The Spring 2016 newsletter from Scotland is now available. Some of this issue’s features include: The Border Family History Society The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regiment Family Tree DNA Project And more…. To read this issue in detail or access back issues, visit the online newsletters.
Prints of a handcrafted map of the Border Reiver families are now available through www.borderart.com. A copy was recently delivered to the Clan museum in Newcastleton, Scotland for people in the area to view. The name “Elliot” is prominently featured on the map.
The Autumn 2015 newsletter from Scotland is now available. Some of this issue’s features include: Elliot Variants – the latest findings from our Clan Historian Russell Eliott & Pitcairn Island The Very Model of a Modern Mansion House Conan Doyle’s Selkirk Story Making History – the first father and daughter flight crew And more…. To read […]
Stay in touch with what’s happening in Elliot clan lands! Watch the news and views from the south of Scotland. ITV Border’s ‘Border Life’ programme covers all the interesting stories from the Scottish borderlands. Watch the Elliot Clan chief Margaret Eliott of Redheugh challenging the English to make marmalade. Discover the Scottish connection at the Battle […]
The Spring 2015 newsletter from Scotland is now available. Some of this issue’s features include: The Crew of the HMS Victory at Trafalgar The first ever Scotland-England football match? The Central Florida Highland Games And more…. To read this issue in detail or access back issues, visit the online newsletters.
The Autumn 2014 newsletter from Scotland is now available. Some of this issue’s features include: The early history of the Elliots – a Scoto-Breton Border Clan The History of Redheugh A report from headquarters And more…. To read this issue in detail or access back issues, visit the online newsletters.
The Spring 2014 newsletter from Scotland is now available. Some of this issue’s features include: The Breton Story – Part II Minto House From the Air The Battle of Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie Gibraltar Connections And more…. To read this issue in detail or access back issues, visit the online newsletters.
Chief Margaret Eliott attended the 41st Stone Mountain Highland Games (SMHG), near Atlanta, Georgia, USA this October. Here are some photos from the event, courtesy Stone Mountain Games and Sylvia Elliott.
Chief Margaret Eliott will be GUEST OF HONOR at the 41st Stone Mountain Highland Games (SMHG), October 18-20, 2013 near Atlanta, Georgia, USA. There is a sense of history to the occasion as the Elliot Clan USA was founded at Stone Mountain in 1977 when Chief Margaret’s father, Sir Arthur Eliott, was Guest of Honor.
The Elliots were one of the great border clans, also known as reivers. The reivers were such a problem throughout the Borders that even the church became involved in their bloody wrangles. In 1525 they had become such a nuisance that the then Archbishop of Glasgow, Gavin Dunbar, put a curse up all the reivers […]
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