by Robin Buchanan

I am a great great grandson of the Rev Joseph Yair, who was minister of Eckford for 63 years in the 19th Century. This is the story behind the Yair Family Photographs gallery on this website and how I came by the photographs.

by Stephen Kluzniak

Henry Richardson Lawrie was born on 17th September 1811 in Yetholm, Roxburghshire, the youngest child to Thomas Lawrie (a carrier) and his wife Jane Douglas.

From available records he would have appeared to have spent the majority of his life living and working in the village of Eckford in Roxburghshire.

by Margaret Jeary

George Taylor, the son of a shepherd, was born in 1803 in the Scottish Borders and in 1855, when he was a market gardener in Kelso, he decided to join his brothers in Kalamazoo, Michigan. There, he had a successful life as a nurseryman and when he was in his eighties, having handed the business on to his son, he wrote the story of his life. I wonder if he ever daydreamed, as he sat with his pen and ink, that one day the pages he wrote would be published as a book?

The following document has come to light: