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Tartan Details - Alexander of Menstry Dress

The information held within The Scottish Register of Tartans for the "Alexander of Menstry Dress" tartan is shown below. 

STA ref: 6716
STWR ref: none
Designer: Alexander, Raydon Eiland
Tartan date: 01/01/2005
Registration date: This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category: Clan/Family
Restrictions:
Registration notes: The old spelling of Menstry (with a 'y') is used to avoid any impression that 'Alexander of Menstrie' refers to a baronial landholding. Designed by Raydon Eiland Alexander of San Antonio, Texas in 2002, it is aimed at the many Alexander descendants from Menstrie (at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Clackmannanshire). The purple and green block in this design represent the heather and grass of the Ochils. The white and blue of #47 (Register of Tartans reference) have been reversed, echoing the flag and arms of Nova Scotia, founded by one of the most famous Alexanders of Menstrie - the first Earl of Stirling. The ten threads of blue are for the ten Alexanders (nine siblings and their father) who crossed the Atlantic to Virginia in 1669 and from whom most of this surname in the south of the USA are likely to have descended.
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