Tour Scotland Travel Video Clan Kerr Castle Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland wee travel video Blog of a Clan Kerr castle on ancestry visit to the Borders of Scotland. The castle was the principal stronghold of the Clan Kerr, notorious Border Reivers, many of whom served as Wardens of the Middle March. It was built in 1450 by Andrew Ker, ancestor of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and ancestor of the Dukes of Roxburghe. The castle was besieged in 1523 by the Earl of Surrey. The castle was last inhabited in 1650.

The surname Kerr was first found in Lancashire, located in north west England and dates back to 1180, where one of the earliest records of a progenitor of the Clan was a John Ker, hunter, resident of Soonhope in 1190 AD. He is believed to have received a grant of land from the Crown and settled in the Border country of Scotland soon after the Norman invasion moved northwards.

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