Tour Scotland Video Robert Ramsay Gravestone Howff Cemetery Dundee

Tour Scotland video of the Robert Ramsay, Brewer, gravestone in the Howff Graveyard in Dundee, Scotland.

Recorded in the spellings of Ramsay and Ramsey, this ancient and noble surname is of Anglo Saxon and Scottish origins. In all spellings it is locational either from places in Huntingdonshire and Essex in England, or from the lands of Ramsey in the parish of Whithorn, in the former county of Wigtown, Scotland, The first bearer of the name in Scotland was Simundus de Ramsia. He was a Norman baron from Huntingdonshire in England, who was a retainer of David, Earl of Huntingdon, the brother of King Alexander 1 of Scotland.

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