Linton Surname and Tartan – More Info

[Steve Ashton]

Please remember that while Tartans have names (we have to call them something), that this whole thing about which Tartan you can, or should, wear is about "Where do your people come from" far more than it is about what name you carry.

If you go back even just 5 generations you will have 32 grandparents - 32 different surnames - from 32 different places.

Following just your fathers male line is only one of those.

If you can find an unbroken paper trail back to a place, perhaps we can offer a better idea than looking on some computer list.

Most of the histories you find on-line and the Sept lists on-line are little help as there is no single, authoritative Sept list. The concept comes from the Victorian Romance Period and is not originally Scottish. Each Clan Chief may decide which names they accept and they have been known to change them.

The "East Lothian region of Scotland" is in the Lowlands near Edinburgh so it is quite likely that your people may, or may not, be part of a Highland Clan.