Caledonianly speaking, who ami I?

[PEEDYC]

With the surname Corrance which I understand to be of French derivation and a family tree I can trace back to 1790 in Scotland I obviously have no direct clan affiliation but I wear Campbell tartan as I have many of them in my tree.

[O'Callaghan]

As always, I used the Tartan Ferret to search your various family names. Boyd gives me a Boyd tartan, as well as various MacDonald and Stewart tartans. Everything else points to either Tyrone or Ulster.

As a cheapskate, I'd tend towards Stewart tartans, being most readily available and therefore cheapest, LOL!

[Peter Crowe]

I am going to muddy the waters more (although that is not my intent). My surname is Crowe (which is a name affiliated with Clan Ross, although as I understand it not strictly a sept), but although I am Scots born (from Glasgow) and raised (Uddingston, Lanarkshire and Hawick, Roxburghshire) my paternal grandfather was an Englishman from the Bournemouth-Poole area on the Hampshire and Dorset county boundary. However, his maternal grandfather was a Scot from Paisley called Tennant.

My other three grandparents were Scots as far back as we can trace, My maternal grandfather's surname was Wilson (Clan Gunn born in Galashiels, Selkirkshire), my paternal grandmother was a Lyall (Clan Sinclair born in Macduff, Banffshire, and her mother was a Mackay), and my maternal grandmother was a Raine (from Glasgow but her grandfather came from Coldstream in Berwickshire on the Scottish side of the Border although my understanding is that Raine is an old Northumbrian name from the other bank of the Tweed).

The point I am trying to make is that we (even those of us from Scotland) are a lot less ethnically homogeneous than is often assumed if you research back far enough. I feel that my sense of ethnic-cultural Scottishness is the strongest of many identities I have simultaneously (because it is the most localised), but I am also British, and European (by birth, culture, and the nationality laws of the UK/EU), and American (by residence and legal naturalisation).

I wear Ross kilts because of the Crowe-Ross connection which I believe was originally one of feudal protection with no kinship ties. Many clan members owed loyalty to a particular chief in this way although they were not strictly tied by consanguinity with the house of their Clan Chief. For my own part I actually prefer the Gunn tartan to any of the Ross ones and were I to purchase another kilt or trews that is the direction in which I would be most inclined to go (on aesthetic grounds and also because I was named Peter after my maternal grandfather). I primarily wear the kilt because it was a tradition amongst the men of my family (my paternal grandfather excepted), father, maternal grandfather, great-uncles, uncles, and cousins.

Sorry I can not be more definitive on this, but it is an honest answer from a native-born Scot from a largely kilt-wearing family.