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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,217,335 Historical Documents with Ramsey on Ancestry
- 668,269 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 369,482 Census and Voter Lists
- 87,889 Military Records
- 28,889 Immigration Records
- 1,062,806 Member Trees
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Number of Ramsey families
 373 - 743  125 - 372 |
 1 - 124  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ramsey families
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324 - 645 109 - 323 |
1 - 108 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ramsey families
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31 - 59 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ramsey census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Ramsey
- 2,138
- Confederate
- 1,036
- Union
- 1,102
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