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Selkirkshire

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FAMILY NAMES

  • Borders Family History Society
  • Selkirkshire 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

    HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • Scottish Borders Heritage - official web site of the Archaeology and Countryside Service of Scottish Borders Council offering aspects of the history and heritage of the Scottish Borders.
  • Old Gala Club - Galashiels and District Local History Society.
  • GALASHIELS - 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 - based at Selkirk. Includes archives and collections, newspapers, family history and postal research.
  • Scottish Borders Council - libraries.

    LOCAL WEBSITES

  • ASHKIRK - churchyard list of surnames.
  • ETTRICK - kirkyard ist of surnames.
  • ROBERTSON - Borthwick Wa's churchyard, list of surnames.
  • ROBERTSON - parish burial ground, list of surnames.
  • SELKIRK - census of 1817.
  • SELKIRK - deaths 1874.
  • YARROW - churchyard list of surnames.
  • YARROW - St Mary's Kirkyard list of surnames.

    MAPS, GAZETTEERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  • Ordnance Survey maps - free online maps covering the period 1860-1870.
  • GALASHIELS - town plan surveyed 1858.
  • SELKIRK - town plan surveyed 1865.

    MILITARY

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

    NEWSPAPERS

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

    OTHER BITS AND PIECES

  • Poorhouses in Scotland - Galashiels Combination.
  • Ancient Lothian - the website dedicated to the historic and prehistoric cultures of South-East Scotland.
  • GENUKI's pages for Selkirkshire
  • Selkirkshire GenWeb - part of the British Isles GenWeb Project created to help researchers find local resources and reference information.
  • Selkirkshire Parish and Probate Records - include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists & wills.
  • UK FreeCEN Project - Selkirkshire 1841 Census Project status page.
  • IGI Batch Numbers for Selkirk

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