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THE RAMSAY FAMILY
A PARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THEIR
EARLY HISTORY FROM 1770
AND
RECORD OF THE FIRST
GENERATION BORN IN
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
AS COMPILED BY
THOMAS L. RAMSAY
KENSINGTON, P. E.
Ver. 2.0
February 6, 2023
John and Mary (Shunnan) RAMSAY:
The sons settled as follows:
• Donald - at Low Point in Lot 13.
• John - Cape Malpeque Lot 16.
• Nell - Shipyard Point - Lot 18.
• Archibald - Beech Point Lot 18. The cellar of this house is still visible a few yards down the hill from the present stone house.
• Angus - went to the U.S.A. it is believed.
• Malcolm – Lot 17.
• Malcolm - the nephew - at Indian River, hear Hamilton. House later occupied by John Sinclair.
• Edward - the nephew - Lot 18. On the present Kier estate near Malpeque wharf. He later moved to Oyster Cove and gave his home to the first Minister that came to Malpeque (church founded in 1800).
• Edward also was the first elder to be a member of the Presbytery.
• Norman McLeod Ramsay - the youngest son of Archibald built the present Stones House at Beech Point. Norman had gone to Dalhousie, N.B. to enter the lumbering business but later came back to his father home and built the stone house. After this house was built Norman stepped on a nail in the attic. Blood poisoning set in ant was necessary to amputate his leg. He died shortly afterwards.
• Mary Ramsay – eldest child of John, second son, married Capt. John Gordon* who participated in the American Revolutionary War. They were the parents of George and James Gordon, the Missionary Martyrs in Erromango, Vanuatu, New Hebrides, and were the great grandparents of the present Robert Gordon of the C.N.R. in Moncton.
• Edward Ramsay – fourth son of Neil was the father of Elizabeth who later married James Ramsay, father of Rev. E. H. Ramsay. They lived in what is known as the “Old House” at Howard Ramsay’s farm on Shipyard point.