Armour family

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Also slightly unrelated question - I'm trying to see if the Armour family is associated with a clan but I'm not having any luck on the typical clan sites - does anyone have any information on that?

Forget about clans unless and until you find a definite link to a descendant of a clan. It is a complete fantasy that every Scot belongs, or ever belonged, to a clan.

The clans were a social feature of the Highlands, and Armour is not a clan or a Highland surname. There could possibly have been Armours who were members of a clan, but if the Brigadoon industry does not have a 'If-your-name-is-Armour-you-belong-to-clan-X' anywhere then you are descended from one of the majority of Lowland Scots who have no clink to any clan.

Thanks very much for such helpful advice, it's nice to know I can drop the search for a clan!  Is the same true for tartans?  Does the Armour family have a tartan we generally identify with, or is that another concept that isn't as relevant for Lowland Scots?  Thank you very much!

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Thanks very much for such helpful advice, it's nice to know I can drop the search for a clan!  Is the same true for tartans? 

Yes.

Does the Armour family have a tartan we generally identify with, or is that another concept that isn't as relevant for Lowland Scots? 

As far as I know there is no Armour tartan.

The authoritative source for tartans is the Scottish Register of Tartans https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/index.

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Thanks Colin.    I have Andrew Wylie 1677  -1781 and Jean Muckle. 1681. as. Margaret Wylies parents.  I am  descended through Andrew Armour ,John Armour ,Stewart Armour to Elizabeth Armour. b1828 my gg grandmother who married James McWhinnie. 
    . Thanks again. Tineke

o wow... yours sounds a lot like mine I have. I'm just finding info on my family tree.
Andrew Wylie 1677, Jean Muckle 1681 and it says HIS parents are Robert Wylie 1644 and Jean London 1648. and I have found a lot of Armours, Wylies and a few Muckles.