In the Construction of this site various institutions, family historians, local historians, and archive departments have helped me greatly. This is simply a list of all those which I have used in the research for the making of this website and the places in which all the sources have come form. Whether they held just one book I used, or piles of old documents, I have added all them anyway for any one out there who wishes to dig a bit deeper.
The National Archives of Scotland
H M General Register House
2 Princes Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3YY
Telephone: +44(0)131 535 1314
Website: www.nas.gov.uk
Cumbria Record Office
The Castle
Carlisle
CA3 8UR
Tel:01228 607285/607284
Fax:01228 707274
Website: www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives/recordoffices
Heritage Hub
Towerdykeside
Hawick
TD9 9EA
Tel: 01450 360 699
Website: www.hawick.net/heritage.htm
Tyne & Wear Archives Service
Blandford House
Blandford Square
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4JA
Tel: (0191) 277 2248
Website: www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk
All of these places where of great help and all have very friendly staff who can point you in the right direction whether its family or local history your researching. However if you don't have the time to travel and would prefer to sit and read books about the Routledges, well I'm afraid there is no specific book about the surname unlike the Armstrongs and Elliots. But give me time and there will be...just watch this space!
Below are all the books I have used in the creation of this website, also all the sources and records which I used to research the Routledges. If you click on the ISBN number next to the books it will, if I available, take you to where they can be bought from.
Books used
Border Fury: - John Sadler (ISBN
0-582-77293-1)
The Border Reivers: - Godfrey Watson (ISBN
0-946098-35-2)
Hermitage Castle: - (ISBN 1-903570-28)
Rogues and Reivers of the North: - (ISBN 0-946098-19-0)
Tales of the Border Reivers: - (ISBN 0-946098-50-6)
Strongholds of the Border Reivers: - Keith Durham (ISBN
9781-1-84603-197-7)
Border Raids and Reivers: - T Fraser (out of print)
The History of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the
Debateable Land:- Robert Bruce Armstrong (Available)
Upper Teviotdale and the Scotts of Buccleuch. A
Local and Family History: - J Rutherford Oliver (out of print)
The Castles and Tower House of Cumbria: - Mike Salter (ISBN
1871731364)
The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: - Denis R. Perriam; John
Robinson (ISBN
1873124236)
The Steel Bonnets: - George MacDonald Fraser (ISBN
0-00-272746-3)
The Bewcastle Miscellany: - (Available)
The Scotts of Buccleuch: - William Fraser (out of print - held
at National Archives of Scotland)
Society, Politics and Culture: - Mervyn Evans James (out of print
ISBN 0521368774)
Records and Sources Used
Buccleuch
Family papers Volume 1 and 2
The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland 1470-79
Henry VIII, Domestic Letters and Papers, 1528-1540
Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland 1473-93
Pitcairn's Criminal Trials of Scotland
The Hamilton Papers Volume 1 and 2
History of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland
The Ruttledge Families of Co Mayo
Calander of Border Papers Volume 1 and 2
The Border Antiquities of Scotland
CWAAS Various volumes.
Hope you enjoy looking through these documents and books as much as I did. And if you come across any more sources containing Routledges, then please don't hesitate to contact me and I will update my list.
