Help me find my tartan(s).

[Colin]

Your definitely confusing me know. I have never heard of a sept of a sept. A sept is a family associated to a clan so how can you have a family that has pledged allegiance to a clan which has pledged allegiance to a clan?

Watson was not a clan (that's why they were a sept) and therefore nobody can be a sept of it as such. Watsons were septs of clan Buchanan AND Forbes. They would wear the colours of the relevant clan. If Woods were wearing these clan colors then they are a direct sept not a sept of the sept.

I do stand to be corrected though. :confused: :confused:

Just going by what I have found. When looking up information on Wood, it is listed in a number of areas under Clan Watson (Clan or not, I don't know for sure). Yet in other sources Watson (but not Wood) is listed as a sept of Clan Buchanan (haven't seen the Forbes connection before), yet I have not found any reference to Wood being a direct sept of Buchanan. If you have any further information, please send it on, as I am always looking for more info on my name. Cheers.

One of my sources (how reliable it is, I don't know, but it is a good site) is electricscotland.com. Notice on the following link, that not only do they identify Watson as a sept of Buchanan, but they identify Clan Watson with Wood listed as a sept. http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/septs.htm

As for tartans, Watson and Wood were Lowland names, so I doubt they were wearing any tartan in particular if at all

I have only looked into Wood, not Woods. Perhaps there is a difference.