Oct 1, 2025
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Mark Knopfler - Border Reiver
BORDER REIVER - HOBBIE NOBLE CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS
BORDER REIVER – HOBBIE NOBLE CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS
HOBBIE NOBLE On the English Scottish Border in the reiving times, the times that the Border Reivers held sway over all authority, national identity was often dismissed. Joint raids by the forces of Scots and English, all animosity to each other put aside for a while, resulted in a lucrative pay-off for the clans and families involved in the grand theft of cattle and sheep. The Border country was…
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SIR WALTER "BOLD" BUCCLEUCH SCOTT - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS
SIR WALTER “BOLD” BUCCLEUCH SCOTT – CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS
SIR WALTER “BOLD” BUCCLEUCH SCOTT Walter Scott, 5th of Buccleuch, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch was a Scottish nobleman and famous border reiver, known as the “Bold Buccleuch” and leader of Kinmont Willie’s Raid. Scott was the son of Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch. He was the great grandson of Sir Walter Scott, “Wicked Wat”. Scott married Mary, daughter of Sir William Kerr of Cessford and…
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CLAN CARRUTHERS-BORDER REIVERS-A CLAY BIGGINS
CLAN CARRUTHERS-BORDER REIVERS-A CLAY BIGGINS
CLAN CARRUTHERS INT SOCIETY CCIS PROMPTUS ET FIDELIS
A CLAY BIGGINS
To the left is a little map of the Border Marches on each side of the English Scottish Border from the Solway Firth in the west to the North Sea in the east. This is the area that dominated the national history of England and Scotland from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. These Marches were the haunt…
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CLAN CARRUTHERS-BORDER REIVERS-JOHNNY ARMSTRONG OF GILNOCKIE
CLAN CARRUTHERS-BORDER REIVERS-JOHNNY ARMSTRONG OF GILNOCKIE
CLAN CARRUTHERS INT SOCIETY CCIS PROMPTUS ET FIDELIS
Border Reivers Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie
The history of the Border Reivers has been much tainted with a certain romanticism since their demise in the first half of the seventeenth century.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, on the arrival of James V1 of Scotland to claim the throne of England and thus…
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Border-Reivers-Sir-Richard-Lowther
The-Tomb-of-Sir-Richard-Lowther (In the Lowther Mausoleum, Lowther near Penrith England)
Richard Lowther was born about 1530. His date of birth is often given as 1529,1530 or 1532.He died in 1607 and is interred in the Lowther Church Mausoleum in what is now Lowther Park near Penrith, Cumbria, England.
The-Inscription-on-Lowther’s-Tomb
The Lowther family of Westmoreland (Cumberland…
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Carruthers and the History of Cumberland University TN. Part 3
Carruthers and the History of Cumberland University TN. Part 3
1860 D.K.E. Club Autograph Book Lebanon, Tennessee
Abram Caruthers was born Jan 14, 1803 in Lebanon Wilson Co. Tennessee and died May 5, 1862 in Marietta Georgia. Caruthers Hall, built in 1877, was named for him. The Caruthers Literary Society also takes his name. “His influence for good was widespread, deep and permanent.” In 1845, when a great fire swept through Pittsburgh,…
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