ROBERT RINTOULL
ROBERT RINTOULL
b. c. 1682
d. 31 January 1755 of consumption.
Married MARGARET ANDERSON in Kelly, in the Parish of Abernethy, Scotland on the 18 August 1704.
Please note:
* It is not expected that MARGARET was the mother to all of these children. It is more likely that Robert remarried.
* Rott is assumed to be the short form for Robert.
Children of ROBERT RINTOULL:
i JAMES RINTOULL, baptised 21 October 1705 at Keltiebridge
ii MARAGRET RINTOULL, baptised 21 December 1706 at Keltiebridge
iii JEAN RINTOULL, baptised 14 December 1709 at Keltiebridge
iv WILLIAM RINTOUL, baptised 18 November 1711, married ANN BROWN in Kelly, in the Parish of Cleish, Scotland on the 14 August 1741.
v ROBERT RINTOULL, baptised 13 September 1713 at Keltiebridge; d. 28 December 1762 of a fever in Kelty.
vi DAVID RINTOULL, baptised 7 November 1714 at Keltiebridge.
vii SARAH RINTOULL, baptised 6 November 1716 at Keltiebridge; d. 1 December 1762 of consumption in Kelty.
viii ELIZABETH RINTOULL, baptised 8 August 1718 at Keltiebridge.
ix ISABELL RINTOULL, baptised 6 March 1720 at Keltiebridge.
x JAMES RINTOULL, baptised 2 July 1721 at Kelty.
xi JOHN RINTOULL, baptised 7 November 1722 at Kelty.
xii ISABELL RINTOULL, baptised 10 May 1724 at Kelty.
xiii ALEXANDER RINTOULL, baptised 21 January 1726. Married Euphan Braun.
xiv ABRAHAM RINTOULL, baptised 27 April 1727 at Kelty.
xv MICHAEL RINTOULL, baptised 3 November 1728 at Kelty.
Marriage Certificate for ROTT RINTOULL and MARGARET ANDERSON available here. Extract below:
The marriage of Robert was recorded in the old parochial registers of Cleish:
'Robert Rintoull (sic) in Abernethy parish and Margaret Anderson in this contracted 12th July married 18th August 1704.'
The history of the Rintoul name (taken froms www.surnamedb.com):
This ancient Scottish surname is one of those which have managed for centuries to avoid the limelight. Indeed they could almost be described as one of the 'lost tribes of Britain', so quiet have they been over the centuries. The Rintoul and Rentoul nameholders derive their name from a place originally known as 'the lands of Rintoul, in the parish of Orwell, Kinrossshire'. It is said that the early charters refer to an 'enclosed estate' which between the years 1362 and 1640, bore the name 'Rentoule', but few surname recordings are to be found from the period. What is certain is that the surname when eventually it was recorded, more than most has an epicentre, in this case at the villages of Orwell and Cleish, in Kinross. It would seem that even in a country such as Scotland where the clan life tended to keep the families 'at home', and to take precedence over everything else, the Rintoul's were even more secluded. It is said that some Rintouls claim Huguenot descent, but this does not seem likely. The name, at least not in this spelling, does not appear to be recorded in France, but in any case the dates of charters preceed the Huguenot period by at least two hundred years. Examples of the surname recordings include John Rintoul, who married Martha Rid at Orwell on December 20th 1695, Abraham Rintoul, who married Margrett Stedman at Cleish, Kinross, on December 23rd 1763, and David Rentoul, christened at Cleish, on April 26th 1767. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alexander Rentowle, which was dated 1642, the records of the county of Kinross, during the reign of King Charles 1, known as 'The Martyr', 1625 - 1649. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
Scottish Ancestry Research for Rentoul:
"It was thought possible that the Robert Rentoul who married Margaret Anderson was the son of Robert Rentoul who fled from France to Scotland in 1685, but, unfortunately the old parochial registers of Cleish have no extant records prior to 1700, and the old parochial registers of Abernethy no extant records prior to 1690, therefore, it was not possible to search for the birth of Robert Rentoul in either of these parishes.'