Brief Life History of Walter John
When Walter John Ramsey was born on 16 October 1891, in Ninnes, South Australia, Australia, his father, Walter John Ramsey, was 26 and his mother, Emma Harrop, was 23. He married Laura Sylvia MEINCKE on 28 September 1921, in Mile End, South Australia, Australia. He died on 9 April 1976, in Kadina, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 84, and was buried in Kadina Cemetery, Kadina, South Australia, Australia.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Walter John Ramsey - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Walter John Ramsey
- Walter John Ramsey, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
1901
First Federal election.
1914
August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish (Antrim): habitational name from Ramsey (Huntingdonshire, now part of Cambridgeshire), from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + ēg ‘island, low-lying land’. Alternatively, the name may also arise from Ramsey (Essex), probably from the same etymology as the Huntingdonshire placename. However, this is unlikely to be the source of the Scottish surname. This form of the surname is also common in Ireland, where it is probably in most if not all cases an altered form of Scottish Ramsay .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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