| i. | ALEXANDER (SHORTRIGG)2 SHORTRIDGE, b. Abt. 1690, Howe Lee, Rulewater, Roxborghshire, ST1; d. June 24, 1779, Stapleton, Cumberland, ST. |
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Notes for ALEXANDER (SHORTRIGG) SHORTRIDGE: In Sowerbies, Bewcastle, Cumberland, were he died s.p. 24 June, 1779. Buried at Stapleton, Cumberland. The family of Shortridge is a lowland Scottish one, of which the branch under notice migrated southward and eventually crossed the border to settle amid the fells of Cumberland. There is a holding in the parish of Hoddam in Dunfriesshire called Shortrigg and it is from this, in all probability, that the family derived its name, which in earlier records is usually so rendered through occasionally the alternatives of Shortreid or Shortreed are met with. One of the earliest occurrences of the name is to be found in "Testamenta Karleolensis" which states that the will of Richard de Shortrigges of Thoewsby was proved at Rose on the 5th August, 1362. That of his wife was proved the same day, administration being granted in both cases to Robert de Croftonm executor under the will, his co-executor, John de Shortrigges being dead. The valley of Rulewater on the northern slopes of the Cheviots was the home of the Shortriggs in the seventeenth century, where they intermarried with the great border families, including the Elliotts and Scotts. Sir Walter Scott himself was on terms of intimate friendship with Robert Shortreid, whose name occurs in Lockhart's biography of the famous poet. From Rulewater over the fells into Cumberland in the early eighteenth century came two brothers, Alwxander and William Shortrigg. Many of their descendants were to be found in the county into the 19th century. John Shortridge of Heeley compiled the pedigree included in this family tree from parochial registers and other records. (Information from: The Shortridges, The Records of a Cumberland Family. by M. Aird Jolly in Rulewater and its People, An Account of the Valley of the Rule and its Inhabitants'. by George Tancred of Weens, Late 17th Lancers and Royal Scots Greys, Edinburgh, Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty, 1907.) The arms of Shortridge are: ARGENT, a fesse gules between three thistles vert flowered on the second. CREST: A dexter hand holding a scimitar proper. MOTTO: "Pro aris et focis" (For our homes and altars) |
| 2. | ii. | WILLIAM (SHORTRIGG) SHORTRIDGE, b. Abt. 1698, Howe Lee, Rulewater, Roxburghshire, ST; d. September 21, 1753, Stapleton, Cumberland, ST. |
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