HAWICK REIVERS FESTIVAL

FRIDAY 22ND - SUNDAY 24TH MARCH 2019 BORDERS KITH & KIN JRW_Reivers_FP.qxp_Layout 1 15/01/2017 09:33 Page 1

Welcome Welcome to the 2019 Hawick Reivers Festival We hope you are all ready to enjoy and participate in this year’s festival which is jam packed with fun events for all the family We 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, Chartered Accountants 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 We’ll do the counting 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. Choosing the right accountant is an important decision, that’s why we’d like to Perhaps even meet some of your own kith and kin. introduce ourselves to you as a firm that is more than qualified to handle all of So lets go Reiving again! your accountancy needs. We are indebted to Event Scotland Clan Fund, SBC Community Grant As one of the largest accountancy firms in the Borders, we have been advising Scheme, Hawick Common Good Fund and all of our local sponsors. Without their help, the festival would not be possible. private individuals and businesses alike for many, many years. With a full range of specialist services, we combine city standards with a genuine understanding of a rural area.

Accountancy services GALASHIELS T 01896 753374 Audit HAWICK T 01450 372267 LANGHOLM T 013873 80730 Taxation specialists The HAWICK wilton lodge park PEEBLES T 01721 720947 OWNED AND Compliance EDITED LOCALLY www.thehawickpaper.co.uk PAPER the outdoor heart of hawick Business start ups EDINBURGH T 0131 322 1860 Payroll Business planning www.hawickreivers.com E [email protected] Please note that this programme is published in advance and may be subject to change at short notice. The organisers cannot be held responsible for any alterations to the programme of events that are deemed necessary. Growing business together www.jrwca.com 3 Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale & Teviotdale Ghost Walks Friday 22nd March - 6.45pm & 8.00pm Start from Vennel by Textile Tower House Come 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 Heaven

Rum Tasting (Over 18s Only) Friday 22nd March - 8.00pm (Doors open 7.30pm) Good luck & best wishes to The Auld Baths, Bath Street, Hawick The tasting will include six rums, sourced from Scotland & the Border regions, all involved in this year’s and advice on the “perfect serve” for each plus cocktail demonstrations. Tickets: £20 (MUST be booked in advance) Hawick Reivers Festival Tickets available from borderevents.com, ILF Imaging and Dorwards, Hawick RUM HEAVEN

an evening with some of the best rums 18s Only) (Over created in Scotland & the Borders www.scottcharters.com 22 March 2019, 7.30pm for 8.00pm in Hawick Auld Baths, Bath Street Tickets: £20 (MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE) available from borderevents.com, ILF Imaging and Dorwards, Hawick BAR Raffle tasting & Cocktail demonstrations 5 Independent NYR CONSULTANT 16th Century B DYWISE www.uk.nyrorganic.com/shop/deborahlyons BEAUTY AND HOLISTIC THERAPY Let the experts take care of you… because every ‘BODY’ deserves it Market Calgel Nails - Colour Overlays Advanced LaStone Therapy Saturday 23rd March, 10.30am till 3pm, Indian Head Massage Facial Therapy Specialists Hawick High Street, Town Hall Area Remedial Massage Manicure/Pedicure/Waxing Aromatherapy Fake Bake Spray Tanning Including Reivers Trials, Live Entertainment, Reivers Games, Local Reiki Eye Treats & Make Up Trader’s Stalls and Family History Stalls. Refl exology Dermalift Facial Lift & Tone Hopi Ear Candles Eurowave Body Lift & Tone Lava Shell Massage Reivers GIFT VOUCHERS FOR THE PERFECT PAMPER SAFE, ORGANIC, PARABEN FREE PRODUCTS BY NEAL’S YARD REMEDIES Encampment 01450 377577 07962 274156 Saturday 23rd March, 10.30am till 3pm, Wee Haugh 7 Drumlanrig Square, Hawick TD9 0AS www.bodywisehawick.co.uk Full 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. TH TH COMING APRIL 15 20 2019 Featuring: Teviotdale Steel Bonnets, Living History Ireland, Best and Worst of Times, Les Amis d’Onno, Lothian Levy, Time Bandits and the Douglas Retinue Act 1 Youth Community Theatre present Reivers Clan & Family Village Saturday 23rd March, 10.00am till 3pm, High Street Meet the Border Clans and Families and learn about their history and also current activities. Reivers Procession Saturday 23rd March, 10.45am till 11am, Hawick High Street Opening event 11am Hawick Town Hall area featuring drumming Youth ACTABOUT COMMUNITY THEATRE 1 demonstration by Burnfoot Primary School. 7 Re-Enactment Groups TEVIOTDALE STEEL BONNETS This 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 IRELAND We welcome back one of Northern Ireland’s largest re-enactment, living Come and visit our distillery, the first in the Scottish Borders since 1837. history group covering from Viking to WW2 and all in between attending See our carefully renovated building and experience its events from March every weekend to November. Taking a keen interest in industrial heritage as you learn about our distilling process. all periods of Ulster Scots history, they provide tented village dressed camps for most centuries that show all aspects of life We are open Monday - Saturday. and have a large collection of hand weapons, Tours run every hour and cost £12 which includes a 40 minute cannons, musket right up to modern. The camps tour of the distillery and a dram at the end. have all sorts of industry on show to enhance the public’s experience such as Black Smith, wool Online & mobile booking available. spinners, medics with the primitive tools, wood First tour: 10:00 | Last tour: 16:00 craft, kitchen display how food was prepared grinding corn and wheat and many more displays.

Commercial Road BEST OF TIMES WORST OF TIMES Come to meet the re-enactment group ‘The Best of Times, The Worst of

High Street 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 Parking is available on-site for blue badge holders only. hardships of the times. Sir William also keeps the For more travel information, see our website. 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 T: 01450 374 330 E: [email protected] www.thebordersdistillery.com Border, but a man always found NOT guilty! Let Commercial Road, Hawick, TD9 7AQ them tell you of The Best of Times and The Worst of Times as they know them to be. 9 LES AMIS D’ONNO Les 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 BURNFOOT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, HAWICK, Game of Thrones. SCOTLAND TD9 8RJ If you’re interested in getting to know your local TELEPHONE: 01450 365500 stars please feel free to get in touch. www.barrie.com E. 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As part of the English Civil War Society the Earl of Loudoun’s Regiment of Foote, participates in the A breath of fresh air 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 We all know that buying or selling a house musket, squadrons of horse (cavalry) and batteries of ordnance (cannon). can be one of the most stressful situations there is. 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. That’s why at Bannerman Burke Properties we are We concentrate on 17th Century re-enactment in general, 1640’s in particular fully committed to make the process as smooth – our primary aim is to educate and inform on a little known but fascinating as possible and with our outstanding levels of as well as important part of Scottish History, a time when Scotland was a military force personal service you can trust us to give you the to be reckoned with and a key player in the best advice that’s right for you. inappropriately named English Civil War. Our mottoes are I Byde My Tyme (Historical) Love History? Live history (21st Century) DOUGLAS RETINUE Hawick The 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 01450 375567 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 www.bannermanburke.co.uk correct but entertaining event. 13 Schools Games Saturday 23rd March, 11.30am onwards, Hawick High Street (Lesser Town Hall if weather inclement) Extensive discounts on Ladies and Mens Cashmere, Lambswool School and Merino knitwear, Woven Collections and Soft Accessories Performances in our Brand Outlet at 2 Victoria ‘Fine Reivers’ by Drumlanrig St Cuthbert’s Road, Hawick, TD9 7AH. 12 noon, St Mary’s Church The Borders. The Reivers. The name evokes emotions and thoughts as soon You can also fi nd us at as you hear it. Cross Border raids. Family versus family. The Scots and the pringlescotland.com 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 FAMILY FUN FAIR - HAWICK COMMON HAUGH Carey, but also by the ordinary folk of the Reivers time, focusing on the THURS 21st - SUN 24th MARCH characters and how their lives were affected by the time they lived in. & THURS 28th MARCH - SAT 30th MARCH There’s the story of James Graham of Liddesdale. Killed for having his WEEKDAYS 6.30pm & SATURDAYS 1.00pm sheep stolen! Barnhill – a ruthless Reiver determined to rid himself of a SUNDAY 2.00pm - 4.30pm troublesome warden. Archie Graham – A Reiver intent on marrying his sweetheart – despite the fact that she’s English. Robert Carey – famed for All the fun of the fun fair!!! 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 Church P5/6 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. 15 Finding your Clan Ancestors Armstrong Saturday 23rd March, 11.30am, Heritage Hub “Finding Your Border Ancestors Using Scottish and Centre English Records” Celebrated Home of the by Lorna Kinnaird and Wendy Tait. Esk Valley Clan Armstrong Family (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 Hawick Reivers Festival wishes Gilnockie Tower fascinating journey, whichever side of the border it takes you. well with their 500th birthday celebrations on the 21st July 2019 Hawick The Gilnockie Tower at Canonbie has been, over the last three years Archaeological undergoing a thorough repair and refurnishing process, and is now open to Society Lecture the public all year round. Saturday 23rd March, 1.00pm, Heritage Hub See our Website for more “Turnbull Tales and Trails” information and our by Fiona Turnbull and Albert Turnbull opening times. (No tickets required - donations at door) To find us follow the brown ‘Clan Albert Turnbull and Fiona Turnbull will be presenting a history of the Armstrong Centre’ signs on the A7 Turnbull families from earliest times to present. Albert has produced a detailed genealogy of the major lines which reflects their time in the Canonbie By-pass. 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 Check out our website or visit our stall at the Clans and Families village! four corners of world. Gilnockie Tower Visitor Centre Hollows, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire, DG14 0XD Drop in Session Tel: 013873 71373 [email protected] Saturday 23rd March, 2.15pm - 3.15pm, Heritage Hub www.gilnockietower.com Reached a brick wall with your family history research? Wondering where to look next? Bring your family history questions and problems to genealogists Registered Charity Company No. SC104156 (Scotland) Lorna and Wendy. Please bring copies of your family tree and any other relevant material. 17 Torchlight Procession and Fireworks

Saturday 23rd March, 6.45pm (Fireworks at 7.30pm), Proud Suppliers to Wilton Lodge Park 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 Hawick Reivers Festival 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 fuse-fi reworks.com young children. 07766 302000 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 atDeborah Hawick Rugby Brown Football Catering Club from the museum and that the other entrances to the fireworks display area will be closed off to access for safety reasons. Functions & Weddings Full Catering Options Please obey the stewards at all times they are there to ensure Chair Covers & Bows your safety. Event Dressing There is lighting on the paths near the cafe (which will be open) Civil Wedding Licence Table Decorations and at the museum but it would be advisable to bring along a Evening Buffets torch to aid in your safe exit from the area. Catering For All Occasions There will be a silver collection after the display finishes. Outside Catering Please give generously! Telephone: 01450 378266 Wrap up and enjoy! Warm clothes and appropriate footwear advised. Mobile: 07825 587132 Please note there may be changes to this route depending on the weather. Email: [email protected] If changes should occur please listen to the stewards and any announcements before or after the display. 19 CHRYSTIES Reivers Banquet FURNISHING CENTRE FURNITURE • FLOORING • HOME ACCESSORIES 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

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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 Photos by Rab Taylor Men – Breeches, (or binding round lower leg) simple tabards or loose shirts etc 21 Borders Kith & Kin Sunday 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 Reivers Sunday 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. 23 Our Speakers Wendy Tait Born in England and living in Hawick, Wendy Albert Turnbull is a professional genealogist who specialises in researching cross border families, particularly A retired College lecturer, Albert became the first commoner to trace Border Reiver surnames. She teaches Family History his ancestry back through 55 generations, a feat acknowledged by part time at the Borders College and is currently Her Majesty’s archivist and English heritage. As a direct descendant researching for her next book “Tales of the Taits” of King Harold, he was invited to the opening of the new visitor exploring the exploits of this Scottish Middle March surname. 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 Lorna Kinnaird 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 Lorna Kinnaird, ASGRA, PGDip, FSA Scot: Lorna was born and and England. Both books are available through amazon.co.uk 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 Fiona Turnbull transcribing the Caledonian Asylum Petition records (date Active in the Turnbull Clan Association during her time in America, from 1815) as well as Jacobite Soldiers of 1715 (from any trial Fiona is a librarian and genealogist currently working for the NHS papers) and building a database of all the Apprenticeship Indenture records in Scotland. A keen Scottish historian with a passion for the ‘movement of in Oban. Born in Hertfordshire but raised in both America and the people’ and finding primary source documentation. 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 Tom Routledge Festival and will return again in 2019. 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 Derek Stewart began researching my family tree after hearing tales of sheep and cattle stealers in the family. Unable to go further back Born a “Teri” (from Hawick), Derek initially trained as an engineer, than 1580 I began researching the history of my surname and and following a series of odd jobs – bee keeper’s assistant / tree gathering any information I could find. Through my research, I inadvertently planter / film extra (“Outlander”) – found his passion in history. He discovered strong Scottish connections but an even stronger one to has a Degree in History through the Open University and worked Hawick and the surrounding area. In 2012, along with 15 other likeminded enthusiastic Routledges, we founded the Routledge Clan Society with an at Hawick Museum for 10 years, and recently as a guide at Bowhill aim to promote our history and be recognised as a Scottish name. The House and researcher at Abbotsford House. He now works as a support worker with Society now boast nearly 100 members across England, Scotland, Ireland, Cornerstone, and writes historical articles & books in his spare time. Australia, Canada and America. We see an exciting future for our society as our historical research has opened further avenues to Scotland, Ireland, An avid traveler, Derek has walked Hadrian’s Wall, the John Muir Trail and John Muir The French Royal Court, The Declaration of Independence, the American Way, climbed Mont Blanc and ventured to Everest base camp, and has completed Constitution and even Napoleon and Bonnie Prince Charlie. Currently I am pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela and Whithorn. Derek is the secretary of serving as an Avionics Engineer in the RAF at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire the Living History club the “Teviotdale Steel Bonnets,” who recreate the 16th & having previously been in the East Midlands and Morayshire during my 14 year career so far. 17th century. 25 Hawick Reivers Festival Mar

t St heritage 1 High St activities 2 Market stalls A7 Nor Inter-school Reiver’s games hub 3 th Bridge St Morrisons Scottish Borders 4 Little Haugh encampment Sainsburys 5 Heart of Hawick / Towermill Croft Rd Archive & Local History Service footbridge Border Textile Towerhouse visit us in person or online 6 Heritage Hub trace your family tree, discover local history 7 4 8 St Mary’s Church 9 www.liveborders.org.uk/theheritagehub 9 Old Baths Baker St (with Hubcat online catalogue) 10 Wilton Lodge Park cial Rd Email: [email protected] 11 Common Haugh Follow us on Twitter at @LiveBordersLA Commer 10 es 2 O’Connell St Tel: 01450 360 699 WC

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At a Glance FRIDAY 22ND MARCH

Ghost 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 MARCH

16th 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 & Hawick High Street 10.45am - 11.00am Pg 7 Opening Ceremony (Horse to Town Hall) 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 6.45pm Torchlight Procession From the Common Haugh Pg 19 (Muster 6.30pm) Fireworks Display 7.30pm Wilton Lodge Park Pg 19

Reivers Banquet 8.15pm Auld Baths, Bath Street Pg 21

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The Rise and Fall of the Black 10.00am Heritage Hub Pg 23 Douglases by Derek Stewart Trows Tower and the Routledge 11.15am Heritage Hub Pg 23 family by Tom Routledge The Reiving Kers: Explore the history of one of the most 12.30pm Heritage Hub Pg 23 renowned Scottish Middle March families by Wendy Tait Reivers Walk - Hawick to 10.00am Civic Space Pg 23 Branxholme Castle

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