Tour Scotland Photograph J Ramsay Gravestone Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of 5522 Private J. Ramsay, Scottish Horse Regiment, gravestone in the cemetery in Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland. Died 18th November 1916, aged 21. The name Ramsay originated from a place in Huntingdonshire, England, and Sir Symon de Ramesie was one of the many Norman knights who accompanied King David I when he returned to Scotland in 1124. Sir Symon was granted land in Midlothian but by the 13th century the family had become established not only in Fife, Dalhousie, Midlothian but also in Angus and Banff on the Moray Firth. Neis de Ramsay Bamff, near Alyth in Perthshire, was a physician to King Alexander II in the first half of the 13th century. William of Dalhousie was one of the signatories to the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.



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