What would have the most common plaids been in the area before the 1745 ?
The original dominant tartans of the parish would be that of the heritors - the land owners, but there were people from other clans here too.
- Campbell of Barcaldine
- Campbell of Breadalbane
- Campbell of Glenure
- Campbell of Lochnell
- Campbell of Ardchattan
- Campbell of Lochawe
- MacIntyre of Glennoe / Glenorchy
We have a lot to learn of the clan dynamics here, where so many families meet.
There are few matches to our main families in the Tartan register - did they have their own unique weave sett or plaid ? or that of the main sept they belonged to ?
Campbell of Lochnell (Argyll)
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/imageCreation.aspx?ref=522
Campbell of Barcaldine (Breadalbane)
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=515
Campbell of Ardchattan (Cawdor) no tartan listed in the Tartan register under Inverawe
Campbell of Inverawe : no tartan listed in the Tartan register under Inverawe
MacIntyre of Glennoe :
Tartan Details - MacIntyre and Glenorchy
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/imageCreation.aspx?ref=5059
also Glenorchy https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1394
As Peter MacDonald says in his 1996 Key Patterns Book, there are many versions of the Glenorchy tartan. There is also the added complication of the different versions of the name -Glen Orchy or Glenorchy. Scottish Tartans Society notes say 'The Glen Orchy sett is sometimes known as the MacIntyre and Glenorchy, although the MacIntyres occupied only part of the Glen.' The earliest known date of a Glenorchy tartan is 1822, taken from Wilsons of Bannockburn letters.
The McNicol of Leiters kilt pre-dates this by some 20 years and may be made of material woven before the [[[1745]] rising and following prohibition. It still exists, in a Canadian museum - http://www.scottishtartans.co.uk/An_early_C19th_kilt_made_from_an_old_plaid.pdf
some tartan references
http://www.scottishtartans.co.uk
http://www.thenational.scot/culture/unpicking-myths-and-lies-of-tartan.14015
Children of the Mist https://ia800309.us.archive.org/28/items/childrenofmist00camp/childrenofmist00camp.pdf
The Duke of Cumberland, as an officer, and having a military eye and training, would not have allowed any picture to form a part of his collection were such
picture not accurate in detail. No one can for a moment doubt but that the Duke had samples of Highland Dress taken during the campaign, and it is more than probable that Morier painted from prisoners of war, who would have been the best of all available
models.
THE STEWART TARTAN FROM THE BATTLE OF KILSYTH.
We have a living witness in the Reverend Alexander Stewart* of Ballachulish, as having seen a piece of Stewart Tartan taken from the corpse of a fallen clansman who fought under Montrose at the Battle of Kilsyth. This was cut off on the field of battle, taken home to the family, and by them kept from that day forth, together with a charm stone. No one proposes to assert that tartans were invented for the Battle of Kilsyth. We have ample evidence that the " Breacan " existed very many years before any action of Kilsyth.
We have the Duke of St. Alban's coat, now at Best-wood, which was worn by Charles II. at his wedding, the ribbons of which are of Royal Stuart f tartan.
Elsewhere evidence has been adduced to the fact that the Jacobite Campbell of Lochnell wore the common Campbell tartan at Culloden, and this plaid used by Lochnell was often in the hands of the late Mrs Lilias Davidson, who identified the plaid worn by her ancestor as being the same worn by the Campbell Clan to this day.
The Jacobite Campbell of Lochnell was the great-grandfather of Mrs Lilias Davidson, nee Miss Campbell of Lochnell, and the name of the Jacobite officer who
fought at Cullodcn was Alexander Campbell of Ard-
slignish.
He was brother of Sir Duncan Campbell of Loch-
nell.
In i/OO, the Rev. James Brome writing about High-
land Dress says, " tJiey go Jiabited in mantles striped
" or streaked ivith divers colours abont their shoulders
" which they call p ladden."
1640.
The writer of "Memoirs of a Cavalier" describing
the Highlanders under General Leslie in 1640, men-
tions that "the various companies were composed of
" men of the same name or Clan."
1661.
"In the year 1661 there is a reference to Tartan in
" the ten large published folio volumes of the Acts of
" the Parliament of Scotland, which will be found in
" the seventh volume, page 186, where Tartan is
" valued at thirty shillings per ell."*
The Argyll documents at Inverary Castle contain
constant mention of plaiding, which it were but weari-
some to reproduce in detail,
- Better known as "Nether Lochaber." See "Records of Argyll," page 446.
- Duchess of St. Alban's letter to Mrs, now Lady Millais.
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