The Ramsay Family, "Reedmakar's Close", Forfar, circa 1900
Move your cursor for the names of family members that my mother (Ina Macdonald) identified. She failed to recognise only one.
This large Victorian family is presided over by the widowed grandmother (Joan Cochrane Ramsay), who ran the Forfar family business of reed and camb making after her husband died. The traditional business died a death with the advent of WW2 when Bob Ramsay revitalised it by moving into ladder manufacturing. The main business premises are still up the "Reedmakars' Close" in West High Street. My maternal grannie, Mary Cochrane Ramsay (still unmarried) is at the back, far left. She was to marry Alexander Macdonald and have seven surviving children - James (Jim), Hannah, Lavinia (Ina), Eleanor, Susan, Violet and John (Jack).
The Ramsay Family, "Reedmakar's Close", Forfar, circa 1900
Move your cursor for the names of family members that my mother (Ina Macdonald) identified. She failed to recognise only one.
This large Victorian family is presided over by the widowed grandmother (Joan Cochrane Ramsay), who ran the Forfar family business of reed and camb making after her husband died. The traditional business died a death with the advent of WW2 when Bob Ramsay revitalised it by moving into ladder manufacturing. The main business premises are still up the "Reedmakars' Close" in West High Street. My maternal grannie, Mary Cochrane Ramsay (still unmarried) is at the back, far left. She was to marry Alexander Macdonald and have seven surviving children - James (Jim), Hannah, Lavinia (Ina), Eleanor, Susan, Violet and John (Jack).