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Historical References

"RAIT, RATTT, RATE. This surname is taken from different localities and was assumed in different parts of the country by persons not related to one another. There are places named Rait in Nairn and in Perth and Raith in Fife and in Ayrshire. The family of Rait of that Ilk took its name from the old castle of Rait beside Geddes, and disappeared from the North, c. 1400. Sir Gervase de Rathe, knight, was constable of Invemairn, 1292, and as Gervays de Rate rendered homage, 1296 (Bain, n, 579, 793). In the following year the king of England committed to Andrew Rate all the lands of Gervase Rate, his brother, in Scotland, for which he received a safe conduct to travel in Scotland on the king's business (ibid., 893, 961). In 1299 Andreas de Raath witnessed a charter by the earl of Buchan (RAA., i, p. 165). Several of the name rendered homage, 1296. John de Ratis witnessed lease of property in vill of Glesbany, 1321 (SCM., n, p. 319). John de Rate made an agreement with the abbot and convent of Scon, 1332 (Scon, 163), and John Rait, bishop of Aberdeen, died in 1355 after a short episcopate (REA., i, p. xxx). Henry of Rate witnessed instrument of resignation, 1446 (REB., i, 109), and David Rat was citizen of Brechin, 1471 (ibid., i, 193). Gavin Rath was commissary of William Scheves, archdeacon of St. Andrews, 1477 (SBR., p. 261), and Andrew Rayt held a tenement in Glasgow, 1487 (REG., p. 454). Rait of Hallgreen in the Mearns were an old family there. Raitht 1470, Real 1610, Reyth 1493. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Rait Genealogy

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