I'd forgotten about the curse stone. Good old curses. Borderers like us have always been, I think the phrase was "unlawful and violent", especially during the reiver days (13-16th century) ((think like the wild west, but instead of a lack of laws, the problem was nobody was willing to get murdered trying to ensure they were upheld))
So if you're a Milburn, Tailor, Armstrong, Scott, Little, any variation of Johnstone, Moffat, Elliot, Trotter, Nixon, Bell.. perhaps your family was, in some far flung not so distant past (1525), living in the anglo-scot border regions and cursed by the Archbishop Dunbar for the family's habit of theft, murder, drive by crossbow shootings, cattle rustling, sheep rustling, illegal production of spirits, stealing people, burning stuff down.....
The curse is thorough and even now some people hold it responsible for catastrophes.
