Off Topic For Billy .......

reivers ......is that scottish for tea leaf.....

 

A wonderful relative, in Chopwell, has researched the Scott family history back over 400 years, the detail is incredible.
I can go back from my Dad, my Grandad directly to the time of the Reivers in the area around Abbotsford & Jedburgh.

If you're a Scott I can send you the history which will amaze you ........ these aren't mythical figures, they're my family, perhaps yours.

There's no such thing as 'distant relations' in my opinion. If you're a Scott, from the Borders it's very likely we're related.

 

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I like to think it means raider, sounds better but of course you are right!!!

I've also just remembered that my dads brother moved to Nottingham when he was young - getting worried now!!!

 

Were you ever at Bessbrook Rog?
XMG?

 

I am a Scott so would be really interested in that

 

I wish I was half the man you are mate.

 

I'll need to ask my relative for permission but, if you're a Scott, there should be no problem in sending you a copy of the family history.
It's possible you can fill in a few gaps

If your family are originally from Northumberland/Borders then there's every chance you're related.
If you have any Armstrongs, Littles, Kerrs in your family it's almost guaranteed.
Send a pm and I'll happily 'grill you' on your suitability to be informed

 

If you were half the man he is you wouldn't come up to my knee

 

bastards had me on intelligence cell reporting to a gov official at long kesh, have some awesome photos of those days. loved the discos at the kesh local hotties came from miles away to get off with a brit and the closer to the North you were from the easier to grab a stunner it was

 

Wouldn't fight me you **** would you though..

 

refresh my memory mate i remember portadown mountains of mourn on snipe patrol at the back door, Antrim, lisburn, ballymena, and Strabane on shoot to kill

 

I'd fight most people but I'd hesitate with you mind ........ you're a horrible little man and I'm sure you'd fight dirty if I was winning.

 

a skin full and i would fight mesell

 

It's just love and care Billy mate, you are one I really want to meet. A sound lad in every way..

 

a polite way of saying a dirty little bastard fighter.

 

Ah you love me really , but yeah I can be very nasty when nasty needs to be..

 

We were having a photo took at his wedding and I could see the tosser sizing me up

 

Will do but I know embarrassingly little about my dads side other than the family story that we are descendants of reivers - it was a project I was saving up for retirement which is still as few years off yet!!!
My mothers side manages to hook in the bloke who built the Titanic so I've always seen that as the most interesting side.

 

My lovely relative, from Chopwell, has spent 20 years travelling throughout the Borders & Scotland researching the Scotts. She has an ancient book, for which she paid a small fortune, that talks about a meeting between Sir Walter Scott and one of my/our relatives from Singdean.

I've sent a pm.

 

I remember the discos. They'd bus the proddy lasses in & they were up for owt, lol.