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b. 2nd s. of Andrew Ramsay of Edinburgh (d. 30 Dec. 1659) and Marie, da. of Sir Alexander Fraser of Durris.Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, i. 70 m. bef. 1645, Janet Craw, 2s. 1da.Edinburgh City Archives, Moses’ Bundle 26, no. 1091; Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 578; CB. Kntd. (1) 1658;J. Nicoll, Diary of Public Transactions (Edinburgh, 1836), 218-9. (2) 17 July 1660.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 230. d. 27 Jan. 1688.Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, i. 70; NRS, CC8/8/80.
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Civic: burgess and guildbrother, Edinburgh 10 Aug. 1642;Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses, ed. C.B.B. Watson (Edinburgh, 1929), 412. bailie, 23 Apr. 1652 – 3 Oct. 1655; ld. provost, 5 Oct. 1655 – Oct. 1658, 10 Oct. 1662–1 Dec. 1673.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1642–55, 277, 387; Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1655–65, 119, 307; Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1665–80, 165.

Scottish: commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656;A. and O. high commn. for church affairs, 16 Jan. 1664;Nicoll, Diary, 409. commr. Edinburgh, convention of estates, 1665, 1667; Scottish Parl. 1669–74. Ld. of articles, 1669.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 578. Commr. union, 15 Aug. 1670.Cromwellian Union, ed. Terry, 194. PC and ld. of session, 1671.M. Wood, Lord Provosts of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1932), 46. Commr. plantation of kirks, 1672.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 578.

Local: commr. assessment, Edinburgh 26 June 1657.A. and O.

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RAMSAY, Andrew (d.1688), of Abbotshall, Fife, and Edinburgh.
: Fife and Edinburgh.
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Commons 1640-1660
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RAMSAY, Andrew (d.1688), of Abbotshall, Fife, and Edinburgh.

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property in Edinburgh, inc. tenement at head of Niddrie’s Wynd, 1658-d. At d. owned lands of Abbotshall and the saltpans of Kirkcaldy in Fife (confirmed to him by Scottish Parliament in 1672).Edinburgh City Archives, Moses’ Bundle 50, no. 2197; Bundle 201, no. 7229; Wood, Provosts, 46; Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 578.
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