Post by ReniaHave any of you much expertise in these lowland Scottish clans? I'm
particularly thinking of the Grahams/Graemes.
Or even Cumbrian clans! :-)
Popular interest in the reivers has been resuscitated in recent years as
local authorities have realised their tourist potential. There used to be,
and probably still is, a good website on them by the Cumbrian tourist
authority, which you can do doubt google.
One way forward would be to look at the Transactions of local historical
societies. There are lots of articles on the Debateable Land and their
inhabitants in the transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland
Archaeological & Antiquarian Society and in the transactions of the
Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
'Cumberland Families and Heraldry' has a number of entries on Grahams, as
probably does also its sister volume on Westmorland. Most of these are on
families that are fairly modern in origin - but there are entries on the
Grahams descended from 'Lang Will', banished from Scotland to England c.
1516 and banished from England to Ireland in 1606.
I have no expertise on the Grahams but would imagine that any research on
such a 'clan' would present innumerable difficulties! :-)
Chris