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Storey Connection with the Olgilvie Clan We can wear the Ogilvie tartan at any time. I would avoid displaying some versions of their badge however; it is of a naked woman behind a portcullis. A Family could become a Sept of another clan in order to seek it's protection. Most authorities agree (but not all on the Net) that the name is British. The Ancient British of the North were either those of Strathclyde or the Picts themselves, before the Scots Gaelic conquest from Ireland. The family originate in Angus and the Mearns, one of the seven ancient Pictish British kingdoms before the Scots. The root means High or Large. So there is a name connection to The Northumbrian English who ruled what is now Lowland Scotland up to the borders of Fife, near to Angus. As a clan they had nothing to do with the Strathclyde British. They were Royalist and fought for the Stuarts. Their chiefs are the Lords Airlie, who had nothing to do with the later Borderers. But individual Ogilvies did hold prominent positions in the Scots hierarchy, and by the 16th century on the Border. The only thing I can think of is one of their knights, like Sir Robert Ogilvy, taking a Storey group under his wing. That could lead to a commitment. But I find no records of such.