Which family tartan

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Hello

...when I went to a kilt store the young lady informed me that the custom was actually to use your mothers name.


Thanks
FP

As Jock Scot so sagely pointed out, it is usual to follow the male line. If your father wasn't Scottish (and if that's the case you have our commiserations) you can wear your Mothers tartan, or follow CarolinaKiltman's advice and become assimilated into the clan of your choice by that form of adoption known as a "bond of manrent". This is a simple document issued to you by the clan chief whereby he acknowledges your desire to come under the protection of his clan, and accepts you as one of his own. This is as official and legal as it gets, and it means that you and your posterity are members of Clan X, establishing, if you will, your own "sept" within that clan.