MACGILL (MODERN) ANCIENT lives in Florida

lives in Florida

A piece of this web was in the possession of my grand-aunt Miss Flora MacRa (sic) of Ardintoul

From W & A K Johnston's 1906 publication which states that it was taken from a piece of tartan dyed and woven by the wife of Alexander XVI of Keppoch who was killed at Culloden

'Authenticated Tartans

MACGILL (MODERN) ANCIENT lives in FloridaThe family tartan, which originated with the MacGills of Jura, was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre and placed in the Museum of Antiquities (now incorporated into the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers St., Edinburgh). The current version, which first appeared in 1930, is known as the MacGill Society tartan.