HAWICK REIVERS FESTIVAL · 2019. 1. 30. · 5 Good luck & best wishes to all involved in this year’s Hawick Reivers Festival Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale & Teviotdale Ghost Walks

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WelcomeWelcome to the 2019 Hawick Reivers FestivalWe hope you are all ready to enjoy and participate in this year’s festival which is jam packed with fun events for all the familyWe are delighted to welcome re-enactors from far and wide to the Reivers Encampment - particularly welcoming back our guests from Northern Ireland to swell the local ranks and there will also be the return of some “rough justice” dispensed at our Reivers Trials as part of the 16th Century Market Full details of all events are contained in the following pages and we hope you will take the time to read through and give your support.For over 300 years, whilst Scotland and England fought battle after battle, those living on both sides of the border made a living by “reiving” or raiding their neighbours’ property. They had their own system of laws and justice, and introduced new words into the English language, such as “bereaved” and “blackmail”.Their first allegiance was to their own family and their surname. Kith and Kin meant everything to them. Their enemies were not the English or the Scots, but any surnames at feud with them, no matter which side of the border they occupied.Do you have a Border Reiver surname? In 2019 Hawick Reivers Festival welcomes you to explore your family’s past with us here in the heart of reiving country. See how they lived and fought. Find their homelands and their strongholds. Perhaps even meet some of your own kith and kin.So lets go Reiving again!We are indebted to Event Scotland Clan Fund, SBC Community Grant Scheme, Hawick Common Good Fund and all of our local sponsors. Without their help, the festival would not be possible.

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Good luck & best wishes toall involved in this year’sHawick Reivers Festival

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Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale & Teviotdale

Ghost WalksFriday 22nd March - 6.45pm & 8.00pm Start from Vennel by Textile Tower HouseCome and meet the Ghosts of Hawick past and hear the grizzly and gory stories of our ancestors!The Ghost walks have proved very popular in previous years and tickets are likely to sell out fast.The tours will last approximately 50min and will involve a short walk. Please dress warmly and bring along a small torch!

Tickets: £4 each or £10 for family of 4 (2 adults and 2 primary age children)Tickets available from borderevents.com, ILF Imaging and Dorwards, Hawick

Rum HeavenRum Tasting (Over 18s Only)Friday 22nd March - 8.00pm (Doors open 7.30pm) The Auld Baths, Bath Street, HawickThe tasting will include six rums, sourced from Scotland & the Border regions, and advice on the “perfect serve” for each plus cocktail demonstrations. Tickets: £20 (MUST be booked in advance)

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16th Century Market Saturday 23rd March, 10.30am till 3pm,

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Reivers Encampment Saturday 23rd March, 10.30am till 3pm, Wee HaughFull programme of re-enactments including displays of Musket Drills; hand to hand skirmishes and mock battles with static displays of life in the 16th Century Border Lands.Featuring: Teviotdale Steel Bonnets, Living History Ireland, Best and Worst of Times, Les Amis d’Onno, Lothian Levy, Time Bandits and the Douglas Retinue

Reivers Clan & Family Village Saturday 23rd March, 10.00am till 3pm, High StreetMeet the Border Clans and Families and learn about their history and also current activities.

Reivers ProcessionSaturday 23rd March, 10.45am till 11am, Hawick High StreetOpening event 11am Hawick Town Hall area featuring drumming demonstration by Burnfoot Primary School.

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Re-Enactment GroupsTEVIOTDALE STEEL BONNETSThis local based living history club, formed in 2009, is going from strength to strength. The club had its first event in England last year at Chesters Roman Fort – an event for English Heritage where the club attended a Border Truce Day re-enactment, complete with real sheep. The Hawick Reivers Festival is always a favourite and special event for the club, which kicks off their 2019 campaign. The group is always eager to share our passion; to bring alive the 16th century with our well researched kit (often hand-made) and tented displays. Come along and ask a question or two, even try on a steel bonnet. And if feeling under the weather – enquire for help and a possible prescribed leech, with the club’s ever popular barber surgeon, Dr Mort.

LIVING HISTORY IRELANDWe welcome back one of Northern Ireland’s largest re-enactment, living history group covering from Viking to WW2 and all in between attending events from March every weekend to November. Taking a keen interest in all periods of Ulster Scots history, they provide tented village dressed camps for most centuries that show all aspects of life and have a large collection of hand weapons, cannons, musket right up to modern. The camps have all sorts of industry on show to enhance the public’s experience such as Black Smith, wool spinners, medics with the primitive tools, wood craft, kitchen display how food was prepared grinding corn and wheat and many more displays.

BEST OF TIMES WORST OF TIMESCome to meet the re-enactment group ‘The Best of Times, The Worst of Times’. Talk to Sir William Selby and his household. Hear of the jobs and appointments Sir William held in Berwick during Elizabethan Times. What raids and troubles did he and his family suffer? How did his good wife and family cope with the hardships of the times. Sir William also keeps the company of one Gerald Charlton, a man known as ‘Topping’. A man held many times in Hexham’s Old Gaol and called a rogue on both sides of the Border, but a man always found NOT guilty! Let them tell you of The Best of Times and The Worst of Times as they know them to be.

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LES AMIS D’ONNOLes Amis Stunt team is Scotland’s première equestrian stunt troupe based right here in the Scottish Borders!Les Amis perform their live action arena shows all over the UK and Ireland with their beautiful Friesian & Andalusian horses.Equestrian Theatre specialists, the Les Amis team have just recently finished building Scotland’s first equestrian theatre at their farm near Hawick.Their busy summer schedule sees them performing entertainment shows from all eras - Roman to WWI - including their very popular Knights of the North Stunt Jousting show which recently won the repeat contract to provide jousting for Historic Environment Scotland events. Alongside their live shows Les Amis stunt team riders ride in a wide variety of film and TV productions including Outlaw King, Mary Queen of Scot’s and Game of Thrones.If you’re interested in getting to know your local stars please feel free to get in touch.E. [email protected] W: www.lesamisdonno.com

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LOTHIAN LEVYThe Lothian Levy is a re-enactment society portraying soldiers in the war-torn decades of the mid-1500s, when Scotland and England were locked in conflict. Our events are usually set during the last years of the reign of King James V or the earliest years of Queen Mary’s. We are normally found marching beneath the banner of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran and Regent of Scotland, but we can alternatively portray a company of northern English soldiers fighting for either Henry VIII or his son Edward VI.

TIME BANDITSTime Bandits is a multi-period living history group, with a bias towards the Border wars and Anglo-Scottish reivers of the sixteenth century, I’m quite extensively published on the subject which I’ve been teaching, lecturing in and re-enacting for the last twenty-five years. Our offer includes an extensive handling collection, sword-play, storytelling, period food and music. We aim to bring history to life in an immersive and entertaining way for all ages.

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EARL OF LOUDOUN’S REGIMENT OF FOOTEEarl of Loudoun’s Regiment of Foote (As part of the English Civil War Society) have members mainly based from in and around Scotland but there are some from further afield. Loudoun’s was formed from Leslie’s Dragoons in 1980 and have been operating around the UK ever since. As part of the English Civil War Society the Earl of Loudoun’s Regiment of Foote, participates in the accurate re-enactment of 17th century life and warfare, we meet at “musters” which can vary in size from small “living histories” and small drill displays up to full blown “majors” or battles. All arms of military life are employed in the society; regiments of infantry armed with pike and musket, squadrons of horse (cavalry) and batteries of ordnance (cannon).

We as a regiment have approximately 72 members (as of the end of 2018), but we can pull support from our parent society which numbers around a 1000 participants.

We concentrate on 17th Century re-enactment in general, 1640’s in particular – our primary aim is to educate and inform on a little known but fascinating as well as important part of Scottish History, a time when Scotland was a military force to be reckoned with and a key player in the inappropriately named English Civil War.

Our mottoes are I Byde My Tyme (Historical) Love History? Live history (21st Century)

DOUGLAS RETINUEThe Douglas Retinue aims to bring to the public a vibrant, interactive and exciting interpretation of medieval military and civilian life during the latter half of the fifteenth century. We are able to put on a wide range of Living History events in Scottish history, through to the French one Hundred years War and subsequently the English Wars of the Roses. We portray members of the Douglas family Retinue who fight as a spear block this includes common foot soldiers, men at arm and low status Knights.

Our aim is to give our audiences a historically correct but entertaining event.

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Schools GamesSaturday 23rd March, 11.30am onwards, Hawick High Street (Lesser Town Hall if weather inclement)

School Performances‘Fine Reivers’ by Drumlanrig St Cuthbert’s

12 noon, St Mary’s ChurchThe Borders. The Reivers. The name evokes emotions and thoughts as soon as you hear it. Cross Border raids. Family versus family. The Scots and the English. Divided loyalties. Thieving. Treachery. Death. Lawlessness. Just like today there were ‘celebrities’ – the big names with great stories to tell – though not everyone lived that way. We will bring you a variety of role-plays highlighting the lives lead, not just by big names like Kinmont Will or Robert Carey, but also by the ordinary folk of the Reivers time, focusing on the characters and how their lives were affected by the time they lived in.

There’s the story of James Graham of Liddesdale. Killed for having his sheep stolen! Barnhill – a ruthless Reiver determined to rid himself of a troublesome warden. Archie Graham – A Reiver intent on marrying his sweetheart – despite the fact that she’s English. Robert Carey – famed for standing up to the Reivers. And Kinmont Will – possibly the most famous Reiver of the lot. Escaped from Carlisle Castle with a little help from his friends

‘The Reiver’s Rat’ by Stirches Primary School 12.45pm, St Mary’s ChurchP5/6 from Stirches Primary School will be performing ‘The Reiver’s Rat’ which is Julia Donaldson and Axel Schleffer’s ‘The Highway Rat’ translated into Scots. Find out what happens to the swashbuckling Reiver Rat who steals everyone’s food at the point of the sword.

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Finding your AncestorsSaturday 23rd March, 11.30am, Heritage Hub“Finding Your Border Ancestors Using Scottish and English Records” by Lorna Kinnaird and Wendy Tait. (No tickets required - donations at door)Researching your Border Reiver surname can seem like quite a challenge. Lorna and Wendy show you how to make a start on this fascinating journey, whichever side of the border it takes you.

Hawick Archaeological Society LectureSaturday 23rd March, 1.00pm, Heritage Hub “Turnbull Tales and Trails” by Fiona Turnbull and Albert Turnbull (No tickets required - donations at door)Albert Turnbull and Fiona Turnbull will be presenting a history of the Turnbull families from earliest times to present. Albert has produced a detailed genealogy of the major lines which reflects their time in the Borders. Drawing on an incredible collection of family letters from the early 19th century, Fiona will show how one family from Kelso dispersed to the four corners of world.

Drop in SessionSaturday 23rd March, 2.15pm - 3.15pm, Heritage HubReached a brick wall with your family history research? Wondering where to look next? Bring your family history questions and problems to genealogists Lorna and Wendy. Please bring copies of your family tree and any other relevant material.

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The Torchlight Procession will muster at 6.30pm and leave the Common Haugh car park at 6.45pm (see map on page 27). Prior to this there will be torches and glow sticks on sale from 6pm. Please note that torches will only be sold to those 16 years and over and parents are advised that lit torches should not be carried by young children.

The procession will be led by the Hawick Scout Pipe Band from the Common Haugh and make its way, via the avenue and past the Museum and Hizzy Memorial, to the viewing area. (See map inside back page)

Please note that the main access to the fireworks viewing area is from the museum and that the other entrances to the fireworks display area will be closed off to access for safety reasons.

Please obey the stewards at all times they are there to ensure your safety.

There is lighting on the paths near the cafe (which will be open) and at the museum but it would be advisable to bring along a torch to aid in your safe exit from the area.

There will be a silver collection after the display finishes. Please give generously!

Wrap up and enjoy! Warm clothes and appropriate footwear advised.

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Reivers Banquet

Tickets £15 each Tickets available from borderevents.com, ILF Imaging and Dorwards, Hawick (Menu choice must be stipulated when tickets purchased)

Join the Baron of Hawick and his Lady for an evening of good food and entertainment.

Saturday 23rd March, 8.15pm in the “Banqueting Hall” at The Auld Baths

Border Broth

Roast Beef or Reivers Chicken with roast vegetables, bread sauce and gravy

Clootie Dumpling with Custard or Cream

Fine Fare served by Lindsay Grieve

*Vegetarian option available

All forms of dress welcome but why not take the chance to get into the spirit of the Reivers and dress for the part! Nothing elaborate required! (or just bring along your sword or helmet to defend your lands!)Costume ideas Ladies – long skirts and shawl Men – Breeches, (or binding round lower leg) simple tabards or loose shirts etc

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Borders Kith & KinSunday 24th March, Heritage Hub Tickets £2 per talk available from ILF, Dorwards or borderevents.com (tickets may also be available on the door)

10.00am - The Rise and Fall of the Black Douglases by Derek Stewart

11.15am - Lost on the Map - Trows Tower & Routledge Fortifications by Tom Routledge

12.30pm The Reiving Kers: Explore the history of one of the most renowned Scottish Middle March families by Wendy Tait

Walk with the ReiversSunday 24th March, 10.00am, Hawick to Branxholme Castle Tickets: £3 each available from ILF, Dorwards or borderevents.com Join Ian Lowes as he leads a walk from Hawick to Branxholme Castle following in the footsteps of our Reiving Ancestors . On reaching Branxholme Castle a light lunch will be served in the Castle Hall and there will be a short talk on the history of the Castle itself

The walk will start in the Civic Space at 10am - places are limited and by ticket only.

Walkers are requested to wear stout footwear and no dogs are allowed. Walkers must make their own arrangements for their return journey to Hawick.

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Our SpeakersAlbert TurnbullA retired College lecturer, Albert became the first commoner to trace his ancestry back through 55 generations, a feat acknowledged by Her Majesty’s archivist and English heritage. As a direct descendant of King Harold, he was invited to the opening of the new visitor centre at Battle to be king for the day. http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/meet-king-albert-4537410 Albert is the author of Grandads Story which is a diary of life during the War years up until the present day. His recently published second book, The Turnbull Pedigree, shows his ancestry back to the original William Turnebull, the Barons of Minto, Turnbull genealogies from USA. Australia and Germany as well as Scotland and England. Both books are available through amazon.co.uk

Fiona TurnbullActive in the Turnbull Clan Association during her time in America, Fiona is a librarian and genealogist currently working for the NHS in Oban. Born in Hertfordshire but raised in both America and the UK, she studied history and library science before embarking on a career in librarianship. Fiona returned to her homeland in 2012 and is currently studying towards a post-graduate certificate in Genealogical Studies from the University of Strathclyde. She hosted the Turnbull Clan tent at 2018 Reivers Festival and will return again in 2019.

Tom Routledge Born in Sunderland, England and brought up visiting every Roman Ruin and Castle in the North of England as a child a passion for history was ignited at an early age. In 2005 I began researching my family tree after hearing tales of sheep and cattle stealers in the family. Unable to go further back than 1580 I began researching the history of my surname and gathering any information I could find. Through my research, I inadvertently discovered strong Scottish connections but an even stronger one to Hawick and the surrounding area. In 2012, along with 15 other likeminded enthusiastic Routledges, we founded the Routledge Clan Society with an aim to promote our history and be recognised as a Scottish name. The Society now boast nearly 100 members across England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Canada and America. We see an exciting future for our society as our historical research has opened further avenues to Scotland, Ireland, The French Royal Court, The Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution and even Napoleon and Bonnie Prince Charlie. Currently I am serving as an Avionics Engineer in the RAF at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire having previously been in the East Midlands and Morayshire during my 14 year career so far.

Wendy TaitBorn in England and living in Hawick, Wendy is a professional genealogist who specialises in researching cross border families, particularly Border Reiver surnames. She teaches Family History part time at the Borders College and is currently researching for her next book “Tales of the Taits” exploring the exploits of this Scottish Middle March surname.

Lorna KinnairdLorna Kinnaird, ASGRA, PGDip, FSA Scot: Lorna was born and still lives in Edinburgh. Lorna is a professional genealogist specialising in all Scottish and Irish research. She is currently building a One Place Study of Aberlady (East Lothian) and transcribing the Caledonian Asylum Petition records (date from 1815) as well as Jacobite Soldiers of 1715 (from any trial papers) and building a database of all the Apprenticeship Indenture records in Scotland. A keen Scottish historian with a passion for the ‘movement of people’ and finding primary source documentation.

Derek StewartBorn a “Teri” (from Hawick), Derek initially trained as an engineer, and following a series of odd jobs – bee keeper’s assistant / tree planter / film extra (“Outlander”) – found his passion in history. He has a Degree in History through the Open University and worked at Hawick Museum for 10 years, and recently as a guide at Bowhill House and researcher at Abbotsford House. He now works as a support worker with Cornerstone, and writes historical articles & books in his spare time.

An avid traveler, Derek has walked Hadrian’s Wall, the John Muir Trail and John Muir Way, climbed Mont Blanc and ventured to Everest base camp, and has completed pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela and Whithorn. Derek is the secretary of the Living History club the “Teviotdale Steel Bonnets,” who recreate the 16th & 17th century.

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At a GlanceFRIDAY 22ND MARCHGhost Walks 6.45pm & 8.00pm Vennel, Textile Tower House Pg 5

Rum Heaven - Rum Tasting 8.00pm (Doors 7.30pm) Auld Baths, Bath Street Pg 5

SATURDAY 23RD MARCH16th Century Market 10.30am - 3.00pm Hawick High Street Pg 7

Reivers Encampment 10.30am - 3.00pm Wee Haugh Pg 7

Reivers Clan & Family Village 10.00am - 3.00pm Hawick High Street Pg 7

Reivers Procession & Opening Ceremony 10.45am - 11.00am Hawick High Street

(Horse to Town Hall) Pg 7

Primary School Reivers Games 11.30am Hawick High Street Pg 15

School Reiver Plays 12 noon & 12.45pm St Mary’s Church Pg 15

Finding your Ancestors Talk 11.30am Heritage Hub Pg 17

Hawick Archaeological Society Talk 1.00pm Heritage Hub Pg 17

Ask the Genealogist Drop In Session 2.15pm - 3.15pm Heritage Hub Pg 17

Torchlight Procession 6.45pm (Muster 6.30pm) From the Common Haugh Pg 19

Fireworks Display 7.30pm Wilton Lodge Park Pg 19

Reivers Banquet 8.15pm Auld Baths, Bath Street Pg 21

SUNDAY 24TH MARCHThe Rise and Fall of the Black Douglases by Derek Stewart 10.00am Heritage Hub Pg 23

Trows Tower and the Routledge family by Tom Routledge 11.15am Heritage Hub Pg 23

The Reiving Kers: Explore the history of one of the most renowned Scottish Middle March families by Wendy Tait

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HAWICK REIVERS FESTIVAL · 2019. 1. 30. · 5 Good luck & best wishes to all involved in this year’s Hawick Reivers Festival Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale & Teviotdale Ghost Walks