Old Photograph Rait Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage and houses in Rait Perthshire, Scotland. The surname Rait, also seen as Raitt and Rate, has been taken from different places all over the country. Nairn, Perth, and Ayrshire all have places named Rait, as well as Fife with Raith. A charter by John Comyn, cousin of the John Comyn killed by Robert the Bruce in Dunfries, 1306, Earl of Buchan, was witnessed by Andreas de Raath in 1299. A lease of property, for land in village of Glesbany, was witnessed in 1321by John de Ratis. It is recorded that in Scone, in 1332, an agreement between John de Rate and the abbot and convent was made, and after a brief episcopate, John Rait, bishop of Aberdeen died in 1355. David Rat was a recorded citizen of Brechin in 1471, Gavin Rath was commissary, in 1477, of William Scheves, archdeacon of St. Andrews, and in Glasgow, in 1487, Andrew Rayt was recorded as being in possession of a tenement. An old family in the Mearns area were the Raits of Hallgreen. Other recorded spellings of this name include Raitht, Reat, and Reyth.



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