RAIT, William 5th of Drumnagair and Hallgreen 1
- Born: About 1505
- Marriage (1): LUNDIE, Daughter 1
- Marriage (2): GRAY, Agnes 1
- Died: by 1561 1
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William married Daughter LUNDIE, daughter of Robert LUNDIE of Benholm and Elizabeth ERSKINE.1 (Daughter LUNDIE was born about 1507.)
Marriage Notes:
"William Rait, the fifth Laird. Tradition says that he died at the Battle of Pinkie, near Musselburgh, Midlothian in 1547 (he was certainly dead by 1561). He married first a daughter of Lundie of Benholm...."
At this point, the succession to the lairdship of Hallgreen becomes very complicated. The Scottish naming system, adhered to by the Hallgreen Raits through the 15th and 16th centuries, whereby the eldest son and heir receives his paternal grandfather's forename, suggests that the next laird should have been a David Rait. As there is no evidence of one such, it is possible that he died at an early stage, possibly accompanying his father at Pinkie.
A petition of unknown date supported by William, the fifth laird, and his brother John, as servitors (executors?) of their father David's will, gives the succession to David's 'nephew' William, which was then claimed by that William in 1557. It is not known if David's only known brother James had a son called William. Although the petition uses the word 'nevoy', or nephew, to describe William, it is surely probable that the word 'oy', or grandson, was intended, making William the sixth laird the (second) son of William the fifth laird and younger brother of the hypothetical David, and for the convenience of telling the story of the Hallgreen Raits I will assume that the latter is correct.
The fifth laird's second (or third) son John (called 'John the elder' in legal documents) was a bailie in Inverbervie in 1561, and had sasine on lands in Inverbervie from his mother, Agnes Gray (who re-married, to Gilbert Law of Grayshill, after William died). John died by 1606, having had two sons, John (called 'the younger') who, in 1580, was living in Grayshill, Inverbervie, and Robert who, in 1606, lived in Montrose, and, having been made heir to his father in 1606 in all his lands in Inverbervie, in 1607 resigned these rights to Andrew Rait, the bailie (possibly his cousin, mentioned below.)"
from The Raitt Stuff 1
William next married Agnes GRAY.1 (Agnes GRAY was born about 1515.)
Marriage Notes:
"William Rait, the fifth Laird .... married first a daughter of Lundie of Benholm, and then Agnes Gray."
from The Raitt Stuff 1
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