Ocupation SHEPHERD.....

[audrey]

any one piont me to a good site where I might find some info on family life of a Sheperd 1760s Roxburgh Hawick/Cavers

audrey

[LesleyB]

Hi Audrey
I can't find anything on the web which is quite so specific. Maybe someone else will be able to come up with something.

I expect, though, like any area there will be a local history society who might be worth contacting, and there are bound to be some books somewhere which would cover a similar, if not precisely the same, subject. Contacting local independant & secondhand bookshops might be worthwhile.

The old statistical account , although its from a little later in the 1790s would be worth reading just to get a feel for the area. Find it at: http://edina.ac.uk/statacc/
and go for the non-subscribers bit.

Best wishes
Lesley

[DavidWW]

any one piont me to a good site where I might find some info on family life of a Sheperd 1760s Roxburgh Hawick/Cavers

audrey

Audrey

Go to http://booksfromscotland.com/Settings/Scottish-Borders and do a Find ( i.e. use {Ctrl}{F}) for "shepherd", - and, among other hits you'll find ..............

A Shepherd Remembers: Reminiscences Of A Border Shepherd Andrew Purves; European Ethnological Research Centre. Andrew Purves' career as a shepherd, spanned a period of sweeping changes in the structure of agricultural communities and of rural life, during which the countryside of his childhood and youth altered almost beyond recognition.

Maybe not quite as early as you need ...............

David

[audrey]

Thanks
my husbands off to the library as we speak to see if they have those books fingers crossed

audrey