Some Victorian tartans for Welsh names

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Long before the establishment of the Welsh Tartans Centres a series of tartans for Welsh surnames were designed by the now defuncted firm Wm. Ross & Son of Alva in the late 19th century. All of the designs were Patented in 1876, possibly the earliest examples of tartans being protected.

Correctlt speaking these were a small series of tartans that had Welsh names as opposed to being Welsh tartans per se. There are eleven of these Patented tartans, some of the names are found throughout Britain, others are purely Welsh in origin and some have other tartans more commonly associated with the name today: Anderson, Brown, Evans, Hughes, Hunter, Jones, Marshall, Roberts, Smith, Thomson and Williams. Here's the latter.