Hi folks, Here's the URL to that DNA project I mentioned: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gallgaedhil/elliott_border_reivers_dna.htm It says here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gallgaedhil/elliott_border_reivers_dna.htm#Question5 "What happened to them and where are they now? The era of the Border Reivers ended abruptly when Elizabeth I died and James I was crowned King of England. The Elliotts had often served as mercenaries to Elizabeth, and had harried James's mother, Mary Queen of Scots, on her behalf. Consequently, they feared and resented the Stuart king. In defiance of the new regime, a large party of Elliotts, Armstrongs and Grahams rode into Cumbria, and stole 3,000 sheep. This last hurrah of mayhem took place in 1603, and has been remembered ever since as "Ill Week". Later, more than a hundred of the perpetrators were apprehended, and many were hanged. Many others fled with their families to the Ulster Plantation of Northern Ireland, where they served as a buffer between the Gaelic Irish and their English overlords. The Border Reivers thereafter became the core of that fiercely self-reliant people known to history as the Scotch-Irish." The page includes a bio of the author's grandfather, an ELLIOTT from Donegal. It's likely that border-folk descend from: --Various tribes of Picts, Scots, and Germans --Roman soldiers garrisoned at Hadrian's Wall --Asiatic horsemen settled in Lancaster by the Romans along with their horses --and the Plantagenets (marched their armies through our area to fight with the Scots)! Linda Merle ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net