JK Munro Studio, Top of New Row, Dunfermline
We don’t have a written Ramsay family memoir but we do have some terrific photographs. I am grateful for Shirley Skelcher seeking them out and sharing them with my Mother. Between them they have pieced together snippets of information to confirm who they are and possible dates. Perhaps the fourteen cousins identified in the Australian connection could have compiled a generational memoir but that moment has passed.
It’s an incomplete record so messages with errors and omissions would be welcome. Shirley and Mum didn’t have the internet tools we know have for searching out the loose ends. The work on the family tree using Ancestry has helped me with the factual record but the stories from the far-flung family are lost in the mists of time. It is hoped that future generations will be able to access the photographs and gain some sense of the lives experienced in the Twentieth Century.
Shirley writes “Well! Doesn’t she look severe? Perhaps the family had been playing her up that day.”
It is not dated but this is as far back as these photographs go.
Jas Ward Studio, Peebles
This is Auntie Mary and Uncle Walter to my Mother and Shirley.
“from Chrissie Toms, Grandmother on father’s side (John Ramsay)”
The eldest three.
Back: Margaret and Christine
Middle: Jimmy and Robert
Front: Ann and Helen
James, or Jimmy, features in the next page.
John Ramsay
Lorna Fermer writes “My grandfather, John Ramsay, was superintendent of his local Socialist Sunday School [external link to Wikipedia] so these ten commandments are very familiar to me. I would like contact with the Walthamstow Vestry Musuem.”