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Name source: S178Text: Record for Eliza Jane Jordan http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ausbirthindex&h=2699377&indiv=try
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Source for: Samuel William Jordan, -
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Name source: S178Text: Record for Eliza Jane Jordan http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ausbirthindex&h=2699377&indiv=try
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Source for: Robert Ronald Ramsay, ABT 1906 - 10 OCT 1992
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Name source: S412Text: Record for Robert Ronald Ramsay http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=webasm-9182&h=279198&indiv=try
Name source: S460Page: Isabella McCulloch - Notes and Questions from Descendants
Text: Notes from Bruce Ramsay
My family research so far has made the connection between Scotland and Australia, for your historical information my details to-date are as follows:- Of James and Isabella Ramsay's (Kirkbride Churchyard) children, 4 of them separately emigrated to South Australia during the 1860's. Most of their descendents have remained in the Adelaide area. Their son James Armstrong Ramsay, born Maybole Parish on the 13/07/1841 (my Great Grandfather), emigrated to South Australia, arriving on the ''Castle Eden'' on the 26/12/1862, he farmed in the very dry area of Yongala near Jamestown, about 250klms north of Adelaide, he married a Scottish immigrant a Miss Annie Cram (from Perthshire), on 09/07/1868, they farmed in the Yongala area for 21 years before drought forced them off the land. They then moved to the mining town (Silver, Lead and Zinc) of Broken Hill (New South Wales) in 1889. James died on the 17/11/1901 in Broken Hill and was buried in the Methodist Section of the Broken Hill Cemetery. They had a total of 11 children, 9 were born in the Yongala area and the remaining two in Broken Hill. Of the 11 children, 4 were boys and the remaining 7 girls. His wife Annie Cram died on 11/10/1921 aged 73 years.
Life in Broken Hill was very hard, it is situated in Western Outback New South Wales, in a very dry and arid area. They were continually plagued by extreme heat, dust storms, lack of water, lead pollution from the mining and smelting operations and disease such as Typhoid Fever. The mining management exploited the miners very badly, as a result the union movement in Australia commenced in Broken Hill during the 1890's, however it took about 30 years before conditions began to improve for the miners. As you could imagine life expectancy was quite low, especially for the miners, lead smelter workers and children. Considering these hardships, life for the emigrants at this time may have been better in Scotland? Fortunately for me my Grand Parents and their children left Broken Hill and moved to Sydney in 1917, where my father Robert Ronald Ramsay was married to Dorothy Stanbury (my mother) in 1934, I was born in 1945 and have lived in Sydney all my life.
Bruce Ramsay cbr@shoalhaven.net.au
[2014-06-12] http://www.maybole.org/history/archives/kirkbride/isabella_mcculloch_familynotes.htm
Birth source: S178Text: Record for Robert R Ramsay http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ausbirthindex&h=3771892&indiv=try
Residence source: S412Text: Record for Robert Ronald Ramsay http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=webasm-9182&h=279198&indiv=try
Death source: S329Page: RAMSAYRobert RonaldDeath notice10OCT1992Death86late of
RosevilleSydney Morning Herald12OCT1992
Death source: S412Text: Record for Robert Ronald Ramsay http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=webasm-9182&h=279198&indiv=try
Name source: S178Text: Record for Robert R Ramsay http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ausbirthindex&h=3771892&indiv=try
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Source for: James Armstrong Ramsay, BET 13 JUL 1840 AND 1841 - 17 NOV 1901
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Name source: S137Page: C.Birch Family Tree
Text: Record for James Armstrong Ramsay - 2014-06-12 http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-917792249&indiv=try
Birth source: S137Page: C.Birch Family Tree
Text: Record for James Armstrong Ramsay - 2014-06-12 http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-917792249&indiv=try
Death source: S137Page: C.Birch Family Tree
Text: Record for James Armstrong Ramsay - 2014-06-12 http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-917792249&indiv=try
Residence source: S137Page: C.Birch Family Tree
Text: Record for James Armstrong Ramsay - 2014-06-12 http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-917792249&indiv=try
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Text: Record for James Armstrong Ramsay - 2014-06-12 http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-917792249&indiv=try