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Hi Donald, My interest is less in what these families were wearing way back when, but what they are inclined to wear now, which may well be based on early family memories connected to the parts of Scotland they originated from. I am flying a kite. This may be a red herring, but, as you say, it would...

Hi all, It would be good to know which tartan the Australian Macleays, descended from the Provost of Wick, wear; also which tartan the USA Maclays, the early established family of senators who went to USA from the Loch Achilty area via N Ireland, wear. What tartan do the Frothingham Maclays original...

Hi Donald, I checked Helen Dalrymple nee Mclea's DC (1793 - 1857) and find that not only was she illegitimate but her father John Mclay (as spelled on the birth register) was a soldier, and therefore neither married to Helen Muir nor the same as John Mclay the drover married to Mary Baird. Many than...

Hi Donald,

No I am not the Jean, but you are right that historically those names were often used interchangeably. As to your other question, I will have another look at the original records to refresh my memory.

All the best,
Janet

As we MacWhos try to work out exactly which part of Scotland our common ancestor came from, I wonder whether something might be gained from discussing the tartans we wear, particularly amongst those of us called Mclay/Maclay/Mclea/Maclea/Macleay (etc). I think I am right in saying that historically ...

Hi Doug, I have researched your family fairly thoroughly and have logged the descendants of most of the children of John Mclay and Mary Baird. John was a drover according to his son John's death certificate, so that may be why two of his sons were born in England, probably just across the border, ma...

Scotland's People has online the wills, or in fact Testamentary Datives, of two of the surviving three sons of Reverend Duncan Mclea senior of Dull 1681-1749. These belonged to the Reverend Archibald Mclea of Rothesay 1737-1824 and Reverend Duncan Mclea (junior) of Inverchaolain 1739-1785. I have no...

Last month I was having a discussion about the Kilmodan Mcleas in our DNA Forum, but thought I would post my further finds here. To recap, there were 3 Mcleas, in the second half of the 18th century, living in and around Kilmodan (by Glendaruel), which is a little inland from Otter Ferry, Kilfinan a...