MACBEAN (MODERN) Choose:By the metre The MacColl tartan was produced

The MacColl tartan was produced by Wilson's of Bannockburn in 1797 under the name of 'Bruce'

There are two Clans of the name associated with districts as far apart as Dumbarton and Lewis and they have no family connection with each other

The association was not always a happy one and the 'broken' MacEwans settled in various parts of Lennox

"When my great-great-grandfather

The sett for this once powerful Lowland family first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum

MACBEAN (MODERN) Choose:By the metre The MacColl tartan was producedMacBains, MacBeans, and MacVeans are all forms of the same name possibly from the same origin as the early Scottish King, Donald Ban. The principle family is MacBean of Kinchyle from the northern end of Loch Ness. The MacBains are closely associated with Mackintosh and this is apparent in the design of the tartan. A piece of the MacBean tartan went to the moon and back in Apollo XII in Nov. 1969 with Cdr Alan L Bean.