Please don't DELETE this thread (until I've read a decent reply)

[Jock Scot]

this has been a very interesting thread.



so Jock, where would a person stand if like in my mum's family the father is English (going back to at least 1730 that i've traced in the family tree) and not "entitled" to wear a tartan but the mother has family in Aberdeen going back to the 1600s?

would you allow them to wear the mother's taran?

I was speaking generally, but in your case wearing your mother's tartan would be fine, although it would,in the highlands, still be assumed wrongly of course, it was your fathers or from your father's side of the family, as no one would be rude enough to ask. In any case the clan tartan you wear,unless you are in a Scottish "Regiment"(I still can't get the hang of this super regiment!) or pipe band, would see you through for your lifetime.