RAMSAY, CAROL [SSNE 4290]

Surname

RAMSAY, RAMSEY JUNIOR

First name

CAROL, KARL, CHARLES

Nationality

SCOTO-PRUSSIAN

Region

ELBING

Social status

STUDENT

Education

UNIVERSITY

Text source

Charles Ramsay (1652-1730) was the son of a man of the same name [SSNE 4282] who came from Elbing and was the grandson of a Scottish migrant. Like his father before him, he devoted his life the study of his home town and published several works on the subject. He also became an important burgess of the town. It was possibly he who, as Carol Ramsay, matriculated in Konigsberg in 1670. He was probably pasrt of the Scottish protestant community who presented a silver salver to the Elbing Reformed Community in 1692 inscribed "Von der Bruderschaft Schottischer Nation der Reformierten Gemeinde in Elbing verehret Anno 1692. H.B.B.D.H.S.G.S.H.W.W.B.D.K.G.H." 

Die Matrikel der Universitat Konigsberg, Vol. 2; A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.17; Elbing Club Pangritz Kolonie E.V.: Elbing, als ehemaliger englischer Handelsplatz (Elbing, 1977), p.22.

Service record

PRUSSIA, POLAND-LITHUANIA, ELBING

Arrived 1652-01-01

Departed 1730-12-31

Capacity ACADEMIC, BURGESS, purpose CIVIC, ACADEMIC

PRUSSIA, KONIGSBERG

Arrived 1670-03-21

Departed 1670-12-31

Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC