Parents

2 John MacDonald, agricultural labourer

Not married to Anne Ramsay

3 Anne Ramsay

b 4 Aug 1843, Elgin, Moray

d 11 Feb 1910, Lossiemouth

Grandparents

6 William Ramsay of Elgin, baker

b 27 Jan 1812, Urquhart, Moray

m 10 Dec 1840, Elgin

7 Isabella Allan

b 14 Apr 1810, Elgin

d 4 Feb 1893, Lossiemouth

Great-grandparents

12 William Ramsay of Urquhart, blacksmith

m Dec 1802, Urquhart

13 Ann Brown

b 16 Jun 1775, Urquhart

d 27 Mar 1859, Urquhart

14 Alexander Allan of Elgin, farmer

m 27 Jun 1805, Elgin

15 Isabella Lamb

b Elgin, bap 16 Mar 1783, Elgin

d 8 Jul 1871, Forres, Moray

Great-great-grandparents

26 Alexander Brown of Urquhart, farmer

27 Janet Brander

30 Alexander Lamb of Elgin, farmer

31 Christian Hay

Sources

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald (London, 1977)

Statutory death registers, Drainie, Anne Ramsay

Statutory death registers, Drainie, Isabella (Allan) Ramsay

Statutory death registers, Urquhart, Ann (Brown) Ramsay

Statutory death registers, Forres, Isabella (Lamb) Allan

Elgin parish registers

Urquhart parish registers

1851 census returns, Drainie

1851 census returns, Urquhart

1861 census returns, Elgin

Notes

The parents of Ann (Brown) Ramsay are given in her 1859 death record as William Brown and Janet Brander. However, this appears to be an error for Alexander Brown and Janet Brander, who are the parents in the 1775 baptism record of Ann Brown. There was also a Peter Brown who died at Urquhart in 1858, whose death record identifies his parents as Alexander Brown and Janet Brander.

Numbers 28 and 29 were probably James Allan and Elspeth Duncan. See www.findagrave.com/memorial/191184144/alexander-allan. However, the inscription is not clear enough to read from the image and it is not apparent whether the details in the accompanying text are all taken from the stone.