Anglo-Scottish Border Names

Border Names

A collection of family names recorded in Galloway and the Borders with their variant spellings.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. Names may not be exclusive to the Border regions.

*Indicates the twelve head Reiver families identified by MacDonald Frazer.

Ainsley, Ansley, Annesley

Allison, Ellison

Anderson

Armstrong, Armstrang*

Baillie, Bayley, Balliol

Ballantyne, Balentine, Ballentine

Barraford

Beatty, Baity, Baitie, Beaty, Beattie, McVitty, Mavity, Baty, Batisoun

Bell, Beal, Beall, Beals*

Blackman

Bogue

Boone, Bone

Broomfield

Brown, Browne, Bruan

Bruce

Burn, Burns, Burnes, Bourne*

Burrell

Carlisle, Carlile

Carlton, Charlton, Carleton*

Carruthers, Curothers, Carothers, Carrothers, Cruthirds, Crothers, Carrithers, Carruth, Caruthers

Cecil, Cissell

Chamberlain

Chisholm, Chisholme, Chisolm

Clifford

Collingwood

Coulter

Cranston

Craw, Crow, Crowe,

Crawford, Crafoord

Cresswell

Crisp

Croser, Crosar, Crozier, Crosier*

Cuthbert

Curwen

Dacre

Dalgliesh, Daglish

Davison, Davis, Davisson

Dixon, Dickson, Dickason

Dodd, Dodds, Dodson

Douglas, Douglass

Drysdale

Dunn, Dunne, Donne

Elder

Elliott, Elliot, Eliot, Ellwood, Elliard, Ellot, Aylett*

Eure, Ewers

Fairburn

Fenwick, Penwick*

Fleming

Forster, Foster, Forester, Forrest, Forrester*

Fraser, Frazier

Gilchrist

Glendenning, Glendinning, Clendenning, Clendening, Clendinnen, Clendenin, Clendenon Clendennen, Clendenan

Glenn

Gordon

Gowland

Graden, Graydon, Gradon

Graham, Grimes, Greame*

Gray, Grey

Hadley, Hedley, Headley

Hall*

Halliday, Halladay, Holliday, Hollyday

Harden, Hardin

Harle

Henderson

Hepburn

Heron, Herron, Harron, Herring, Herrin, Herring, Hern

Hetherington, Heatherington, Edington, Edrington, Etherington

Hildreth

Hodgson, Hodge, Hodges, Hodgin,

Howard

Hume, Humes, Home, Holmes*

Hunter

Huntley, Hunt, Hundley

Inglis, Ingle, Engle

Irvine, Irwin, Irving, Ervin, Arwinw*

Jackson

Jamieson, Jameson

Jardine, Gardiner, Gardner, Garner, Jordan

Johnston, Johnstone, Johnson, Johnstoun*

Kennedy, Canady

Kerr, Carr, Karr*

Kilpatrick, Kirkpatrick

Kirkland

Anglo-Scottish, Border Reiver, debatable lands, map, territories, Solway, West Marches, East Marches, Riders, Rovers, Families, Clangs

Laidlaw

Lamberton, McLambroch, McLambrough

Langley

Liddell, Liddle, Little

Lindsay

Lisle, Lyle, Lyles, Liles

Lowther

MacLellan, McClellan, MacCleland

McNachten, McNagten,McNaughton

Maxwell*

McCulloch, McCullough

Medford

Milburn

Minto

Moffit, Moffitt, Moffett, Moffitt, Moffat

Montgomery

Murray

Musgrave, Musgrove, Musgraves

Netherby, Nethery, Netherie, Nethrie, Neitherey, Niddrie

Nixon

Noble

Ogle,Ogles

Oliver

Orr

Percy

Porteous, Porteus

Potts

Prat, Prath, Pratt, Pret

Pringle, Pring

Pyle, Pyles

Radcliff, Ratcliff, Ratcliffe, Ratliff

Rayburn, Rayborn, Raybon, Raybourn, Ryburn, Rabon

Reade, Read, Reid, Reed

Redpath, Ridpath

Ridley, Riddle, Riddell

Robson, Robinson, Robison, Robeson, Robertson

Rome, Roome

Rowell

Rutherford

Rutledge, Routledge

Salkeld, Soakell

Scoles

Scott*

Selby, Selbie

Shaftoe

Shortridge

Simpson

Snaydon

Sommerville, Somerville

Stamper

Stapleton, Stableton, Stebleton

Stephenson, Stephens, Stevens, Steenson, Stevenson

Stewart, Stuart

Stokoe

Storey, Storry, Storie

Taggart, Tagert

Tait, Tate

Taylor, Tailor

Telford, Telfer, Tedford

Thomson, Thompson

Trainor, Trainer

Trotter, Trott

Turnbull, Trimble, Trumble

Turner

Tweedie, Tweedy

Vance

Veitch

Wake

Wallace

Watson, Watts

Waugh

Weir

Wharton, Horton

Wilkinson, Wilkerson

Wilson

Witherington, Wetherington, Woodrington

Yarrow

Young

Resources:

Border Reiver DNA By Surname freepages.rootsweb.com/~gallgaedhil/genealogy/dna_by_surname.htm#border_reiver_surname_map

Border Reivers – Border Names by Lina Bruce Caron: www.electricscotland.com/history/other/border_reivers3.htm

ARCANE Borders

Border Names