deptfordmarmoset
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Is McLeod a predominantly a Lewis name?Problem with all those books is that they simplicate. On Mull for example there are several branches of the same clan all with slightly different spelling.
I do have a family tartan but I suspect complete fiction. The other one I could be entitled to is Macleod but which branch as they all have different tartans?
The whole nonsense was invented by Sir Walter Scott the writer for some kingly visit by some George or other.
I am not a purist.
Anyhow, I remember reading an account that the present day form of the kilt was devised by a Lancashire man who had found that the existing long tartans were cumbersome and inefficient when it came to his foresting workers. Time and motion tartans....