Looking for RAYBURN...septs, etc??

**angerli** · 26th July 20, 09:37 AM

Hope someone can help me out, looking for a friend. Can’t get into the STA site. THANKS!

**Steve Ashton** · 26th July 20, 11:46 AM

Your wording is a bit unclear.

If you are trying to access the Scottish Tartans Authority I just checked and can't find anything wrong.
The Scottish Register of Tartan is also working fine.

Both of these are fine for looking up a Tartan if you know its name.

But if you are looking for history behind the family name Rayburn you will need to look in other sites.

It is usually best to find out where within Scotland the family comes from. That opens up local history sites too.

**Bruce Scott** · 26th July 20, 02:18 PM

Raeburn: Very little is known about the origin of the tartan other than that it first appeared in the trade lists of Ross's and Johnston's around 1930. It bears a family resemblance to the MacLeod illustrated in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842 but the yellow bands are considerably narrower and there is no central red stripe. The name derives from the old lands of Rayburn in the Parish of Dunlop in Ayrshire. From:https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...tails?ref=3436

Black, in The Surnames of Scotland, has Ryburn (with variants Raeburn, Rayburn, Reburn and Reyburn) "From the old lands of Ryburn in the Parish of Dunlop, Ayrshire."