1843 - Yes, date unknown
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Name |
Agnes Rait |
Birth |
16 Oct 1843 |
Christening |
16 Dec 1843 |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
Yes, date unknown |
Person ID |
I79753 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
12 Jun 2016 |
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Notes |
- In 1904, after the death of her niece, Eileen Rait (her brother, Arthur John, having died in 1902 and his son Walter in 1900), Agnes inherited Anniston House. However, whether she actually lived there or not is not known, since in 1909, although titled of Anniston, her residence is given as Kinblethmont, near Arbroath, the family residence of her husband Henry. At some point (presumably after the death of her husband on 14 November 1908 at Kinblethmont and in any event by 1919) she moved to Annesley House in Arbroath which had been built in the town by the Kinblethmont family. She was visited there by Queen Mary in 1921 who planted a rosemary bush in the garden. Well-known in Forfarshire for the interest she took in benevolent institutions, Agnes died at Annesley on 18 January 1932 and was buried in the private burying-ground of the Lindsay Carnegie family at Chapelton of Kinblethmont. With her death - last member of one of the oldest and best-known families in the district which "traces its descent from Sir Archibald Rait, who in the reign of King Robert III, was forced, on account of the killing of the Thane of Caddell to flee to the Mearns under the protection of Lord Keith" - the Raits of Anniston line ceased. Following her death, she bequeathed Anniston House to her cousin Captain Bruce Ashley Ogilvy, but after an estate sale of the contents on 5 April 1933, he demolished it in 1935 (see Raitt Residences - Anniston House). She left Annesley House and its furniture to her cousin Lady Maude Whyte, but it was sold on 1 November 1832, with a sale of the antiques and furniture contents taking place on 23 November 1932.
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