Some discoveries of Lowland strays from Grey township, Ontario | 1 page or more | 30 | J. Hislop |
| Shillinglaw | Shillinglaw Walls | Shillinglaw Tower not far from Traquair it is not only a heap of stones - an interesting tale. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Jean Shillinglaw Ridley |
| Shillinglaws | About the Shillinglaw | Family history about the Shillinglaws family. | 1 page or more | 5 | Ada Elizabeth Shillinglaw |
| Ship ‘Nebo’ | Old Emigrant’s Diaries | Extract from diary of Margaret Charteris, wife of Thomas Hinshelwood, emigrant from Jedburgh, ship ‘Nebo’, to Queensland, in 1883. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Jane Gibson |
| Ship 'Brilliant' | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Ship 'Kaffraria' | A 'Scot' Moves to South Africa | Biography of Archibald Little, born Melrose, 11th Jan 1829, died 13 Dec 1921, Johannesburg. Brief notes on his occupations, and service in the Basuto War. | 2 pages or more | 44 | Tony Little |
| Ship 'Killawarra' | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Ship 'Scottish Lassie ' | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Ship voyage | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued from issue 41. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Jim Wilson |
| Shipping | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| Shoemaker | A Family of Shoemakers - The Allans of Paxton | Interest account of the Allans of Paxton who were shoemakers in Paxton from around 1800 till the beginning of World War II. | 4 pages or more | 67 | Mary Newbery |
| Shoemaker | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| Shoemakers | The Ancient Crafts of Selkirk | The history of crafts in Selkirk from 1113 with the building of the Border abbeys through to the Union of the Crowns. | 1 page or more | 32 | Jim Newlands |
| Shortreed | Shortreed Companion of Sir Walter Scott | Account of Sir Walter Scott's friendship with Robert Shortreed (1762-1829), and Robert's descendents. | 2 pages or more | 50 | Donald Whyte |
| Sibbald | The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh | Extracts from a talk given by Joan Ferguson on the Royal College of Physicians from 1681 right through the years. | 4 pages or more | 39 | Joan Ferguson |
| Simprim | From Simprim Kirk session records 1705--A case of Drunkenness | Drink was the downfall of two friends after a session in Coldstream in 1705. | 1 page or more | 7 | Colin Wood |
| Simpson | Dr George Henderson of Chirnside (1800 - 1864) | Second and final part of the account of Dr Henderson's family (the remaining 11 children born from 1841 to 1863 !) with a very early plea for the eight-hour day and some interesting poetry. | 8 pages or more | 63 | Bill Henderson |
| Simpson | The Langlands | How a family can be traced with the help of a family Bible | 3 pages or more | 36 | Mrs. Prue Langlands |
| Simpson | A family of Tanish | George Tanish who married Catherine Gilroy from Selkirk and their decendants | 4 pages or more | 4 | P. Tanish- Hardie |
| Simpson | In the hands of the Turk | The story of a collection to pay a ransom of a man who fell into the hands of a Turk. This is as told in the Register of the Privy Council for the year 1677. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jane Gibson |
| Simson | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| Sinclair | Family History in "The Gladstaines Bible" | This is the very old history of the Gladstains in the Hawick area in and around 1645 through to 1850 . Few families can go back that far with as much confidence in the manuscript as this one. | 3 pages or more | 27 | Michael Robson |
| Sinclair | Polwarth on the Green | A history of Polwarth that was handed out by Colin Wood on the outing to Polwarth, Oct 1988. | 1 page or more | 8 | Colin Wood |
| Singapore | "My Great Grandfather died at sea" | A ships Master from Irvine in Ayrshire. How Bill researched the history of a remarkable seaman. 'One of his best'. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Bill Murray |
| Sinton | Update to 'Bringing science to genealogy' | An update on a DNA project that was first described in Volume 67, pages 1 -4 June 2008. | 4 pages or more | 72 | Lorna Henderson |
| Sinton | Bringing Science to Genealogy - DNA Testing | Have you got a family rumour of relationships between families that you cannot prove ? Perhaps you’re curious whether or not you’ve some undiscovered relations out there somewhere in the world, or a brick wall that stubbornly refuses to budge. Then possibly you should consider DNA testing. The author set up three surname DNA projects for SINTON, FAIRBAIRN and RUNCIMAN. | 2 pages or more | 67 | Lorna Henderson |
| Sir A Ramsey | Hermitage--Grim Guardian of the Borders | Lord Soulis and how he came to his rather barbaric death. It follows the history of Hermitage through the years. Very interesting. | 3 pages or more | 14 | Norrie McLeish |
| Sir G. Home | Cockburns of that ilk | The origins of Cockburns in Berwickshire | 3 pages or more | 36 | Russell Wilson Cockburn |
| Sir W. Douglas | Hermitage--Grim Guardian of the Borders | Lord Soulis and how he came to his rather barbaric death. It follows the history of Hermitage through the years. Very interesting. | 3 pages or more | 14 | Norrie McLeish |
| Sir Walter Scott | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| Sligh | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Smail | Baillie John Smail of Galashiels | Baillie Smail, born at Clovenfords, was First Baillie in 1867, and was renowned for severe punishment . He died of chronic alcoholism. | 1 page or more | 36 | |
| Smail | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| Smailholm | Marth’s Marmalad and Diet Loaf | Some letters which brought life to the bare bones of the author's family tree. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Marjorie Dybeck |
| Smailholm | The Crammond Family of Smailholm | Notes about a Crammond family of Smailholm and their children. | 1 page or more | 57 | Hazel Crammond |
| Smailholm | Captain Cook's Border Background | The history of Captain James Cook and the Ednam connection. | 1 page or more | 6 | Dr Jim Trainer |
| Smailholm | A DNA Revelation | The author's discovery of a direct link to a blood cousin with the name of CRAM, and the surmise that CRAMMOND got shortened along the passage of time. | less than 1 page | 57 | Gordon Crammond |
| Small | Rev. Robert Douglas, 1747-1820 The father of Galashiels | The Rev. Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, 1747-1820, was a man of great ability and served his parishioners so well he was called "The Father of Galashiels". | 2 pages or more | 37 | Donald Whyte |
| Smiddy | Fountainhall Smiddy 1793-1945 | Account of the Hislop / Dick family who worked in the smiddy (blacksmith's shop) for five generations. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Margaret Dick |
| Smith | Isabella Smith 1814-1904 | Account of Isabella Smith from Coldingham. Berwickshire; and her descendants. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Mary Newbery |
| Smith | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Smith | Convicts Transported to Western Australia in 1858 aboard the 'Edwin Fox' | A list of Scottish convicts transported to Australia on the "Edwin Fox". Reprinted from Bedfordshire Family History Society Journal | 2 pages or more | 70 | Lynn Manning |
| Smith | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Smith | Extracts from Dunse Barony Records | Extracts from the author's book, Dunse Barony Records, in the 1760s. | 2 pages or more | 68 | Ronald Morrison |
| SMT | Travellers Tales in the Borders | This is the text of Fred's talk to the Society on 25th April 2004. Absorbing review of public road transport in the Borders mainly in the 20th century. | 9 pages or more | 55 | Fred Kennington |
| Smyth | Isabella Smith 1814-1904 | Account of Isabella Smith from Coldingham. Berwickshire; and her descendants. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Mary Newbery |
| Social Customs | Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 5 pages or more | 32 | A. V. Tokley |
| Soulis | Hermitage---Grim Guardian of the Borders- | The history of Hermitage Castle and its inhabitants from 1207 right through. Continued in the issue 11. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Norrie McLeish |
| Sourhope | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued from issue 41. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Jim Wilson |
| Souters | The Ancient Crafts of Selkirk | The history of crafts in Selkirk from 1113 with the building of the Border abbeys through to the Union of the Crowns. | 1 page or more | 32 | Jim Newlands |
| South Africa | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| South Africa | Life in Linton with William Pringle's Family | Absorbing account of William Pringle, his children, and his grandson, Thomas Pringle, the 'Poet of South Africa'. | 4 pages or more | 20 | Barbara E. Turner |
| South Africa | A House United | How a house (Heatherlieburn, Selkirk) built by Richard Leitch in 1862 came to unite two distant Hepburn relatives who had no idea of each other’s existence. | 3 pages or more | 61 | Celia Baylis and Barbara Nichol |
| South America | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Southdean | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Spedlin | Recording the Jardines - A one-name study | 17 years of research of the Jardine Clan Society. A history of the Clan and the worldwide story of the Jardines. | 4 pages or more | 27 | Violet Jardine |
| Spedlins | The Jardine Clan Society | Formed in 1977. Came from France 1066, settled in Anndale; now, branches of the family world wide. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Family History News |
| Spence | Life in Melrose--150 years ago | This is the account of family life in Melrose in the first half of last century, from an autobiography of Catherine Helen Spence. | 3 pages or more | 11 | Colin Wood |
| Spences Mains | Life in Melrose--150 years ago | This is the account of family life in Melrose in the first half of last century, from an autobiography of Catherine Helen Spence. | 3 pages or more | 11 | Colin Wood |
| Spitfire | Ednam and Captain Cook | A Cleveland lady spent time and effort tracing Captain Cook. Herein lies the Ednam Connection | less than 1 page | 25 | John Newlands |
| Spittal Tower | Jean Fleming | A young shepherd gets lost in the snow and is frozen to death. There's also a specification for shepherds boots. | 2 pages or more | 69 | Snowstorm in the Cheviots |
| Spittlefield | A Case for the Commissary | The amount of information found on any particular family is a matter of luck but time spent will be rewarding. | 4 pages or more | 33 | Rosemary Bigwood |
| Spottiswood | A grave look at the Borders | This must be one of the great stories ever to be printed in our magazine - it is the story of grave snatchers, and how one brave chap got his just reward. | 4 pages or more | 21 | Ian Abernethy |
| Springfield | Border Marriage Records | The history of Irregular Marriages up and down the country. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Donald Whyte |
| Springwood | A grave look at the Borders | This must be one of the great stories ever to be printed in our magazine - it is the story of grave snatchers, and how one brave chap got his just reward. | 4 pages or more | 21 | Ian Abernethy |
| Springwood Park | New Collections at the Heritage Hub | County council records, diaries & estate papers were identified amongst the bacllog of un-catlogued material at the Scottish Borders Archive. | 4 pages or more | 69 | Juline Baird |
| Sprouston | Following in the Footsteps of Robert Redpath. | The story of one man's journey to mine gold in Australia. There is reference to two diaries kept by othe men on the voyage from Glasgow to Townsville, Queensland. | 3 pages or more | 69 | Irene J Redpath |
| Sprouston | The Haliburtens of Sprouston | Origins of the Haliburtons William who had 12 children and their emigration to New Zealand. | less than 1 page | 12 | D.N. Haliburton |
| Sprouston | The Trotters of Sprouston and Hadden - Part 1 | Absorbing account of the author's researches into her Trotter ancestry. | 7 pages or more | 52 | Jenny Fairman |
| Sprouston | The Trotters of Sprouston and Hadden - Part 2 | Absorbing account of the author's researches into her Trotter ancestry. | 5 pages or more | 53 | Jenny Fairman |
| St Abbs | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| St Aiden | Melrose: Past and Present | A story of Melrose from 3000 years B.C. to the Greenyards in 1992. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mr. T Little |
| St Andrews | The Leyden Family | From U.S.A. an article on the name Leyden with particular reference to Dr John Leyden. | less than 1 page | 12 | Ronald Spencer |
| St Boswells | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| St Boswells | Death in the Borders: 19th Century Border Murder Cases | This is the review of a book by Norrie McLeish, Border Murder Cases with a great deal of research that has gone into this volume. Gypsies, Landlords, and farm workers. | 2 pages or more | 30 | Norrie McLeish .(Review by Hugh K. Mackay) |
| St Boswells | Border Murders | This is a stroll around the Borders looking into, with some depth, the murders in the 1800s. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Norrie Mcleish |
| St Cuthbert | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| St Helena | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| St Kentigern | Polwarth on the Green | A history of Polwarth that was handed out by Colin Wood on the outing to Polwarth, Oct 1988. | 1 page or more | 8 | Colin Wood |
| St Lawrence | Know your Parish--Morebattle | A history of Morebattle Parish. And the surrounding area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Elespeth Ewan |
| St Mungo | Polwarth on the Green | A history of Polwarth that was handed out by Colin Wood on the outing to Polwarth, Oct 1988. | 1 page or more | 8 | Colin Wood |
| St Mungo's Fair | Know your Parish-Polwarth | Description of the village of Polwarth, its history, the inhabitants, and their occupations. | 1 page or more | 28 | |
| St Ronan’s Standard | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| St. Cuthbert | Lauder and Lauderdale | This is the text of the talk given by Ian Miller, president of Old Gala House on the 18th April 1999 | 5 pages or more | 41 | Ian Miller |
| St. Helena | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| St.Cuthbert | Mennims of Norham | The history of Norham, its castle, and how it got its name. | 3 pages or more | 25 | A.M.Mennim |
| Stallangers | Coercion or Consensus? The Government of a Border Burgh in the Sixteenth Century | The Burgesses, and how they looked after Selkirk. The privileges that they gave themselves. Continued in issue 26. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Peter Symms |
| Stamfordham | James Thomson, Capt. James Cook R.N., Ednam and Cleveland | The connection of Rev. James Thomson and Capt. Cook with the village of Ednam. | 1 page or more | 27 | P. D. Thomson |
| Stark | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| Stavert | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| StBoswells | Sidelines on the Borders Railway | Nowadays, the only railway line in the Borders is the main east coast line in Berwickshire. Lady Gibson has discovered, however, that the history of the railways has plenty of interest for family historians. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jane Gibson |
| Steel | Guess Who’s Missing | The descendants of William Steel Story who lived in Yetholm, Morebattle, Hobkirk, who married Elizabeth Aitchson, daughter of Francis Aitchson and Elizabeth Hogg around 1806. | 1 page or more | 64 | E .Helen Ball |
| Stephenson | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Stevenson | Tweedmount House Tweedmount Road Melrose | A great deal of research has gone into this article on a house from when the land was bought to when it was last sold. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Valerie Mackay |
| Stewart | Journey to Australia | The vivid descriptions of life at sea recorded in James Stewart's diary will be of interest to all of us whose ancestors left these shores in the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 37 | Dr J. B. Sproule |
| Stewart | The Chisholms: Highland Names in the Borders? | This is not just about the Chisholms, it delves into place names in the Borders, why they changed their names and the Highland connections. | 4 pages or more | 28 | Michael Robson |
| Stewart | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Stewart | Liddles Abroad | Family pictures awaken an intrest in family history. The author made contact with relatives in Australia, descendants of a blacksmith who'd emigrated fron Heughhead, Reston. | 2 pages or more | 72 | Bill Stewart |
| Stewart | Who was Gordon Stewart of Hawick? | Intriguing investigation into an adopted great uncle who died in World War I, and turned out to be a blood relative. | 3 pages or more | 65 | Anne Golden |
| Stewartfield | The Chisholms: Highland Names in the Borders? | This is not just about the Chisholms, it delves into place names in the Borders, why they changed their names and the Highland connections. | 4 pages or more | 28 | Michael Robson |
| Stinson | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| Stintyknowe | Is Anybody Out There ? | The author's search for an ancestor's home. | 2 pages or more | 56 | Jean Currie |
| Stitchel | The Dimma and Dickson Families of the Borders Region, Scotland | The Dimma family from Eckford, who they married, and where they settled in Ontario. This is a well researched article into a old Border family. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Thomas Dimma Minster |
| Stobo | My dig into the past | Peebleshire family and from other parts of the Borders, an interesting tale. Also history of various bridges over the Tweed. | 3 pages or more | 34 | A. Turner |
| Stockholm | Totties in Sweden | Note about Thomas Tottie, from Jedburgh, born in 1664, a tobacco manufacturer, extracted from Th. A. Fischer’s The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907). | less than 1 page | 60 | |
| Story | Guess Who’s Missing | The descendants of William Steel Story who lived in Yetholm, Morebattle, Hobkirk, who married Elizabeth Aitchson, daughter of Francis Aitchson and Elizabeth Hogg around 1806. | 1 page or more | 64 | E .Helen Ball |
| Stow | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Stow | The Kidstons of Stow | A very comprehensive account of the early Rev. Kidston from Stow and their thirteen children and who they married | 1 page or more | 12 | John Kidston Tait |
| Stow | The Reverand Alexander Naughley | A very interesting account of a Parish Clergyman from Stow to Threlkeld and his life story. | 2 pages or more | 31 | Eddie Wren |
| Stow | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Strathblane | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Strays | Strays | Border Strays | 5 pages or more | 48 | |
| Strays | More Strays | Compilation of part of the Society's Strays index. | 1 page or more | 53 | Jean Sanderson |
| Strays | Strays | Compilation of part of the Society's Strays index. | 4 pages or more | 50 | Jean Sanderson |
| Strays | More Strays | Compilation of part of the Society's Strays index. | 2 pages or more | 51 | Jean Sanderson |
| Sunlaws | The Flowers of the Forest--Borderers who fell at Flodden | The Fletcher brothers from Selkirk and were they at Flodden? Probably. | 1 page or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Surname Project | DNA Records for Genealogy | Obtaining the genetic records for your paternal line is important for identification of your cousins and ancestors who share your recent paternal line descent with you. | 1 page or more | 60 | |
| Sutherland | Grantshouse and the Turner family | History of the family from around 1840. Continued from issue 27. | 1 page or more | 28 | James Burns |
| Sutherland | Two Sutherland Factors | Two brothers from Yair who were factors for Sutherland. It also covers the Highland Clearances right up to his death. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Jane Gibson |
| Swadling | Old Emigrant’s Diaries | Extract from diary of Margaret Charteris, wife of Thomas Hinshelwood, emigrant from Jedburgh, ship ‘Nebo’, to Queensland, in 1883. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Jane Gibson |
| Swan | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Swan | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Swan | Old Books with Hawick Connections | A description of two old books about Hawick from the author's library. One is a library book that was never returned. Speculation about the culprit reveals many family relationships. | 2 pages or more | 74 | Anne Golden |
| Swann | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Sweden | Totties in Sweden | Note about Thomas Tottie, from Jedburgh, born in 1664, a tobacco manufacturer, extracted from Th. A. Fischer’s The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907). | less than 1 page | 60 | |
| Sweetheart Abbey | An Unusual Way Of Recording Family Trees | This is about a gravestone in the burial ground of Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries-shire which has a drawn family tree of the Jardine family. The article shows a picture of the gravestone. | 1 page or more | 66 | Colin McInnes |
| Swieeny | A family of Tanish | George Tanish who married Catherine Gilroy from Selkirk and their decendants | 4 pages or more | 4 | P. Tanish- Hardie |
| Swinton | The Story of a Stray | Account of Robert Burgon, a fisherman from Berwick who was drowned in 1850 with William Burgeon, Joseph Cowlin, George Swinton, and the boy David Lyle, and buried in Inverbervie. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Murray Nicoll |
| Sydney | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Symington | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Synton | McKenzie's around the River Ale | An account of McKenzies in and around the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 49 | W E McKenzie |
| Tait | The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 4 pages or more | 31 | A. V. Tokley |
| Tait | Grantshouse and the Turner family | History of the family from around 1840. Continued from issue 27. | 1 page or more | 28 | James Burns |
| Tait | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Tait | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Tait | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Tait & Bruce W.S. | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Tangier | In the hands of the Turk | The story of a collection to pay a ransom of a man who fell into the hands of a Turk. This is as told in the Register of the Privy Council for the year 1677. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jane Gibson |
| Tanish | A family of Tanish | George Tanish who married Catherine Gilroy from Selkirk and their decendants | 4 pages or more | 4 | P. Tanish- Hardie |
| Tarakanoff | The Barons Folly | The Barons Folly at Lilliards Edge. Built by Sir John Rutherford of Edgerston. He was a Russian Baron. It was as a banker he first made his mark and connections with the Russian navy, he made his fortune. | 2 pages or more | 38 | John D. Wood |
| Tates | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Taylor | Bondagers of the Borders | Liz Taylor presented a most informative talk to members of the society, this is a short story of Bondagers. | 1 page or more | 9 | Liz Taylor |
| Teeswater | At The Beginning | A tale of one mans delve into family history from the U.K. to Canada and beyond | 2 pages or more | 1 | Peter Elliot |
| Telescope | James Veitch - Border Astronomer | Shot extract of a talk given by Mr. Bill Veitch to the Society on the 15th of May 1994. | less than 1 page | 26 | Bill Veitch |
| Telfer | North Dumfries, Ontario | North Dumfries, Ontario - how John Clark set up and built a settlement. | 1 page or more | 31 | Mr G. Clark |
| Telford | Nostalgic Memories | Sandra Devlin of Queensland sent a copy of a letter written in Langholm in 1934 by T. Ritchie to his cousin, Dr. T. Oliver. An abridged version is printed in this volume. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Sandra Devlin |
| Telford | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued in issue 42. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Jim Wilson |
| Telford | My Namesake | About the Telford family from the Hawick area. He moved around from Langlee, Ancrum. They were buried in Melrose | less than 1 page | 3 | Helen (Telford) Reichenbach |
| Tennessee | Fredrick Thomas Eckford | Biography of F T Eckford, Second Lieutenant, 12th (Green’s) Tennessee Cavalry Regt. | 1 page or more | 43 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Tennessee | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Terror | North West passage-the Melrose connection | It is 150 years since the explorer, Sir John Franklin, vanished. This is the tale of a Melrose man who was with him on the long journey to find the North West Passage. | 1 page or more | 21 | |
| Teviotdale | Newspapers published in the Borders | Border newspapers published in the Borders. 65 in total. | 2 pages or more | 5 | Peter Elliot |
| Texas | James S. Hogg, 1851-1906, Governor of Texas - Were His Ancestors Borderers ? | Biography of James Hogg, with reference to his ancestors and relatives after arrival in Boston in 1699. Other emigrant Hoggs mentioned. | 2 pages or more | 24 | Donald Whyte |
| The Black Douglas | Galashiels Murrays in New South Wales | Murrays first came to the fore in Eccles, follow them through generations. There is also a very touching letter in the article. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Donald Wyte |
| The Gala Brass Band | An Elephantine trip to St Mary's Loch | George Reavly in his history of Galashiels notes that fifty years ago not a gig could be got to hire. One of the largest trips that ever left Galashiels propelled by horse power. On the trip to St Marys Loch. | 2 pages or more | 22 | K. MsRae |
| The Luggie | Baillie John Smail of Galashiels | Baillie Smail, born at Clovenfords, was First Baillie in 1867, and was renowned for severe punishment . He died of chronic alcoholism. | 1 page or more | 36 | |
| The Seasons | Captain Cook's Border Background | The history of Captain James Cook and the Ednam connection. | 1 page or more | 6 | Dr Jim Trainer |
| Thirestane Castle | Robert Lauder of that Ilk | This is the story of the background and demise of Robert Lauder of that ilk (d.1598), one of the last to be recorded with that appellation. | 3 pages or more | 29 | G.M.S. Lauder-Frost |
| Thom | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser 1855-1900 | A transcription of death notices in rhe local newspaper. There are too many names ot list them all. Only those with extended entries are indexed. | 10 pages or more | 69 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Thomas | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Thompson | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Thompson | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Thompson | Bowden School Records | Bowden School admission records from 1872. Also lists their parent or guardian. | 2 pages or more | 25 | |
| Thomson | Diary of James Alexander Sligh aged 18 | A description of a diary kept by a young bank clerk in 1876. Selected extracts are included. | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Thomson | Know Your Parish - Ednam | History of the parish of Ednam and some inhabitants. | 1 page or more | 24 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Thomson | Stoddart | Margaret Stoddart, born 1831, and her very interesting history. From stot-herd,one who tended cattle 1376. Earliest mention in Douglas Barony of Buittle. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Thomson | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| Thomson | James Thomson, Capt. James Cook R.N., Ednam and Cleveland | The connection of Rev. James Thomson and Capt. Cook with the village of Ednam. | 1 page or more | 27 | P. D. Thomson |
| Thomson | Escape from Dingleton | Some of the inmates of Dingleton Asylum , Melrose tried to escape. A few entries from the Register of excapes are listed here. | 3 pages or more | 74 | Peter Munro |
| Thomson | The Famous and Infamous of the Jeffrey Family | Absorbing biography of James Jeffrey, son of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Sinton, and his career as a famous gardener. | 3 pages or more | 46 | George Martin |
| Thomson | From Roxburghshire to Delaware County: The 19th Century Miller Letters - Part 1 | Account of letters written between 1818 and 1864 from Scotland to David Miller (1795-1883), and his wives, and relatives. David Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, a beadle of Roberton Kirk. | 4 pages or more | 64 | John W. Hoy |
| Thomson | Muckle Giggots and Sheep lost in the Snow | A memory of Tibbie Shiel by Margaret Turnbull, of James Thomson, the Shepherd of Whitehope, lost in the snow. | 2 pages or more | 64 | C S Borthwick |
| Thomson | The Pedigree of the Selkirk Family of Selkirk , Scotland | A family tree of the Selkirk Family. | 2 pages or more | 2 | James Selkirk |
| Thomson | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Thomson | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Thorburn | Baillie John Smail of Galashiels | Baillie Smail, born at Clovenfords, was First Baillie in 1867, and was renowned for severe punishment . He died of chronic alcoholism. | 1 page or more | 36 | |
| Threlkeld | The Reverand Alexander Naughley | A very interesting account of a Parish Clergyman from Stow to Threlkeld and his life story. | 2 pages or more | 31 | Eddie Wren |
| Tibbie Shiel | Muckle Giggots and Sheep lost in the Snow | A memory of Tibbie Shiel by Margaret Turnbull, of James Thomson, the Shepherd of Whitehope, lost in the snow. | 2 pages or more | 64 | C S Borthwick |
| Tibbie Shiels | An Elephantine trip to St Mary's Loch | George Reavly in his history of Galashiels notes that fifty years ago not a gig could be got to hire. One of the largest trips that ever left Galashiels propelled by horse power. On the trip to St Marys Loch. | 2 pages or more | 22 | K. MsRae |
| Tibbie Shiels | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Tinnies Castle | The Wild Bunch | History of the Tweedie clan. Includes line drawings of ruins of Tinnies and Drumelzier castles. | 4 pages or more | 24 | Norrie McLeish |
| Tinnis | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Tobacco | Totties in Sweden | Note about Thomas Tottie, from Jedburgh, born in 1664, a tobacco manufacturer, extracted from Th. A. Fischer’s The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907). | less than 1 page | 60 | |
| Todd | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Tolls | The Infamous Jeffrey | Toll-roads in the Borders, toll bars, and William Jeffrey's involvement in protests against them. | 2 pages or more | 58 | George Martin |
| Toodyay | A Six Year Family History Investigation | Absorbing account of James Drummond, botanist, born at Hawthornden (near Lasswade), and Thomas Drummond (also a botanist). | 5 pages or more | 23 | Andrew Brown |
| Toronto | Ontario Genealogical Society summer camp | Where to research in Ontario for your Canadian cousins. | 2 pages or more | 37 | D. C. Jeffrey |
| Toronto | From Coldstream to Canada | The Galbraith history from Coldstream to Toronto University. A comprehensive account of the Galbraiths. | 3 pages or more | 26 | James Burns |
| Torwoodlee | Working on the Railroad | Railroad incidents recorded during the construction of the Galashiels section of the Waverley line 1884-45 | 2 pages or more | 30 | M. L.. Lawson |
| Torwoodlee | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Tottfield | Savages of the North | Short letter from James Usher to Walter Scott 1828 | 1 page or more | 14 | Vivienne S. Moore |
| Tottie | Totties in Sweden | Note about Thomas Tottie, from Jedburgh, born in 1664, a tobacco manufacturer, extracted from Th. A. Fischer’s The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907). | less than 1 page | 60 | |
| Tower Hill Chapel, Wooler | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This article, reprinted by permission of Northumberland and Durham FHS, is a list of persons in communion rolls, who had moved from the Scottish Borders. | 1 page or more | 20 | Don Mason |
| Town Yetholm | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued from issue 41. | 3 pages or more | 42 | Jim Wilson |
| Trafalgar | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Transport | Travellers Tales in the Borders | This is the text of Fred's talk to the Society on 25th April 2004. Absorbing review of public road transport in the Borders mainly in the 20th century. | 9 pages or more | 55 | Fred Kennington |
| Traquair | Shillinglaw Walls | Shillinglaw Tower not far from Traquair it is not only a heap of stones - an interesting tale. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Jean Shillinglaw Ridley |
| Traquair | The poor, crime and punishment,and the power of the Kirk in the Borders, 17th & 18th Centuries | When paupers died, the contents of their houses were sold by public roup. This is an account of one sale and the strength of the Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 31 | M. C. Lawson |
| Traquair House | Harper Family Tree | This is a copy of a family tree on the Harper family. | 1 page or more | 7 | Mrs B. Logan |
| Treveleyan | The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Trinidad | About the Shillinglaw | Family history about the Shillinglaws family. | 1 page or more | 5 | Ada Elizabeth Shillinglaw |
| Trinidad | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - Births 1854-1900 | Previous compilations of intimations have related to events in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. These relate to births in other locations, of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 3 pages or more | 58 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Tristan da Cunha | An Opaque Glass | About William Glass (or Glasgow), who had become the first governor of the South Atlantic Island of Tristan da Cunha, honoured by the Friends of Kelso Museum in 1996. | 2 pages or more | 60 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Trotter | The Trotters of Sprouston and Hadden - Part 2 | Absorbing account of the author's researches into her Trotter ancestry. | 5 pages or more | 53 | Jenny Fairman |
| Trotter | The Trotters of Sprouston and Hadden - Part 1 | Absorbing account of the author's researches into her Trotter ancestry. | 7 pages or more | 52 | Jenny Fairman |
| Trotter | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Troup | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| Trows | Rob of Trows | A very prince of a Tweed boatman. That was the description of Rob by Sir Robert Maxwell in his Book "The Story of the Tweed". | 2 pages or more | 19 | |
| Trumbell | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Tully | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Turk | In the hands of the Turk | The story of a collection to pay a ransom of a man who fell into the hands of a Turk. This is as told in the Register of the Privy Council for the year 1677. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jane Gibson |
| Turnbull | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Turnbull | Extracts from "The Border Magazine" January 1832 | A List of names and ages from births, marriages, and deaths in and around Berwick on Tweed. | 1 page or more | 35 | Mrs O. Wilson-Croome |
| Turnbull | On the Buses | An article from The Southern Reporter of October 29th 1959 about George Turnbull's working life from 1913 to 1959, as a chauffeur or mechanic until 1924, then various jobs for a local bus company. | 2 pages or more | 66 | Charles Borthwick |
| Turnbull | The Miller Family of Hawick, Scotland and Delaware County, New York | This Miller family who emigrated from Hawick or Roberton-they set up a farm in the Catskill mountains of New York. | 2 pages or more | 34 | C. Raymond La Fever |
| Turnbull | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Turnbull | From Roxburghshire to Delaware County: The 19th Century Miller Letters - Part 1 | Account of letters written between 1818 and 1864 from Scotland to David Miller (1795-1883), and his wives, and relatives. David Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, a beadle of Roberton Kirk. | 4 pages or more | 64 | John W. Hoy |
| Turnbull | The Turnbulls of Minto Cleuchead, Burnfoot and East Middle | From Hawick to Australia Extracts from a book of more than three hundred pages . | 3 pages or more | 26 | Mrs. Robyn Crossle |
| Turnbull | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Turnbull | Letters of Slains 1569--A family puzzle | An intriguing tale of death and complaint in 1569. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Jean Smithers |
| Turnbull | North Dumfries, Ontario | North Dumfries, Ontario - how John Clark set up and built a settlement. | 1 page or more | 31 | Mr G. Clark |
| Turnbull | Muckle Giggots and Sheep lost in the Snow | A memory of Tibbie Shiel by Margaret Turnbull, of James Thomson, the Shepherd of Whitehope, lost in the snow. | 2 pages or more | 64 | C S Borthwick |
| Turnbull | Selkirk Migrants 1850--1865 | A list of emigrants from Selkirk to various parts home and abroad, from the diary of the minister of Selkirk Parish Kirk. | 2 pages or more | 9 | Alison Scott |
| Turnbull | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Turnbull | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Turnbull | Flowers of the Forest: Borderers who fell at Flodden | Names of the Borderers who died at the battle of Flodden, 1514. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Turnbull | Rules/Turnbulls of Rule water | A written account of the Rule family. His wife who was Mary Rule, traces her family directly to 1693 near Norham. | less than 1 page | 6 | John Simpson |
| Turnbull | They Went To Australia | Fascinating account of the Turnbulls journey from Ancrum to Australia via Cape Town, and life afterwards. | 2 pages or more | 43 | Janet Godden |
| Turnbull | It’s in the blood | Notes about why Anne, a member of the Society Council, became interested in family history. | 1 page or more | 57 | Anne Turnbull |
| Turnbull | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Turner | Grantshouse and the Turner family | The history of Grantshouse and one of its sons, James Turner. Continued in issue 28. | 3 pages or more | 27 | James Burns |
| Turner | Grantshouse and the Turner family | History of the family from around 1840. Continued from issue 27. | 1 page or more | 28 | James Burns |
| Turner | My dig into the Past | How a birthday party of Melrose Bridge led to a very interesting tale of one man's family search. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Mr Turner |
| Turner | Following in the Footsteps of Robert Redpath. | The story of one man's journey to mine gold in Australia. There is reference to two diaries kept by othe men on the voyage from Glasgow to Townsville, Queensland. | 3 pages or more | 69 | Irene J Redpath |
| Turnpike | The Infamous Jeffrey | Toll-roads in the Borders, toll bars, and William Jeffrey's involvement in protests against them. | 2 pages or more | 58 | George Martin |
| Turpin | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Tushielaw | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Tweed | Rob of Trows | Born at Birgham, Rob was a favorite with anglers of all classes "peer and peasant alike". A boatman of great distinction on the Tweed. | 2 pages or more | 18 | Mrs M. E. Mason |
| Tweedie | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Tweedie | The Wild Bunch | History of the Tweedie clan. Includes line drawings of ruins of Tinnies and Drumelzier castles. | 4 pages or more | 24 | Norrie McLeish |
| Tweedie | Know Your Parish - Tweedsmuir | Hstory of the parish of Tweedsmuir, and notable people. Drawing of Polmood in ruins. | 2 pages or more | 23 | Jean Moffatt |
| Tweedknowe | Tweedmount House Tweedmount Road Melrose | A great deal of research has gone into this article on a house from when the land was bought to when it was last sold. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Valerie Mackay |
| Tweedside | Reminiscences of Sixty Years Ago | A poem about the Eastern Borders, Tweedside Water Eye. | less than 1 page | 26 | J.G. Stanly |
| Tweedside Antiquarian Soc | Sir Thomas Brisbane | From a request to Kelso Museum for details on Sir Thomas Brisbane. A history of Makerston and the City of Brisbane He was also a keen astronomer. Very interesting. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Zilla Oddy |
| Tweedsmuir | The Tweedsmuir Connection | Report of the society's summer outing to Upper Tweeddale. | 1 page or more | 13 | Violet Jardine |
| Tweedsmuir | Know Your Parish - Tweedsmuir | Hstory of the parish of Tweedsmuir, and notable people. Drawing of Polmood in ruins. | 2 pages or more | 23 | Jean Moffatt |
| Tweedsmuir | The Wild Bunch | History of the Tweedie clan. Includes line drawings of ruins of Tinnies and Drumelzier castles. | 4 pages or more | 24 | Norrie McLeish |
| Tyningham | Mellerstain | Synopsis of a talk on "Mellerstain" given to the society on 15th October 1995. It is a very good account of the mansion and its keepers from the past to the present. | 3 pages or more | 30 | M. Ellis |
| Tynninghame | Robert Lauder of that Ilk | This is the story of the background and demise of Robert Lauder of that ilk (d.1598), one of the last to be recorded with that appellation. | 3 pages or more | 29 | G.M.S. Lauder-Frost |
| Tytler | Lauder of Edrington,the castle and early references | The history of the Lauder's from when they owned the Bass Rock to when they were custodians of Berwick on Tweed castle. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Gregory Lauder Frost |
| Umbria | Forgotten Borders Andrew Cocburn 1871- 1955 | Born Kelso 1871 of a Blacksmith. Second engineer on the Lusitania,he also had two terms on the Mauretania . | 2 pages or more | 29 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Unemployment | Aspects of Borders Life in the early 1840s | Part 2 of a talk given to the Society on 19th September 1999. Discusses wages of artisans, workers’ household budget, unemployment, poor relief, and medical assistance. Continued from issue 44, and in issue 46. | 6 pages or more | 45 | Peter Munro |
| United States | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Unthank Farm | Family Tree Maker Online | Description of some of the features and benefits of using a family history computer program with the Internet | 2 pages or more | 40 | Allan McVittie |
| Upsettlington | Bygone Days | This is the text of Eleanor's fascinating talk on Upsettlington (also known as Ladykirk) from the 12th century onwards, given to the Society on 19th October 2003. | 3 pages or more | 54 | Eleanor Moffat |
| USA | Cousin Fred from Hawick | Problems tracing the history of a Dickson family who had lived in the Lauder area from the 17th century, | 3 pages or more | 65 | Jim Dickson |
| USA | From Roxburghshire to Delaware County: The 19th Century Miller Letters - Part 1 | Account of letters written between 1818 and 1864 from Scotland to David Miller (1795-1883), and his wives, and relatives. David Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, a beadle of Roberton Kirk. | 4 pages or more | 64 | John W. Hoy |
| USA | American Intimations in the Hawick Advertiser Births 1859-1900 and Marriages 1855-1872 | Births and marriages in America of people originally from Hawick and surrounding area. | 4 pages or more | 48 | Marjorie Gavin |
| USA | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| USA | Archives at Robert Smail’s Printing Works | A brief history of the famous Robert Smail’s Printing Works at Innerleithen which was started in 1866, and about their wonderful archives. | 2 pages or more | 67 | David Rudram |
| USA | The Dumma Family of Kelso | James Dumma, born 1790, in Kelso; Helen Hay, and their descendants, many of whom went to England, USA, and Canada. | 2 pages or more | 48 | Shirley Dumma |
| Usher | Savages of the North | Short letter from James Usher to Walter Scott 1828 | 1 page or more | 14 | Vivienne S. Moore |
| Utah | From Crosslee to Salt Lake City | The journry of William Scott Clark from Ettrick to Idaho. | 2 pages or more | 71 | George Clark |
| Vair | Strayed far from Berwickshire | This is a small article on Berwickshire strays in the township of Canden East in the county of Lennox and Addington in Ontario, Canada. | 2 pages or more | 30 | G.H. Jeffery |
| Valuation Rolls | Farms And Smallholdings at Foulden - 1920-21 | Transcription of Valuation Rolls for Foulden | 1 page or more | 50 | Brian Patten |
| Veitch | James Veitch - Border Astronomer | Shot extract of a talk given by Mr. Bill Veitch to the Society on the 15th of May 1994. | less than 1 page | 26 | Bill Veitch |
| Veitch | The Wild Bunch | History of the Tweedie clan. Includes line drawings of ruins of Tinnies and Drumelzier castles. | 4 pages or more | 24 | Norrie McLeish |
| Veitch | Peeblesshire Families and Clans | The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter. | 3 pages or more | 33 | Malcolm Archibald |
| Veitches | Know your parish -Peebles | Arms of the Burgh Chartes. Families. Fairs, Transport A good history of the town and tale or two. | 3 pages or more | 26 | Jean Moffat |
| Victoria | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Violet | The Jardine Clan Society | Formed in 1977. Came from France 1066, settled in Anndale; now, branches of the family world wide. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Family History News |
| Virtue | Rentons in the Hutton Old Parish Register | List of persons with the surname Renton that appear in the Hutton Old Parish Register. | 2 pages or more | 13 | Norrie McLeish |
| Virtue | Old Uncle | Brief biopic about Alexander Virtue, sometime schoolmaster at Nenthorn. | less than 1 page | 20 | Margery V. Turnbull |
| Voy | Mrs Euphemia Voy | Obituary of Euphemia Voy, first wife of William Voy, who died at Coldstream on 24th March 1891. | 1 page or more | 23 | Benjamin Moody |
| W. Chirnside | Cockburns of that ilk | The origins of Cockburns in Berwickshire | 3 pages or more | 36 | Russell Wilson Cockburn |
| Waddell | The Case of the missing Registers | In 1818 Jean Waddell a humble tailor's daughter found by chance she could inherit a estate in Linlithgowshire. How she went about trying to prove her case. | 3 pages or more | 22 | Gavin Waddell |
| Wage Books | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Wages | The Way We Were | Berwickshire farm servants wages from 1751 and how the farm hand had to make the hovel of a house more habitable. It was not the good old days, it was slavery. | 1 page or more | 15 | Colin Wood |
| Wages | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 | |
| Wagon Trains | Thomas Lewins 1816-1858 | Account of Thomas Lewins' life, emigration to Canada, his family, and eventual re-migration to California. | 7 pages or more | 65 | Mary Newbery |
| Walcheren Expedition | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Waldie | A Remarkable Coincidence | Anecdote of a visit to the Society's library. | less than 1 page | 40 | Mike Brydon |
| Walker | Strayed far from Berwickshire | This is a small article on Berwickshire strays in the township of Canden East in the county of Lennox and Addington in Ontario, Canada. | 2 pages or more | 30 | G.H. Jeffery |
| Walker | Susanna Pringle's Birthday book | This Pringle tale goes from Browndeanlaw to Yetholm, London, New Brunswick and beyond-very interesting. | 4 pages or more | 16 | Maxine Flaherty |
| Walker | Fame/Infamy/Riches - a history of the Greig family | About the Greigs of Manchester and Oldham, originally from Ayton and Earlston. | 4 pages or more | 62 | Jim Greig |
| Walker | Rob of Trows | A very prince of a Tweed boatman. That was the description of Rob by Sir Robert Maxwell in his Book "The Story of the Tweed". | 2 pages or more | 19 | |
| Walker | Rev. Robert Douglas, 1747-1820 The father of Galashiels | The Rev. Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, 1747-1820, was a man of great ability and served his parishioners so well he was called "The Father of Galashiels". | 2 pages or more | 37 | Donald Whyte |
| Walker | Kelso Mail Extracts | Six birth announcements punblished in the newspaper in 1803 & 1804. | 1 page or more | 73 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Walker | Forgotten Borderers--Andrew Walker (1808-1896) | Andrew Walker, born Earlston, worked at Newton Don and moved eventually to Camden and started a Ragged School. He emigrated to Troy in New York and died there. | less than 1 page | 30 | |
| Walker | Born in the Borders | A list of names that have been extraced from the Death Index (1855-6) of Victoria, Australia. Also, where to obtain copies of death certificates. | 1 page or more | 21 | Barbara E. Turner |
| Walker | Selkirk Protocol Books. An amazing Discovery | A hidden hoard of 16th and 17th century documents from Selkirk. | less than 1 page | 7 | |
| Walkers | The Altarstone at Stobo | Stobo Slate Quarry "inferior to no slate whatever". Also a connection to Merlin and Arthur. | 1 page or more | 10 | Isobel Jardine |
| Wallace | My dig into the past | Peebleshire family and from other parts of the Borders, an interesting tale. Also history of various bridges over the Tweed. | 3 pages or more | 34 | A. Turner |
| Wallace | Melrose to Melbourne - The Story of one Wallace family | Interesting account of the author's Wallace research, ancestral emigration from Melrose to Sydney, Australia, farming, and the army. Two interesting photographs, too. | 3 pages or more | 67 | Richard Balsillie |
| Walter Scott | The battle of Otterburn 600th Anniversary | The history of the battle of Otterburn and the families that took part, also, Walter Scotts version is different to that of the English version in The Chevy chase. | 2 pages or more | 8 | Violet Jardine |
| Wanless | A Tale of Two Sisters | A Wanless family’s emigration from Yetholm to Canada. | 3 pages or more | 49 | Gordon Roy Fairbairn |
| Wanless | Longformacus | A cautionary tale from 1871 and some extracts from the school log book, | 2 pages or more | 73 | |
| Wanless | The People of the Lammermuirs | Detailed history of the Lammermuirs from Celtic times to the 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 23 | Norrie McLeish |
| War of Spanish Independence | Elspeth Ewan’s talk on Army Military History | Synopsis of talk. | less than 1 page | 43 | Peter Munro |
| Warchope | Rev. John Baird (1799-1861)--Friend of the Gypsies | John Baird was Minister at Kirk Yetholm. He was responsible for the new bridge , rebuilding the Kirk and School. He also educated the Gypsies and brought them into the community. was a founder member of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Donald Whyte |
| Warick | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Warkworth Castle | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Warmath | Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, Sergeants, 4th Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA | Account of Becton Eckford and William Wallace Eckford, and their activities in the Tennessee Infantry Regt, CSA. | 3 pages or more | 40 | Jeffry W. Gatlin |
| Watchtower | A grave look at the Borders | This must be one of the great stories ever to be printed in our magazine - it is the story of grave snatchers, and how one brave chap got his just reward. | 4 pages or more | 21 | Ian Abernethy |
| Watson | James Watson (Author and Historian of Jedburgh Abbey) | Account of the life of James Watson, weaver, grocer, poet and writer of Jedburgh, the author's great grandfather, his descendants, and emigration to USA and Canada. | 10 pages or more | 68 | Rachel (Thomson) Falldien |
| Watson | Names of Soldiers and others who died in India mainly between 1930-36 | A list of names and their regiments, and where buried. | 1 page or more | 30 | |
| Watson | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Watson | The mole catchers of Lilliesleaf | The story of a mole and rabbit catcher in the Lilliesleaf area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Mrs S.J. Hodgkinson |
| Watson | Isabella Smith 1814-1904 | Account of Isabella Smith from Coldingham. Berwickshire; and her descendants. | 2 pages or more | 57 | Mary Newbery |
| Watson | Old soldiers of the eighteenth century | This is a list and some extracts from War Office records at the Public Record Office at Kew. If you are studying shoemakers - read this. | 1 page or more | 11 | E. A. Gray |
| Wauch | Roxburgh Here ! | Extract from the memoirs of the late John Fairbairn, born 28th March 1912, married in 1937, who died on 20th July 2003. He worked for the Kelso Chronicle, and later was the editor of the Hobart Mercury, Tasmania. | 4 pages or more | 54 | John Fairbairn |
| Wauchope | Roxburgh Here ! | Extract from the memoirs of the late John Fairbairn, born 28th March 1912, married in 1937, who died on 20th July 2003. He worked for the Kelso Chronicle, and later was the editor of the Hobart Mercury, Tasmania. | 4 pages or more | 54 | John Fairbairn |
| Waugh | Kennington/Cowe Family History. Part 2 - Emigration to New Brunswick 1837 - James Cowe & Isabella Donaldson | Details of the lives of further branches of the Cowe family including one that emigrated to New Brunswick. | 6 pages or more | 71 | Fred Kennington |
| Waugh | Jedburgh Border Games, 1919 | Cannon-fire at 6am signalled the start of the Games. Has notes of winners of various events. | 1 page or more | 63 | John Murray |
| Waugh | K.O.S.B. Memories | This is a look at the talk given by Gavin Richardson, who must be the best informed on the first world war and Gallipoli. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Gavin Richardson |
| Wear | The Rutherford Letters | These letters come from a collection written by Rutherfords, in Ancrum to their folks in Canada. 4 are from 1852, and one from1928. Many names of Ancrum and nearby people mentioned. | 3 pages or more | 44 | Ann F Rutherford, Robert Turnbull, George Hay |
| Weavers | The Boston Family of Gattonside | A tale of hand loom weavers from Gattonside who decided to visit a sister in Canada. How they eventually decided to emigrate over to Canada and they walked from New York to Upper Canada. Most of the family are buried in Melrose Church Yard. | 2 pages or more | 39 | M.C.Lawson |
| Weaving | Family History Records | An archivist from the Heritage Hub in Hawick discussess a range of records that can be used to provide a fuller picture of our ancestors | 5 pages or more | 70 | Juline Baird |
| Web Sites | The Delights and Drawbacks of Working with One's Web Pages | Text of the talk given at the Society’s Open Meeting on 16th September 2001. Suggestions on building a personal website. | 2 pages or more | 47 | Charles Hoy |
| Webb | Borderers in the Victorian Marriages Registers (1853-1895) | This is a list of marriages in issues 16,17 and 18. It is a list of Border counties as their place of birth, when the married in Victoria, Australia between 1853 and 1895. | 3 pages or more | 18 | Barbara Turner |
| Webb | Australian deaths recorded in Hawick Advertiser part 2 1874-1890 | Deaths in the Hawick Advertiser, it also covers other parts of the Borders. | 4 pages or more | 37 | Marjorie Gavin |
| Website | Borders Family History Society Website | Description of the Society's website pages. | 6 pages or more | 53 | Peter Munro |
| Website | Scottish Borders Memory Bank Website | Brief note about the launch of the website and its contents. | less than 1 page | 46 | |
| Website | Society Website | An update about the Society's website, and the new Maintaining Interests function. | 4 pages or more | 56 | Peter Munro |
| Webster | An account of the number of people in Scotland in the year 1755 | A review of a document held by the National Archive of Scotland giving details of the population, life expectancy and religious affiliation, | 1 page or more | 69 | Peter Munro |
| Wedderburn | Cockburns of that ilk | The origins of Cockburns in Berwickshire | 3 pages or more | 36 | Russell Wilson Cockburn |
| Weirhill | William Dick (1849 - 1932) | Account of William Dick, a blacksmith in Fountainhall and his family | 4 pages or more | 63 | Margaret Dick |
| Wellington | Alexander Turnbull and his Family | If you have any Turnbulls in your family and you think that you came from the Borders, this is a must for you. Turnbulls from Galashiels, Selkirk, and Hawick. | 5 pages or more | 25 | Jane Gibson |
| Welsh | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Welsh | Bowden School Records | Bowden School admission records from 1872. Also lists their parent or guardian. | 2 pages or more | 25 | |
| Welsh | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Welsh | Who was Gordon Stewart of Hawick? | Intriguing investigation into an adopted great uncle who died in World War I, and turned out to be a blood relative. | 3 pages or more | 65 | Anne Golden |
| West Indies | Miscellaneous Intimations in Hawick Advertiser - 1855-1900 | A list of marriages of people from various places (including Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, South Africa, Trinidad) intimated in the Hawick Advertiser between 1855-1900, with brief additional notes on some items. | 3 pages or more | 68 | Marjorie Gavin |
| West Port School | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| West Riddel | Border - Line Experiences Of a Canadian Researcher | The Ainslie born in Lilliesleaf and how a trip from Canada to research the family. It ended in a book. | 2 pages or more | 10 | Robert L. Morden |
| Westerkirk | The Palseys of Craig | The story of Palseys of Craig - a two part story in issues 2 and 3 covers military and personnel accounts of many Palsleys, if you are connected it must be for you. | 3 pages or more | 2 | R.C.Wood |
| Westerkirk | Nostalgic Memories | Sandra Devlin of Queensland sent a copy of a letter written in Langholm in 1934 by T. Ritchie to his cousin, Dr. T. Oliver. An abridged version is printed in this volume. | 2 pages or more | 33 | Sandra Devlin |
| Westruther | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Wetherstone | A 'Scot' Moves to South Africa | Biography of Archibald Little, born Melrose, 11th Jan 1829, died 13 Dec 1921, Johannesburg. Brief notes on his occupations, and service in the Basuto War. | 2 pages or more | 44 | Tony Little |
| Whillans | The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The stort of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
| Whisky | Life in Melrose--150 years ago | This is the account of family life in Melrose in the first half of last century, from an autobiography of Catherine Helen Spence. | 3 pages or more | 11 | Colin Wood |
| White | Kennington/Cowe Family History. Part 2 - Emigration to New Brunswick 1837 - James Cowe & Isabella Donaldson | Details of the lives of further branches of the Cowe family including one that emigrated to New Brunswick. | 6 pages or more | 71 | Fred Kennington |
| White | Maxwellheugh Cottage - the biography of a house | A review of the families who had inhabited a house on the outskirts of Kelso. | 8 pages or more | 73 | Isobel Gordon |
| Whitehead | Some Purves families in Duns Berwickshire | A well known Berwickshire name Purves, a family from Duns in 1634 and his heirs. | 2 pages or more | 22 | Mrs. Evelyn Carlson |
| Whitehope | Muckle Giggots and Sheep lost in the Snow | A memory of Tibbie Shiel by Margaret Turnbull, of James Thomson, the Shepherd of Whitehope, lost in the snow. | 2 pages or more | 64 | C S Borthwick |
| Whitekirk | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Whiteslade | Whiteslade, Berwickshire, and its Owners | Many have seen this ruin on the way from Greenlaw to Lauder, and often wondered about the history of this once great fortress. This article covers it magnificently. | 2 pages or more | 31 | G.M.S. Lauder Frost |
| Whitsome | Ontario Genealogical Society summer camp | Where to research in Ontario for your Canadian cousins. | 2 pages or more | 37 | D. C. Jeffrey |
| Whitson | William Kerr--Portrait of a Canadian Immigrant | John Kerr from Peebles emigrated to America fought in the war Civil War was honorably discharged and settled down to a farmers life. | 1 page or more | 12 | Colin Wood |
| Whyte | From Cowal to the Borders | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| Whyte | Peebles Combination Poorhouse | A brief history of poorhouses in general and Peebles Poorhouse in particular. It includes someinformation about staff and inmates in the late 19th century. | 5 pages or more | 74 | Janis Miller |
| Wight | Update to 'Bringing science to genealogy' | An update on a DNA project that was first described in Volume 67, pages 1 -4 June 2008. | 4 pages or more | 72 | Lorna Henderson |
| William Caldwell | Emigration from the Borders | Emigration opportunities available to Borderers in the late 19th century, to Australia, Canada, and the United States. | 2 pages or more | 32 | Marjorie Gavin |
| William Minor | James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) | Biography of James Murray, a linguist, philologist, teacher. He was one of the founders of the Oxford English dictionary. | 1 page or more | 45 | Valerie Mackay |
| Williamson | In the hands of the Turk | The story of a collection to pay a ransom of a man who fell into the hands of a Turk. This is as told in the Register of the Privy Council for the year 1677. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jane Gibson |
| Williamson | Links with old Peebles Families | A investigating search into old Peebles families. | 2 pages or more | 12 | Rena Stewart |
| Williamson | The Case of Agnes Gray | Taken from the Session Minutes of Melrose Parish Registers (1723-1741) A sad tale of a young girl who was cited to present herself before the Kirk Session. | 1 page or more | 19 | |
| Willie Leggat | Cavers & District | Talk given in February 2007 about the history of the kirk and parish of Cavers, and its links with Melrose, St Cuthbert, and other famous people. | 6 pages or more | 64 | Jean Muir |
| Willkinson | Baillie John Smail of Galashiels | Baillie Smail, born at Clovenfords, was First Baillie in 1867, and was renowned for severe punishment . He died of chronic alcoholism. | 1 page or more | 36 | |
| Wills | Borders Family History Inaugural Lecture | Inaugural talk on the basic sources for looking into your family history. Dealing with Parochial Registers. Census returns, etc. | 5 pages or more | 1 | Donald Whyte |
| Wilson | A Teri Forever- My Rich Border Heritage | Nostalgia about Hawick, and the revelation that some of her ancestors came from southern England, she has researched back to 500AD on her direct paternal line and from 1699 on other lines. | 3 pages or more | 66 | Anne Golden |
| Wilson | Tweedmount House Tweedmount Road Melrose | A great deal of research has gone into this article on a house from when the land was bought to when it was last sold. | 2 pages or more | 38 | Valerie Mackay |
| Wilson | Who was Gordon Stewart of Hawick? | Intriguing investigation into an adopted great uncle who died in World War I, and turned out to be a blood relative. | 3 pages or more | 65 | Anne Golden |
| Wilson | A Village Roll Call 1935 | A list of the names found in St Abbs in 1935 - in verse. In addition to those in the index another 22 names which aoppear less than 8 times are listed. | 1 page or more | 70 | Alexander Nisbet |
| Wilson | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Wilson | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Wilson | The Early Kyles of Castleton, Scotland | The researching of the Kyles and their history right through from the 1745 rebellion to living in Kelso in the 21st Century. | 2 pages or more | 39 | John Murray and Gavid Irvine |
| Wilton | The Parish of Langlands | The parish of Langlands and the history of old leper hospital at Rutherford. Also the history of Langton that was absorbed into Wilton. | 3 pages or more | 35 | Michael Langlands |
| Wilton Church | William Elliot, Architect | The family history of William Elliot and descriptions of some of the fine house's he built. | 3 pages or more | 15 | Kathleen Stewart |
| Windsor | William Kerr--Portrait of a Canadian Immigrant | John Kerr from Peebles emigrated to America fought in the war Civil War was honorably discharged and settled down to a farmers life. | 1 page or more | 12 | Colin Wood |
| Windyknowe | Galashiels and some of its families | Talk given to the society by Mr. Ian Miller, President of the Old Gala Club. Gala indeed goes back along way perhaps even to 7000 B.C. It covers the history up to the 19th Century. | 3 pages or more | 31 | Ian Miller |
| Wishaw | The Haliburtens of Sprouston | Origins of the Haliburtons William who had 12 children and their emigration to New Zealand. | less than 1 page | 12 | D.N. Haliburton |
| Wood | In the hands of the Turk | The story of a collection to pay a ransom of a man who fell into the hands of a Turk. This is as told in the Register of the Privy Council for the year 1677. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jane Gibson |
| Woodhouslees | A Border family and the curious case of Sherlock Holmes | About the author's ancestor, William Scott, his cattle dealing partnership with George Bell, and his coal-mine at Rowanburn in the 18th century, and Dr Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. | 3 pages or more | 60 | John Webley |
| Wooler Common | Bowmakers and Currys in the new world | The history of the Bowmakers and Currys before and after they emigrated to the New World. | 1 page or more | 10 | Norman Bowmaker |
| Wordsworth | Laidlawstiel, Clovenfords | This is history bought to life with Walter Scott, William Wordsworth and Prime Minister Gladstone. For anyone interested in Clovenfords you must read this. | 2 pages or more | 37 | Margaret Lawson |
| Wray | A light-hearted tale--Epitaphs | We will never know what is written on our headstone, this article it gives you some ideas. | 1 page or more | 31 | Ian Abernethy |
| Wright | Lowland Scots in Prussia | Absorbing account of Scots mainly in Danzig and Konigsberg from 15th to 17th centuries. A lot of names recorded. | 5 pages or more | 45 | G.M.S.Lauder-Frost |
| Wright | Jerdan Family History | The family history of the Jerdans, who they married, and where they lived in the Borders. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Fred Kennington |
| Wright | Church and School Connections in the Borders: 1717-1869 and earlier | Account of various Hoy ancestors, many connected with the Church. A lot of research has gone into this. | 4 pages or more | 40 | Charles Hoy |
| Wright | Kings Own Scottish Borderers | A list of men who died in the Boer War in outlying places. | 1 page or more | 32 | Helen Rreichenbach |
| Wullies Bell | Memories of Ayton | Mrs. Patricia Payne was so interested in the articles on 'The Ayton Bard' that she felt the need to record some of her memories of Ayton before all was forgotten. | less than 1 page | 18 | Patricia Payne |
| Yair | Two Sutherland Factors | Two brothers from Yair who were factors for Sutherland. It also covers the Highland Clearances right up to his death. | 3 pages or more | 9 | Jane Gibson |
| Yarrow | A Canadian Connection | Copies of letters sent from Canada in 1864 - they make very interesting reading. | 2 pages or more | 25 | Jenifer Payne |
| Yarrow | The mole catchers of Lilliesleaf | The story of a mole and rabbit catcher in the Lilliesleaf area. | 1 page or more | 18 | Mrs S.J. Hodgkinson |
| Yarrow | Know your Parish: Yarrow | A journey down through the Yarrow valley from top to bottom | 1 page or more | 32 | Audrey Mitchell |
| Yarrow | A History of the Brydons | For some hundreds of years there has been Brydons in the Borders. From Gilston, Broadmeadows, and overseas. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Mrs Joan Scott Stewart |
| Yarrow | Why couldn’t he have been called Ebenezer ? | Article examining which John Little is the author's ancestor. | 4 pages or more | 42 | Jessie Hislop |
| Yarrow | An Elephantine trip to St Mary's Loch | George Reavly in his history of Galashiels notes that fifty years ago not a gig could be got to hire. One of the largest trips that ever left Galashiels propelled by horse power. On the trip to St Marys Loch. | 2 pages or more | 22 | K. MsRae |
| Yetholm | Jerdan Family History | The family history of the Jerdans, who they married, and where they lived in the Borders. | 2 pages or more | 34 | Fred Kennington |
| Yetholm | Rev. John Baird (1799-1861)--Friend of the Gypsies | John Baird was Minister at Kirk Yetholm. He was responsible for the new bridge , rebuilding the Kirk and School. He also educated the Gypsies and brought them into the community. was a founder member of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club. | 4 pages or more | 26 | Donald Whyte |
| Yetholm | The Bennets of Grubet | An old Roxburghshire family associated with Kirk Yetholm and the Gypsies and their descendents. | 3 pages or more | 29 | Donald Whyte |
| Yetholm | The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 4 pages or more | 31 | A. V. Tokley |
| Yetholm | The Gladstones-A study | This is a brief outline of the Gladstone family here in the Borders and as far away as Edinburgh, and Norwich. | 3 pages or more | 35 | G.M.S. Lauder-frost |
| Yetholm | The Flowers of the Forest | Borders who fell at Flodden A list of nobility who fell in the battle The rank and file fell with no records. | 2 pages or more | 26 | Andrew Cockburn |
| Yetholm | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued in issue 42. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Jim Wilson |
| Yetholm | A Tale of Two Sisters | A Wanless family’s emigration from Yetholm to Canada. | 3 pages or more | 49 | Gordon Roy Fairbairn |
| Yorkie | Yorkie, the Gentle Shepherd | Note about a tramp, known as Yorkie, as well as his picture on the cover. | less than 1 page | 52 | Carol Trotter |
| Young | The Kirk Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 4 pages or more | 31 | A. V. Tokley |
| Young | North Dumfries, Ontario | North Dumfries, Ontario - how John Clark set up and built a settlement. | 1 page or more | 31 | Mr G. Clark |
| Young | The Muster-Roll of the Jedburgh Company of Volunteers of 1804 | List of men from Sergeants, Corporals, and Privates, it also gives you their trade at the time. Total of men 108. | 2 pages or more | 3 | Sandra Duncan |
| Young | Yetholm Gypsies | If you are connected to Yetholm, this is a must for you, it covers the gypsies from Persia right through to being settled in Kirk Yetholm. It is in two parts: issue 31 and 32. | 5 pages or more | 32 | A. V. Tokley |
| Young | Drumlanrig School - 'The Ragged School' | Engaging account of the 150 year history of Drumlanrig School, originally the 'Ragged School' serving an area known as the West End of Hawick. | 10 pages or more | 60 | Marjorie A. Gavin |
| Young | Presbyterian Migration into Northumberland | This is a list of names from the Communion Rolls of some Presbyterian churches in Northumberland. This is in more than one Magazine. | 2 pages or more | 19 | Don Mason |
| Young | Border Treaties of Assurance | Text from the Hamilton papers on the Treaties signed by the Border Barons with the English in 1544 . Followed by a list of the Border Clans in 1597 in the East March. | 5 pages or more | 1 | W.H. Oliver |
| Young | Reminiscences of Childhood by a Matron of 78 | Narrative written by the author's great grandfather's sister about their emigration from Scotland to New York in 1829. Continued in issue 42. | 5 pages or more | 41 | Jim Wilson |
| Younger | More Gladstones | More history of the Gladstones covers a family from Kirk Yetholm and their emigration to Australia and New Zealand. It lists many decendants from this family. | 1 page or more | 37 | Warren A. Spence |
| Younger | A Border Lady of the Old School | Interview with Mrs Jane Henderson Thomson Bell aged 83 in 1910 about her life. Written in Scots. | 4 pages or more | 20 |