https://www.tartandictionary.org/tags/mearns/Recent content in Mearns on Tartan DictionaryHugoenSun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/baronage-angus-mearns/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/baronage-angus-mearns/<p>In 1856 David MacGregor Peter published <em>The Baronage of Angus and Mearns: comprising the genealogy of three hundred and sixty families … being a guide to the tourist and heraldic artist</em> — a county-by-county walk through the landed families of Angus and the Mearns, each article carrying arms, crest, motto, seat and anecdote. And, for <strong>thirty-eight of the families, a tartan</strong>: the sett spelled out stripe by stripe, exactly as James Logan had done twenty-five years earlier.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p>