Rise of the Border Reivers | Background and Context | Part 1

Ойын-сауық

Welcome to my channel! Here you'll find history and folklore from across the British Isles. This is my first history video on this channel, and it is part one in a series on the Border Reivers that raided and pillaged both sides of the Anglo-Scots Border for centuries. This video focuses on the background of the region, and how conflict between England and Scotland brought about the culture of Reiving.
Music Used:
'The Spirits of England' by Robert Powell
'Achaidh Cheide' by Kevin Macleod
'What it is/ Fare Well' by Kathryn Tickell
If you enjoy my content and would like to support my work, you can help me out via PayPal, which is much appreciated: www.paypal.me/dukeofavalon?lo...
DukeOfAvalon | Duke Of Avalon | Border Reivers

Пікірлер: 221

  • @TheJollyReiver
    @TheJollyReiver4 жыл бұрын

    ANNOUNCEMENT: As History content proved quite popular in the poll I ran, here’s the first video in my series on the Border Reivers. Hope you enjoy. A HUGE thank you to the good people that sent me a bit of money in the last couple of days. As you likely saw in my announcement, my laptop is broken and the only way I could continue to make videos was my purchasing a good quality mobile edition, which was quite pricey. So that’s what I did and I’m back to making them again. There’s some left over so I’ll be putting that towards repairing or replacing my laptop, and getting ahold of some new folklore books to keep putting out content. I greatly appreciate your help!

  • @jonathanahl7315

    @jonathanahl7315

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good video and interesting topic! Its nice to see a video series dedicated to a, in the wider world, largely unknown topic. As a swede I only came upon this topic a couple of weeks ago when the reivers where mentioned in another KZread clip. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series!

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jonathan Ahl Glad to hear it mate. Next part is up very soon

  • @ayooboy7765

    @ayooboy7765

    Жыл бұрын

    😅

  • @threezerol944t

    @threezerol944t

    10 ай бұрын

    @@TheJollyReiver Do you know how the Nixon's cam to be in Cumberland? I am a Nixon, I have traced back to 1500's. It seems they were possibly clan MacNicol from Skye. The chief sent warriors to the borders in the 1300's, and it seems this is how Nix/Nixon attained their family seat in Cumberland. My other theory is that they were there since Strathclyde. Which would still remain a mystery how they got named sons of nicols. The haplogroup is r1b1b2a1b p-312. My Nixon paternal line was definitely not Anglo, or Norse.

  • @iainhedley1413
    @iainhedley14134 жыл бұрын

    After the crackdown on reiving, many reivers would find themselves in America, particularly here in my neck of the woods in Appalachia. So much so that I would say a good half of my family tree is from the Anglo Scottish borders. I myself am descended from the Hedleys of Redesdale, my ancestor fleeing here following the English Civil War. Likewise, many other border clans are present in my family tree; Armstrong, Scott, Glendening, Reed - the list goes on. Ever since I've learned this bit of history, I always found it funny how we moved from one lawless land to another.

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    A noble heritage. I’ll actually be doing a video eventually on the Reivers in America and Northern Ireland :-)

  • @kyleburns3498

    @kyleburns3498

    3 жыл бұрын

    My family did the same, it seems they couldn't help themselves from fighting the English whether they were in Scotland or America

  • @CountBeetle

    @CountBeetle

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was told the Logans were reivers

  • @bretsimpson9890

    @bretsimpson9890

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hedleys ar bloody everywharev

  • @charlesarmstrong5292

    @charlesarmstrong5292

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good to hear from the American clans. I often wonder at their original transit and the difficulties they must have faced to establish themselves all the way over in America. No weakness there.

  • @gypsyjunklady
    @gypsyjunklady4 жыл бұрын

    I was born and raised and still reside in a town called "Hell on the Border" in Arkansas. I'm five minutes from Oklahoma which was "Indian Territory" and a totally lawless land. Everything you described about the way of life for these border peoples and the way that morality changed to suit and make people loyal to themselves alone and family names being very pivotal in commanding respect or otherwise is still a mentality that rules where I live today in many many ways. I am excited about this series because I'm of Scotts Irish and English heritage myself on my mother's side and they all came here from West Virginia in the early 1900's although their families came in the 1500's from the clearances of Scotland. That's a Scottish lambswool Henderson plaid scarf made in Oban that you see around my neck in my profile picture because I had a beau that lived on the Isle of Seil several years back and he sent it to me from a 200 year old stone cottage 40 meters from the sea. It smelled like heaven and so familiar even though I've never seen an ocean in my life. I feel that preserving this history and keeping the old ways and language and culture alive is a big part of my life's purpose. I know someday I'll see the lands that made my ancestors and myself so strong. x

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great comment, thank you for sharing :-)

  • @AugustusRay

    @AugustusRay

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm also of Scots Irish descent. A lot of Americans with that heritage don't know that "Scots Irish" doesn't exactly mean a mix of Scottish and Irish, but rather refers to people who came from the borderlands of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. You should check out the book 'Albion's Seed'. It has tons of great information on them.

  • @gypsyjunklady

    @gypsyjunklady

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AugustusRay Yes indeed! I love the song Spirit of Albion by Damh the Bard as well. So lovely to hear from someone who knows!

  • @charliehay1520

    @charliehay1520

    2 жыл бұрын

    I have always had an affinity for knives,axes, pieces of chain,the mountains etc etc...my children and grandchildren seem to have the same affinity as did my father and grandfather...Im thankful to have this warrior blood flowing through my veins...clan Hay..keep the yolk..

  • @ulstervol.

    @ulstervol.

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AugustusRay the term scots irish is misleading, we call ourselves ulster scots in northern ireland as very little scots settled anywhere else in ireland than the northern part ie ulster, in turn huge amounts of ulster scots migrated to the new world ie appalachia, maine, etc etc,a huge chunk of Americans who claim irish heritage are actually ulster scots.

  • @terrielburrell5545
    @terrielburrell55452 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Doing my genealogy I discovered my family, the Burrells, are an ancient family from Northumberland and Berwick. We are Boernician and called the Border People. My first ancestor to America was in 1625/1635 to Massachusetts. I discovered that this was too early for the crackdown by King James, so not sure why he came over so early.

  • @charlesarmstrong5292
    @charlesarmstrong5292 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your erudite and accurate background to the Border Reivers. As descendants of a Border Reiver family, I thank you on our behalf,for making the subject so easy to relate to the next generation.

  • @mwilson7842

    @mwilson7842

    Жыл бұрын

    My grandmother was an Armstrong too. Hello cousin 😁.

  • @smartacus88
    @smartacus883 жыл бұрын

    Some of us here in Appalachia know our peoples story. Born fighting! A resistance exists in my blood that i never understood until i knew who's blood flows in my veins!

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    3 жыл бұрын

    A lot of good border stock in Appalachia!

  • @yearofthegarden
    @yearofthegarden2 жыл бұрын

    I love hearing this type of history, my family comes from a reiver clan, and i like to pretend some of my tenancies are lingering genetic habits from this era of my ancestors

  • @zachester
    @zachester2 жыл бұрын

    My family (Elliot) lived in Liddesdale before moving to Ulster under James VI and then finally to the US. It makes sense we settled in Oklahoma in 1800's considering we had a tendency to thrive in chaos.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee Жыл бұрын

    so Scotland was just as horrific as Cromwell. what a barbaric time. poor, poor people. so this when the clans formed and how they were so important and strong. very interesting and complicated history. appreciate your video very much, although it’s hard to realize humans can behave like this! (and still do.) have a wonderful, peaceful day. 🌤️🌷🌱

  • @johnnyhaigs243
    @johnnyhaigs2434 жыл бұрын

    You should tie this into their legacy, being both the Ulster-Scots of the Plantations, as well as the people of the Appalachians. Both are rather erroneously known as "Scots-Irish", sadly obfuscating their Borderer origins.

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Johnny Haigs I will do mate. I’ll have a video in the series dedicated to this very topic.

  • @smartacus88

    @smartacus88

    3 жыл бұрын

    Border Reivers begat the Ulstermen who begat the Scots/Irish in America. I know where my blood comes from. I now know why i have never been one to listen to so called "authority".

  • @martinroehricht6162

    @martinroehricht6162

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @johnq4951

    @johnq4951

    Жыл бұрын

    @@smartacus88 fake Ulstermen

  • @smartacus88

    @smartacus88

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johnq4951 And who/what might you be? I don't claim to be an Ulsterman. I wasn't born in Northern Ireland. But my forefathers we're Ulstermen, and Reivers before that. I am an American. A Southerner in particular, if you wanted another reason to talk shit.

  • @scotti6219
    @scotti62194 жыл бұрын

    Great content mate descend from border reivers myself it's interesting history

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cheers mate. There’s hardly anything about them on YT so thought I’d fill the vacuum

  • @scotti6219

    @scotti6219

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheJollyReiver definitely tried looking for history on the reivers myself on here hardly anything worth of note look forward to the next installment

  • @cullenkerr6556

    @cullenkerr6556

    3 жыл бұрын

    DukeOfAvalon That’s awesome! I’ve been looking everywhere for content about this period I can’t wait for more. This is one of the most interesting periods in British history with some of the most interesting families and characters, and I not just saying that because I have the same last name as some of them!

  • @bretsimpson9890

    @bretsimpson9890

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me tay and I still live there. Jed. Hawick n the stone make me feel like an reet at home

  • @comesahorseman
    @comesahorseman3 жыл бұрын

    A fine history lesson, thank you! Now, if I may.... No more brother wars, people! Our folk simply can't afford them these days! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇲

  • @pyropugs8478
    @pyropugs8478 Жыл бұрын

    Clan Elliot here. From the reiver region. Lost of very interesting family history

  • @barbaraeslick558
    @barbaraeslick5583 жыл бұрын

    Descendent of Clan Bell here, thank you!

  • @patriciayohn6136

    @patriciayohn6136

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too, born Bell

  • @steveelliott8640
    @steveelliott86402 жыл бұрын

    Great series. There are many fortified farmhouses in Cumbria/North Lancs.There is a piel tower still in Dalton-in-Furness. Might be worth another chapter in your excellent series. I was born in Barrow-in-Furness and there are many families with border names in and around the town.

  • @Shagrat65
    @Shagrat654 жыл бұрын

    Lovely video mate. Kinmont Willie rescue from Corbies Nest by Bold Buccleuch, Bastard Heron's wild charge which rescued Howard at Flodden, Jock Pott the Bastard, the Hot Trod, Bastles, towers and Peles, Spur on the Dish, Moss Troopers and of course 'Steill Bonnett, Jak and Hobbler - those names/things are ingrained in my brain from studying the Borders. Angus McBride's artwork of the Borderers is some of my all time favorites (I see you have a picture of his 'Hot Trod at 5.20) I love the account of Piccolomini of a border village in the 1430's. He shared a meal, and once evening came the men folk went to the Pele to wait an incoming raid. The Italian then enquired that do the women not fear attack - to which they replied 'we do not count rape as harm' - which indicated what a hard life is was up there as raid and counter raid was a daily occurrence. They were tougher than old leather those folk!

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating, thank you for your comment!

  • @willinnewhaven3285
    @willinnewhaven3285 Жыл бұрын

    i see several ancestral Border Collies in the excellent illustrations. A nice touch

  • @charlesarmstrong5292
    @charlesarmstrong52923 жыл бұрын

    Just wonderful finding this gem. Thank you!! As descendants of the Armstrong Clan, my sons and I are looking forward to this series.

  • @matthewpatrick4223
    @matthewpatrick4223 Жыл бұрын

    Great video. It's fascinating to see the parallels of the border reivers and their descendants who settled the backwoods in America. The Hatfields and McCoys are just another clan-feud.

  • @themanofyorke6708
    @themanofyorke67084 жыл бұрын

    Great historical video! I love Border History, ever since I read the great book "Steel Bonnets" it sounds like you did a lot of research for this video, well done mate! Keep them coming!

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah that’s a really good book! Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed!

  • @d.l.l.6578
    @d.l.l.65783 жыл бұрын

    I’m descended from the Musgraves in Cumbria, England.

  • @candylandi5351
    @candylandi53514 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for letting me discover this historical period unknown to me.

  • @steveforster9764
    @steveforster97643 жыл бұрын

    Been a Northumberland born lad and a Forster a true border Revier now living in Canada

  • @aikidragonpiper71
    @aikidragonpiper713 жыл бұрын

    That’s where my Armstrong ancestors came from.

  • @jessearmstrong5850

    @jessearmstrong5850

    2 жыл бұрын

    Armstrong here as well

  • @alexanderjohnston2662
    @alexanderjohnston2662 Жыл бұрын

    Johnston here, biggest rivals were the Moffatt's. Crazy history between the two clans. Luckily we came out on top Non Quam non paratus

  • @axanax2534

    @axanax2534

    Жыл бұрын

    Spero Meliora

  • @davidjohnston7512

    @davidjohnston7512

    10 ай бұрын

    It was the Maxwells.Look into the battle of Dryffe sands.

  • @oldboy977
    @oldboy9772 жыл бұрын

    Being from Saint John, New Brunswick Canada I recognized almost all of the names on the register of reiver families as living in the city. The province has long been a home of exiles from reivers and Jacobites to British loyalists in the American Revolution and one of the largest dumping grounds of Irish immigrants during the famine which resulted in one of the largest urban riots in North American history. Thousands died on a small island used as a quarantine center from that time just off in the Bay and kids still sneak out there to scour it's ruins. Ironically there a stone memorial made by the orange order of Canada. All quietly forgotten for the most part but even on my childhood the city was fiercely carved between different geographical areas where the different ethnic groups had settled. Most have forgotten why they dislike and fight eachother but the still did. I didn't think much of it until I left and look back in hindsight.

  • @clarea-s6779
    @clarea-s67792 жыл бұрын

    My father was an Elliott and my mother a Howard. Scottish and English Reivers .

  • @oldlifter530
    @oldlifter5303 жыл бұрын

    We're related to H Lauder The Border's have interested me since the release of steel bonnets I really enjoyed Osprey book's Border's issue looking forward to the rest of your series THANK YOU

  • @LandersWorkshop
    @LandersWorkshop3 жыл бұрын

    Nice video, good stuff. I read a few books about the Reivers a few years back, they echo a lot of what you are saying.

  • @EncounterswithStrangeness
    @EncounterswithStrangeness4 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed this and looking forward to next episode!

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    :-)

  • @ladoboyo5452
    @ladoboyo54524 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video mate. Can't wait for more of these Duke. I learn almost everything I know about history from videos (I know, I'm low information) so I'm always looking for new history content.

  • @Fernandwinnie
    @Fernandwinnie Жыл бұрын

    The worst atrocity was when Edward of England slaughtered the civilian population of Berwick, then the most populous and wealthiest town in Scotland. Many thousands were slaughtered in three days of a massacre where atrocities were committed.

  • @gtaplumber182
    @gtaplumber1825 ай бұрын

    I am canadian and and most of my family have been here for 300 years I can trace many of my family back to this region

  • @PointOnArchery
    @PointOnArchery2 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Looking forward to more in this series. I have known that my ancestors were reivers for some time now, and it's great to hear the history of these people told in such an interesting way.

  • @speedy0ne757
    @speedy0ne7573 жыл бұрын

    Great video mate,good to learn more about local history

  • @i2SKiLd
    @i2SKiLd4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for making this video Me, my family and many of my friends ancestors are border reivers There isn't much info on them so I watch and listen and read everything I find about them Again cheers mate

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    :-)

  • @mysticallymerry5523
    @mysticallymerry55234 жыл бұрын

    Really good vid.😊 Thanks Duke!👍

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    :-)

  • @YewrinePish
    @YewrinePish Жыл бұрын

    My family is a small one, and we were reivers. We also had a few knights in the family, as shown in my helmeted heraldry. Fuckin dope

  • @butcharmstrong8275
    @butcharmstrong82752 жыл бұрын

    Love it. Thank YOU.

  • @wardscott2302
    @wardscott23022 жыл бұрын

    Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • @hanktheblesseddeejay
    @hanktheblesseddeejay3 жыл бұрын

    My brother is currently doing our family tree, we knew we had revivers due to the Stokoe name, but add to that the other surnames he’s discovered that we descend from like the Robsons, the Stevensons and the Armstrongs, we were probably up to our necks in it.

  • @marilynrobson3756

    @marilynrobson3756

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Robson, my ancestors are Swedish, Scottish and English from Northumberland.

  • @itallia666

    @itallia666

    Жыл бұрын

    My family on my mums side were Stokoes, its a well known popular Northumbrian name. My name is Horn but were from the Scottish Highlands ( origionally way back) I was born & bred in Northumberland in Corbridge & now live in Seaton Deleval on the North East coast. Nice to know the Stokoes travelled down to the south! Regards 🇬🇧👧

  • @armstrongreivers5224
    @armstrongreivers52243 жыл бұрын

    Great video mate

  • @anndavies-brown3490
    @anndavies-brown3490 Жыл бұрын

    This is great ... I've just discovered that I have a direct line of Hetherington's from my great grandmother back through a male line of 10 Hetheringtons to 1500. Many family traits still exist - still so much to learn. Thankyou so much for this ♡

  • @henrywarnell7694
    @henrywarnell76942 жыл бұрын

    At 08:38 we are treated to a glimpse of Hermitage Castle; remarkable, imposing and atmospheric.

  • @noreenclark2568
    @noreenclark25689 ай бұрын

    Looking forward to listening to part two

  • @t-n-tpressurecleaning7781
    @t-n-tpressurecleaning7781 Жыл бұрын

    Robert Trevor Thompson here from Clan Thompson 💪⚔️

  • @kurtnixon2500
    @kurtnixon25003 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Your doing a great job. 👍

  • @andynixon2820
    @andynixon28202 жыл бұрын

    I've recently discovered the border reivers but through out my life there have been people I've met who I naturally felt a bond with . They all had true inner character and a sense of individuality . Then I got to understand the reiver family / clan system and realised these people I'd known had the surnames Bell , Elliot , Wilson , Storey , Moffat etc . Could be my imagination but after hundreds of years maybe these people still carry some these reiver traits ? . Could be why myself and all my male ancestors are so obstinate .

  • @lynb2039

    @lynb2039

    2 жыл бұрын

    oh boy you've opened a can of worms. hail mr nixon, from a clan bell lass. I've felt the same since childhood. I also had an uncanny attraction to drumming. From 6 years old, whenever a local high band school practiced outside on the field, I'd stop playing and freeze, listening as in a trance. I felt pulled in and still do. I truly believe that the pioneering spirit commonly ascribed as a core American attribute by many other countries is the direct spiritual contribution of Reiver's undaunted bravery, creativity, and strength of survival at all costs. what say you?

  • @inyobill

    @inyobill

    Жыл бұрын

    I do not believe in ancestral memory, but I cannot (and do not wish to) deny a lifelong attraction to Scotland. I have been fortunate to visit The Borders three times, can't wait to get back. The loacals welcomed me in the spirit of a long-lost cousin. Lovely, lovely country, equally lovely people, they are honestly welcoming of their visitors.

  • @inyobill

    @inyobill

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh, and don't trust a man that doesn't love dogs and the pipes.

  • @TheMaxKids

    @TheMaxKids

    Ай бұрын

    Mom/Dad have border names. I am about as big of an independent person as possible. Ancestral memory is real.

  • @corncrackerkid5092
    @corncrackerkid50923 жыл бұрын

    I can say the fierce, independent and loyal spirit is strong in the Revier’s descendants in Appalachia, my maternal great great grandmother’s maiden name was Elliott and my paternal one was Bell, my grandfather said he got weird looks even in recent times when he told people he had Elliott blood when he moved to England for a time

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    3 жыл бұрын

    Corncracker Kid In glad to hear it fella

  • @Scott.Elliott

    @Scott.Elliott

    2 жыл бұрын

    Those damn Elliott's 👍

  • @justinhall3243
    @justinhall3243 Жыл бұрын

    Descendant of clan Hall here. As no one in my neck of the woods (Utah) has sheep I guess I will have to steal their cars and ransom them back!

  • @glennhall8665

    @glennhall8665

    9 ай бұрын

    Another HALL..! ✊ Living in Yorkshire.. (north England) 🇬🇧

  • @justinhall3243

    @justinhall3243

    9 ай бұрын

    @@glennhall8665 My understanding is after James became King of both England and Scotland he crushed the border reiver clans, deporting many of the young men to other places. For clan Hall that would be Northern Ireland and many of their own accord left for the new world which is how my line ended up in Virginia. However I have read that James also expelled a great many Halls to the south around Yorkshire! It could be that you and I share more than just a common sir name. Could be that you are a descendant of clan Hall as well. It would cost you some pounds but have you given any thought to a Y-DNA test? Halls of the border reiver clan are part of what is called the Little Scots Cluster, a grouping of Y-DNA testers that all share a common male ancestor.

  • @baker64177
    @baker641773 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Great video!!. It is November. We eagerly await

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hopefully next part up by Sunday :-)

  • @baker64177

    @baker64177

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheJollyReiver We appreciate it. Life comes first though. 👍

  • @BastardSprinkler3000
    @BastardSprinkler30004 жыл бұрын

    Good vid matey! Interesting to learn of the plight of the border folk back in the day. Btw did u ever hear the southern folk tale of 'The Dragon of knuckerhole'? Tis a good'n :D

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Indeed I have! I’m making a video on types of British dragons atm coincidently, it’ll be making an appearance

  • @491413
    @4914134 жыл бұрын

    Really interested in this series. Our family history is from the Border Reivers.

  • @scott236
    @scott2363 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff. Bring more! I'm a Thomson through my mother.

  • @corybell6551
    @corybell65513 жыл бұрын

    Bell of the border here. Awesome content.

  • @patriciayohn6136

    @patriciayohn6136

    3 жыл бұрын

    Born Bell as well.

  • @ReeseJamPiece.

    @ReeseJamPiece.

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here.

  • @CountBeetle
    @CountBeetle3 жыл бұрын

    Great content

  • @rachaeldover5170
    @rachaeldover517011 ай бұрын

    Glendinning. Land gifted by Douglas evidently long ago but probably no more. Male clan line evidently gone but a woman possibly related. So many connections all around. Lucky to be here really if so.

  • @spaceytracey1237
    @spaceytracey12373 жыл бұрын

    Perfect for a winters night in the middle of October.

  • @Jackiesguineapigs
    @Jackiesguineapigs Жыл бұрын

    are you considering any videos on the reivers in the jacobite rebellion just asking because Ive recently discovered my ancestors may have been reivers

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    Жыл бұрын

    Reivers in the Jacobite rebellion? Which rebellion?

  • @paulmcdermott4336
    @paulmcdermott4336 Жыл бұрын

    You've spoken about accents a few times in your videos. I am personally fascinated by different accents and how easily they change from place to place. Your accent is obviously a border accent but I would be grateful if you could tell me where. Sometimes it sounds Scottish, sometimes it sounds Cumbrian. I found it interesting how quickly the accent changes in the 4 miles between Eyemouth in Scotland and Berwick in England. It probably didnt in the time period you speak of. But it does nowadays. Its definitely noticeable. I also read somewhere that the Berwick accent has changed a lot in the past 50 or so years. The older generation had a much more Scottish twang to their accent than the younger generation nowadays. They actually put this down to the popularity of shows like Geordie Shore and how young people in Northumberland want to be more like Geordies because its trendy.. Its the same as how the Glasgow accent has spread out everywhere, even into parts of Ayrshire....where it never was before. You see the same thing there. The older generation sound just like normal Lowland Scots whereas the younger generation sound more Glasgweigan. Anyway sorry for dragging it on. I was just wondering if you could pinpoint your accent for me. Love your shows. Very very well done mate

  • @theseeker4642

    @theseeker4642

    11 ай бұрын

    The Jolly Reiver has a distinct Northumbria accent, so you're well off the mark !

  • @Lord_Warden_of_the_Marches
    @Lord_Warden_of_the_Marches Жыл бұрын

    Good video about an very interesting time in history.

  • @calebwheeler8143
    @calebwheeler81432 жыл бұрын

    Having done a little looking into this topic, it's almost eerie how similar the border reivers were to pre-Genghis Mongols. A society where family honour and might-makes-right are the law, land is divided between sons, sheep and cattle are herded instead of agriculture, raiding is a normal and pervasive part of life leading to an unending low-key war, and whose warriors are pony-mounted light cavalry dedicated primarily to raiding. Just put the border reivers in tents (which isn't that impossible, as at the worst periods of the war, people built houses from turf as they would be cheap to rebuild) and have them fight with bows instead of lances and swords (and the Mongols used lances as a secondary weapon) and there'd be no functional difference.

  • @bigc562
    @bigc5629 ай бұрын

    Proud to be part of Clan Elliot.

  • @justinthegardener
    @justinthegardener Жыл бұрын

    This is really interesting, I hadn't realised my ancestors were border reivers so it's another story I can tell and add to the history of the 'Trotter' clan.

  • @glenfoster7767
    @glenfoster77673 жыл бұрын

    I had family on both sides of the border (Foster/Forrester/Montgomery/Fraser/Graham

  • @monki9262

    @monki9262

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m a graham as well

  • @SixFivesAndSisterWives
    @SixFivesAndSisterWives5 ай бұрын

    in canada from clan gray two of my bestfriend are elliott and johnstone and i also know coziers, nixons, and maxwells.

  • @honeybear200
    @honeybear2003 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting video. I am very proud to be a descendant of these tuff people. From the boarders to ulster and right here in Appalachia. We are still the most badass group around. We need to stay that way and not conform to the rest of the world and there weak ways.

  • @kensden599
    @kensden5993 жыл бұрын

    Great video please keep it going. My family name is from the borders and there is so little info out there...

  • @jennymcjennypants
    @jennymcjennypants3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Pringle on my mother's side and we believe the Cranstons on dad's. Thank you for this information.

  • @patriciayohn6136
    @patriciayohn6136 Жыл бұрын

    My maiden name is Bell from the Scottish side, my Grandfather Bell always gave me his standard answer when I would ask what the Bells did in Scotland, the answer was horse thieves and murderers.😎 I am sure his Grandmother Bell told him that when he was a boy although I do suspect that her late Husband, John Bell knew it was truth.

  • @micksmusic8983
    @micksmusic89834 жыл бұрын

    How very intresting :)

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    :-)

  • @dlittlester
    @dlittlester9 ай бұрын

    Thanks for posting this, and I'm sorry I only got to it three years late. I'm a Little, and I was told the story that we were somehow tossed out with the Douglases, Scotts, Elliots, and others, after having been lairds of Meikledale.

  • @daviddrysdale8866
    @daviddrysdale88667 ай бұрын

    Thanks for a wonderful video.. if I may, I’d also suggest that the Great Famine that lasted from 1315-1317 due to a Volcanic Winter and also the Bubonic Plague that arrived in the Borders around 1350 are very significant.. 🧐

  • @TheVinceLyons
    @TheVinceLyons3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. Do you know the name of the painting at 4:02, of the shepherd?

  • @jelliott0077
    @jelliott00772 жыл бұрын

    Elliott Clan here. Boldly and Rightly baby!

  • @Scott.Elliott

    @Scott.Elliott

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fortiter et Recte brother!

  • @jessearmstrong5850

    @jessearmstrong5850

    2 жыл бұрын

    Armstrong here

  • @christopherelliot4964
    @christopherelliot4964 Жыл бұрын

    My family name is Elliot. I grew up in New England. . .I haven't a clue as to much of any of my family's origines or history (relative inter-famlial names: Jones , Fish, Bowdich, Bergren). . .so I subscribed, for the very first time, to your channel. . .

  • @theseeker4642

    @theseeker4642

    11 ай бұрын

    Only Elliot is a reiver surname & Jones is a Welsh one.

  • @christopherelliot4964

    @christopherelliot4964

    11 ай бұрын

    @@theseeker4642 thank you seeker. . .

  • @missnorthumbria3658
    @missnorthumbria36584 жыл бұрын

    Yes King!!!

  • @southernsunshine1149
    @southernsunshine1149Ай бұрын

    Clan Armstrong here. ❤

  • @samlittle8378
    @samlittle83783 жыл бұрын

    Nice video mate, if my last name is Little and my dad and grandparents are from Carlisle, do you think that means my ancestors were Scottish or English Reivers ?

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sam Little Well I’m pretty sure that name was first recorded in Roxburghshire, but there is of course a big presence of that name in Cumberland. Realistically, given the clan/family’s placement around the Esk, you hail from both English and Scots Reivers. Remember that borderers have always mixed and interested with each other. It’ll be hard to come by many Cumberland folk that don’t have Scots blood too.

  • @kev1734
    @kev1734 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! Do you have any materiel that goes further back to the celts and Gaelic kings?

  • @fyrdman2185

    @fyrdman2185

    10 ай бұрын

    Border Reiver Clans are not descended from Gaels, those would be the Highland Clans.

  • @Fernandwinnie
    @Fernandwinnie Жыл бұрын

    THE WALLACE!

  • @robertrutherford632
    @robertrutherford632 Жыл бұрын

    CLAN RUTHERFORD REPORTING IN FROM WEST COAST AMERICA DESCENDED FROM THOMAS RUTHERFORD ~1600 NEC SORTE NEC FATO THEY MOVED TO IRELAND CARGYCREEVY CO DOWN AND SENT THEIR SON ALEXANDER TO NEBRASKA HASTINGS

  • @Jack-Noch
    @Jack-Noch3 жыл бұрын

    If I remember correctly, I remember reading about an English Warden of one of the southern Marches who would not accept bribes or be in any way corrupted or take sides... He didn't last long, they all ganged up on him in the end and killed him. You better get on the right side of at least one or two prominent clans and families or suffer the consequences!

  • @donnyskinglongliveme
    @donnyskinglongliveme4 жыл бұрын

    Oooooh yes! I love the reiver history and the history of Northumbria. I have reiver bold in me anall! REALLY looking foreward to this series. Make sure you include lots of pictures of the strongholds and the windswept moors, duh! this is a given LOL

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I’m looking forward to making the video on the Strongholds. I’ve got pictures of castle interiors, as well as footage from bastle houses, peel towers, and castles.

  • @edwardfaversham8636
    @edwardfaversham86364 жыл бұрын

    Neil Armstrong is allegedly descended from reivers. Pretty based.

  • @kumasenlac5504

    @kumasenlac5504

    4 ай бұрын

    There is a picture from the 1960s which shows Billy Graham, Neil Armstrong and Richard Nixon - all three looking as though they belonged in a rugby front row or under a morion. My own links to the Border clans are Kerr and Laidlaw. I'm Kerr-handed.

  • @hamilax156
    @hamilax1563 жыл бұрын

    I descend from the Dixons, Forsters and Bells from Northumberland!

  • @pattyelliottseitz7826
    @pattyelliottseitz78263 жыл бұрын

    The Elliott’s are here! FORTITER ET RECTE!

  • @doellt4753

    @doellt4753

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was wondering where we were! We were the real thing.

  • @Scott.Elliott

    @Scott.Elliott

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@doellt4753 we still are

  • @doellt4753

    @doellt4753

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Scott.Elliott i know, not that you'd notice. the secret in plain sight lol

  • @glenfoster7767
    @glenfoster77673 жыл бұрын

    When is the next Part coming out? Thanks! :)

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glen Foster Novenber :-)

  • @Angenga
    @Angenga4 жыл бұрын

    Would love to see if you can find any interesting folklore from gloucestershire

  • @jamesarmstrong5424
    @jamesarmstrong54243 жыл бұрын

    Long live clan Armstrong! Invictus Maneo!

  • @smartacus88

    @smartacus88

    3 жыл бұрын

    Clan Hall! A lesser known, but nonetheless brutal clan. Per Ardua ad Alta!

  • @Scott.Elliott

    @Scott.Elliott

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fortiter et Recte!

  • @glennhall8665

    @glennhall8665

    9 ай бұрын

    @@smartacus88> Hurray! At last somebody mentions the HALL family..! Thankyou. 😀 👍

  • @mukhumor
    @mukhumor Жыл бұрын

    Names that featured in American history... Johnson, Nixon, Armstrong.

  • @itsjoeybytch
    @itsjoeybytch9 ай бұрын

    aye ah'm a Thomson 🏇

  • @alanbstard4
    @alanbstard44 жыл бұрын

    excellent stuff. Have you considered entropy alongside paypal for donations?

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Afraid I’ve not heard of that my friend

  • @alanbstard4

    @alanbstard4

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheJollyReiver entropystream.live/app/Shaggy

  • @tomw8734
    @tomw8734 Жыл бұрын

    Direct descendant of the Gunn clan here 👋

  • @samharvey3241
    @samharvey32413 жыл бұрын

    Where can we find pt2 on the boarder reivers?

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sam Harvey Haven’t made it yet fella. I will do soon when my sore throat clears up

  • @eliotelliott4550
    @eliotelliott45503 жыл бұрын

    Do you have the other parts to share?

  • @TheJollyReiver

    @TheJollyReiver

    3 жыл бұрын

    not yet fella, will work on the next part (fortifications of the reivers) in november

  • @garyc8900
    @garyc8900 Жыл бұрын

    Where is "Part 2"?

  • @danielashton7181
    @danielashton718111 ай бұрын

    Where’s part 2 ?

  • @steveo7767
    @steveo77673 жыл бұрын

    I beir the bel!

  • @scotfarquharson6836
    @scotfarquharson683612 күн бұрын

    I am from the clan voted hardest to spell

Келесі