My grandmother was a Kerr and was left handed, as is my father and sister. We descend from good ole Ralph Kerr. Thank you so much for this informative video!
I'm descended from Clan Kerr as well, but from Robert Kerr. I'm not left-handed though I understand that many descendants are. Cheers from New Zealand...🤗
I remember the time I first drove through Jedburgh and weirdly felt it was like home to me. I almost felt like I knew the place. Many years later, while researching my Carr family history, I came across my ancestors: the Kerrs! I still cannot explain that strong feeling.
My surname is Kerr and interestingly being left-handed runs in my family too. My two sons, my brother, an uncle and three cousins are all left-handed. Kerr is one of the most common surnames in Scotland. Great video!
There is an area called Kersland west of Glasgow that was home to the clan before the borders. From there a William De Ker ( became Kerr) was the last man killed in defense of William Wallace the day of his capture by the english. This takes us well back before the 1300s.
What an incredibly extensive and fascinating history the Kerr's have.I knew nothing of them until now.Looking forward to knowing more.Thank you for another great video 👏
If you are interested in the Kerrs or any of the other border clans of the time then I would highly recommend that you check out "Steel Bonnets", by George MacDonald Fraser.
Thankyou for this, everyone should know about the trials and tribulations of their ancestors. Whenever I feel lazy I think of them and an urge to live up to their feats overwhelms me
My family descends from the Ferniehirst Kerrs. A couple of my cousins visited the castle and were given a private tour. I’d love to visit some day. Ralph is a name used a lot in our family both as a first and middle name. My great aunt had traced back our lineage into the 1700s. My cousin has a huge file box full of documents that were traced long before any of the online lineage sites existed. I’m very proud of my heritage. I have our family crest tattooed on my left forearm. Yes that was intentional. I am left handed as was my Grandfather and his father as well from what I was told.
This is greatly appreciated! Great job,Sir. My ggg-Grandfather and a brother adopted the Carr spelling for whatever reason back in Tennessee. They still used Kerr from time to time, as did some of their kids. Learning the family history back through those in the video has been quite exciting. My Father an I are both left handed as well !Thanks again.
Excellent video that 👌🏻 I went to school with a lad called Andrew Kerr when I was about 7/8ish, up in Cumbria. Before we moved back to West Yorkshire. The lad was no warrior back then 😂 hopefully he grew into one 🙏🏻
Please do a truly scary reiver family: the MacFarlanes. What they did to the Colquhouns was epic. One author called them “the most war-like clan of all”
Incredibly interesting video! I'm from the South Shields area and am always looking into the history of the North East and beyond. Its a huge passion of mine, also the mention of Culloden is also always interesting too. I write, sing and play bass for a Heavy Metal band of the same name and one of the tunes I was wanting to write about in future covers the topic of the Border Reivers! Early days yet, as I'm not fully confident my knowledge is good enough to draw from for a song good enough to befit them, but I'm learning, and these videos of yours are a huge help!
Thank you. Great job and really appreciate the information and photos. Left handed Kerr here, one son is also left handed and other son is right handed.. Family came to America in early 1700's . Fought in Revolution and Civil War.
@@TheJollyReiver The winners. But my wife's family was on the other side. And my Dad was in the calvary , like not air calvary but horse calvary with swords, spurs and high boots. The settled in New Jersey after coming in at Perth Amboy, N.J.
Thank you for another outstanding video… The Rutherfords were mentioned in the video as one of the families who had a feud with the Kerrs.. A similar video like this on the Rutherfords would be fascinating. Thank you for what you do and keep up the great work ….
I have an uncle Ralph Kerr. My mother's sister's family. My mother and her two sisters are Irvines. The Irvine Clan was sent to head up border families in 1034 ish by Duncan I, first King of the new House of Dunkeld. Irvine being his uncle. This would be a good next Clan to do✨👍
Well done on another excellent video. I first came across your videos just before Christmas, and didn't really know anthing about the reivers. (It was your look at folklore that fed you into the algorithm!) But you have me hooked on their history. The tales you tell, along with visiting the hisorical sites, does so much for the immersion. Thank you, I look forward to the next part in this fascinating story, and are so glad you're keeping British folklore and history alive.
I love this kind of content! Honestly I don't know anyone else who talks about these subjects which is exactly why I watch your videos. I am very much looking forward to the next episode!
Thank you for this video! I am a Carr by heritage but not name, although I have the "corry-fisted" trait, as does my eldest cousin. I believe that family branch is descended from the Ferniehirst Kerr line, and a family which came to the future USA, and afterwards settling in NW Ohio. I am working on a family history of the line, and found this to be valuable illustration of parts of the history. Liked and subscribed, and I hope you do many more videos!
Nice video JR! I like the tour and the back-story. That lower entrance into the castle at 6:02 would have been the livestock paddock quarters in winter or nightfall etc. A ladder that could be pulled up to the adjacent (but higher elevation) doorway would have been how the family members would have entered at the end of the day, or up a rope ladder from the livestock shelter if they were late back at night etc.
I am a kerr! I have gone back to my 25th great grandmother lady Katherine of cessford Logan ker va fernihirst castle! So many kerrs I have loved learning about and finding these amazing bits of information ❤
By some absolute random browse I found this documentary and it's really good 👍 thanks for sharing my surnames history and to add to my delight my fathers name was Andrew Kerr so I'm kinda beaming with pride ❤cheers Amanda kerr
Thank you for these facinating videos! ⚘️ They are very interesting, because of the history behind them! I was wondering, if there's a gosth story about the famous "Orge of Abergavenny" and his wife & son's goshts, "Lady of Hay" & William, screaming in the dungeons of Corfe Castle! Moms used to correct their children, scaring them with the Orge of Abergavenny! Lady of Hay, Maud or Matilda, wife to Baron William de Braose, most important war Commander of King John at one time, fought against 3,000 Welch, defending Hay castle! Once, the Baron ambushed twelve, I think, Welsh princess for a reconcilliation at Christmas and killed them in Albergaveny Castle! I think, he even persecuted a child prince and possibly her mother, who had escape. Sorry, I don't have this part clear. King John persecuted this Baron and his family, after he was his right hand and most influencial Baron! The King persecuted the family into Wales, with an army able to invade the French Kingdom! William de Braose, was harassed for his debts, but also because, he or his wife, refused to delivered, their grandchildren, as hostages. But also, because of Matilda's indiscresion. Arrogantly, she dismissed the Kings envoys, saying something like: she could not trust a King, who had murdered his nephew! This was serious, since her husband, Baron de Briouse may well have known about the faith of Prince Arthur, (the nephew of the king); murdered by his own uncle, in a drunken rage, while being his prisoner. The Baron caught Arthur, while protecting the King's mother, Arthur's grandmother! Apparently, the boy had besieged her castle, for some reason. At the end, the Baron had to flee to France, and died one year later; while his wife, his eldest son, and his family were caught & imprisoned in Carrefergus, then mother and son were transfered to Windsor, and to Corfe, where they died from starvation, (locked eleven days, in the dungeon). All the relatives were also persecuted and imprisoned! This brave lady, who dared to confront King John's envoys was known as the Lady of Hay, Maud or Matilda de Briouse, Saint Valerie, while his husband was Baron, Sir William de Braose, with many noble titles. Following, I leave you some links. Thank you for listen! Blessings! ⚘️ P.S. I'm trying to write an historical novel, around these theme! Sight. Just as a hobby! www.geni.com/people/Maud-Matilda-de-Saint-Val%C3%A9ry/6000000000796896697 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_de_Braose www.geni.com/people/William-III-de-Braose-4th-Lord-of-Bramber/6000000002134845380 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Braose,_4th_Lord_of_Bramber
Interesting story. I have visited Corfe, and Windsor castles, but not the others. Didn't hear any screams, though! Good luck with writting your novel. Sounds fascinating, although rather a complicated family history!
I am a Canadian Kerr. My grandfather came to Canada from County Mayo in Ireland. My grandfather's family retained the memory that they were forced out for Scotland after the Union of the Crowns in the early 1600s and had to flee Scotland. I am curious about the circumstances. My father said he thought his branch of the family in Scotland was betrayed, or turned in, by another branch of the Kerr family so they had to flee Scotland or be executed. Strangely enough, in the 1890s, when they came to Canada, they were still Protestants, even though they had lived in Ballina in the West of Ireland, rather than in Ulster where most of the Scots Irish still were. My father was a teacher in the Western Arctic in Canada, and the Moose Kerr Aklavik School in the MacKenzie River Delta, was named after him. He was honoured for promoting native culture, Dene and Inuvialuit, at a time when native cultures were largely dishonoured by the rest of Canada.
Does Kerr hold NO connection to the Brythonic Caer then? I'd figured since Carlisle, Cardiff, Carr, and Strathclyde continuing until it did with such proximity to the family. It's the word for fort
That was a very well made and informative video! I would love to see you make more clan videos like this. An Armstrong video would be great. Or some videos on highland clans. Either way, more clan videos would be very welcomed. Cheers!
Very interesting video. Very informative stuff. I am directly Welsh - basically my surname. Most of my family are Scottish, from Orkney, Inverness, Invergordon, Edinburg, Maybole near Glasgow, and various villages, so I love all Scottish history. I've been all over America and Europe, but nothing compares to Scotland for me.
I wonder how much those tower houses cost to build back then? Anyway thanks for a very interesting video.Looking forward to yet more on the other families.👍
@@TheJollyReiver My husband belonged to the infamous Campbells Clan, the Beeds or Beedham family. He said, they were not "very good guys in the middle ages" though! 🤣 I'd love to hear from them, now that my husband is in heaven! I treasure his memory! Thank you for all you do! 😃
Absolutely brilliant documentary. I'm currently reading Robert Low's Reiver novels. I walked Hadrian's wall several years ago and it waa tge first time i had heard of the border reivers
The BBC made a period drama called "The Borderers" in the late 1960s that centers around a fictional branch of the Kerr family called the "Kerrs of Slitrig." Most of it is lost, and most of what remains is only black & white telecording, but it is available on TH-cam.
I am a Kerr in Northern Ireland ! I'm ambidextrous and I am so fascinated by this left handedness etc; I knew about the castles building backwards stairs but I never knew the whole history of my Clan , thank you ☀️🌞😎 late but in earnest 🫡🇮🇪
FACINATING , Thank you so much for this video, love the left handed bit. I,m a Early modern left handed historian. I find the 15th Century the most interesting . I,m starting to build two Border reiver, forces for my 28mm Scale wargaming battles.
The Reivers clans are fascinating, and most did change allegiances to whichever side was winning, because their main concern was their clan and survival. Now I would like to see a video about the Armstrongs, since my clan ancestors were considered to be the fiercest of the border reiver clans.
My paternal great grandfather was named John Barclay Armstrong. My maternal grandmother was named Lucie Carr. My maternal great grandfather was named Leonidas Jefferson Storey. Scottish, much? Texas is full of people just like me.
My Dad's grandmother was Susannah Kerr born in Quebec. Her father John Kerr came to Canada from Ireland in 1845. I haven't watched the video yet but I will soon. Thank you.
Is there a resource you would recommend for understanding the Scottish clans and families better? In America there seems to be a lot of ignorance around Scottish heritage and commercialized silliness prevails. My wife’s family comes from Scottish stock and I would love to have a better understanding of Scottish families histories for my children as it will be a piece of their story too.
@@TheJollyReiver Definitely, your video just made me wonder if I couldn’t find more on the highlanders. From the research I have managed I believe their family came from Sutherland.
Alright mate. I’d recommend the TH-cam channel Fandabidozi to get an understanding of day to day highlander life. I’d also recommend the book The Highland Clans by Alastair Moffat to start off with :-)
It is said that the Armstrongs were the fiercest, and they had a long standing feud with the Grahams. I have both Armstrongs and Grahams, as well as Elliots, and other border clans in my family tree. I am an Armstrong though with roots that trace back to Johnnie of Gilnockie.
@@David-rx5eo The Armstrongs were not (and could not have been) considered the fiercest. They were know to be the largest and overall most powerful of all the clans. The very fact that Clan Graham was their rival and essentially their equal proves the fierceness of the Grahams, a clan that was approximately SIX times smaller.
@@David-rx5eo You seem to be missing my point. If the Armstrongs had 3000 warriors and the Grahams only had 500, yet the Armstrongs could not bring an end to the Grahams, then that means (on a man to man basis) the Grahams were more fierce. You seem to be equating the word fierce with powerful, but they are not the same. Armstrongs = most powerful. Grahams = most fierce.
@@Lord_Warden_of_the_Marches I said the fiercest, because you said "the Grahams, the fiercest of all the border clans.", but that is not what others says. Also, the Grahams and Armstrongs feuded for hundreds of years. They settled it by intermarrying. Apparently your argument is with the scholars and not me. Also, you man to man statement does not hold up, because the Grahams did not end the Armstrongs either. Nether of us were there, and can only go by historians, so let it go.
The Jacobite rebellions were not instrumental in the decline of the clan system. This was happening and would have happened, regardless of any rebellions.
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It is great to see so many comments from my kinsmen from across the world.
My grandmother was a Kerr and was left handed, as is my father and sister. We descend from good ole Ralph Kerr. Thank you so much for this informative video!
so u r royals
I'm descended from Clan Kerr as well, but from Robert Kerr. I'm not left-handed though I understand that many descendants are. Cheers from New Zealand...🤗
I’m a Kerr descendant as well and a lefty. I’m the only lefty in my family though.
@@Pam-bx2mmwell my daddy was a Kerr and he was ambidextrous! So your not alone ❤
@@janethammond5925my father isn’t but me and my little brother are.
I remember the time I first drove through Jedburgh and weirdly felt it was like home to me. I almost felt like I knew the place.
Many years later, while researching my Carr family history, I came across my ancestors: the Kerrs! I still cannot explain that strong feeling.
My surname is Kerr and interestingly being left-handed runs in my family too. My two sons, my brother, an uncle and three cousins are all left-handed. Kerr is one of the most common surnames in Scotland. Great video!
Thank you :-)
There is an area called Kersland west of Glasgow that was home to the clan before the borders. From there a William De Ker ( became Kerr) was the last man killed in defense of William Wallace the day of his capture by the english. This takes us well back before the 1300s.
I’m descended from that line.
@@wagygirl ahhh the old Kerrs. Love to share notes with you.
My paternal grandmother's family were Kerr's and from Dumfries, Scotland. I so wish to see it at least one time before I meet my maker.
What an incredibly extensive and fascinating history the Kerr's have.I knew nothing of them until now.Looking forward to knowing more.Thank you for another great video 👏
If you are interested in the Kerrs or any of the other border clans of the time then I would highly recommend that you check out "Steel Bonnets", by George MacDonald Fraser.
@@avrivah1101 Thank you very much for the pointer 👍
@maddagonk3653wear it proudly clan sister. lol
Left-handed Kerr reporting in! Honored to be the first video you did on a specific family.
My pleasure :-)
Hi from another ambidextrous Kerr 🫡🇮🇪
Thankyou for this, everyone should know about the trials and tribulations of their ancestors. Whenever I feel lazy I think of them and an urge to live up to their feats overwhelms me
Glad you enjoyed!
Brilliant video mate once again! Wonderful the effort that goes into them
Cheers man! Much appreciated!
I was happy when I saw another reiver video! Great video!
Cheers Scott
My family descends from the Ferniehirst Kerrs. A couple of my cousins visited the castle and were given a private tour. I’d love to visit some day. Ralph is a name used a lot in our family both as a first and middle name. My great aunt had traced back our lineage into the 1700s. My cousin has a huge file box full of documents that were traced long before any of the online lineage sites existed. I’m very proud of my heritage. I have our family crest tattooed on my left forearm. Yes that was intentional. I am left handed as was my Grandfather and his father as well from what I was told.
This is greatly appreciated! Great job,Sir. My ggg-Grandfather and a brother adopted the Carr spelling for whatever reason back in Tennessee. They still used Kerr from time to time, as did some of their kids. Learning the family history back through those in the video has been quite exciting. My Father an I are both left handed as well !Thanks again.
Great history, thanks. My father's mother was a Kerr, and he was left-handed, for what it's worth...
I am a Kerr, my brother, Dad and grandad are all left handed. We have alot of Roberts in the family, guessing we are related to Robert maybe, no idea!
Your videos just keep getting better. This was fascinating and a vivid reminder of the changing fortunes that history brings. Order prevails!
Please do a video on the Scott’s which I’ve heard were enemy’s of the Kerrs until they had members of the family’s marry.
Those marriages helped. I am an Armstrong. The Armstrongs and Grahams had a long feud until they finally settled it by intermarrying.
For anyone short on time, start at 10:10 that minute nails our clan perfectly!!!
Excellent video that 👌🏻
I went to school with a lad called Andrew Kerr when I was about 7/8ish, up in Cumbria. Before we moved back to West Yorkshire.
The lad was no warrior back then 😂 hopefully he grew into one 🙏🏻
Anything can happen fella aha. Glad you enjoyed!
Please do a truly scary reiver family: the MacFarlanes. What they did to the Colquhouns was epic. One author called them “the most war-like clan of all”
I believe the title of the most fierce border reiver clan belonged to the Armstrongs.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge (from someone on the Northumbrian side of the Borders)
Incredibly interesting video! I'm from the South Shields area and am always looking into the history of the North East and beyond. Its a huge passion of mine, also the mention of Culloden is also always interesting too. I write, sing and play bass for a Heavy Metal band of the same name and one of the tunes I was wanting to write about in future covers the topic of the Border Reivers! Early days yet, as I'm not fully confident my knowledge is good enough to draw from for a song good enough to befit them, but I'm learning, and these videos of yours are a huge help!
This is brilliant, cant wait for more
Thank you. Great job and really appreciate the information and photos. Left handed Kerr here, one son is also left handed and other son is right handed.. Family came to America in early 1700's . Fought in Revolution and Civil War.
Nice one mate! What side in the civil war, if you don’t mind me asking?
@@TheJollyReiver The winners. But my wife's family was on the other side. And my Dad was in the calvary , like not air calvary but horse calvary with swords, spurs and high boots. The settled in New Jersey after coming in at Perth Amboy, N.J.
I came across this because I'm digging into my family past as I to carry the kerr surname. Very interesting.
Please do the Elliot’s afterwards! Love your videos! I’m subscribing right now
Another great video, keeping history alive.
“You’ll get the mercy that you gave.” Thanks for the video. Being aligned with the Scott’s, I’m sure there was some Laidlaw’s who joined that raid.
My grandfather was a Carr, left handed as am I, I have the coat of arms in my room, would love to visit Scotland one day, amazing video thank you
Well, I am an Armstrong, and my father was left handed as well as a brother.
Thank you for another outstanding video… The Rutherfords were mentioned in the video as one of the families who had a feud with the Kerrs.. A similar video like this on the Rutherfords would be fascinating. Thank you for what you do and keep up the great work ….
As an Australian Kerr with great interest in history and ancestry thank you so much for this video!
My pleasure mate
I have an uncle Ralph Kerr. My mother's sister's family. My mother and her two sisters are Irvines.
The Irvine Clan was sent to head up border families in 1034 ish by Duncan I, first King of the new House of Dunkeld.
Irvine being his uncle.
This would be a good next Clan to do✨👍
Cracking video lad! Would love to see a video on hobs!
Cheers mate. Will take years but will try to eventually do every family!
Where is Hobs from?
Just found this channel…hope the Carruthers were a tough clan
Nice to see the Elliotts mentioned. I was born left handed and wonder if there is a Kerr in my family history.
I’ll do a full one on the Elliots one day!
Hello, I'm another left - handed Elliott.
Well done on another excellent video. I first came across your videos just before Christmas, and didn't really know anthing about the reivers. (It was your look at folklore that fed you into the algorithm!) But you have me hooked on their history. The tales you tell, along with visiting the hisorical sites, does so much for the immersion. Thank you, I look forward to the next part in this fascinating story, and are so glad you're keeping British folklore and history alive.
Thanks for your kind comment mate, glad you’re enjoying!
Left-handed Kerr, present and accounted for
A very important ally to Clan Armstrong. 🏴⚔️🏴
Invictus Maneo
Brilliant video! Thank you for this.
Cheers man, thanks for sharing!
love your videos. if you continue to do videos on border reiver families, I humbly request a video about the Robson's. Thanks.
I’ll keep that in mind mate!
I love this kind of content! Honestly I don't know anyone else who talks about these subjects which is exactly why I watch your videos. I am very much looking forward to the next episode!
Michael Loades did a bit about them back in the day.
@@roguerover7598 I am not familiar with who that is.
Great job hopefully you will do some more on the families I do have an interest being a Maxwell
Cheers man, yes I will do the Maxwells one day!
My great grandmother was a Ker and my Grandmother's middle name was Ker. Grandma was also left handed.
Thank you for this video! I am a Carr by heritage but not name, although I have the "corry-fisted" trait, as does my eldest cousin. I believe that family branch is descended from the Ferniehirst Kerr line, and a family which came to the future USA, and afterwards settling in NW Ohio. I am working on a family history of the line, and found this to be valuable illustration of parts of the history. Liked and subscribed, and I hope you do many more videos!
Nice video JR!
I like the tour and the back-story.
That lower entrance into the castle at 6:02 would have been the livestock paddock quarters in winter or nightfall etc. A ladder that could be pulled up to the adjacent (but higher elevation) doorway would have been how the family members would have entered at the end of the day, or up a rope ladder from the livestock shelter if they were late back at night etc.
:-)
I am a kerr! I have gone back to my 25th great grandmother lady Katherine of cessford Logan ker va fernihirst castle! So many kerrs I have loved learning about and finding these amazing bits of information ❤
By some absolute random browse I found this documentary and it's really good 👍 thanks for sharing my surnames history and to add to my delight my fathers name was Andrew Kerr so I'm kinda beaming with pride ❤cheers Amanda kerr
Glad you enjoyed Amanda!
Thank you for another well presented and factual video.
Thanks Charles, I’ll have to do the Armstrongs soon!
Carr is in my blood line but it was Kerr until the early 1800s.
Nice to come home to this video my friend. Fantastic.
Hope you enjoy mate
Beautifully researched and presented. This is really good! 🌟👍
Thank you!
Thank you for these facinating videos! ⚘️ They are very interesting, because of the history behind them! I was wondering, if there's a gosth story about the famous "Orge of Abergavenny" and his wife & son's goshts, "Lady of Hay" & William, screaming in the dungeons of Corfe Castle! Moms used to correct their children, scaring them with the Orge of Abergavenny!
Lady of Hay, Maud or Matilda, wife to Baron William de Braose, most important war Commander of King John at one time, fought against 3,000 Welch, defending Hay castle! Once, the Baron ambushed twelve, I think, Welsh princess for a reconcilliation at Christmas and killed them in Albergaveny Castle! I think, he even persecuted a child prince and possibly her mother, who had escape. Sorry, I don't have this part clear.
King John persecuted this Baron and his family, after he was his right hand and most influencial Baron! The King persecuted the family into Wales, with an army able to invade the French Kingdom! William de Braose, was harassed for his debts, but also because, he or his wife, refused to delivered, their grandchildren, as hostages. But also, because of Matilda's indiscresion. Arrogantly, she dismissed the Kings envoys, saying something like: she could not trust a King, who had murdered his nephew!
This was serious, since her husband, Baron de Briouse may well have known about the faith of Prince Arthur, (the nephew of the king); murdered by his own uncle, in a drunken rage, while being his prisoner.
The Baron caught Arthur, while protecting the King's mother, Arthur's grandmother! Apparently, the boy had besieged her castle, for some reason.
At the end, the Baron had to flee to France, and died one year later; while his wife, his eldest son, and his family were caught & imprisoned in Carrefergus, then mother and son were transfered to Windsor, and to Corfe, where they died from starvation, (locked eleven days, in the dungeon). All the relatives were also persecuted and imprisoned!
This brave lady, who dared to confront King John's envoys was known as the Lady of Hay, Maud or Matilda de Briouse, Saint Valerie, while his husband was Baron, Sir William de Braose, with many noble titles. Following, I leave you some links. Thank you for listen! Blessings! ⚘️
P.S. I'm trying to write an historical novel, around these theme! Sight. Just as a hobby!
www.geni.com/people/Maud-Matilda-de-Saint-Val%C3%A9ry/6000000000796896697
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_de_Braose
www.geni.com/people/William-III-de-Braose-4th-Lord-of-Bramber/6000000002134845380
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Braose,_4th_Lord_of_Bramber
Interesting story. I have visited Corfe, and Windsor castles, but not the others. Didn't hear any screams, though! Good luck with writting your novel. Sounds fascinating, although rather a complicated family history!
@@ignachioelsmith9053 Thanks for the best wishes! I went to Corfe & Carrifergus; since I wanted to see, where the de Brioses & King John had been! Lol
I am a Canadian Kerr. My grandfather came to Canada from County Mayo in Ireland. My grandfather's family retained the memory that they were forced out for Scotland after the Union of the Crowns in the early 1600s and had to flee Scotland. I am curious about the circumstances. My father said he thought his branch of the family in Scotland was betrayed, or turned in, by another branch of the Kerr family so they had to flee Scotland or be executed. Strangely enough, in the 1890s, when they came to Canada, they were still Protestants, even though they had lived in Ballina in the West of Ireland, rather than in Ulster where most of the Scots Irish still were. My father was a teacher in the Western Arctic in Canada, and the Moose Kerr Aklavik School in the MacKenzie River Delta, was named after him. He was honoured for promoting native culture, Dene and Inuvialuit, at a time when native cultures were largely dishonoured by the rest of Canada.
Does Kerr hold NO connection to the Brythonic Caer then? I'd figured since Carlisle, Cardiff, Carr, and Strathclyde continuing until it did with such proximity to the family. It's the word for fort
That was a very well made and informative video! I would love to see you make more clan videos like this. An Armstrong video would be great. Or some videos on highland clans. Either way, more clan videos would be very welcomed. Cheers!
Planning a few in the near future!
A very informative video mate great to hear some stories regarding my family name
Glad you enjoyed mate!
Very interesting video. Very informative stuff. I am directly Welsh - basically my surname. Most of my family are Scottish, from Orkney, Inverness, Invergordon, Edinburg, Maybole near Glasgow, and various villages, so I love all Scottish history. I've been all over America and Europe, but nothing compares to Scotland for me.
I am a Kerr very many times removed, and now in Boston, Massachusetts
I enjoyed visiting Boston!
Really enjoying the video and the new style. Thanks and bravo 😁
I've got my fingers crossed there is to be a video about the Scott's at some point.
There will be for sure! Thanks for watching mate
@@TheJollyReiver I look forward to that 😁 will catch up with your other new videos I've missed also. Hope you are enjoying the process again
I wonder how much those tower houses cost to build back then? Anyway thanks for a very interesting video.Looking forward to yet more on the other families.👍
Cheers man, if there’s any family you’d like in particular just let me know and I’ll see what I can do!
@@TheJollyReiver My husband belonged to the infamous Campbells Clan, the Beeds or Beedham family. He said, they were not "very good guys in the middle ages" though! 🤣
I'd love to hear from them, now that my husband is in heaven! I treasure his memory! Thank you for all you do! 😃
@@ladyofhay I think that continued until the Glencoe Massacre also my Lady of the Hay. :D
@@roguerover7598 Yes, I can imagine! Thank you! ⚘️
what a unique channel.
Absolutely brilliant documentary. I'm currently reading Robert Low's Reiver novels. I walked Hadrian's wall several years ago and it waa tge first time i had heard of the border reivers
MOST INTERESTING! INDEED! THANKS! FROM, U.K. (2023).
The BBC made a period drama called "The Borderers" in the late 1960s that centers around a fictional branch of the Kerr family called the "Kerrs of Slitrig." Most of it is lost, and most of what remains is only black & white telecording, but it is available on TH-cam.
Great vid!
Rwally hope you do one on Clan Johnston someday
Great video, really enjoyed the history of the Kerr family and we'll presented too well done 👍
I am a Kerr in Northern Ireland ! I'm ambidextrous and I am so fascinated by this left handedness etc; I knew about the castles building backwards stairs but I never knew the whole history of my Clan , thank you ☀️🌞😎 late but in earnest 🫡🇮🇪
I am a left-handed Kerr. My great grandfather migrated to Canada and settled in Boston. I wish to travel to Scottland someday soon!
I'm a Kerr from Canada. They came from Scotland in 1834 and settled in Peterborough Ontario.
My great great great great uncle Wan came from the borders. This was his country.
FACINATING , Thank you so much for this video, love the left handed bit. I,m a Early modern left handed historian. I find the 15th Century the most interesting . I,m starting to build two Border reiver, forces for my 28mm Scale wargaming battles.
That’s cool mate, I love looking at those little figurines!
Excellent stuff! I know a few Kerrs and they were very happy to watch your video.
Any chance of a video on the Johnstones!!
Glad you enjoyed mate, and yes I aim to do all the big families eventually!
@@TheJollyReiver brilliant cheers
My great great grandmother was a Kerr left-handed still run in the family lol
The Reivers clans are fascinating, and most did change allegiances to whichever side was winning, because their main concern was their clan and survival.
Now I would like to see a video about the Armstrongs, since my clan ancestors were considered to be the fiercest of the border reiver clans.
There’s a saying in Yorkshire kack handed for left handed,I always thought it was kack as 💩 but maybe there’s more to this story!
Well lookie lookie at this cookie 👀
Enjoy mate, a fine lineage!
Hi fantastic video on a rewatch! Just wondering what backpack you are using? In the market for a new one! Thank you 🏴🏴
Glad you enjoyed mate. It’s a Swedish Lk35 Army Rucksack. Had it years. It’s excellent.
Not a Kerr, but saw my own ancestors on the Culloden map. Clan Munro!
strangely enough, although i lived just down the road from Redcastle, i never realised there was an actual castle there!
I think you’re thinking of a different place mate, do you mean in NI?
@@TheJollyReiver nope, i lived on the black isle years ago too.
Oh fascinating! I’ve never been myself. Only found out there was a castle there myself! I’m very jealous of your adventurous life 😂
All the boys in my family are all Kerr stories from Australia
I used to be left handed when I was very little and forced my self to use my fright hand and now using them both has become second nature
A Kerr here ... what an odd history my family has.
Been looking forward to this as a Johnston 👀
I’ll have to do them before too long!
My paternal great grandfather was named John Barclay Armstrong. My maternal grandmother was named Lucie Carr. My maternal great grandfather was named Leonidas Jefferson Storey. Scottish, much? Texas is full of people just like me.
Could you please do a video on the Gledstanes (later called Gladstones)?
I’ve binged this series on border revivers. Excellent work. Do you know any good books or documentaries on the topic? 👍
The best read is The Steel Bonnets by George McDonald Fraser!
My Dad's grandmother was Susannah Kerr born in Quebec. Her father John Kerr came to Canada from Ireland in 1845. I haven't watched the video yet but I will soon. Thank you.
Explains the source of the Scottish phrase "Corrie-Fisted" meaning Left Handed... :)
Do you have any videos about the Gladstones? I think we were called “Gledstanes,” ‘way back when all this stuff was going on.
birth name cory kerr im,very proud!
Out of curiosity what version of “Moss Troopers Lament” did you use at the start of the video?
Is there a resource you would recommend for understanding the Scottish clans and families better? In America there seems to be a lot of ignorance around Scottish heritage and commercialized silliness prevails. My wife’s family comes from Scottish stock and I would love to have a better understanding of Scottish families histories for my children as it will be a piece of their story too.
From what specific region mate? Border families were quite different from the Highland Clans.
@@TheJollyReiver Definitely, your video just made me wonder if I couldn’t find more on the highlanders. From the research I have managed I believe their family came from Sutherland.
Alright mate. I’d recommend the TH-cam channel Fandabidozi to get an understanding of day to day highlander life. I’d also recommend the book The Highland Clans by Alastair Moffat to start off with :-)
I hope you get to the Grahams, the fiercest of all the border clans.
I will indeed!
It is said that the Armstrongs were the fiercest, and they had a long standing feud with the Grahams. I have both Armstrongs and Grahams, as well as Elliots, and other border clans in my family tree. I am an Armstrong though with roots that trace back to Johnnie of Gilnockie.
@@David-rx5eo The Armstrongs were not (and could not have been) considered the fiercest. They were know to be the largest and overall most powerful of all the clans. The very fact that Clan Graham was their rival and essentially their equal proves the fierceness of the Grahams, a clan that was approximately SIX times smaller.
@@David-rx5eo You seem to be missing my point. If the Armstrongs had 3000 warriors and the Grahams only had 500, yet the Armstrongs could not bring an end to the Grahams, then that means (on a man to man basis) the Grahams were more fierce. You seem to be equating the word fierce with powerful, but they are not the same. Armstrongs = most powerful. Grahams = most fierce.
@@Lord_Warden_of_the_Marches I said the fiercest, because you said "the Grahams, the fiercest of all the border clans.", but that is not what others says. Also, the Grahams and Armstrongs feuded for hundreds of years. They settled it by intermarrying. Apparently your argument is with the scholars and not me. Also, you man to man statement does not hold up, because the Grahams did not end the Armstrongs either. Nether of us were there, and can only go by historians, so let it go.
Im a kerr. Our family motto translates to "late, but in earnest"
Normans the lot of them. We Storys were from good Viking blood..wait a minute,the Normans were Vikings. Gonna have to think again!
Hello. All the boys in my family are all Kerr stories
Normans are superiorr to the Vikings
The Normans were mostly French but to this day The English cannot stomach the fact their nation was conquered by Frenchmen 1000 years ago.
Carr present!
There's a town in central Texas named Kerrville. I'm wondering about the founder's origins.
Named after James Kerr, a major in the Texas Revolution and a descendant of Border Reivers!
Kerr is a very common name in the South. Can’t spit without hitting one of us
Apparently the greatest concentration of Elliotts is also in Texas.
@@cullenkerr6556 Now that made me laugh. Invictus Maneo.
Hail Clan Scott and my relative, the author Walter Laidlaw
Are ya gonna do a video on all the major clans? Will Clan Elliott get a video?
I'm now haunting the Groundskeeper Willie part of this video because that's the location of my death.
The Jacobite rebellions were not instrumental in the decline of the clan system. This was happening and would have happened, regardless of any rebellions.
Aitkens next?