MACKAY (ANCIENT) [non-wool] Choose:By the metre Ramsay was one of the

Ramsay was one of the names adopted by members of the Clan MacGregor when their own was proscribed

An early sample of the Black Watch tartan labelled 'Grant' is in the collection of Lt Gen Sir William Cockburn at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow

the proportions possibly being the invention of the early Tartan documenters

First mentioned by Wilsons of Bannockburn in 1805

MACKAY (ANCIENT) [non-wool] Choose:By the metre Ramsay was one of theThe pattern shows a marked similarity to the Gunn tartan in all but colour, suggesting a territorial origin for both. Recently historians of Scottish dress have tended to stress the geographical sources, rather than the clan associations of the earliest Highland tartans. A sample was signed and sealed by the Chief for Highland Society of London in 1816. The sett is known as the 'Green' Mackay.