If you have a direct paternal line to a surname or region time doesn't matter, it cannot erase the connection.

Personally I wear an Armstrong tartan because my father was besotted with the Armstrong Sidderley Sapphire motor car,- I believe his granddad Wilson's family were connected with engineers working at Armstrongs. I remember him waiting for hours for the owner of a Sidderley Sapphire to come back to the car just to be able to speak to him and hear the engine as he drove away.

As long as you feel a connection and can maintain the right to it with conviction should the kilt police chose to interrogate you there is no reason to decide against a wearing a tartan. Conversely there is no reason to wear a tartan which shares your surname or a close spelling of it if it originated in an area to which you can find no ancestral connection.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: