Tag Archives: Carruthers

16th century Fatlips Castle Border Peel tower in Roxburghshire, Scotland

                                                      Fatlips Castle as it stood in 1857   Fatlips Castle, a 16th century pele tower of rectangular stone was founded by the Turnbulls of Barnhill. The castle sitsContinue reading “16th century Fatlips Castle Border Peel tower in Roxburghshire, Scotland”

Lowland Scots

    The Scottish Lowlands are made up of the southern portion of Scotland, the central region, the eastern coast, and most of the northeastern coast. The bulk of Scotland’s population (about 80 percent) lives in the Lowlands, particularly in the urban and industrial areas around such major cities as Glasgow and Aberdeen, as well as in theContinue reading “Lowland Scots”

PRIVY COUNCIL OF SCOTLAND

(And the Carruthers) As I research the Carruthers family in Scotland I find more and more about our Border Reivers and begin to understand just how difficult it must have been to live back then. I did come across an old book showing how some of our earlier Carruthers were quite the rascals but IContinue reading “PRIVY COUNCIL OF SCOTLAND”