Drumelzier stretches across the south of the County of Peebles. It is bordered on the north by the Parish of Stobo, to the east east by the parish of Manor and by the Parish of Yarrow in Selkirkshire, to the south by the Parish of Yarrow and the Parish of Tweedsmuir and by Lanarkshire to the west and the Parish of Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho to the north-west. Drumelzier is now one of the linked Parishes of Upper Tweeddale.
Tinnis Castle would have dominated the village in the middle ages although it is not as well preserved as the nearby Drumelzier Castle.
Old Parish Records cover the periods:
Births: 1649-1694, 1700-1754 (Mothers' names are not recorded until Dec 1746)
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The Society is currently transcribing the Drumelzier Monumental (gravestone) Inscriptions
Volumes available for consultation within our Archive
Pre 1855 Monumental Inscriptions of Peeblesshire by S.A. Scott published by Scottish Genealogical Society 1971.
Rutherford's Southern Counties Register and Directory 1867.
County Directory of Scotland 1912 - Borders Towns and Villages.
CD-ROM Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Peebles 1652 to 1716.
Andrew Lorimer's Life and Times in the Upper Tweed Valley by Margaret Railton, Tuckwell Press, East Linton 2001
Magazine Articles
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Synopsis
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Author
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
Map of Drumelzier from Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 1921-1923 or One-inch to the mile, Popular edition, Scotland, 1920-1930 by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland. Use the control at the top left of the map to zoom in or out and drag the map left, right, up, or down as you wish.
Other Sources
The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, Cruft, Dunbar & Fawcett, Yale University Press, London 2006
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-99 vol.7 pp.153:
Drummelzier, County of Peebles
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1834-45 vol.3 p.71:
Drummelzier, County of Peebles
