Ramsey Family History
Ramsey Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire (now
part of Cambridgeshire), so called from Old English hramsa
‘wild garlic’ + eg ‘island’, ‘low-lying land’. There are
other places in England called Ramsey, but the one in
Huntingdonshire is almost certainly the source of the surname. The
usual spelling of the surname in Scotland is Ramsay.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ramsey
Name Distribution of Ramsey Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ramsey families
 324 - 645  109 - 323 |
 1 - 108  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ramsey families
|
31 - 59 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ramsey census records
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Ramsey Family Origin
Ramsey Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ramsey Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Ramsey families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Ramsey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ramsey census records
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Military Service by Ramsey
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