Scottish clan
A Scottish clan from Gaelic , literally 'children', more broadly 'kindred' is the kinship corporation among a Scottish people. Clans dispense a sense of dual-lane up identity & descent to members, together with in innovative times develope an official format recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon, which regulates Scottish heraldry and coats of arms. almost clans form their own tartan patterns, normally dating from the 19th century, which members may incorporate into kilts or other clothing.
The modern image of clans, each with their own tartan and particular land, was promulgated by the Scottish author Sir Walter Scott after influence by others. Historically, tartan designs were associated with Lowland and Highland districts whose weavers tended to produce cloth patterns favoured in those districts. By process of social evolution, it followed that the clans/families prominent in a particular district would wear the tartan of that district, and it was but a short step for that community to become described by it.
Many clans have their own clan chief; those that do non are asked as armigerous clans. Clans loosely identify with geographical areas originally controlled by their founders, sometimes with an ancestral castle and clan gatherings, which form a regular part of the social scene. The nearly notable clan event of recent times was The Gathering 2009 in Edinburgh, which attracted at least 47,000 participants from around the world.
It is a common misconception that every grown-up who bears a clan's name is a lineal descendant of the chiefs. numerous clansmen, although not related to the chief, took the chief's surname as their own either to show solidarity or to obtain basic security system or for much needed sustenance. Most of the followers of the clan were tenants, who supplied labour to the clan leaders. Contrary to popular belief, the ordinary clansmen rarely had any blood tie of kinship with the clan chiefs, but they sometimes took the chief's surname as their own when surnames came into common use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thus, by the eighteenth century the myth had arisen that the whole clan was descended from one ancestor, perhaps relying on Scottish Gaelic originally having a primary sense of 'children' or 'offspring'.