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Peeblesshire

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FAMILY NAMES

  • Borders Family History Society
  • Reiver Family Names - The Border Reivers evolved from 300 years of raiding and feuding into a race of expert light horsemen, skilled in raiding, scouting ambush and skirmishing.

    GOVERNMENT SITES

  • Scottish Borders Council

    HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • Scottish Borders History & Heritage

    LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES

  • Discover the Borders - Scottish Borders archive and local history centre.
  • Familia - list of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK providing information about the libraries and their holdings.
  • Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre - includes family history, newspapers and postal research.
  • Scottish Borders Council - libraries

    LOCAL WEBSITES

  • PEEBLES - deaths in 1874.
  • PEEBLES - ( www.peeblesscotland.com ) general information.
  • PEEBLES - ( www.peebles.info ) general information.

    MAPS, GAZETTEERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  • Ordnance Survey maps - free online maps covering the period 1860-1870.
  • Peeblesshire - Historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:10,560 scale for each county.
  • Town Plan of Peebles - surveyed 1856

    MILITARY

  • Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in the Borders & Lothian
  • Peeblesshire Roll of Honour

    NEWSPAPERS

  • Peeblesshire News - weekly newspaper.
  • Border Telegraph

    OTHER BITS AND PIECES

  • Poorhouses in Scotland - Peebles Combination.
  • Born in the Border Counties of Scotland - extracts from the Marriage Index of Victoria, Australia 1853-1895.
  • GENUKI's pages for Peeblesshire
  • In Search of the Border Reivers - a race of expert light horsemen, skilled in raiding, scouting ambush and skirmishing.
  • Peeblesshire GenWeb - part of the British Isles GenWeb Project which helps researchers find local resources and reference information.
  • IGI Batch Numbers for Peebles

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