Your tartans and Why?

[cessna152towser]

Cunningham - my surname.
Teviotdale - District tartan for the locality where I live, historically Elliot territory and the tartan includes the brown and blue of Elliot.
Black Watch - The government sett and I am retired after a 30 year career in local government.
Royal Air Force - In honour of my late father's service in World War II.
Spirit of Scotland - A fashion tartan from Lochcarron because I like it.
Dark Island - Shadow tartan, a great conversation starter.
Royal Stewart - A cheap tourist tat kilt for wear around the house and garden, because I wanted one in my collection.
and on order:-
University of Glasgow - where I studied for my law degree, 1969-1973.

[oldsoldier]

currently own:
US Army tartan-served 12 years infantry, still have many friends & relatives in.

will own eventually
Robertson Modern-my sept belongs to the clan-will be my 'formal' one
X marks- this is a hopeful one, not to be filled anytime soon. Unless, of course, I hit the lottery
Stewart modern-the band I will hopefully play the pipes in someday wears these, so, I'll have one by default.

[Jerry]

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[McFarkus]

Interesting topic. Just this past weekend I went through the family tree and came up with the following list. We primarily identify with Gordon and Campbell through a maternal 2nd great-grandmother. There may be more, but this is what I could find. The parentheses mean that those branches are included, but are not necessarily the only branch of that family.

Alexander (of Menstrie)
Angus
Baillie
Balfour
Barclay
Bisset
Borthwick
Boyd
Bruce
Buchanan
Campbell (Argyll, Lochawe, )
Cameron
Chisholm
Comyn
Crawford
Douglas
Drummond
Dunbar
Dundas
Eglinton
Erskine
Forbes
Forrester
Fraser (of Lovat)
Gordon
Graham
Grant
Haliburton
Hart
Hay
Hepburn
Innes
Keith
Kennedy
Kincaid
Lamont
Lauder
Leslie
Lindsay
Livingston(e)
MacBain
MacDonald (of the Isles, Clanranald)
MacDougal
MacDuff
MacGregor
MacIvor (McIver)
MacKenzie
MacKintosh
MacLeod
Mar
Maxwell
Menteith
Munro (Monroe)
Montgomery
Moray
Muir/More
Murray
Ogilvy
Oliphant
Ramsay
Rattray
Robertson
Ross
Ruthven
Scrymgeour
Seton
Sinclair
Sommerville
Stewart
Strathearn
Sutherland
Urquhart
Vipont
Wallace
Wemyss
Wishart

[RobertParker]

First, all my current kilts are in Robertson tartans - for my mother's maiden name and where my name comes from.

Ancient Hunting
Modern Hunting
Roberston Red

Maybe in the future:
Tennessee tartan, for my home
if there is one for Parkers - my last name, and as Parkers were essentially park rangers and gameskeepers for hunting grounds, and I love to hunt and be outside, it's rather fitting that I fulfill my surname in some way, and maybe should have a kilt for it as well.

[puffer]

Tartans I currently have
1. BLACK DOUGLAS ( not the current Douglas clan But SIR JAMES Douglas ) Family
2. Black Watch ( Mil. Kilt )
3. Scottish Highland Light Inf. ( Trews worn for reenacting)

On order
1. Weathered Mackenzie
Wish list

1. Brown Watch
2. X marks the Scot ( when available )
3. Hudson Bay
4. Heritage Grey
etc,etc

Puffer

[Rob Wright]

Tartans I currently have
1. BLACK DOUGLAS ( not the current Douglas clan But SIR JAMES Douglas ) Family

You have a pic of it? Would love to see it.

I have

Douglas Modern
Douglas Ancient
Douglas Grey Ancient
Douglas Weathered


Wishlist:

Remaining Douglas tartans
McBride
Murray of Atholl (for a cousin)
McLean Hunting Ancient (my high school colors)

Rob

[EBlackall]

Black Watch (modern): I have always loved the black and blue color combination.

U.S. Army: They have been my family for the past 24 years.

[Carolina Kiltman]

Sort of re-post of one where I had a bit of trouble getting the pictures to work:

MacFadden Dress

MacFadden Hunting

MacCormick

These are septs of the Clan MacLaine of Lochbuie, and as I got these from the official web site, I would assume they are "official" and recognized by the Clan Chief for members of these septs.

[Mr. MacDougall]

I'm one of those who answered in the other thread, but for the sake of having everything in one spot, here're the tartans I can think of off the top of my head, with which I have some connexion.

MacDougall -- Maternal ancestry
Irish National -- Paternal ancestry
County Cork -- my father's mother was from there
Irish Heritage -- same reasons as above
German Heritage -- Mother's father from Germany
German-American -- same
U. S. Navy -- Veteran (HM2), Step-father's father was Navy.
U. S. Forces -- same
U. S. Army -- both my fathers, and one of my grandfathers, served in the Army.
North Carolina -- I attended NCSU
New York City -- I worked in the World Trade Center
Arizona -- My home state
MacMedic -- I'm a nurse
Armstrong -- Step-father's a Nixon, which is an Armstrong sept
Regan -- somewhat tenuous, as it's my given name, but I admire ITA4020.

And all the universals, of course.