Border Clan

A Border Clan, also historically known as a grayne, is a family which originates in the Anglo-Scottish Border region. Many of these ended up involved in the Plantation of Ulster, and also settled in parts of North America.

The historic riding surnames recorded by George MacDonald Fraser in The Steel Bonnets (1989) are:

East March

• Scotland: Hume, Trotter, Dickson, Broomfield, Craw, Cranstoun.
• England: Forster, Selby, Grey, Dunn.

Middle March

• Scotland: Burns, Kerr, Young, Pringle, Davison, Gilchrist, Tait, Scott, Oliver, Turnbull, Rutherford of West Teviotdale. Armstrong, Croser, Elliot, Nixon, Douglas, Laidlaw, Routledge, Turner, Henderson of Liddesdale, Thomson, Jamieson, Hunter

• England: Anderson, Potts, Reed, Hall, Hedley of Redesdale. Charlton, Robson, Dodd, Dodds, Milburn, Yarrow, Stapleton of Tynedale. Also Fenwick, Ogle, Heron, Witherington, Medford (later Mitford), Collingwood, Carnaby, Shaftoe, Ridley, Stokoe, Stamper, Wilkinson, Huntley

West March

• Scotland: Bell, Irvine, Johnstone, Graham, Maxwell, Carlisle, Beattie, Little, Carruthers, Glendenning, Routledge, Moffat.
• England: Hetherington, Musgrave, Storey, Lowther, Curwen, Salkeld, Dacre, Harden, Hodgson, Routledge, Tailor, Noble.

Further Reading

• MacDonald Fraser, George (1971). The Steel Bonnets. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-272746-3.