Clans of The Borders
Scottish Borders
Tweed, Teviot and the riding country — the great age of the reivers.
Families seated in The Borders
- Clan CockburnA border clan of jurists and queen's men.
- Clan ElliotOne of the great riding clans of the Borders.
- Clan ScottOf the Borders — Buccleuch and Walter Scott.
- ReidThe red one — descriptive Scots surname, dense in the Lothians and the Borders.
- WatsonSon of Wat — the Lowland patronymic that produced both the steam engine and Sherlock Holmes's friend.
- YoungDescriptive — the younger — sister surname to Vaughan in Wales and Óg in Ireland.
- Clan ArmstrongStrong-of-arm — the most feared of the Border riding clans.
- Clan GrahamOf Grægham — the Anglo-Norman knight who became one of Scotland's great houses.
- Clan KerrLate but in earnest — riding clan of the Roxburgh marches.
Historic ties to The Borders
Families with historic but not core ground here.