Full Timers

[solstice]

I'm Canadian (English born) and I'm part-time kiltie. I don't factor in your query other than I have absolutely no Scottish connection that I'm aware of. My ancestry is English going further back than tea and crumpets.

I'm mostly in the same boat with you, apparently my history is Welsh or English I've seen at least two sets of families with my surname (Horton) one from Wales and the other from England.

[ccga3359]

I'm mostly in the same boat with you, apparently my history is Welsh or English I've seen at least two sets of families with my surname (Horton) one from Wales and the other from England.

You have the celtic connection with the Welsh. I'm so English that when I sip my tea my little finger juts out automatically and at the correct angle. You do have celtic blood in you and have every right to wear your kilt with pride.

[solstice]

You have the celtic connection with the Welsh. I'm so English that when I sip my tea my little finger juts out automatically and at the correct angle. You do have celtic blood in you and have every right to wear your kilt with pride.

True, true. Although thanks to a severed tendon I have no choice but to hold out my little finger!

[Robin]

Dutch, full time, with really faint Scottish heritage (425 years ago )

[johnnym]

All American with Scottish, Irish, French & Czech heritage, heavy on the Scottish. Part timer, as crawling around and under the antique cars just isn't right with a kilt. I might get it greasy and that is a no-no. I do wear one to the office a couple times a week. My collection isn't large enough, and I would not feel right wearing the same one several times a week.

[JimB]

American part timer (getting more and more all the time) with a full mixture of european blood. Scots, Irish, English, French, German, Welsh, and who knows what else....
Celtic by nature though

[Wompet]

American full-timer (work doesn't count) with Scottish heritage.

[canawler]

American, part-timer, with a paternal grandfather from Scotland
Mom's side is all Pennsylvania Dutch.

[Hamish]

Non-American full-timer with Scottish heritage. I know very little indeed about the details of my heritage. As far as I know, both my mother's parents were English (ie: born in England of English parents). On my father's side: again as far as I know, his father was born in England of English parents, but his mother was Scottish - from somewhere in Sutherland - but I have neither place names nor dates for any of my grandparents. My father never wanted to acknowledge his Scottish connection and never spoke about it, other than telling me that my grandmother was born in Sutherland! Both his parents died before I was born. My mother never spoke about her parents at all, although I knew and loved her mother, my grandmother, who died when I was a teenager. My mother's father died soon after my mother was born. So the information is scant in the extreme.

From a very early age, I have felt a very strong love for Scotland and all, or most, things Scottish. Sadly, although I have always lived in the south of England, I did not get to make my first visit to Scotland until 1999 at the age of 63!

The kilt first came into my life when I was 14 and developed an almost fanatical love of Scottish Country and Highland Dance - a love which has remained with me for 57 years. For 47 of those years, I looked upon the kilt as nothing more than a costume or 'uniform' to be worn when dancing ........ it never ocurred to me to wear one at other times. Then, the comfort, freedom and joy of the kilt hit me (hard) and I began acquiring more than the one kilt I had owned for years and, eight years ago in ten days time, I started wearing them full-time and rid myself of all the trousers I owned.

The rest is history, and I have never been more comfortable or happier.

[herminator]

Absolutely non-scottish non-american, german full-timer!