CLAN DONNACHAIDH SOCIETY

The Chief of the Robertsons' is said to have traveled around Atholl asking the old men of his clan what the true clan pattern was, but no-one could agree. Eventually he sealed as the true Robertson Tartan a piece of what is now called Hunting Robertson or Robertson of Kindeace, which is thought to be the tartan used for kilts by the Loyal Clan Donnachie (Robertson) Volunteers, a sort of home guard, raised in 1803. Like all such variations of the Government tartan, this pattern cannot be dated earlier than the late 18th Century and so it cannot have been the old Robertson clan tartan. Indeed, there are other old patterns associated with the clan which would have a better claim to being the ?clan tartan? had one existed in c.1815.

(Information obtained from http://www.scottishtartans.co.uk/history.htm with permission from Peter MacDonald)

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