Family tartan

[breakinglight11]

As you may know, most of my family is Italian-American; both of my grandfathers were the sons of Italian immigrants. But my maternal grandmother is Russian, and my paternal one, my Gigi, is half-English, half-Scotch-Irish. My Gigi's mother was a scion of an old Scottish family in Pennsylvania called the Lynns. They're the only even vague connection to class my family has, the rest of us being various varities of European peasant. ;-) The cool thing is, the Lynns, being Scottish, quite old, and at one point the vassals of a family with royal blood, were permitted to wear a particular tartan, which I have come upon:



I actually kind of like it. So technically, being a descendant of the Lynns and with no other superceding Scottish ancestry, I have the right to wear this plaid as my family tartan. :-) Kind of cool, huh?

Comments

[laurion]

Hmm. Family tartans weren't even invented until the late 18th century. There were different tartans before then, but they were a result of who your weaver was, not what your clan was...

The family might have been close enough to nobility to be allowed to wear tartans, but it was unlikely that it was a specific tartan, as the restriction was against lower classes wearing any tartans as a way to stamp down on local culture and sublimate the Scots into English life.

All that aside, I think you'd look darn fetching in a Tam and Kilt, and can wear them in my presence any time!

(Although the kilt was invented by an Englishman...)