Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
759 followers · 868 posts · Server mastodon.scotJust watching last night’s Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers, this week about the River #Teviot and #Teviotdale, my home area https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l1jy/grand-tours-of-scotlands-rivers-series-2-5-an-independent-river #ScottishBorders #Roxburghshire #Hawick #Jedburgh #Kelso #Roxburgh
#roxburgh #kelso #jedburgh #hawick #roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #teviotdale #teviot
Richard Webb · @Fasgadh
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Monday on the bike in the #CheviotHills - A couple of fine forts: Cunzierton and Chatto. Also a couple of stone circles, a standing stone and a Roman road. #HillfortsWednesday #Roxburghshire
#roxburghshire #HillfortsWednesday #cheviothills
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
738 followers · 742 posts · Server mastodon.scotApplication form filled out, ready to send off in the post tomorrow, for me to get #lifetime #membership of the #Hawick Archaeological Society. Still a gamble with my life threatening progressive #neuro disease, but with no minimum age and a fair lifetime membership offer, plus no need to renew annually, it's too good not to go for. #ScottishBorders #ScottishHistory #History #Archaeology #LocalHistory #Roxburghshire
#roxburghshire #localhistory #archaeology #history #ScottishHistory #ScottishBorders #neuro #hawick #membership #lifetime
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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Oh my goodness. Just found my ggg-granddad John Usher Somner getting a #passport in 1851 so he could go to #Paris! He was then living in his home town of #Kelso, #Roxburghshire, #Scotland. Oh and his cousin Richard Somner Frier also got a passport at the same time. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Travel #France #Berwickshire
#berwickshire #france #travel #familyhistory #genealogy #scotland #roxburghshire #kelso #paris #passport
Richard Webb · @Fasgadh
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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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An old blog post, but a good one, here’s what I wrote about one of my favourite characters from Melrose in the past, the 17th century regality court clerk Thomas Wilkieson. He was involved with this local court at a turbulent time in its history. http://www.one-place-studies.org/w-is-for-2017/
#Melrose #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #Scotland #ScottishHistory #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #CourtRecords #LocalCourts #OnePlaceStudies
#oneplacestudies #localcourts #courtrecords #seventeenthcentury #17thcentury #ScottishHistory #scotland #ScottishBorders #roxburghshire #melrose
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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Continuing our watch of the Gaelic programme walking from Melrose to Lindisfarne. We recorded it and are slowly getting through it. Onto episode 3 which goes from Monteviot to Kirk Yetholm. So getting into my granny’s home country. The iPlayer version of this episode is only online until Monday evening coming. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dhjf/slighe-naoimh-cuithbeirtst-cuthberts-way-series-1-episode-3
#Gaelic #Gaidlig #ScottishBorders #Walking #StCuthbertsWay #Roxburghshire #Scotland #Cheviots #CheviotHills #BorderReivers
#borderreivers #cheviothills #cheviots #scotland #roxburghshire #StCuthbertsWay #walking #ScottishBorders #gaidlig #gaelic
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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On Armistice Day here’s a repost of my blog post remembering a great-granddad’s WW1 service. He was a plumber and beadle (church officer) from Melrose in the Scottish Borders, and enlisted in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/remembering-great-granddads-ww1-service-100-years-after-he-enlisted/ #WW1 #ArmisticeDay #ScottishBorders #Roxburghshire #Geneadons #KingsOwnScottishBorderers #KOSB #Army
#army #kosb #kingsownscottishborderers #geneadons #roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #armisticeday #ww1
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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17th century Suffolk manorial court records turning up in the Hawick archive in Scotland! The bit of Suffolk concerned is just a couple of miles from where some of my husband’s maternal ancestors lived back to the 1600s. https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/17th-century-manorial-records-an-unexpected-find/ #Suffolk #ScottishBorders #Hawick #Roxburghshire #Genealogy #Geneadons
#geneadons #genealogy #roxburghshire #hawick #ScottishBorders #suffolk