Old travel Blog photograph of Blackadder House near Allanton in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was built on the site of the earlier Blackadder castle. The house was vandalized by troops in World War I. Since there was no money to repair it, the house was demolished around 1925. The Blackadder family were an integral part of the constant Borders’ feuds, and opportunistically extended their lands by grants from James II. These were bestowed as a reward for repelling English raids, with great ferocity. The Borders holdings of Blackadder of that Ilk were taken into the family of Home, now the Home Robertson family, by the marriage of Beatrix and her younger sister, the only heirs of their father Robert, to younger sons of Home of Wedderburn in 1518. Wedderburn Castle is still owned by his descendent, Georgina Home Robertson.
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