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FAMILY NAMES

  • Borders Family History Society
  • Roxburgh Surnames List
  • Border Reivers - 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 - home page.

    HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • Scottish Borders Heritage - official web site of the Archaeology and Countryside Service of Scottish Borders Council, including information on the history and heritage of the Scottish Borders.
  • Old Gala Club - Galashiels and District Local History Society.
  • GALASHIELS - history.
  • KELSO - history.

    LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES

  • Familia - directory 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 - located at Selkirk. Includes archives and collections, newspapers, family history and postal research.
  • Scottish Borders Council - library and information service.
  • Scottish Borders Council - museums.

    LOCAL WEBSITES

  • ABBOTRULE - churchyard list of surnames.
  • ASHKIRK - churchyard list of surnames.
  • BORTHWICK WA - churchyard list of Surnames from Roberton Parish.
  • CAVERS - old churchyard list of surnames.
  • HAWICK - 1825-1862 Death Register of Hawick, table of deaths from James Wilson's Register.
  • HAWICK - 1881 census residents of Hawick Combination Poorhouse, Hawick.
  • JEDBURGH - general information and history.
  • JEDBURGH - 1881 census residents of Union Poorhouse, Jedburgh.
  • KELSO - grammar school prizewinners of 1853.
  • KELSO - general information and history.
  • MAXTON - general information and history.
  • ROBERTSON - parish burial ground list of Surnames.
  • ROXBURGH - Lieutenancy Book from the County of Roxburgh 1797-1802.

    MAPS, GAZETTEERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  • Ordnance Survey maps - free online maps covering the period 1860-1870.
  • 19th Century Map of Roxburghshire
  • Roxburghshire - historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:10,560 scale.
  • GALASHIELS - town plan surveyed 1858.
  • HAWICK - town plan surveyed 1857-58.
  • JEDBURGH - town plan surveyed 1858.
  • KELSO - town plan surveyed 1857.

    MILITARY

  • MAXTON War Memorial
  • Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in the Borders & Lothian
  • Roxburghshire Roll of Honour

    NEWSPAPERS

  • Tweeddale Press - produces The Berwick Advertiser, Berwickshire News, The Southern Reporter, Hawick News & Selkirk Weekend Advertiser.
  • The Berwick Advertiser

    OTHER BITS AND PIECES

  • Poorhouses in Scotland - Hawick Combination, Jedburgh Combination & Kelso Combination.
  • Ancient Lothian - the website dedicated to the historic and prehistoric cultures of South-East Scotland.
  • Lieutenancy Book Images - 1797-1802.
  • Border county strays found in Australia - names extracted from the marriage index (1853-1895) of Victoria.
  • GENUKI's pages for Roxburghshire
  • Hebridean Scots of the Province of Quebec - website of those who settled in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada from 1838. Database contains individuals born between 1800 and 1900 with connections to these Scots of Quebec.
  • Roxburghshire Parish and Probate Records - records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists and wills.
  • Roxburghshire GenWeb - part of the British Isles GenWeb Project created to help researchers find local resources and reference information.
  • UK FreeCEN Project - Roxburghshire 1841 & 1851 Census Project status page.
  • Roxburghshire Census 1841
  • 1851 Census Transcriptions - indexed transcriptions published for parishes of Ashkirk, Castleton, Cavers, Hobkirk, Kirktown, Minto, Southdean, Teviothead & Wilton.
  • IGI Batch Numbers for Roxburgh
  • Borders Family History Society Gravestones Index Search - A surname index to monumental inscription volumes published by the Society. Covers Roxburghshire and Berwickshire.
  • Index to James Wilson's Register of Deaths - The record was kept by James Wilson, a Hawick solicitor.

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