James Browne's L.L.D Advocate: 'Highlands and clans Vol 4 " London Edinburgh and Dublin ; A Fullarton and Co published 1850 is apparently now out of date re the Tartans which are published in the back of volume 4. However when I was last in SCT they were still selling ties like this in the shops!! My Grandpa brought the 4 volumes to NZ and oZ when he came in 1850/1 Jean Whimp (nee Campbell) -----Original Message----- From: sct-isleofmull-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-isleofmull-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of leshorn@ythanonich.freeserve.co.uk Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2013 9:48 AM To: sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com Cc: Les Horn Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Duke of argyll James said > it seems to me the Mc/Mac dichotomy is merely a scribal abbreviation, and not something to really be too concerned about. Agreed. Far too much is put into the Mac, Mc thing. It should be. noted that M' is also used. > Seems the Duke took liberties in other ways too with the tartan.....seems now that this is illegal according to the current Duke. It should be noted that there is now an (official) Scottish Register of Tartan(www.tartanregister.gov.uk) which was established by an act of the Scottish Parliament in 2008. It is a database of tartan designs and is maintained by the National Records of Scotland. Regards Les Sent from my BlackBerryR wireless device ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 11/22/13, Jean Whimp <jiwhimp@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > James Browne's L.L.D Advocate: 'Highlands and clans Vol 4 " London Edinburgh > and Dublin ; A Fullarton and Co published 1850 is apparently now out of date > re the Tartans which are published in the back of volume 4. However when I > was last in SCT they were still selling ties like this in the shops!! My > Grandpa brought the 4 volumes to NZ and oZ when he came in 1850/1 > Jean Whimp (nee Campbell) > > -----Original Message----- > From: sct-isleofmull-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:sct-isleofmull-bounces@rootsweb.com] <sct-isleofmull-bounces@rootsweb.com]> On Behalf Of > leshorn@ythanonich.freeserve.co.uk > Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2013 9:48 AM > To: sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com > Cc: Les Horn > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Duke of argyll > > James said > > > > it seems to me the Mc/Mac dichotomy is merely a scribal abbreviation, and > not something to really be too concerned about. > > Agreed. Far too much is put into the Mac, Mc thing. It should be. noted that > M' is also used. > > > Seems the Duke took liberties in other ways too with the tartan.....seems > now that this is illegal according to the current Duke. > > It should be noted that there is now an (official) Scottish Register of > Tartan(www.tartanregister.gov.uk) which was established by an act of the > Scottish Parliament in 2008. It is a database of tartan designs and is > maintained by the National Records of Scotland. > > Regards > Les > Sent from my BlackBerryR wireless device > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >