Alice Bowyer

Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)

http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml

Son of John Ramsay, superintendent of Lord Hopetoun's lead-mines at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, and his wife, Alice Bower, a native of Derbyshire. The poet's fanciful biographer, George Chalmers, claimed Ramsay's descent from the Ramsays of Cockpen, a younger branch of the Ramsays of Dalhousie; but Burns Martin, in his Allan Ramsay: A Study of his Life and Works, has shown this to be quite untrue. Ramsay's father died either just before the poet was born, or very soon after. His mother married again, her second husband being a smallholder called Andrew Crichton.

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References

1. https://electricscotland.com/history/other/ramsay_allan.htm