[RAMSAY]-FAIRFAX-LUCY, Duncan Cameron 1932-2025

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Mar 21, 2025, 3:10:52 AM3/21/25
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From the Telegraph of 21 March 2025: FAIRFAX-LUCY Duncan Cameron Ramsay. Passed away peacefully at home on 8th March 2025 aged 92 years. Will be sadly missed by family and friends. Funeral Service to take place on Wednesday 9th April 2025 at St Leonard's Church, Charlecote at 12 noon. Family flowers only. Donations if desired to The Leprosy Mission…

He was elder s of Ewen Aylmer Robert RAMSAY-FAIRFAX-LUCY 1899-1969 (s of Sir Henry William CAMERON-RAMSAY-FAIRFAX-LUCY 3rd Bt 1870-1944) and Margaret Westall 1902-1994 d of Sir John Westall KING 2nd Bt 1863-1940 and Frances Rosa NEVE 1866-1942. He m Janet Barclay 1935-2017 d of Patrick Angus Barclay NIVEN 1900-1986 by his 5 July 1928 m (St Peter, Notting Hill) to Kena 1898-1995 d of Charles PAYNE 1863-1901 and Rebecca Edith DIXON 1873-1961, and had a son and a dau.


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Mar 21, 2025, 7:19:43 AM3/21/25
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He seems to have converted two of his four surnames into forenames.


This genealogy should explain where the four surnames come from:

Sir Henry FAIRFAX, cr Baronet 1836 (3 Feb 1790-3 Feb 1860); m.1st Jan 1830 Archibald Montgomerie (d.13 Jul 1844), dau and heiress of Thomas Williamson, later Williamson-Ramsay, of Lixmount, by Elizabeth, dau and coheir of Robert Ramsay of Camno and Arthurstown; m.2nd 19 Dec 1851 Sarah Astell (dsp 23 Jun 1879)
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Sir William George Herbert, 1876 RAMSAY-FAIRFAX, 2nd Bt. (15 Mar 1831-19 Jan 1902); m.17 Sep 1868 Mary Ann Pawson Hargrave Pawson (d.1 Sep 1924)
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Sir Henry William, 1892 RAMSAY-FAIRFAX-LUCY, 1921 CAMERON-RAMSAY-FAIRFAX-LUCY, 3rd Bt. (25 Sep 1870-20 Aug 1944); m.1st 26 Jul 1892 Ada Christina (d.17 Dec 1943), dau and heiress of Henry Spencer Lucy, of Charlecote, by a gdau of Sir Duncan Cameron, 2nd Bt.; m.2nd 5 Aug 1944 Norah Mackenzie
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Ewen Aylmer Robert (31 Dec 1899-12 Jul 1969); m.4 Mar 1930 Margaret Westall (d.1994), dau of Sir John Westall King, 2nd Bt.
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Duncan (18 Sep 1932-8 Mar 2025); m.26 Sep 1964 Janet Barclay Niven (d.11 Jan 2017)

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Mar 21, 2025, 1:21:28 PM3/21/25
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Showing how the Cameron and Lucy names, and presumably some estates, came to the family

Sir Ewen Cameron, of Fassiefern, cr Baronet 1817 (26 Mar 1740-1828); m.2 Nov 1767 Louisa Campbell
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1.John, k.a. Quatre Bas

2.Sir Duncan, 2nd Bt. (1770-1863); he is not shown as married or having issue in the Lodge, Debrett’s or Burke’s articles on this title; however, he apparently m. 1839 one Mary Cameron, a kitchen-maid, by whom he had already had a dau, Christina:
2.1.Christina (1826-1898); m.Alexander Campbell of Monzie and Inverawe
2.1.1.Christina Campbell, 1898 CAMERON-LUCY; m.5 Jul 1865 Henry Spencer Lucy, of Charlecote --> 4 daus, of whom the eldest was:
2.1.1.1.Ada Christina, d.17 Dec 1943; m.26 Jul 1892 Sir Henry William Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 3rd Bt.
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