RAMSAY, DAVID [SSNE 8118]

Surname
RAMSAY
First name
DAVID
Title/rank
COLONEL
Nationality
SCOT
Religion
CALVINIST

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David Spens was the son of Isobel Spens [SSNE 6263] and Major General James Ramsay [SSNE 3315]. In 1647 he was awarded a significant number of farms by the Swedish government (after a request from his mother), but she was allowed the income from many of them until her death.

 

E. Spens, ‘En Skotsk Lady i Älghult?, in Älghultskrönika (1983), pp.36-37

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