Early Autumn Road Trip Drive To Visit Rait In Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of an early Autumn road trip drive, with Scottish music, on a minor road crossing the Sidlaw Hills through the Glen of Rait, on ancestry, history visit to the village of Rait in Perthshire. The surname Rait, which was first found in Belgium,, 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 Dunmfries, 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.
Alexander Rait, aged 28, a farm labourer, arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship Thomas Harrison in 1842; David Rait settled in Nova Scotia, Canada, sometime between 1772 and 1838; Robert Rait settled in New York, America, in 1833; Helen Rait arrived in New York, America, in 1872.

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