Which tartan for MacClive?

[MacCorquodale]

A lot of Irish references say MacClave is a variation of Mac Flaitheamh or Mac Laithimh (These are both pronounced MacClave. In the North of Ireland Mac Flaitheamh is rendered as MacClave and in the south it is rendered as Claffey or MacClaffey. Anotehr variation is MacLevy.

It is just as possible that MacClive is a variation of this name as it is that it is a variation of Dunnshleibhe (Dunlevy, MacLeave, Livingston, MacLeay).

http://www.ancestry.ca/name-origin?surname=mcclave

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.co...-11/0974169725

Based on phone books and Facebook searching, I think the biggest pocket of MacClives on earth is actually in Michigan. There are also some in West Africa which may provide a clue.

Yeah, most of those are my relatives. My father had 8 or so brothers, all of whom lived to a ripe old age, some as old as 108 years old, and had lots of children. They all moved from the old Scottish neighborhood in Detroit around Warren and Greenfield avenue and moved to Brighton during the late 1940's.

Most fought in the war, including my grandfather.
He was an engineer and landed at Normandy.

Mt grandmother stayed in the old neighborhood until she was forced out due to old age and needing care. I last saw her when she was 78 or so. Luckily she got to meet my children and was tickled to death that I named my son after her husband. Unfortunately, she was a shell of her former feisty self. Damned old age...