The surname Rogerson

[gilmore]

I guess that I was asking a question. In previous posts, I have read about the wearing of certain tartans and the main thing to remember is wear any tartan with pride and honor if it is not your family tartan. Perhaps I was trying to justify to myself the buying of yet another kilt.

Far be it from me to dissuade you from buying another kilt, but as has been gone over on other threads, most clan tartans were 19th century inventions.

The earliest evidence of the great kilt is long after the period in question. If you search you will find at least one thread pointing out the anachronisms in
Braveheart." The short kilt came even later.

Further, and most importantly, most men in Scotland and elsewhere at that time were farmers and laborers, not fighters. And given the intercine nature of Edward I's attempts to subdue Scotland, it is probably as likely that your ancestors fought for him, if they fought at all, as it is that they fought for Bruce, Balliol, Wallace, etc. It would have depended on which faction their master or lord was supporting. At the time. Most of the nobles changed allegiances several times.

BTW it wasn't Wallace who united the clans. It was Robert the Bruce after Wallace was killed, and still it could be argued that the clans---as well as Scotland, for that matter--- weren't really united until long after that time