Ramsay, Mary Jane Minnie

Birth Name Ramsay, Mary Jane Minnie
Gender female
Age at Death 63 years, 10 months, 10 days


Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth June 22, 1855 Lot 16, Prince Edward Island  
Death May 1919 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada  


Father Ramsay, Archibald
Mother Desbrisay, Eliza
         Ramsay, Mary Jane Minnie
    Brother     Ramsay, Arthur
    Sister     Ramsay, Martha
    Brother     Ramsay, Theophilus Desbrisay
    Brother     Ramsay, Reginard Heber
    Brother     Ramsay, John Archibald
    Sister     Ramsay, Eliza D.
    Brother     Ramsay, William


    Family of Archibald, William Prescott and Ramsay, Mary Jane Minnie
Married Husband Archibald, William Prescott
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage June 18, 1878 Alberton, Lot 4, Prince Edward Island  


01-7 William Prescott (4th son of Alexander & Catherine
Archibald) was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church
in 1878. He md. Minnie Ramsay of Rose Hill, P.E.I. and Lot 8. She was the
eldest child of Archibald Ramsay and Eliza DesBrisay Jun 22,
1855-May 1919. They had 4 sons & 2 daus.
*270-1 Arthur Clarence b Apr. 2, 1879-June 14, 1800
*271-2 Helen DesBrisay b Sept. 6, 1881-Apr. 16, 1925,
*272-3 Olive Lyle b Aug. 14, 1883-Feb. 26, 1935
*273-4 Jennie Rutherford b July 23, 1885-Jan. 22, 1909
*274-5 Leith Prescott b Oct. 6, 1888
*275-6 John Geddie b June 11, 1894
-from Musquodoboit Pioneers Vol 1.

William Prescott Archibald, Cavendish to Minnie Ramsay eldest dau. Archibald Ramsay Lot 8 1878

Summerside Journal - 28 May 1919, page 5, col. 3 - Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Archibald, widow of the late Rev. W. P. Archibald, D.D. of Springside, N.S. - full obit transcribed on the PEI Ancestry website




  1. Ramsay, Archibald
    1. Desbrisay, Eliza
      1. Ramsay, Mary Jane Minnie
        1. Archibald, William Prescott
      2. Ramsay, Arthur
      3. Ramsay, Martha
      4. Ramsay, Theophilus Desbrisay
      5. Ramsay, Reginard Heber
      6. Ramsay, John Archibald
      7. Ramsay, Eliza D.
      8. Ramsay, William