JOHNSTON (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'E' The bible contained a hand

The bible contained a hand written reference to the tartan and was dated 1747

One company was raised by Col William Grant of Ballindalloch

The chief of the MacKintoshes is also chief of Clan Chattan

''It is believed that the family (MacCallum)

JOHNSTON (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'E' The bible contained a handAlso Johnstone. Scottish Tartans Society notes: A powerful Border Clan who pursued a deadly feud with the Maxwells. Their stronghold was Lochwood Tower, near Beattock, which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593. The tartan was first published in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Before that time Border tartans were generally unnamed. More likely the tartan came from the Aberdeenshire Johnstons, whose family seat is at Caskieben, Blackburn.