Murray of Tullibardine

[figheadair]

Just finished an article on the Early use of the Tullibardine tartan than follows on from the one on the tartan worn by the Unknown Jacobite Lady. http://www.scottishtartans.co.uk/Ear...e%20tartan.pdf

Have uncovered some facinateing stuff about the origins of this sett which I will cover in a later 'techie' article.

[KenB]

I can't wait for the article. Your insights and research are facinnating and enlightening.

[artificer]

Very fascinating, thank you for sharing this as well as the "Unknown Jacobite Lady" article.
I look forward to the future 'techie' piece

[davidlpope]

Peter,

Thanks for a great article. I really appreciate the insight and knowledge that you bring to this forum.

David

[figheadair]

Another article. This one on some of the old specimens etc.

http://www.scottishtartans.co.uk/Mur...eappraisal.pdf

[artificer]

Fascinating article, Peter.

I can't wait to read more. These articles are really great reads, and I love all the detective work matching old cut-offs and small scraps to painted images or more intact lengths of material.

[MacBean]

Well that certainly got my attention!

John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun was defeated in the Rout of Moy, no? Is that where he met Lady Anne MacKintosh, or was it after Culloden? I had no prior knowledge that he and she were lovers. Where was her husband?

This whole period is strange to me. I had read that she had helped her husband, the MacKintosh of MacKintosh raise a regiment on the Hanoverian side. Later she raised Clan Chattan on the Jacobite side. Then I read she is lovers with a Hanoverian Earl. I can't tell if this is comic or tragic; I can't even understand it.

Later, a relative of her husband's had the position of General from Georgia for George Washington while most of the other Chiefly sons of Clan Chattan fought on the Loyalist side in the War of Independence (Macpherson and Macbean for sure).

Anyone care to shed light on my confusion? Thistledown perhaps?

[Morris at Heathfield]

Apparently this information is to be found in an article by Ruairidh Halford MacLeod titled "Everyone who has an intrigue hopes it should not be known: Lord Loudon and Anne Mackintosh—An Intrigue of the '45", published in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, vol. 55 (1986-6). I haven't found the text online, but the basic allegation is in an article here, at the end of page 24 and the beginning of page 25.

As for the strangeness of the period, it was civil war. Scotland was divided, clans were divided, families were divided, and I imagine many individuals were divided as well.