Tag Archives: SCOTTISH BORDERS

HOW I CAME TO BE SCOTS-IRISH

As the war went on and they faced the British at Cowpens, Kings Mountain and a generation later in New Orleans, these mountain men with their precision rifles gave fearful account of their fighting prowess. They made up a good part of the Pennsylvania Line on whom Washington could rely more than on any otherContinue reading “HOW I CAME TO BE SCOTS-IRISH”

THE PEOPLE WITH NO NAME: IRELAND’S ULSTER SCOTS, AMERICA’S SCOTS IRISH, AND THE CREATION OF A BRITISH ATLANTIC WORLD, 1689-1764

  More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British North America in the eighteenth century. Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People with No Name isContinue reading “THE PEOPLE WITH NO NAME: IRELAND’S ULSTER SCOTS, AMERICA’S SCOTS IRISH, AND THE CREATION OF A BRITISH ATLANTIC WORLD, 1689-1764”

Border-Reivers-Their-Part-in-the-Northern-Rebellion-of-1569

In the autumn of 1569 Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland and Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, rose in rebellion against the English queen, Elizabeth 1 and her government. Ostensibly the rebellion, to which thousands of men from the north of England flocked in sympathy, was to smash the stranglehold that the Protestant religion,Continue reading “Border-Reivers-Their-Part-in-the-Northern-Rebellion-of-1569”

Border-Reivers-The-Clay-Biggin & Border-Reivers-Pele-Tower-as-a-Refuge

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 theContinue reading “Border-Reivers-The-Clay-Biggin & Border-Reivers-Pele-Tower-as-a-Refuge”

Border-Reivers-Sir-Richard-Lowther

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-Tomb-of-Sir-Richard-LowtherContinue reading “Border-Reivers-Sir-Richard-Lowther”