Site map and recent updates
This site map gives an overview of all the pages in this site and supplements the navigation pane at the top of each page. Every page could, in fact, be on the navigation pane, but this would make it fairly unwieldy, thus I have given only the site map (and home page) from whence others are accessible. The little home icon at the botton of each page also returns you to the site map - useful where the pages are lengthy to save having to scroll back to the top.
The pages on the site are not necessarily in the order given in the menu below, but I have tried to give some semblance of hierarchy and hopefully provided sufficient links on each page to other relevant pages. If I have missed some obvious links then please let me know. Clicking on the blue page titles in the menu below will take you to the appropriate page. Although on other pages these hyperlinks are underlined, I have chosen not to do so on this page for the sake of (what I hope is) clarity.
Additionally I have provided underneath the menu an indication of the major updates to the site to show what has been recently added or modified. In the menu itself I give the word NEW to indicate what pages are newly added and the word MODS to show that major modifications, additions or corrections have been made to that page. If I have only made insignificant changes then I have not specifically indicated them, though I have mentioned them in the site update list. And right at the bottom of this page I note what material I hope to add in further updates.
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Home/Introduction to this site
Raitt name (meaning, variations, people)
Raitt Coats of Arms and Crests
Other Raitt arms (mainly Bavarian example)
Related Coats of Arms (families related to Raitts)
Other Coats of Arms (more distant ancestors and relatives)
Heraldic symbolism of Raitt Coats of Arms
Raitt context (how our family history fits in)
Biography of Gervaise de Rathe
Other de Rathes (possible family members)
Letters referring to Andrew de Rathe
Rait Castle - owners and occupants
Rait Castle photos MODS
Raitt residences (Hallgreen, Red Castle, Anniston House, Dunnottar, Drumtochty)
Other Raitt locations (places associated with the name - Rait, Raitts, Raith, Rath, Rhaetia)
Features/places named after Raitts
World Raitts (quick access to country top pages)
Angus Raitts MODS
Hallgreen Raits of Angus (branches in Cononsyth, Pitforthie, Inverkeilor)
Alexander Raitt (Secretary to Earl of Mar)
Arbroath Raitts (John Raitt/Jean Meikison and James Raitt)
Alexander Raitt (elder brother of John - wife Mary Stormont)
John Raitt (1805) (and Elizabeth Dorward - my great great grandparents)
Elizabeth Dorward Raitt (my great grand aunt, married W. R. Doig)
Margaret Phillips Raitt (my great grand aunt, remained single)
David Dorward Raitt (my paternal great grandfather)
David Raitt (eldest son of David Dorward Raitt) MODS
John Purvis Raitt (youngest son of David Dorward Raitt) MODS
William Raitt (middle son of DDR and my paternal grandfather)
William Raitt’s children (my uncles, aunts and cousins)
David Raitt (my family)
Raitts of Liff, Benvie and Invergowrie
Hallgreen Rait family tree (includes Angus descendants)
Aberdeenshire Raitts MODS
Lanarkshire Raitts (Raitts from Arbroath; Raitts in Coatbridge)
Raitt families in the 1841 and 1851 censuses
Raitt Christian names and occupations in 1841
Early Raitt family trees in Angus
All Raitts in early history (or many of them)
Religious Raitts MODS
Raitts in the 1st World War MODS
Raitt Master Mariners (being a seaman in days of sail)
Requirements for Certificates of Competency
Arbroath mariners (related to the Raitts)
Other Raitt mariners (not from Arbroath)
Raitt wrecks (the shipwrecks suffered by our ancestors)
Raitt relations (families my Raitt ancestors and relations married into)
Purvis family tree (my paternal great grandmother’s paternal side)
Wilkie family tree (my paternal great grandmother’s maternal side)
Scorgie tree (my paternal grandmother’s paternal side)
Sangster family tree (my paternal grandmother’s paternal side - includes Robertson)
Kelman family tree (my paternal grandmother’s paternal side - includes Lawrence)
Smith family tree (my paternal grandmother’s maternal side)
Willocks family tree (my paternal grandmother’s maternal side - includes Hutcheon and Doig)
Lindsay family (my maternal grandmother’s side)
Lindsay tree (my maternal grandmother's family tree)
Jean Lindsay (my maternal grandmother)
Ormonde family tree (my maternal grandmother’s first child)
Taylor tree (my maternal grandfather’s side)
McKee tree (my paternal aunt’s side)
Carroll tree (my paternal uncle’s side)
Guest tree (my paternal uncle’s side)
McAneny tree (my paternal uncle’s side)
West tree (my paternal aunt’s side)
Hanan family (my maternal granduncle side in New Zealand)
Maternal ancestors (my female bloodline - Skair, Mollison, Stewart, Duncan, Drummond, Lindsay)
American Raitts (including Rait, Reat, Rhett)
Raitt name variations in early censuses
Raitt families in the 1880 US census
John (Dorward) Raitt (my paternal great grand-uncle)
James Dorward Raitt (my paternal great grand-uncle)
Elizabeth (Abbot) Raitt’s life story
Elizabeth Raitt’s story of the Blizzard of 1888
California Raitts (including descendants from Manitoba, New York, Aberdeen)
California Raitts from South Dakota (descendants of Granville Raitt from England)
Iowa Raitts from Maine (George Raitt from Maine and descendants)
Iowa Raitts from New York (Robert Raitt from Bovina and descendants)
Maine Raitts (Captain Alexander Raitt and descendants)
Maryland Raitts (John Raitt and descendants)
Michigan Raitts (the Raytowskys from Poland)
Mississippi Raitts (Thomas Raitt and descendants)
New Jersey Raitts (Samuel Bowden Raitt and descendants)
New York Raitts (different families there including my own) MODS
Bovina Raitts (descendants of Thomas Raitt in Delaware County, NY)
Virginia Reats (James Reat, silversmith, and family)
Pillars of Society (biographies of IL and ME relatives)
William Raitt, granite cutter (family from Aberdeen in IL, RI, CA)
Manitoba Raitts (William Raitt’s descendants from Scotland)
New Brunswick Raitts (Alexander Raitt and MN descendants)
William Raitt’s History of the Raitts
Quebec Raitts (David Raitts descendants from Fife, Scotland)
Australian Raitts MODS
English Raitts (top page)
Lyttelton Raitts (James Raitt’s descendants from Arbroath)
Nicaraguan Raitts (descended from Oswald Raitt of Nairn) MODS
South African Raitts (top page)
Genealogy and Register of Raitt Family up to 1683
Bavarian Raitt translation (English translation of manuscript)
Some Raitt family ancestors (photographs) MODS
Some Raits and Rhinds from Aberdeen MODS
Some modern Raitts and relations (photographs) MODS
Some Raitt family graves (photographs) MODS
My yDNA (Oxford Ancestors)
My mtDNA (Oxford Ancestors)
My YDNA (BritainsDNA)
My mtDNA (BritainsDNA)
My Ancestry DNA (Ancestry)
Raitt blue-eyed boys (and girls)
Statistical Accounts of Scotland
Other pages
Raitt anecdotes (stories about ancestors and relatives) MODS
Raitt blog (musings and commentaries) MODS
Raitt readings (various books I have read for background)
Raitt timeline (what was happening where when Raitts were around)
Raitt writings (poetry and short stories by various Raitts)
Scotland’s prehistory (life some 20.000 years ago)
Web sites (of interest for further research)
World Raitts (top page giving quick access to countries)
General Data Protection Regulation
Recent additions and updates
31 May 2019
• New page added for Perthshire Raitts
• New families added on Australian Raitts page
• New families added to Angus Raitts page
• Raitts in World War 1 added to
• New photos added to Rait Castle, Ancestors, Modern Raitts and Graves
• Two new stories added at bottom of Raitt Anecdotes
• New material added to David Raitt and John Purvis Raitt pages
• Aberdeenshire Raitts page updated again
• Ye olde Raitt shoppes page updated
• Nicaraguan Raitts page modified
• Additional family added to New York Raitts page
• New resource added at bottom of Religious Raitts page
• New blog entry
• Various minor corrections and additions made to several other pages
16 January 2019
• New page added of photos of various Raits and Rhinds related to James Rait of Keig
• Other photo pages updated, including Rait Castle
• New anecdote added to bottom of Raitt Anecdotes
• New book added to bottom of Raitt Readings
• New material added to David Raitt and John Purvis Raitt pages
• Aberdeenshire Raitts page updated again
• Kincardineshire Raitts page updated
• Manitoba Raitts page updated
• Canadian Raitts top page updated under British Columbia
• California Raitts page updated
• More Raitt ads added to Ye olde Raitt shoppes page
• Revised ethnicity estimate added to My Ancestry DNA page
• Various minor corrections and additions made to several other pages
Potential forthcoming additions
• Pages on Ohio, Montana, Texas Raitts
• Pages on Dundee Raitts
• More on Conon Raitts
• Pages for Irish, Indian and Jamaican Raitts
• Additional pages for Canadian and NZ Raitts
• More details of other California Raitts
• New material on Rhaetia
• Raitt name variations in British censuses
• Updating of family trees
• A possible link to the name Raat
• Details on the Raitts of Arbuthnott
• Individual pages for my cousin’s spouses’ families
• Individual pages for my American Raitt Scottish ancestors
• More detailed pages for related families such as Dorward, Stormont, Kinnear
• Gazetteer of place names associated with the families in Scotland
• History in the making at the time of the de Rathes
• Page on families that I am trying or intending to follow up on