Albatrossity in Scotland
Our final days in Scotland were spent near Edinburgh, although we didn’t get into the city since there was some large festival going on at the time and it seemed to be a zoo. On the way down to Edinburgh from Aberdeen we stopped and visited an ancestral site. My great-grandfather was born there, but when he was a young man in the mid 19th century, he emigrated to America. We shared a first name as well. My cousin,who is a dedicated family genealogist, researched the records and found the home site near Kinross in Perthshire. So we were armed with a map, and we proceeded to seek out that site and get some pictures to send to the rest of the family.
The ancestral estate name apparently dates back to the 1300’s, when the name was spelled Rentowle. What was left at the time we visited was a run-down barn and a sealed up two-story house. It is not clear if my great grandfather was born in this structure, but he was baptized in Orwell Parish in Milnathort, about three miles east of this site. A look at the most recent Google Earth images (from June 2018 and March 2020) would indicate that these structures have been leveled and something else is being constructed on the site.
House and barn as seen from the road,
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