Carruthers are an ancient Clan of the western March of the Anglo-Scottish borders.
Scotland: Scottish Gaelic-Alba, is a country that was independent until the Unification of the Crowns. By inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots also became King of England and King of Ireland, thus forming a personal union of three kingdoms. Scotland subsequently entered into a political Union with England on 1 May 1707. This created the new Kingdom of Great Britain.
It shares a border with England to the south, and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, The Irish Sea and the North Channel. In addition to the mainland, the country is made up of more than 790 islands, including the northern Isles and the Hebrides.
Annandale, Dumfriesshire, birth-place of Clan Carruthers, lies in the south of Scotland, bounded on the north by the counties of Lanark, Peebles, and Selkirk, on the east by Roxburghshire and part of the English county of Cumberland, on the south by the Solway Firth and on the west, by the county of Ayr and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
Clan Carruthers is officially represented by Clan Carruthers Society International (CCSI), which was founded in January 2017 and is officially recognised by the Chief of Carruthers as representing the worldwide Carruthers family. It is non-commercial, apolitical and non-partisan and is open to any member of the international Carruthers family and derivatives of that name. The Society is based in the United Kingdom, but is represented by an international Executive Council.