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.
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Name Distribution of Ramsey Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ramsey families
 373 - 743  125 - 372 |
 1 - 124  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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
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Ramsey Family Origin
Ramsey Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Ramsey
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Ramsey Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Ramsey Civil War Service Records
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