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2nd February 05, 12:41 PM
#21
one tartan, two names...
That's odd, using the separate names for the same thing.
Not as odd as you think. Three examples just off the top of my head:
Cumming/Buchan District
Campbell of Cawdor/Argyll District
Murphy/Tara (Ireland) District
That's not all, I'm sure! :mrgreen:
Sometimes a clan/family tartan is chosen as a district tartan (as in the case of the Cumming/Buchan) because that particular family is/was prominent in that district.
Further reason, IMHO, for a centralised tartan register to record all of these variants and end some confusion.
Cheers,
Todd
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