Origins of the Scottish Surname of Hope - Section 10
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10. Hope Family Tartan
Until very recent times the control and Register of Tartans was in the hands of competing private organisations resulting in a very unsatisfactory situation. This has now been taken in hand by the Scottish Government and the Register has been taken out of private hands and is now under the wing of the National Archives of Scotland and is available on line at http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk. Enter "Hope" in the searchbox and you should get a selection of nine tartans. Previously the tartan shown below was known as the Hope tartan but as in dicated on the above Tartan Register this tartan is in fact the tartan of the Hopetoun branch and is a Corporate tartan. This is the tartan worn by the guides at Hopetoun House. The very distinctive feature of this tartan is the double yellow vertical and horizontal lines.
The caption on the above example is incorrect and the fact is that there is no Hope Family Tartan per se. The Clan Hope Society at http://www.clanhope.org have chosen one of the Hope-Vere tartans namely Hope-Vere/Weir #2 as the society tartan. This can be seen to good effect on the photograph page of the website. The Hope-Vere family are a branch of the Hopetoun family and are descended from Charles Hope (1710-1791) a brother of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun. A basic family tree showing the connections between the Craighall, Hopetoun, Hope-Vere and Hope-Johnstone families is below.
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