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The Baxter Tartan was designed in the year of 1856.‘Baxter’, quite simply, is the Scottish form of the equally common English surname of ‘Baker’, but there is nothing common or mundane about the exploits and achievements of the generations of Baxters who have contributed, and continue to contribute, to Scotland’s colourful story. Very early records carry the name as ‘Pistor’, the Latin word for baker, but ‘Baxter’ actually derives from the Old English word ‘baecestre’, and the later Middle English word ‘bakstere’, meaning a baker. Variations of the name include Baxtar, Bacster, Baxstare, Baxstar, and Bakster, while Scottish Gaelic forms include MacBaxtar, MacBaxter, MacBhaxter and MacBacasdar. Originally an occupational surname, a family of Baxters are believed to have at one time served as bakers in the former royal residence at Forfar, but not all Baxters were necessarily bakers.The name is found throughout the length and breadth of Scotland, with a particular concentration in Fife, where it was first recorded in the early years of the thirteenth century when a Reginald Baxter witnessed a gift to the church at Wemyss.