Richardsons of Berwickshire
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Richardsons of Berwickshire |
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this page explores
Scotland and the places and events in the early 1800's surrounding W1
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Berwickshire
County
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"BERWICKSHIRE is of an irregular
square form, bounded on the N. by East-Lothian; on the E. by the German
Ocean; on the S. by the river Tweed, and the English border; and on the
W. by the counties of Roxburgh, Peebles and Mid-Lothian."
www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/index.html at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/index.html#Genealogy There is a surnames list for Berwickshire. Unfortunately neither Richardson, nor Outerson showed up on the internet list From the GENUKI page on Berwickshire,
created by Vivienne S Dunstan.
The Scottish Genealogy Society
published a comprehensive volume of "Pre-1855 Tombstone Inscriptions in
Berwickshire" many years ago, and has recently reprinted the inscriptions
in 3 volumes:
Free Historical Maps for the county of Berwickshire http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/10berwi581/10berwi581gazA.htm read about Macbeth and the
Witches of Berwickshire
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Berwickshire County
Scotland 34 miles wide by 19 deep 32,000 people lived here in 1801 |
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Swinton Parish Church,
Swinton Parish Berwickshire County / East Lothian? Scotland We do know that Mrs. W1, Christine Outerson, died in 1870 Dec 15th and was buried in Swinton Parish Church Swinton Berwickshire The present parish of Swinton
comprehends the ancient parishes of Swinton and Simprin, which were united
in 1761
The parish registers available
worldwide on microfilm include kirk session minutes and accounts for Swinton
for the years 1706-1719 (in part 755/1) and accounts for
this pic comes from http://www.netspace.net.au/~talone/scotgraves/grave2.html
Scottish Parish Lists http://www.ktb.net/~dwills/scotref/p-s.htm says this parish is in East Lothian but I think thatis incorrect, it is in Berwickshire |
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- only had 560 residents in 1861 A parish in Berwickshire, on the banks of the Tweed, anciently called Upsettintoune [Upsettlington], but changed to its present name by James IV, after he had built a handsome church in it which he dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This church is famous as the place where the supplemental treaty to that of Chateau Cambresis was concluded, between the English and Scots commissioners. The parish is 2 1/2 miles long, and 1 broad, and contains 3500 acres .... www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/Ladykirk/ Page created by Vivienne S Dunstan. a postgraduate history student at Dundee University Census returns for Ladykirk
in 1811 and 1831 have apparently survived among kirk session records held
in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh
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| Horndean - spelled
also in old records as Horndene
W5 says W2 was born b. 1828 Jan 08 in town of Horndean in Ladykirk Parish in Berwickshire |
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| Whitsome
W5 says according to the 1851 census, William Richardson and Christine Outerson were living in the parish of Whitsome It has been suggested that
the name of the village derives from the white habits of Cistercian monks
who once had a settlement in the area,
Like most of the Borders, Whitsome has had a somewhat eventful past. In July 1482, it was burned to the ground by the Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England. According to the Statistical Account, Deadriggs derives its name from Border skirmishes, and the East and West Vaults were named for underground vaults built for shelter and storage in times of any attack from the south. The population of the parish in 1755 was 399. By 1799, this had risen to 590. Although not affluent, the parish seems to have been a healthy place to live - Rev Cupples reported that the oldest man and woman in the parish were 93 and 94, respectively. The parishioners were "staunch Presbyterians. The
population of Whitsome fell from 664 in 1831 to 636 in 1833 because of
emigration to Canada. By 1861, it was still only 640, and thereafter
the fall continued -
according to a list of Scottish parishes, http://www.ktb.net/~dwills/scotref/p-w.htm there was also a Whitsome Parish which carried this name from 1856-1955 it was located in Wigtown County |
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"A parish in the county of Berwick, extending 8 miles in length from E. to W. and nearly 6 in breadth" from www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/Eccles/ - Population in 1801, 1682 |
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Scottish Counties maps from
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Registration of Births, Marriages
and Deaths began in Scotland on 1st January 1855.
The General Register Office
for Scotland www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/
GROS - Family Records www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/grosweb/grosweb.nsf/pages/famrec
Therefore, before 1855 it
is increasingly difficult to trace family names since it was not done except
by those of some standing in the community and all the records of consequence
would be within the various parish churches.
It is understood that the
Richardsons were Scots, but they did not have a specific Richardson tartan
- various Scottish sources
affiliate the Richardson name with the Ogilvy Tartan and the Buchanan Tartan
- tartans were actually
a fairly recent invention and the variety and colours we see today were
not common in the 1700's and 1600's
- I have been told that
hard core geneologists do not make much fuss over tartans since they could
be somewhat arbitrary and not very precise
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Ogilvy Tartan |  |
Buchanan Tartan |
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changes last made 2004 May 24