I read the Black Watch tartan is Campbells

[minimalistix]

It does have an unfortunate association with the Campbells

Heck, I call that fortunate

I thought I was going to have to get a special order tartan to match my families name. (Well actually to get the branch I'm in I will still have to order a custom tartan.)

Interesting info everyone.

Cheers

[Cawdorian]

Happiness is having Campbells on both sides of the family.

[flyv65]

Happiness is having Campbells on both sides of the family.

...Unless you're a Macdonald still carrying a grudge! No, seriously, "I keed, I keed" (as Triumph the insult dog would say). It's only on February 13th that I give my Campbell friends the elbow.

Bryan...if we didn't get "pissy" about Glen Coe, it'd just be something else-we've Scottish blood and it seems we're contrary with each other by nature...

[minimalistix]

.Scottish blood and it seems we're contrary with each other by nature...

ahh, that must be where I get it from.

[Macman]

My Grandad McIntosh used to say that he was "born in the shadow of Cawdor Castle". He also used to drum into me as a very young boy: "There's two things in this world I canna abide, and that's a Campbell and an Irishman". I've since met many Campbells and Irishmen who've proven him wrong. I think if I held a grudge with everyone on the board who had ties to a clan that had crossed swords with Clan Chattan (such as Camerons, MacDonalds of Keppoch, Comyn's, Gordons, Campbells, etc.) I'd have no one to talk to at all!

[Cawdorian]

My wife is of the McDonald Clan, she helps keep my Campbell traits in check.

[James]

There is an argument that in fact the Black Watch tartan as we know it today, originated from a Robertson tartan-being adopted because of early companies being formed in Robertson lands.

I say argument, for I doubt that today anyone will be able to offer a definitive answer: rather it will b e something to be played with by amateur academics or conturies to come.

James.