Chapelpark of Badenoch grey kilt

[Scotus]

I'm sure Scotus will have something to add to this thread.

Very tempting!

Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming was born in 1820 and was the second son of Sir William Gordon-Cumming of Altyre. The Cummings of Altyre eventually became the head of Clan Cumming, after the original branch "daughtered out" (the head of the clan, the Red Comyn, having been murdered in Dumfries in Gray Friars church, and his son died fighting against Robert Bruce at Bannockburn). The late Sir William Gordon-Cumming of Altyre dropped the hyphen in order to become recognized as the chief by the Lord Lyon; the current chief, Sir Alistair Cumming, having done the same thing.

Roualeyn was a well known hunter. He was quite a colorful fellow, having settled in Fort Augustus and opened a museum to house his collection of trophies. He used to walk about dressed in full Highland attire, greeting passing steamers on the Caledonian Canal. My kind of fellow!

As for the reference to the tartan, I think that is probably a reference to the Badenoch tartan, which some call Hunting MacPherson (the MacPhersons having occupied to land once proudly owned by the great Clan Comyn/Cumming).

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

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[MacMillan of Rathdown]

In all likelihood Gordon-Cummin may have been referring to a "MacPherson of Chapelpark", which would explain the presence of a grey hunting tartan.

The fact that Todd could conjure up the quote out of thin air, well... it humbles me.

[ForresterModern]

Actually, he was a Stewart...Alexander Stewart, to be precise.

T.

I stand corrected, thank you. I guess the reference to the previous owners the Comyns led me astray from my facts.

[macwilkin]

In all likelihood Gordon-Cummin may have been referring to a "MacPherson of Chapelpark", which would explain the presence of a grey hunting tartan.

The fact that Todd could conjure up the quote out of thin air, well... it humbles me.

It wasn't me, Scott -- ForresterModern deserves the credit for the quote, and I tip my bonnet to him as well.

T.

[ForresterModern]

It wasn't me, Scott -- ForresterModern deserves the credit for the quote, and I tip my bonnet to him as well.

T.

A simple google search brought up a reference to a googlebook link which pretty much had the whole book page by page on the link, with the keyword highlight function it was easy to find the exact page (I can't remember that much detail right now) which is where I got the quote. Often there is ancillary info in adjacent passages that may help with this kind of research---in this case it was more the actual way the kilt was described that was more helpful (in context "the grey kilt of Chapelpark of Badenoch" seemed more to describe a grey kilt owned by the protagonist Chapelpark of Badenoch rather than a direct reference to a specific tartan of that name). Then a simple background search for the remainder of the info found the birth reference to the MacPhersons, along with several more direct references to the Hunting MacPherson tartan directly from Matt Newsome's online resources.
Spend enough time in front of a computer and you can find just about anything sooner or later. Google is great but therre are other search engines out there as well that are equally powerful but less well known.