{"id":1794,"date":"2022-08-16T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T22:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=1794"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:04:37","slug":"alexander-brown-ramsay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/brown\/marion-brown\/alexander-brown-ramsay\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Brown Ramsay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Born<\/strong>&nbsp;21 May 1853&nbsp; in&nbsp;Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexander was the 5 child of Marion and Andrew and was able to live a full life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 24 Nov 1884, he married Janet Dick at Talbot, Melbourne. That union produced the following children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Child<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Born<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Married<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Children<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Died<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Comments<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Andrew<\/td><td>1881<\/td><td>1910<\/td><td>4<\/td><td>1944<\/td><td>Crawford<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jacob<\/td><td>1883<\/td><td>1917<\/td><td>1<\/td><td>1970<\/td><td>Parry<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Agnes<\/td><td>1885<\/td><td>1909<\/td><td>4<\/td><td>1916<\/td><td>Coutts<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Robert<\/td><td>1888<\/td><td>1911\/<br>1920<\/td><td>0\/<br>1<\/td><td>1965<\/td><td>Rassmussen\/Hibbert<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Marion<\/td><td>1891<\/td><td>1916<\/td><td>3<\/td><td>1941<\/td><td>Hewitt<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Alexander Brown<\/td><td>1894<\/td><td>1920<\/td><td>3<\/td><td>1957<\/td><td>Tuck<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>William James<\/td><td>1902<\/td><td>1929<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td>1968<\/td><td>Clark<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his life he held down various occupations from Storeman to latterly, Grocer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His namesake son saw service in WWI seeing action in France, was wounded several times and gassed. He enlisted in 1915 and returned to Australia in 1919.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexander died&nbsp;on 25 Apr 1920&nbsp;at&nbsp;North Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and is buried in Coburg Cemetery, Presbyterian Section, Compartment D, Grave No 428<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-16.png 651w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-16-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andrew is buried with his wife Janet.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1863\" style=\"width:519px;height:553px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-15.png 519w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-15-282x300.png 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Horsham Times (Vic.),&nbsp;Fri 27 Feb 1931,&nbsp;&nbsp;Page 4&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/page\/7060763\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/page\/7060765\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/72630663?searchTerm=alexander%20brown%20ramsay#\"><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born&nbsp;21 May 1853&nbsp; in&nbsp;Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Alexander was the 5 child of Marion and Andrew and was able to live a full life. On the 24 Nov 1884, he married Janet Dick at Talbot, Melbourne. That union produced the following children. Child Born Married Children Died Comments Andrew 1881 1910 4 1944 Crawford Jacob 1883 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/brown\/marion-brown\/alexander-brown-ramsay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alexander Brown Ramsay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1245,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1794","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794\/revisions\/3965"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}