Genes Reunited was good when I first started, but now they match me with so many Hot Matches, its hard to keep up !!
So I tend not to look at GR very often.
I will have a closer look tonight
Peter Raitt - ships'carpenter
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sheep
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jen wilson
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Not funny! No one, other than my mother, has called me by my real name for many years. I just wish I had lied when I filled in my details on GR. I can't find a way of changing it now.
So, on the Raitts, you know what I know. Except that I am not sure whether or not I have told you about Alexander and Robert, youngest sons of James Raitt and Christian Crighton - or not as it turns out. Apparently they were the sons of James Raitt and Eliza Sheriffs and luckily for the future genealogist, the Kirk elders took James to task for his misdemeanours and the records are still in existence. It makes me wonder about my own great great grandmother who was younger again than these last two boys and born when Christian would have been forty nine. So far we have found nothing to say that there was any other possible mother for her. Eliza Sheriffs married someone else and presumably had her husband's children so I am counting her out. What a saint Christian must have been to bring up at least two children who were nothing to do with her.
Jen
So, on the Raitts, you know what I know. Except that I am not sure whether or not I have told you about Alexander and Robert, youngest sons of James Raitt and Christian Crighton - or not as it turns out. Apparently they were the sons of James Raitt and Eliza Sheriffs and luckily for the future genealogist, the Kirk elders took James to task for his misdemeanours and the records are still in existence. It makes me wonder about my own great great grandmother who was younger again than these last two boys and born when Christian would have been forty nine. So far we have found nothing to say that there was any other possible mother for her. Eliza Sheriffs married someone else and presumably had her husband's children so I am counting her out. What a saint Christian must have been to bring up at least two children who were nothing to do with her.
Jen
Names: Howe, Shaw, Raitt, Milne, Forsyth, Daniel, Hay, Jaffrey, McDonald, McKenzie, McBeath, Duncan, Smith, Crichton, Birnie, Robertson, Craighead, Alexander, Mitchel, Martin, Black, Laurenson, Murdo, Seymour.
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Re: Peter Raitt - ships'carpenter
Hi Jen and Martin,
If you are still watching TS, the ANESFHS has published the MI booklet for the Kirkyard of Kintore and I just received my copy! It has the MI's for Ann Rait's grandparents William Rait and Elizabeth Rhind of Dalweary and Ann's uncle James Rait and his wife Agnes Rhind. There are also Mi's for assorted children and grandchildren who are buried there too. In the Appendix, there is an inscription for Alexander Rait, born 1733. He would have been Ann's great uncle.
Just after the incriptions there is a note that the above along with their ancestors were tennants of Dalweary, Kintore it is believed for 400 years!
You'll probably laugh, but the only thing around here that is 400 years old is the bedrock that my house is built on!
Carol
If you are still watching TS, the ANESFHS has published the MI booklet for the Kirkyard of Kintore and I just received my copy! It has the MI's for Ann Rait's grandparents William Rait and Elizabeth Rhind of Dalweary and Ann's uncle James Rait and his wife Agnes Rhind. There are also Mi's for assorted children and grandchildren who are buried there too. In the Appendix, there is an inscription for Alexander Rait, born 1733. He would have been Ann's great uncle.
Just after the incriptions there is a note that the above along with their ancestors were tennants of Dalweary, Kintore it is believed for 400 years!
You'll probably laugh, but the only thing around here that is 400 years old is the bedrock that my house is built on!
Carol
Looking for: Clerihew, Longmuir/Longmore, Chalmers, Milne, Barclay in Newhills,
Munro, Cadenhead, Raitt, Ririe/Reary
Munro, Cadenhead, Raitt, Ririe/Reary