This booklet is essentially about Ferniehirst and the family who lived there, but we should never forget that many other families, nearly all of whom remain in the Borders to this day, shared the burden of holding the Line and the profits and adventure of frequent raids across it. Due to constraints of time and space it has not been possible to include all the Border families which should logically have been given a place in this Chapter. The selection given here was to some extent arbitrary and depends in part on how difficult it was to obtain and check the necessary information. If this booklet runs to a second edition I hope to include sections on the ARMSTRONGS and DOUGLASES as well as a chapter on the