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Name: Archibald Ramsay
Christening Date: 01 Jan 1756
Christening Place: CAMPBELTOWN,ARGYLL,SCOTLAND
Father's Name: John Ramsay
Mother's Name: Margaret Taylor
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11507-7
System Origin: Scotland-ODM
GS Film number: 1041004
Citing this Record "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYZR-Q4W : accessed 19 Feb 2014), John Ramsay in entry for Archibald Ramsay, 01 Jan 1756; citing CAMPBELTOWN,ARGYLL,SCOTLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 1041004.

Archibald was born in Uggadah Begg.

Name: Archibald Ramsay
Year: 1770
Place: Prince Edward Island
Source Publication Code: 2330.20
Primary Immigrant: Ramsay, Archibald
Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of death. Date and place of birth, country of origin, and other genealogical information may also be provided. Source Bibliography: GALLANT, PETER AND NELDA MURRAY. Scottish Immigrants to Prince Edward Island, from Death and Obituary Notices in Prince Edward Island Newspapers 1835-1910 and A Listing of Some Scots Immigrants Based on Tombstone Transcriptions from Various Cemeteries in Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown, PEI: The Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society, 1990. 107p. Page: 3

He is probably the Archibald Ramsay who received a government land grant for Pasture Lot 104 in Princetown in 1789 (GOVERNMENT GRANTS; C', P' & G'TOWN, PEIGS PUBLICATION). He was in the 1798 census in Princetown, with a household of 7: 3 boys and 2 girls under 16, and an older couple.

Archibald and his wife Helen Montgomery followed the traditional naming practice, with a daughter Mary after her maternal grandmother, John for his paternal grandfather, Margaret for her paternal grandmother and Hugh for his maternal grandfather. Their son Donald could have been for an uncle on either side, and Archibald and Helen after their parents. Norman McLeod was named after Helen's brother-in-law, a sea captain who was lost at sea.

Beach Point Ramsays - from their gravestone:
Archibald Ramsay Esq of Beach Point a native of Argyleshire Scotland who emigrated to this Island in 1770, died March 1839, aged 83 years
Also his beloved wife Helen, a native of the same place, who emigrated in 1771.

See also Past and Present of PEI, "The paternal grandfather, Archibald Ramsay, who was a native of Scotland, settled at Prince Edward Island in 1770"

Norman Ramsay died without a will in 1860, and named on the release and quit claim were his brothers and sisters, and brothers-in-law as well as the children of his brother John, who predeceased him: Hon David Ramsay, Beech Point; Archibald the elder, Bay de Chaleur, NB; Mary McEwen, New London; Margaret McEwen, widow of Joseph; Rev Robert Patterson and wife Helen; Hugh Ramsay, Restigouche, NB. Mary's husband wasn't listed, but Benjamin McEwen also signed his agreement at the end of the document. Lad Registry Office, Land Conveyances vol 78 pg 100

Archibald's family has been fairly well documented.