Ramsay was born at Abbotsford Place in the Tradeston district of Glasgow, the second son of William Ramsay, a master ironmonger, who originated from Perthshire and Mary Ann Burrell who was born in Woolwich.https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Statutory register of Births 644/9 154 After initially working with his father, the Glaswegian arrived in Birmingham 1876 to work as a clerk in a brass foundry.
