JOHNSTON (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'E' ''It is believed that the

''It is believed that the family (MacCallum)

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

Notes relating to the portrait of Murdoch MacNeil painted by Macleay in 1868 refer to 'the newly designed MacNeill of Colonsay tartan

An early sample of the Black Watch tartan labelled 'Grant' is in the collection of Lt Gen Sir William Cockburn at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow

which first appeared in 1930

JOHNSTON (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'E' ''It is believed that theAlso 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.