Wearing kilts of other tartans than your clans.

[Detroitpete]

[QUOTE=sharpdressedscot;579659]So, since I think I'm also both Campbell AND MacDonald, do I spit at myself?

AHHAHAHAHA! Try having both MacLaren AND MacGregor. I walk around ALL day blaming myself for Rob Roy's demise ;-)

Ok, actually I sometimes have deeper thoughts...did someone say Guiness?

[Detroitpete]

My brother and I played a game over email once--Name ALL the possible tartans that we seperately and collectively have a bloodline or service connection to. I admit that counting great aunts and great-great grandmothers led us down some interesting paths (Scots, Irish, Welsh). Throw in the universals we have a tie to and it can get pretty interesting as well. At the end of all we could handle we each came up with more than a legal page full.

Long and short of it---those are what we told ourselves we COULD wear. I wear my clan tartan and the tartan from the branch of the military I served in. I'd wear my state tartan once it became approved. I like my clan tartan and have a few kilts of it. So maybe I COULD wear a ton of others, but I'm satisfied.

[Cawdorian]

My Scottish/Welsh/ScotchIrish/English roots have all been in America since at least the late 1700's to early 1800's. As such I have no close ties to any clan in particular, but to several through different lines of ancestors.

Most of us folks of Scottish or Scotch Irish ancestry here in the US are descendants of the immigrants who arrived here during the 1700's. Some of their surnames live for a few generations and some have been passed on for many generations.

Fortunately I have a huge selection of family connected tartans as a result. I wear tartans connected with my ancestor's families. Both of my kilt tartan selections came from my father's family, I have many more to choose from in my mother's family.

[SFCRick]

I was wondering how long it would be before I saw Riverkilts photo posted, all the way to post # 62 this time Looking good Ron

[Phil E. Begg]

I have several; by name I have a Lamont (weathered) tank; by descent I have more Lowries, Lowerys, and Lowreys than anything else, so I have a Gordon... then I found out, just this summer, that one line of the Lowreys comes down through Major George Lowrey, who was also known as Agin Agi'li (Rising Fawn), who seems to have been a member of the Holly Clan of the Cherokee, and cousin to Sequoyah.

Anybody know the tartan for the Holly Clan?


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Phil

[auld argonian]

Anybody know the tartan for the Holly Clan?


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Phil

Holly-rood?

...sorry...I couldn't resist...

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[Mr. bone]

"But I am a Campbell,with a Scott mother,with a Kerr grandmother,and a MacAthur twenty third cousin etc., so I can wear all those tartans",well yes you can if you insist, but we in Scotland usually choose our farther's tartan or the one we are closly connected to and that is that.In this part of Scotland,whilst nothing would be said,you would be written off as a poser if you were to wear a tartan of more than one Clan .

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So where do peple like me fit in. My grandfather was a Cook, a sept of the McDonalds and his wife was Thompson. But they are my mothers parents. No tartan in my fathers lineage unless I were to get plaid Leiderhosen. Can we "officialy" wear our Mothers family tartans?

[Bugbear]

Mr. bone, yes.

Reading here, and in other threads, it seems that it may be acceptible to claim links to a clan through one's maternal side of the family.

I looked into it a bit more and that is fine to claim one of the clans on the maternal side of your family. I think the problems come from claiming more than one clan... still up to you, though. Good luck.

[Carolina Kiltman]

I have several; by name I have a Lamont (weathered) tank; by descent I have more Lowries, Lowerys, and Lowreys than anything else, so I have a Gordon... then I found out, just this summer, that one line of the Lowreys comes down through Major George Lowrey, who was also known as Agin Agi'li (Rising Fawn), who seems to have been a member of the Holly Clan of the Cherokee, and cousin to Sequoyah.

Anybody know the tartan for the Holly Clan?


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Phil

In this area, the Lumbees have Lowery as one of the more common names for members of the tribe also. . . . makes life interesting don't it?

[sharpdressedscot]

So where do peple like me fit in. My grandfather was a Cook, a sept of the McDonalds and his wife was Thompson. But they are my mothers parents. No tartan in my fathers lineage unless I were to get plaid Leiderhosen. Can we "officialy" wear our Mothers family tartans?

I do, my father is of Irish descent and my mother is of Scottish (Gillmore/Morrison)descent...