The site takes as its central point John Blackie of Kelso about whom we know very little, except that he married Ann Brown in Eccles Parish and that his son moved down to Bungay in Suffolk, with his wife Martha Dryden from Berwick on Tweed. They had seven children, but were both dead before our greatgrandfather James Morell Blackie was one year old, and he spent his childhood in an orphanage in London. His wife Priscilla Hordern was of Quaker stock, and they had (I think) nine children, of whom Ernest our grandfather was the eldest.

Latest update includes many more Stewarts, and includes line to James 1st of Scotland.