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Offline Boongie Pam

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Re: border rievers ??
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 19 February 08 23:02 GMT (UK) »
Hiya,

The threads above plus more can be found here...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,202390.0.html

Happy rustling!
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Re: border rievers ??
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 20 February 08 05:23 GMT (UK) »
Great Links....

I ran across this term(rievers) a day or so ago and has been some good reads....I live in the US and not up on the different historical movements throughout  the UK....But web surfin is helping that..

Another good read for me was how the Vikings came to play and merge througout Scotland.......Its sorta helped me picture what was going on in the continent while trying to find these family bits of info..A must read for us over the pond folks..
Schiells/Shiells/Shiels/Shields
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NewCastle/Northumberland/Crichton
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Re: border rievers ??
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 21 February 08 09:50 GMT (UK) »
I have just ordered this book - really good review in 'Your Family tree' mag issue 60.:

Exploring Border Reivers History. by philip nixon
Breedon Books  £16-99.

Can also see review at
www.breedonbooks.co.uk   :D

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Re: border rievers ??
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 28 February 08 20:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi Everyone,

Many thanks for all your information and the chat. Might ask for a book or two for my birthday!!!

Cheers,

Carol.
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Re: border rievers ??
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 28 February 08 20:28 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Carol Mack on Tuesday 19 February 08 20:48 GMT (UK)
What a great link, many thanks! My lot are there alright - McVitty is supposed to be a derivitave of Beattie and the Beatties are there. It would also make sense that the McVittys turn up in Ireland in the 1600's at the plantation of Ulster - perhaps they fled to escape justice!!!!

Carol.

Hi Carol,

In 1606 King James resorted to the transportation of many border families to military service in Ireland. www.northeasthistory.co.uk/the_north_east/history/border/6.html

Christopher

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Re: border rievers ??
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 17 February 10 22:23 GMT (UK) »
Hey all.

Mcvitty'/McVitties/Mavity's aren't connected genetically with the Beatties.

I did a deep clad DNA test and we aren't anywhere near them.  We do however match close with other Reiver families, Glendenning, Elliot, Irvine.  These folks were mostly in the Dumfriesshire area.
At some point they went to Ireland.  There are Cavan muster rolls for 1630 showing Mawities also.

I'm working with some McVity folks and we are REAL close DNA wise, with both their McVity and my Mavity being in the same time fram but one state apart in the mid 1700's US.

Brian Mavity

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« Reply #15 on: Thursday 18 February 10 19:34 GMT (UK) »
My Kerr's were in the thick of it there too, Wardens of the Middle Marches. The best book I have read
is "Steel Bonnets" by George McDonald Fraser. At the moment it is available at Amazon £8.53 and free post

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Steel-Bonnets-Anglo-Scottish-Border-Reivers/dp/0002727463

James.
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