RAMSAY, James Advocate, Baron-Bailie of Fraserfield (Balgownie) ¹

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James married Anna BURNET, daughter of Thomas BURNET of Kirkhill, Advocate and Margaret TURNER, before 1763.¹ (Anna BURNET was baptised on 10 December 1719 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland ² and died on 11 April 1811 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Ramsay, James. 15th March, 1759.

Son of George Ramsay, physician, Virginia. Alumnus, Mar. Coll., 1746-50, being Ramsay bursar. App. to Thomas Mosman (1731). Commissary Clerk Depute. Baron-Baillie of Fraserfield (now Balgownie). Fiars Juror, 1763. Honorary burgess of Aberdeen, admitted 2nd October, 1772. Proprietor of considerable property in Aberdeen. Treasurer of the Society of Advocates, 1764-67. Married, before 1763, Anne (died 11th April, 1811, in her 93rd year), second dau. of Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill.

Died September, 1774."

from History of the Society of Advocates ¹