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Drumelzier
Drumelzier stretches across the south of the county of Peebles. It is bordered on the north by the parish of Stobo, to the east by the parish of Manor and by the parish of Yarrow in Selkirkshire, to the south by the parish of Yarrow and the parish of Tweedsmuir and by Lanarkshire to the west and the parish of Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho to the north-west. Drumelzier is now one of the linked parishes of Upper Tweeddale.
Tinnis Castle would have dominated the village in the middle ages although it is not as well preserved as the nearby Drumelzier Castle.
Old Parish Records cover the periods:
Births: 1649-1694, 1700-1754 (Mothers' names are not recorded until Dec 1746)
The Society is currently transcribing the Drumelzier Monumental (gravestone) Inscriptions
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Volumes available for consultation within our Archive
Andrew Lorimer's Life and Times in the Upper Tweed Valley
County Directory of Scotland 1912 - Borders Towns and Villages
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Peebles 1652 to 1716 (CD)
Millennium Memories - Parishes of Upper Tweeddale
Pre 1855 Monumental Inscriptions of Peeblesshire published by Scottish Genealogical Society
Rutherford's Southern Counties Register and Directory 1867
Magazine Articles
Please note that the heading Author includes persons who have compiled or transcribed records; and that the topics indexed, and the synopses are subjective opinions. See the Sales List to buy copies of the magazines containing articles in which you're interested.
Title
Synopsis
Size Description
Issue No
Author
Peeblesshire Families and Clans
The history of a few Peeblesshire families, Tweedies, Naesmiths, Gledstanes, Veitches, and others. Some very interesting stories come from this chapter.
3 pages or more
33
Malcolm Archibald
Gravestone Photos
A note on a facility provided by the Society to photograph individual gravestones, a report on one such request for a photograph of a stone to the Rev Gilmour Neil in Drumelzier and a note on his experiences in World War 1 and how he sought to find ' a little Parish, a thousand miles from anywhere'.
1 page or more
81
Ronald Morrison
Map of Drumelzier from UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey one-inch to the mile (1:63,360), 'Hills' edition, 1885-1903 by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland. Use the control at the top left of the map to zoom in or out and drag the map left, right, up, or down as you wish.
Map of Drumelzier from UK Ordnance Survey Historical Maps from 1919-1947 by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland. Use the control at the top left of the map to zoom in or out and drag the map left, right, up, or down as you wish.
Other Sources
The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, Cruft, Dunbar & Fawcett, Yale University Press, London 2006
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland compiled initially between 1791 and 1799, with a subsequent edition between 1834 and 1845 are a valuable record of the geography, history, economy, people and customs recorded by local ministers. You'll need to search for the parish name
