I'm having a senior moment-there was a thread on this subject-and now I cannot find it.

There was some debate regarding the connection between the 42nd Regimental Tartan and the Clan Robertson.

In the Clan Donnachaidh Annual for 2000, it was stated that The Black Watch chose the Robertson Tartan as the regiment was raised in Robertson territory, and the members of the various independent companies discarded their own tartans which belonged to their territories, in favour of wearing the uniform tartan [Robertson].

Having said that, there is the question of the red and white stripes in the present Robertson Hunting, so there will aways be arguments, and I doubt if there can be a definitive answer. For without doubt there are tartans which have been lost, and others which have mutated.

Too I could imagine a situation where on the grounds of economy-to be different - it was decided to drop the stripes: but that is imagination.

Having said that, linking the area in which the Regiment was raised to the Clan suggests that on the balance of probability there is some connection between the Clan and the Regimental Tartans.

My personal view on such matters, is that unless actual records from the period can be found, together with the sealed unform patterns: such arguments can only be on the balance of probability: rather than provenance.

James