Thread: rintoul - from scotland

It is indeed a very unusual name. Have you tried the guild of one name studies? if you google you will get the web address

Hi lisabyrne!

Out of interest:
From Surnames of Scotland by George F Back

"RINTOUL, Rentoul - from the old lands of Rintoul in the parish of Orwell, Kinross-shire. Between 1362-67 there is mention of an enclosed estate bearing the name Rentoule. The surname rarely occurs in public record. The family have avoided any disctincion.

Mount Rintoul in New Zealand is called after this family name. The place name appears as Rentowle in Gordon's map of Keanross-shyre, 1642."

None of this helps with your current research but it gives you a bit of history and shows it to be an od scottish name. As the name originated in Orwell this will point you in the right direction when search much earlier ancestors. As bigdon says, if you google Rintoul you get a lot of hits.

thank you. i have looked at the obvious places - most rintoul geneology online i can see is from canada and australia, have looked at genforum and ancestry , freereg and freebmd and scotlands people etc.. and only found one entry with 'Gordon Fraser' as middle name - cant link this to a marriage of rintoul with gordon or fraser. I also found the origins of the name and the town but again no link with gordon / fraser or any think else i have. I think the problem is i am not back far enough. will wait till that certificate comes from SP and that should give me another lead, was hoping that someone with ancestry access (i dont have an account at the moment) may be able to get a bit more info from the entry on there for James G F R .

i will wait for the certificate, was just hoping to get a lead as i have the bug for it ! (guess im a bit impatient too.)

thanks again for your help
best wishes and Kind regards
L xx