To throw an even bigger monkey wrench into the tartan thing. I am a Brown(e), and am a descendant of the sept of Clan Lamont, with many tartans to choose from. Like about ten percent of the Irish, I also descend from MacNeil of Barra. May the kilt kollection grow.
I do not own a "Brown" tartan kilt...(yet)? As gilmore said if it is the genealogy you are after, it is one step at a time. If it is the tartan, that is a good question, as I do not know how many of us X-Markers are Browns. My family was in Scotland, Ireland, then England, then to the U.S.A. in 1637. The record chasing was fun.
Steve Brown