Border Reiver family
C36384
concept
A Border Reiver family is a kin-based group from the Anglo-Scottish borderlands (c. 13th–17th centuries) whose livelihood, identity, and power were rooted in raiding, cattle theft, and shifting allegiances rather than stable agrarian or feudal structures.
Observed surface forms (1)
- Border Reiver clan ×6
Instances (13)
- Clan Johnstone
- Clan Scott
- Nixon clan
- Charlton family via concept surface "Border Reiver clan"
- Forster family via concept surface "Border Reiver clan"
- Ridley family via concept surface "Border Reiver clan"
- Raine family via concept surface "Border Reiver clan"
- Storey family via concept surface "Border Reiver clan"
- Musgrave family
- Fenwick family via concept surface "Border Reiver clan"
- Armstrong clan
- Elliot clan
- Rutherford clan