THOMSON RED [MACTAVISH] (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'J' Also known as Brown Scott

Also known as Brown Scott

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

Wilsons of Bannockburn listed this tartan as MacGregor Murray so there may well have been a personal association with it on the part of my g-g-g-g grandfather

the commander of British forces in North Britain authorised the formation of six independent companies of troops to police the Highlanders

THOMSON RED [MACTAVISH] (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'J' Also known as Brown ScottThomson is the anglicised form of the name MacTavish. It is not recorded in any of the early illustrated books. Many MacTavishes wear the Campbell of Argyll.