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A

A Village Roll Call 1935, Abbey St Bathans, Aberfoyle, Adelaide, Advertiser, Africa, Aikwood Tower, Ainslie, Aitchson, Aitken, Aitkenhead, Akeld, Alberta, Alderman, Alderne, Alexander, All Blacks, Allan, Allan Line, Allerdean, Altarstone, America, Amos, Anchor line, Ancrum, Anderson, Andrea Ferares, Antigua, Anti-slavery, Applegarth, Applegirth, Apprenticeships, Archdale, Archives, Armstrong, Artisans, Ashton, Atcheson, Atkin, Atkins, Atkinson, Auchope, Australia, Ayton

B

Baillie, Bain, Baird, Baker, Balaclava, Balfour, Balfour Hays of Yester, Ballie, Balliol, Bankhouse, Banking, Banks, Baptie, Barclay, Barony, Barossa, Bartoun, Batavia, Bathgate, Baton Rouge, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Murphreesboro, Battle of Nashville, Battle of Shiloh, Baumholder, Bavianns, Bawbee, Baxter, Beanburn, Beattie, Bedrule, Befinells, Beggars badges, Belfast, Belford, Bell, Bells, Belses, Beltane, Bemersyde, Bennet, Benrig, Berrywell, Berwick, Berwick on Tweed, Berwickshire, Beveridge, Bews, Biggiesknowe, Billie, Bird, Birgham, Birth, Births, Black, Black Dwarf, Blackadder, Blackethouse, Blacksmith, Blacksmiths, Blaikie, Blair, Blake, Blakelaw, Blindburn, Blog, Blyndlee, Blyth, Blythe, Bodle, Bombay, Bookless, Boots, Border Games, Border Magazine, Border Railway, Borders, Borders Festivals, Borders FHS, Borders Hardie, Borrowman, Borthwick, Borthwick water, Boston, Bothwell, Bovina, Bowden, Bowden School, Bowhill, Bowie, Bowling, Bowmaker, Bowshank, Boyd, Boyle, Bradford, Bradshaw's Railway Guide, Braidford, Bramton, Brandt, Branxholm, Brewster, Brice, Bridge builder, Brisbane house, British Linen Bank, Brittain, Brixton, Broadlee, Broderbund, Brodie, Brodies, Brogdale, Brook, Brooke, Broomiesdyke, Brown, Browne, Browning, Bruce, Brunton, Brydon, Brymer, Buchan, Buckholm, Budapest, Buglass, Bukles, Bunzie, Burgeon, Burgon, Burial, Burials, Burke, Burnet, Burnett, Burnmouth, Burns, Bus

C

Caberston, Caddonfoot, Cadell, Cairncross, Cairns, Calder, Calgary, California, Cambrai, Cameron, Cammond, Campbell, Campbell-Renton, Canada, Canada Hardie, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Cannobie, Canonbie, Cape Town, Captain Widderington, Cardigan, Carham, Carnegie, Carolside, Carr, Castleton, Castletown, Casualties, Catherine Glen, Catherine II, Cavalryman, Caverhill, Cavers, Cawderstanes, Census, Cessford, Chamberlin, Chandler, Channelkirk, Chaplehope, Chappell, Charteris, Chatton, Chelsea, Chelsea Hospital, Cherrytrees, Cheswick, Chevy Chase, Chiholm, Children, Chile, China, Chirnside, Chisholm, Cholera, Cholera epidemic, Christening, Christison, Church, Churches, Clark, Clavering Place, Newcastle, Clay, Clay Station, Clearances, Cleghorn, Cleughbrae, Clevland, Clinton, Clocks, Clovenfords, Cobbler, Coburn, Cochrane, Cockburn, Cockburn Castle, Cockburn Law, Cockburnspath, Coinage, Colden, Coldingham, Coldingham priory, Coldstream, Cole, Colingham, Collingwood, Collison, Colmeslie, Colombo, Coltbridge, Coltman, Colvile, Commercial Bank, Commissary, Common, Common Riding, Common Ridings, Common-land, Communion Rolls, Compton, Computers, Confederate States Army, Conference 2013, Conklin, Conquergood, Conroy, Convicts, Cook, Co-operative stores, Copeland, Coppin, Cornelius, Cornhill, Cost, Cost of living, Coultherd, Coupar, Cout of Keelder, Covenanter, Covenanters, Covington, Cowan, Cowcaddens, Cowe, Cowie, Cowlin, Cown, Crafts, Craig, Craige Knowe, Craik, Crailing, Cram, Crammon, Crammond, Cramond, Cranshaws, Cranston, Crawford, Crawhill, Crichton, Crime, Crimea, Criminal Records, Crockett, Crooklaw, Crouse, Croyser, Crozier, Cumming, Curly Burn, Currency, Currie, Curry, Customs, Cuthill

D

Dalgety, Dantzic, Danzig, Dardanells, Darling, Darnick, David Hume, David Ritchie, David Seton, Davidson, Davies, Davison, Dawyck, De Bolebeck, De Soulis, Deans, Dearden, Dearsden, Death, Death notices, Deaths, Delaware, Deloraine, Denbie, Denholm, Dere Street, Devil's Acre, Diary, Dick, Dickins, Dickson, Diet, Dimma, Dinwoodie, Discharge records, Dispensary, Dixon, DNA, Dobson, Doctors, Doddington, Dodds, Dods, Doits, Dollar, Dolphinston, Don, Donaldson, Douglas, Douglas Hamilton, Down Law, Dr Binnie, Drumelzier, Drumelzier Castle, Drumlanrig’s Tower, Drummond, Dryburgh, Dryden, Duffes, Duke of Argyle, Dumfries, Dumma, Dunbar, Duncan, Dunn, Dunnon, Dunoon, Duns, Dunse, Dye

E

Earl of Bothwell, Earl of Douglas, Earl of Haddington, Earlston, Earlston Black Hill, East Lothian, East Lothian Banking Co, Easton, Eccles, Eckford, Eddermouth, Eddlestone, Eddystone, Edgar, Edinburgh, Edmonton, Ednam, Edrington, Edrom, Edwin Fox, Elder, Electronics, Elibank, Elie, Eliza, Elizabeth Bay, Ellemford, Elliot, Elliots, Elliott, Elphinstone, Elsfield, Elwin, Emigration, Emonds, Emperor Nudd, England, Epitaphs, Epsom, Eskdalemuir, Etal, Etterick, Ettrick, Execution, Eyemouth

F

Faa, Faa Blythe, Fair, Fairbairn, Fairburn, Fairbvairn, Fairholm Erebus, Fairington, Falahill, Falstone, Family Tree, Family Tree Maker, Fans, Earlston, Fantalane, Farquarson, Farquharsons, Fauldshope, Feeney, Fencible Cavalry, Fenham, Ferguson, Fiddes, Fife, Finlay, Fisabad, Fische, Fish, Fisher, Fishing, Fishwick, FitzAlans, FitzWalter, Flanders, Fleming, Fleming's Regiment, Flemington, Fleshers, Fletcher, Flintlock, Flodden, Floors Castle, Fogo, Forbes, Fordyce, Forfar, Forrest, Forsyth, Forsythe, Fortune, Foster, Foul Ford, Foulden, Fouldon, Foulis, Fountainhall, Fowlis, Frain, Frame, France, Franklin, Fraser, Frater, Frazer, Freemasonry, Friar, Friendly Societies, Fruid, Fullar, Funeral arrangements, Furness

G

Gainslaw, Galahill, Galashiels, Galbraith, Gallipoli, Galloway, Galloway Levellers, Game, Gardener, Gardening, Gardiner, Garland, Garvald, Gattonside, Gavin Hamilton, Geddes, Gee, Gefle, General Register House, Geology, George Bell, George Paris, George Taylor, Gibb, Gibson, Gill, Gillies, Gilroy, Gladstain, Gladstanes, Gladstone, Glasgow, Glass, Glen Gatekeeper House, Glen House, Glendinning, Glenmayne, Glentress, Godfrey, Godson & Lumgair, Gold mining, Golden Retriever, Goodfellow, Goodwin, Gordon, Gospatrick, Graeme, Graham, Grammar School, Grant, Grantshouse, Gravestone Inscriptions, Gravestones, Gray, Greenhead, Greenlaw, Greenock, Greig, Gretna, Gretna Green, Grieve, Groat, Gucci, Guise, Gunsgreen House, Guthrie, Gypsies, Gypsum, Gypsy Royalty

H

Hadden, Haddon, Haggerston, Haig, Haigsfield, Haining, Haliburton, Hall, Halliburton, Hamilton, Hammermen, Hangingshaw, Hangman, Hardie, Hardwick, Harehope, Harelaw, Harestanes, Harewood, Harkins, Harkness, Harper, Harper Ridge, Harriot, Harris, Harvey, Hassendean, Hastie, Hastings Neville, Hatley, Hawaii, Hawick, Hawick Academy, Hawick Characters, Hawick St. Cuthbert's Church, Hawkshaw, Hawthornden, Hay, Heard, Heartrigg, Heatherlieburn, Heatheryett, Heatlie, Heaviside, Heavy Brigade, Heber, Heiton, Heligoland, Henderson, Henlawshiels, Hepburn, Herefordshire Regiment, Heriots, Heriots Dyke, Heritage, Hermiston, Hermitage, Herring, Herriot, Herron, Hester, Hetherington, Hetterburn, Heughhead, Hewick, Hewie, Hibernia, Hillhouses, Hillisland, Hilson, Hinshelwood, Hirsel, Hislop, Hobkirk, Hogarth, Hogg, Hogg Hill, Holiwell, Holmburn, Home, Hong Kong, Hood, Hope, Hopkins, Horn Water Brigg, Horsburgh, Horsey, Horsill, Horton, Hosburghs, Hot Trod, Hounam, Household Budget, How, Howie, Hoy, Hub, Hugan, Huguenot, Hume, Hunter, Hutcheson, Hutton

I

Idaho, Imperial Tobacco, India, Inglis, Innerleithen, Innerleithen Light Company, Inscriptions, Internet, Intestate Succession, Invention, Inverbervie, Iowa, Ironmonger, Irregular, Irregular Marriages, Italy

J

J. Thomson, Jack, James Rutherford, James Stuart, Jameson, Jamie Cheuch, Jardine, Java, Jedburgh, Jeffery, Jeffrey, Jerdan, Jethart, Jobson, Johannesburg, John Bright, John Gray Centre, John Muir, Johnson, Johnstone, Jones, Joseph Bain

K

K.O.S.B, K.O.S.B., Kabul, Kaeside, Kale Water, Kedslie, Keilder, Kellie, Kelso, Kelso Abbey, Kelso Combination, Kelso Mail, Kennedy, Kennoway, Kentucky Campaign, Ker, Kerr, Kerrs, Kidston, Kiel Canal, Killiecrankie, Kilmarnock, Kilmum, King, King Harold, King William, Kingsmeadows, Kinsale, Kirk, Kirk Session Records, Kirk Yetholm, Kirkhope, Kirknewton, Kirkpatrick, Kirkpatrick-Durham, Kirkton, Kirna, Klondike, Knout, Knox, Konigsberg, KOSB, Kyber Massacre, Kyle

L

Ladhope, Lady Grisell, Ladykirk, Laidlaw, Laidlawstiel, Laing, Lamberton, Lamberton Toll, Lambton, Lammermuir, Lammermuir Hills, Lammermuirs, Landles, Langholm, Langlands, Langnewton, Langshaw, Langton, Lapworth, Lauder, Lauderdale, Lauderdale (Earl of), Launceston, Laurie, Law, Lawrie, Lawson, Learment, Learmond, Learmont, Learmonth, Learmouth, Ledgerwood, Lee, Lee Enfield, Lee Pen, Leenders, Leghorn, Leitch, Leitholm, Lennel Cemetery, Lennelhill, Leslie, Levellers, Lever, Lewins, Lewis, Leyden, Leyton, Liddesdale, Liddle, Life expectancy, Light Brigade, Lile, Lilley, Lilliesleaf, Lilliico, Lindean, Lindesay, Lindisfarrne, Lindsay, Lindsey, Linton, Little, Little Billy, Little York, Liverpool, Lloyd, Lloyd George, Lockie, Log Books, Logan, Logie, London, Londonderry, Longformacus, Longstaffe, Lord Minto, Lorrain, Lothian, Lough, Low, Lowe, Lowick, Lowlands, Lowrie, Lucknow, Lumgair, Lumsden, Lunatic Asylum, Lunn, Lusitania, Lyle, Lylestone, Lynn

M

MaCaskill, MacCorquodale, MacDonald, Mack, Mackerkindale, Mackintosh, Maclehose, Macleod, Madagascar, Maddox, Maidstone, Maitland, Majoribanks, Makdougall, Makerstoun, Malta, Mamion, Manchester, Mangerton, Manitoulin Island, Manor Valley, Maps, March, Marchmont, Marco Polo, Marjorybanks, Marmion, Marriage, Marriages, Marshall, Martine, Mason, Masterton, Mather, Matheson, Mathewson, Mattthew Little, Mauldsheugh, Maunsell, Mauritaina, Mavis Bank, Mavisbank, Maxton, Maxwell, Maxwellheugh, Mc Cracken, Mc Farland, Mc Lean, McClean, McDonald, McEwan, Mcgill, McKay, McKenzie, McKinlay Tariff, McLaren, McLeish, McMath, McNaught, McNeile, McNiele, McVittie, Meadowbank house, Medals, Medical Assistance, Medical staff, Medicine, Meikledale, Melbourne, Mellerstain, Melrose, Memorial Inscriptions, Memories, Mennim, Mennon, Menzies, Merchants, Merk, Mermaid, Mexico, Middleburg, Middlemist, Midlem, Midside Maggie Midside Maggie, Mill, Millar, Miller, Mills, Milne-Graden, Ministers, Minnydow, Minto, Mitchell, Mitchell-Innes, Mitchells, Mithag, Moffat, Moffatt, Moffet, Molle, Monasteries, Moncreiff, Money, Mons, Montgomery, Montieth Mausoleum, Montose, Montreal, Monumental, Monumental Inscriptions, Moor, Moore, Mordington, Mordinton, Morebattle, Morgan, Mormons, Morrison, Morrison & Co, Morsafes, Mortcloth, Mortcloth records, Mortcloths, Moscrip, Moscript, Mosside, Mossman, Mounsey, Moysen, Muir, Mungo, Mungo Noble, Mungo Park, Munro, Murder, Murdoch, Murray, Murthering, Mustards

N

N. Robertson, Naesmiths, Nantes, Napoleonic Wars, National Archives, National Archives of Scotland, National Library of Scotland, National Map Library, National Trust for Scotland, Naughley, Needpath, Neidpath Castle, Neil, Nenthorn, Nesbit, Nesbit boat house, Ness, Nether Horsbrugh, Netherby Hall, Netherbyres, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New York, New Zealand, Newbie, Newcasleton, Newcastleton, Newfoundland, Newlands, Newspaper Archives, Newspapers, Newstead, Newton, Newton Stewart, Nichol, Nicol, Nicoll, Nine Stane Rig, Nisbet, Nixson, Norham, North Berwick Churchyard, North British Railway, North Northumberland, Northumberland, Nova Scotia, Nuriootpa

O

Ogilvie, Old Churchyard, Oldham, Oliver, On-line Index, Ontario, Ord, Orde, Ormistane, Ormiston, Over Common, Overhaugh Street, Oxford, Oxford English dictionary, Oxton

P

Paisley, Palestine, Palsey, Parachute Regiment, Parker, Passengers, Paston, Paterson, Paton, Patrick Hume, Patrick Pens, Patrick Sanderson, Patterson, Pauper, Paxton, Paxton House, Pearson, Peatson, Peddie, Peebles, Peebleshire, Peeblesshire, Pefferlaw, Penang, Peninsular Campaign, Peninsular War, Penn, Pennyfeather, Percival, Perkins, Perrie, Perth, Phaup, Photographer, Photography, Piper Laidlaw, Pirne, Pitcairne, Police Records, Policemen, Polmood, Polwarth, Poor, Poor House, Poor Houses, Poor Law, Poor Law Cases, Poor Relief, Poorhouse, Population, Port Phillip, Post Cards, Potts, Preacher, Prentice, Preston, Price, Prices, Priestfield, Prigle, Primrose, Primrose League, Pringle, Pringles, Printer, Protocol books, Prussia, Purdie, Purdom, Purness, Purves, Purvishill, Pyle

Q

Quebec, Queen Mary, Queensland (Rockhampton), Quixwood

R

Raffles, Ragged School, Raglan, Railway, Railway Haugh, Ramsay, Rangoon, Ranulph, Rathie, Ravenswood, Ray, Reavly, Reay, Redesdale, Redpath, Regality, Relationships, Rennie, Renton, Renwick, Reston, Resurrectionists, Rev. R. Malcolm, Rex dollars, Riddell, Riddell House, Ringan Oliver, Ritchie, Ritson, River bailiff, Robb, Robert Adam, Robert Burns, Robert Fergusson, Robert the Bruce, Roberton, Roberts, Robertson, Rockhampton, Rockhopper Copper, Rogert Burns, Roosevelt, Ross, Rowanburn, Roxburgh, Roxburgh County Police, Roxburghshire, Roy, Royal British Dragoons, Royal Scots Greys, Royal Scotts, Rule, Runciman, Russell, Russia, Rutherford, Rutherfurd, Ryal

S

S.S. Samarie, Sacramento, SAFHS, Salt Lake City, Samoa, San Francisco, Sanderson, Sangster, Sark toll bar, Saskatchewan, Scar Heugh, School Log Book, School Records, Schoolmaster, Scot, Scotland, ScotlandsPeople, Scott, Scott, Sir Walter, Scottish Borders Archives, Scottish Motor Traction, Scottish Omnibuses, Scotts, Scotus, Scouler, Scrooge, Scutari, Seaton Delaval, Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Servants, Session Clerks, Sessions, Shacklock, Sharpe, Sharplaw, Shaw, Shepherd, Sheriff Court, Sherlaw, Sherlock Holmes, Sherriff, Shiel, Shields, Shiels, Shillinglaw, Shillinglaws, Ship ‘Nebo’, Ship 'Brilliant', Ship 'Kaffraria', Ship 'Killawarra', Ship 'Scottish Lassie ', Ship voyage, Shipping, Shoemaker, Shoemakers, Shop Tokens, Shortreed, Sibbald, Simprim, Simpson, Simson, Sinclair, Singapore, Sinton, Sir A Ramsey, Sir G. Home, Sir W. Douglas, Sir Walter Scott, Sligh, Sloane, Smail, Smailholm, Small, Smiddy, Smith, SMT, Smyth, Social Customs, Somerville, Soulis, Sourhope, Souters, South Africa, South America, South Australia, Southdean, Spedlin, Spedlins, Spence, Spences Mains, Spitfire, Spittal Tower, Spittlefield, Spottiswood, Springfield, Springwood, Springwood Park, Sprouston, SS Clara, St Abbs, St Aiden, St Andrews, St Boswells, St Cuthbert, St Helena, St Kentigern, St Lawrence, St Mungo, St Mungo's Fair, St Ronan’s Standard, St. Andrews, St. Boswells, St. Cuthbert, St. Helena, St. Mary's Loch, St.Cuthbert, Staff, Stallangers, Stamfordham, Stark, Stavert, StBoswells, Steel, Stensone, Stephenson, Stevenson, Stewart, Stewartfield, Stinson, Stintyknowe, Stitchel, Stobo, Stockholm, Story, Stow, Strathblane, Strays, Sudden Deaths, Sunlaws, Surname Project, Surnames, Sutherland, Swadling, Swan, Swann, Swanston, Sweden, Sweetheart Abbey, Swieeny, Swinton, Sydney, Symington, Synton, Széchenyi

T

Tait, Tait & Bruce W.S., Tangier, Tanish, Tarakanoff, Tates, Taxation, Taylor, Teeswater, Telescope, Telfer, Telford, Tennessee, Terror, Teviotdale, Texas, The Black Douglas, The Gala Brass Band, The Luggie, The Seasons, Thirestane Castle, Thom, Thomas, Thompson, Thomson, Thorburn, Threlkeld, Tibbie Shiel, Tibbie Shiels, Tinnies Castle, Tinnis, Tobacco, Todd, Tokens, Tolls, Toodyay, Toronto, Torwoodlee, Tottfield, Tottie, Tower Hill Chapel, Wooler, Town Yetholm, Trabrown, Tradesmen, Trafalgar, Transport, Traquair, Traquair House, Treveleyan, Trinidad, Tristan da Cunha, Trotter, Troup, Trows, Trumbell, Tully, Turk, Turnbull, Turner, Turnpike, Tushielaw, Tweed, Tweedie, Tweedknowe, Tweedside, Tweedside Antiquarian Soc, Tweedsmuir, Tyningham, Tynninghame, Tytler

U

Umbria, Unemployment, United States, Unthank Farm, Upsettlington, Urban Geography, USA, Usher, Utah

V

Vair, Valuation Rolls, Veitch, Veitches, Victoria, Violet, Virtue, Voy

W

W. Chirnside, Waddell, Wage Books, Wages, Wagon Trains, Wait, Walcheren Expedition, Waldie, Walker, Walkers, Wallace, Walter Scott, Wanless, War Memorials, War of Spanish Independence, Warchope, Warick, Warkworth Castle, Warmath, Watches, Watchtower, Watson, Wauch, Wauchope, Waugh, Wear, Weavers, Weaving, Web Sites, Webb, Website, Webster, Wedale, Wedderburn, Wedding, Weirhill, Wellington, Welsh, West Indies, West Port School, West Riddel, Westerkirk, Westruther, Wetherstone, Whillans, Whisky, White, Whitehead, Whitehope, Whitekirk, Whiteslade, Whitsome, Whitson, Whyte, Wight, William Caldwell, William Minor, Williamson, Willie Leggat, Willie Mitchie, Willkinson, Wills, Wilson, Wilton, Wilton Church, Windsor, Windyknowe, Wishaw, Witchcraft, Wood, Woodhouslees, Wooler Common, Wordsworth, Wray, Wright, Wullies Bell, WWI, WWII

Y

Yair, Yarrow, Yellow Retriever, Yetholm, Yorkie, Young, Younger