Caerlaverock Castle, Maxwell House!

A in depth visual tour of Caerlaverock Castle with pipe music by Gavin Maxwell and singing by June Tabor. Photos taken in 2005 & 2007 by Beth Maxwell Boyle. Surrounded by a double moat and hundreds of acres of flat marshy willow woods (known in Scotland as a "moss"), Caerlaverock was built to control the South-West entrance to Scotland which in early times was the waterway across the Solway Firth. Carlaverock Castle was the seat of the chief of Clan Maxwell.
For more on this castle visit our website:
http://www.ramshornstudio.com/caerlaverock.htm

To Buy Gavin Maxwell's Bagpipe CD, Reviresco:

http://www.footstompin.com/artists/gavin_maxwell

For more music by June Tabor follow this link:
http://www.brightfieldproductions.co.uk/tabor.htm

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Travel & Events

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• Caerlaverock
• Maxwell
• Border
• Rievers
• Beth
• Boyle
• Scotland
• Scottish
• Celtic
• Gavin
• June
• Tabor

[MinexXBuckeyeXxCraft]

I would very much like to email some of my VERY distant relatives

[Gimmer3]

@MinexXBuckeyeXxCraft There are two Maxwell groups on Facebook just look under Maxwell clan. You can find me looking for Beth Maxwell Boyle. My brothers are on too and we have a bunch of Maxwell connections we have met we could point you to as well.

[MunstersBabe]

My 4x great grandmother was Susan Melinda Maxwell McMinn whose family settled in Hendersonville, NC (she was married to James Newton McMinn.)

Thanks so much for sharing this. I may never get to see Caerlaverock Castle in my lifetime, so I will enjoy seeing pictures and videos of it!

[Gimmer3]

@MunstersBabe If you do facebook look under Maxwell Clan there are two groups with lots of Maxwells. It's really quite fun. There are a large number of Maxwells from Southern States. My Branch moved from Glasgow to Western Pennsylvania in the 1860s.

[MinexXBuckeyeXxCraft]

@Gimmer3 nice to see a fellow maxwell! Hello my distant brother

[Gimmer3]

@MinexXBuckeyeXxCraft  Distandt sister!

[MeVinson37]

My 6th great grandfather, Joel P. Maxwell must have been born here. He is the one who came from Scotland to Virginia. His father was Eustace Maxwell. They were born in Maxwellton which is not part of Dumfries now, I understand. Eustace's ancestors were Earles, but I haven't been able to connect.

[MinexXBuckeyeXxCraft]

@Gimmer3 im a guy

[Erigawn]

@MessingWithMatches I agree we Maxwells should visit the home lands but my family i the United states does not have no money to visit ,but what a grand place to be to feel like we were back in the days of old let Caerlaverock not fall and stand true long live the Maxwells!

[Gimmer3]

@MessingWithMatches , I agree. It is a lovely place. I went twice and would not mind seeing it again.

[MessingWithMatches]

There was a Maxwell reunion a few years back for my Great Gran's birthday.Until then I didn't realise how many of us there are. I love spending time with my family in Scotland and I just wish I lived in the time when the castle was still a household. People in the USA who say they are a Maxwell should visit the castle as least once in their lives, even if you carry the name just to feel important. It's a lovely place and I'm proud to be in the family I was born into.

[1BattleAngel]

proud of my family



[1BattleAngel]

crazy but true at caerlaverock maxwells invited our rival johnstones to a lovely feast we ended up killin almost everyone most of us married into their familys..*lol*

[Gimmer3]

@1BattleAngel , That is OK we like hearing from all Maxwells. I only recently found out exactly were my family lived in Scotland before they came to the USA I have recently found a few of my relatives that still live in the UK.

[1BattleAngel]

sorry i talked to mum. my little bros middle name is johnstone my middle name is maxwell. i would love to meet our family..and i was totally off on my date it was alot farther back sorry

[1BattleAngel]

@andykelly dont call my family spooky=)



[1BattleAngel]

my family!!

[1BattleAngel]

my name is anya..im a maxwell and johnstone..my middle name is maxwell would to meet family...=)

[marlok1964]

Maxwell on my mom's side,her mother's mother was full as full can be Maxwell,my cousin traced as far back as I believe 1854 in the Berkshires Massachusetts area,New England... I will, "HAVE" to go here someday.. I know for fact these are by ancient kin..KNOW IT !!! The blood is strong.....

[Gimmer3]

Well perhaps its not the same branch then.  My branch did not come until about 1856 and settled in the areas around Sharon, PA and Youngstown, Ohio.

You will love tie Islands. I was in the Hebrides for a week in 2007

Your friend, Beth

[NotoTruth]

@Gimmer3 maybe,but i know i gotta lotta family on the maxwell side up in new england...old school americans,supposedly fought in the french indian war,well thats what im told anyway.

[Gimmer3]

@NotoTruth , well you might be related to me as my family setteled in Ohio and Western, PA. The main branch of the family came from the Borders early on but the branch my family came from lived in the Glasgow area for hundreds of years and is called the Maxwell's of Pollock..

[NotoTruth]

im Joshua Maxwell from ohio...my dad told me the Maxwell's lived on the border of England and Scottland..and that they were britts when the britts were winning,and scotts when the scotts were winning....i assume thats how i was born,out of the stratagey of my ancesters1 day im going to the Islands,and i will breathe the native air...and drink some lager that hasn't been on the shelf for a year.anyways hows it go?"always rise again"?