The Main Reiver Families
During the period between the reign of Edward I until the Union of Parliaments of England and Scotland in 1707, Northumberland was the scene of one of the longest running border conflicts the world has ever known.
Feuding families, known as Reivers, fought a seemingly endless series of raids and reprisals across the border hills. There were several famous battles as well including those at Flodden in 1513 and Otterburn in 1388.
Listed below are the main Reiver families:
Archbold Armstrong Beattie Bell Burns Carleton Carlisle Carnaby Carrs Carruthers Chamberlain Charlton Collingwood Crisp Crozier Cuthbert Dacre Davison Dixon Dodd/s Douglas Dunne Elliott Fenwick Forster Graham Gray Hall Hedley Henderson Heron Hetherington Hu(l)m(e) Irvine(g) Johnston(e) Kerr Laidlaw Little Lowther Maxwell Milburn Musgrove Nixon Noble Ogle Oliver Potts Pringle Radcliffe Read(e) Ridley Robson Routledge Rutherford Salkeld Scott Selby Shaftoe Storey Simpson Tait Taylor Trotter Turnbull Wake Watson Wilson Woodrington Young(e)