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-History of the Armstrong Clan- The original name was Fairbairn or (Fairchild) changed on the field of battle by a Scotch King who while lying wounded required assistance to mount his horse by Fairbairn who with one hand lifted the King with ease onto his horse whereupon the King Knighted him and changing name to that of Armstrong (so tradition tells us) The first record of the name is Alexander Laird of Mangerton in the 11th centuary Scotch history or records has the flowwing list of estates owned by four ^ or 5 lairds or chiefs of the Armstrong Clan in the 15th centurary - Alexander Armstrong Laird of Mangerton John [Armstrong] " " Gilnockie or Hollows William [Armstrong] " " Sorbie Thomas [Armstrong] " " Glendovan Simon [Armstrong] " " Whithaugh all the above estates situatied on the Scottish border principally in Liddisdale- The clan became very powerful in the 15th centuary it is recorded that in 1527 Simon Armstrong boasted to the Earl of Northumberland that he and this clan had laid waste 60 miles of country and that there was none either in England or Scotland dare remedy the same - On Nov. 29th 1597 to avenge an insult offered by Gentlemen in attendance on Sir John Carmichael then warden of Liddisdale to an Armstrong chief the sons of said chief deliberately took the wardens life -