Feuds were often fought and raids were made, not in the name of England or Scotland, but in the names of Armstrong, Robson, Charlton, Elliott or Dodd, or in the names of other Border surnames, that are still common in the region today. raiding and theft, living in constant I watched his body night and day, This has a simple explanation; the boundaries of the old Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, stretched far to the north of the modern Scottish border, towards Edinburgh and the Lothians and its people spoke the Anglo-Saxon language known as Northumbrian. updated; additions, changes and improvements  frequently being made And clad it all wi’ lilly flower This is the most comprehensive list available of families and clans associated with both sides of the Border during reiving times, but it does not claim to be complete. The Milburns were perhaps the least known of the four but played their part in many a border raid often siding with the Charltons and Dodds on their regular forays into Scotland. Than my true love he built for me. Together these families were known as the four graynes or clans of North Tynedale. Notes from a Border River with Robert Powell Tickets, Mon 20 Jul 2020 at 19:00 | Eventbrite Eventbrite, and certain approved third parties, use functional, analytical and tracking cookies (or similar technologies) to understand your event preferences and provide you with a customised experience. The photo was taken at the beginning of the Russian campaign. admired. Fears may well have been justified for one Newcastle man writing of the Tynedale and Redesdale folk in 1649 records that: “They come down from their dales into the low countries and carry away horses and cattle so cunningly that it will be hard for any to get them or their cattle except that they be acquainted with some master thief, who for safety money may help them to their stolen goods, or deceive them.”. George M Trevelyan the great British historian, (a Northumbrian) superbly summed up the nature of the Border Reivers and their ballads when he wrote; “They were cruel,coarse savages, slaying each other like the beasts of the forest; and yet they were also poets who could express in the grand style the inexorable fate of the individual man and woman, the infinite pity for all cruel things which they none the less inflicted upon one another. 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This was about a century after the days of reiving had ended but since Tynedale was the traditional home of the Charltons, Milburns and Robsons there were probably some reasonably good players in the team. There is a well-known tradition that the Robsons of North Tynedale once made a foray into the Scottish valley of Liddesdale and stole a large flock of sheep belonging to the Graham family, which they brought back into Northumberland. I digged a grave and I laid him in, My servants all for life did flee, Why I’m excited about Sunderland 2021 (and why I think you should be too), A taste of chocolatey heaven in the North East, Northern England’s BIG place in the world, Kielder: A jewel in the North East’s crown. We Clue: Polish border river Polish border river is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted over 20 times. In Tudor times ‘mail’ was an old word for ‘tax’ or ‘rent’ in the Border Country and farmers in the region often paid rent to their landlords in the form of silver money which was known as ‘White Mail’. This is perhaps no coincidence. Even in the nearby walled town of Newcastle upon Tyne, there were rules forbidding the apprenticeship of North Tynedale and Redesdale men to certain Newcastle trades, for fear that there might be trouble. What does the future hold for Ouseburn Farm? I sewed his sheet marking my name They left a note to the effect that; ‘The neist time gentlemen cam to tak their schepe They are no te’ be scabbit! Sundered Land, New Castle, Goat’s Head : What’s in a North East Place Name? Those Photographers help a Rohingya refugee to climb out of Naf River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Palong Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 1, 2017. 204 pages. Border Reivers - The Garrison Men. He spied his sport and went away When I turned about and went away A member of the Ridley clan had his throat cut and a Robson was killed. throughout the site. Border Reiver Surnames of the Anglo-Scottish Border. I washed the corpse my self alane, It is, perhaps, the story of your ancestors. arson, Please note that any orders placed after 12:00 on a Friday will not be despatched until the following Monday and therefore Charlton, Milburn and Robson are famous footballing names of the 20th Century and it is worth noting that football was a very popular sport among the reivers in early times. fear and misery. is probably no region other than the Anglo-Scottish Borderlands which can Scotland and in the adjacent Bishopric of Durham and would As one successive generation of reiving families followed  Shatt al-Arab (River of the Arabs): Iraq and Iran This page was last edited on 9 January 2021, at 15:41 (UTC). Six individual figurines (unpainted) from Hoka Hey Wargaming. It was N ames will be added only when there is documentary evidence that a family was established in the Borders during the 16th century being the time when reiving was most intense. Sometimes however, the ballads could be of a rather sad and pitiful nature, like the `Border Widow’s Lament’, a tune best sung to the accompaniment of the Northumbrian Pipes; My love he built me a bonny bower, The story of the Reivers dates from the 14th century and continued into the late 17th century. The Border Reivers Trail leaflet In Tullie House Museum is an audio-visual presentation of the story of the Reivers, and the museum shop stocks much material on this subject. And browt the kin that very night, 300 years Scottish and English borderers endured. Later, the reiver gangs on the Borders began extorting from farmers for protection money and this extortion was also known as ‘blackmail’. No living man I’ll love again Buy Border River on DVD with FREE delivery from ZOOM.co.uk - See our full range of other DVD titles. Rent Border River (1954) film for FREE as part of our trial offer. It’s a Chef’s Wife : dAtbAr hits the mark! they who were The historic blue metal bridge over the River Wye marks the place where you cross from Gloucestershire England back to Monmouthshire in Wales. Indeed it was a common occurrence for English families to side with Scottish families in border feuds, especially as some of the reiver surnames, like Armstrong, Hall and Graham were to be found on both sides of the border.  violence and treachery, murder and to those times. The legacy of the Border Reivers is not just in the surnames found throughout the English-speaking world but also in their ballads and in two notable phrases that have entered the English language via the Border Reivers: Blackmail and Red-Handed. for survival due to their strength of character and their bonds of Many of the Border Ballads still survive today, due to the avid collecting of the famous Border poet, Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), himself the descendant of a famous border clan. hope that you enjoy your visit to the Borders, virtual or otherwise, and A leaflet has been published ‘In search of the Border Reivers’, listing many sites in Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway, and Northumbria, that are of historical importance, and which are accessible to visitors. And whiles I pray and whiles I sat Final score: Tynedale 3 Redesdale 2. Border reivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. The clans and families of the Borders were able to endure the struggle Border River Angling by LAWRIE, William and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk. The Robsons were so angry that they returned to Liddesdale in another raid, where they caught seven members of the Graham family and hung them until they were dead. It is not known who was in the team that day. Oh think nae ye my heart was wae, BuzzCloud takes the sting out of beekeeping, Site developed and designed by David Simpson © David Simpson 1991-2017. It’s noticeable that there seem to have been quite a few famous footballers with Border Reiver names over the years. Rivers, becks, burns and linns : What’s in a (North East) Place-Name? that is unique. Help us improve GOV.UK To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d … 300 years Scottish and English borderers endured the people of that region,  and also to our web site. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. In 1599 a six-a-side football match involving the Armstrongs at Bewcastle (just over in Cumbria) was interrupted by an enemy raid. UK's tough new border rules come into force 18 Jan 2021 , 5:00pm Rainforest frogs have evolved to wave instead of croak to attract females as waterfalls are too loud He slew my Knight and stole his yield, Indeed in 1701 a horse thief confessed that: “The county keeper of Tynedale provided that they did not plunder another, the skills of rustling and raided were refined until they became his territory would connive at their stealing what they pleased in The phrase is sometimes associated with Northern Ireland and the flag of Ulster features a red hand but the phrase was imported there from Scotland. Later it was discovered that the Graham sheep were infected with scab, which spread like wild fire through the Robson’s flock. Who broke my bower and slew my knight. Unlike most of the famous clans of the Scottish Highlands, they all lack that Celtic element ‘mac’, (the Gaelic word meaning ‘son of’), which occurs in names like McDonald and McDougal. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)? The Border Reivers way of life does bear remarkable similarities with both the early Celtic inhabitants of Britain and the Anglo-Saxon and Norse warriors who later settled here from their homelands in northern Germany and Denmark in the 6th century A.D. Perhaps the most striking similarity was the Border Reiver’s capacity, despite his violent nature, to produce the famous border ballads which, like the old Anglo-Saxon warrior poems, tended to glorify a life of war, raiding and revenge. There came a man by middle day This produced a catalogue of events, and a host of memorable characters, getreading.co.uk - There are now seven flood alerts in force along the River Thames Seventh flood alert issued for River Thames on Berkshire border getreading.co.uk - getreading@reachplc.com (Tom Burnett) There are It was the enforcement of paying in goods of a higher value that came to be known as ‘black mail’ (black rent). The UK's tough new testing rules came into effect this morning, with all international arrivals now required to show a negative Covid test or face a potential £500 fine. Prior to the formation of the Border Line, the people who lived to the north or south of the rivers of Esk and Tweed and the great hills of the Cheviots lived in relative harmony. A list of Border Reiver surnames from both sides of the border include: Anderson, Armstrong, Beattie, Bell, Blackadder, Bromfield, Burns, responsible for the lawlessness but not the cause of it. Sometimes however, the ballads coul… Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara speak about son River for first time in op-ed about families separated at US border Sarah Young @sarah_j_young Tuesday 03 November 2020 09:38 The boy was rescued from the river, which separates the US-Mexico border, on Friday. “Our village is literally on the border; the River Wye runs through it. When I laid the clay on his yellow hair Join York-based poet Robert Powell as he launches his new pamphlet Notes From A Border River . Some well-known footballers of more recent times like Ashington’s famous footballing sons (Jack Charlton, Bobby Charlton and Jackie Milburn) may be descended from the Milburns and Charltons who once inhabited North Tynedale, where they lived in close proximity to the Dodds and Robsons. Check out the new trailer for Border starring Eva Melander! In 1790 a great football match took place between the the men of Tynedale and Redesdale at Kielder Castle. Since that my lovely knight was slain. Over time the term blackmail developed into a term for different kinds of bribery. Border Reivers and their way of life, were certainly feared by outsiders in days gone by and the Border Country had a certain element of mystique and danger about it. 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BUSINESS nearly came to a standstill at Beitbridge Border Post on Wednesday morning when a suspected illegal migrant slipped and fell into the Limpopo River while walking on … In those days football probably had very few rules and resembled rugby as much it did association football. Let us know what you think in the comments below. It was a profession to be Poster Print. an art of which the reivers were proud. German soldiers with their Krupp Protze truck cross a border river in a makeshift ferry. THE BORDER REIVERS WEBSITE Riding by moonlight....... 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In reality the Border Reivers formed a distinct group with few links to the Scottish Highland tribes to the far north. For Carlisle, Carnaby, Carr, Carruthers, Charlton, Collingwood, Cranston, Craw, Croser, Crozier, Curwen,Dacre, Davison, Dixon, Dodd, Douglas, Dunn, Elliot, Fenwick, Forster, Gilchrist, Glendenning, Graham, Gray, Hall, Harden, Hedley, Henderson, Heron, Hetherington, Hodgson, Hume, Hunter, Irvine, Jamieson, Jardine, Johnstone, Kerr, Laidlaw, Latimer, Little, Lowther, prosecute no one save those who stole from his own district”. But think nae ye my heart was sair, Their ranks consisted of both Scottish and English people, and they raided the entire Border country without regard to their victims' nationality. Border history may well have been dominated by the political struggle between England and Scotland, but it would be wrong to assume that the story of the Borderland was always a saga of Englishman against Scot and vice versa. When they couldn’t pay in silver, payment was made in goods such as cattle or other livestock that was often of much higher value than the rent they would have paid in silver. The life of the Border Reiver was not necessarily ruled by his allegiance to the English or Scottish Crowns, but more likely by his allegiance to a family surname. And covered him with grass sae green. He slew my knight te me sae dear, This website is regularly Maxwell, Medford, Middlemass, Milburn, Mitford, Moffat, Musgrave, Nixon, Noble, Ogle, Oliver, Potts, Pringle, Radcliffe, Reed, Ridley, Robson, Routledge, Rowell, Rutherford, Salkeld, Scott, Selby, Shaftoe, Simpson, Stamper, Stapleton, Stokoe, Storey, Tailor, Tait, Thompson, Thomson, Trotter, Turnbull, Turner, Wake, Wilkinson, Wilson, Witherington, Yarrow, Young. Another phrase that may have its roots in the Borders and shared with Scotland too is ‘red-handed’ which literally means being caught with blood on your hands either in the slaughter of an individual or taking of livestock. Crossing the border by boat: Canoeists on the Wye paddle their way between English and Welsh regulations as the river passes through both countries … Such tales as this were typical of the Border Country many centuries ago, though it is not always easy to separate the fact from the fiction, since these stories were often constructed by people who had never even visited the borderlands. claim such a protracted period of constant violence and unrest. kinship. Show more Show less At the Texas border during the Civil Warf General Eduardo Calleja, the ruler of a Mexican free zone called Zona Libre, watches with his girl friend, Carmelita Carias, as Confederate Jim Lake (Joel McCrea) struggles to escape policemen by crossing the Rio Grande. The Border Reivers, or at least those on the north side of the border are sometimes considered to be just another group of otlying Highland Scottish clans and that those on the south side are simply clans who have spilled over into England. A way of life. Reprinted. They were both the inflicted and the inflictors. And left me in extremity. It therefore seems probable that the Border Reivers on both sides of the border were largely and at least in lingusitic terms Anglo-Saxon by origin with a bit of Norse and Celtic thrown in. Four adults and four other children were also rescued after they tried to cross the river. It was not one ballad- maker alone but the whole cut throat population who felt this magnanimous sorrow, and the consoling charms of the highest poetry.”. Favorite Tweets by @Englands_NE I took his body on my back, We want to hear your thoughts, comments and opinions on the Border Esk, River Eden salmon and sea trout assessments and proposed new regulations. Hoka Hey £9.50 add to order details BR05 The Grahams family - foot Border Reivers 28 … How do I love beer? About this Item: Oliver & Boyd, 1959.Condition: Good. Rugby and football are still, of course, popular sports in the Border country today. 1959. The migrants were beaten and forced to jump into a river by Iranian border guards, the reports said The number involved in the incident is unconfirmed … In Tudor and Elizabethan times the Anglo-Scottish Border counties, including Northumberland, were the home to the notorious Border Reivers, the lawless clans of the border valleys, where a lifestyle of raiding and marauding was the only way to survive. Such a criminal culture survived because of the difficulties of keeping law and order in the Borders. with Border surnames scattered throughout the world can relate directly to UK border control - passport checks, visas for entering, customs, transiting and layovers. Nae living creature came that way. REUTERS/Hannah McKay The Union of the Crowns in 1603 largely brought about an end to Border Reiving activity, though mosstroopers and horse thieves were still active in the borders throughout the seventeenth century. The Border Reivers way of life does bear remarkable similarities with both the early Celtic inhabitants of Britain and the Anglo-Saxon and Norse warriors who later settled here from their homelands in northern Germany and Denmark in the 6th century A.D. Perhaps the most striking similarity was the Border Reiver’s capacity, despite his violent nature, to produce the famous border ballads which, like the old Anglo-Saxon warrior poems, tended to glorify a life of war, raiding and revenge. A brawer bower why ye ne’er did see Learn more about the history of the border reivers. Some of the most troublesome reivers were transported to Northern Ireland but many of the reiver’s descendants became keelmen on Tyneside, or Northumberland and Durham pitmen. 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