MAXWELL (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'M' MacAlisters are descendants of Donald

MacAlisters are descendants of Donald of Islay

It was therefore called 'Kidd' in Wilson's pattern book

Fencibles were a kind of Home Guard formed at the time of the Napoleonic Invasion threat

but with the addition of a red stripe

he grand expanse of Rannoch moor in Scotland inspires this tweed

MAXWELL (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'M' MacAlisters are descendants of DonaldScottish Tartan Society notes: Tartans of the Lowland families were not named until the publication the 'Vestiarium Scoticum' in 1842. The authors, the Sobieski Stuart brothers, enjoyed a popular following amongst the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era, and in the spirit of the times, added mystery, romance and some spurious historical documentation to the subject of tartans. The Maxwells have, nevertheless, a tartan of at least 150 years