Climbed Mt. Everest in 2001 and placed a piece of the Clan tartan at the top of the world. Doug is cousin to Marnie McBean. As he stood on the top of the mountain he said: “Peter, Sherrill, Alex, Ian, Jamie, Jessica, Teal, Marnie & John, I gather from Ian that there is a piece […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”66″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_pro_masonry” size=”180″ padding=”10″ display_type_view=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”always” captions_enabled=”0″ captions_display_sharing=”1″ captions_display_title=”1″ captions_display_description=”1″ captions_animation=”slideup” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] FAMILY TARTANS Excerpt courtesy James McBain of McBain 22nd heredity Chief. Author of The Clan McBain (MacBean) Family tartans have a fairly recent history (if over 200 years is recent). Historical evidence of tartan material goes back to 1600