RAMSAY RED (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'T' 1704 is at Broomhill near

1704 is at Broomhill near Hamilton

Alison Stewart of the Scottish Tartans Information Centre [Scottish Tartans Society] in July 1964 notes that this sett was first found in the lists of Johnston & Ross about 1930

1969 with Cdr Alan L Bean

before publication in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842)

which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593

RAMSAY RED (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'T' 1704 is at Broomhill nearAlso RAMSAY of DALHOUSIE Ramsay was one of the names adopted by members of the Clan MacGregor when their own was proscribed. It is not surprising then that an early MacGregor sett was used as a basis for the Ramsay tartan. It is possible that the tartan was in existence long before the earliest recorded date given. Other notes (Harry Lindley) state: ' The first sight of this tartan was in the Vestiarium Scoticum. The name comes from the Lothian