Fortifications, Crom Rig near Teviothead #Roxburghshire. Probably home to farm buildings once, how old?

Yesterday was sunny in the #Cheviot Hills. #Scotland #Roxburghshire #Shorthorns

One of the places that most creeped me out as a kid reading #ghost books was Hermitage Castle, #Roxburghshire. For one thing it just looks so GRIM. But its ghosts, that of an evil sorcerer called Lord Soulis and his nasty little familiar, Redcap, are particularly unnerving. #PhantomsFriday #folklore

Me trying the live audio transcription facility in MacOS Sequoia. Well it could be quite useful, but with serious caveats! #MacOS #Sequoia #transcription #accessibility #Hawick #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #Scotland #accents #ScottishAccent #ScottishAccents #NotesApp #Mac

Found Melrose kirk session minutes at ScotlandsPeople include lists of schoolmasters 1768-1854 parish by parish in Presbytery of Chirnside. Whole bunch of Berwickshire places! Melrose isn't even in Berwickshire 😜 Likely paper records muddling in Scottish Record Office / National Records of Scotland. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #School #Schools #History #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #ScotlandsPeople #Archive #Archives #HistoricalResearch #Berwickshire #Melrose #Roxburghshire #Scotland

Writing up some more maternal family history: A Melrose family tradition – the Dodds run of beadles and abbey bellringers https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/a-melrose-family-tradition-the-dodds-run-of-beadles-and-abbey-bellringers/ #Melrose #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #Scotland #Bellringing #Campanology #Bells #ChurchOfScotland #Kirk #MelroseAbbey #beadle

Time for genealogical research. First to check the Leeds Catholic registers of baptisms, for my granddad and his siblings (baptised Catholic due to their Irish Mum). Then Scotland, and Melrose, to browse the 19th century communion rolls, and figure out when my maternal ancestors moved into the town. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Leeds #Melrose #WestYorkshire #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #historicalResearch #Catholic #ChurchOfScotland #Kirk #BaptismRegisters #CommunionRolls #Ireland #Migration

Just browsing the mid 18th century #Melrose parish #kirkSession minutes online (#Roxburghshire, #Scotland). And when I got to a sentence in 1747 of #excommunication for #incest I have to say I expected a closer relationship than "She being his Grand Uncle's Wife"! #ScottishBorders #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Morality #Immorality #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #ChurchOfScotland

Just 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 #Scotland

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