ALEXANDER--A benefactor. The family are decended from Alexander MacDonald,.a great-grandson of Somerled, Thane of Argyle. RAMSAY-Local: from the villiage of Ramsay in Huntingdonshire. The Scottish branch of the family are decended from Simon de Ramsay of Dalhouise in Edinburghshire, temp. David I.. The Abbot of Ramsay bore on his seal a ram in the sea, with this verse:"Cujus signa quo dux gregis ut ego;" He who signs I bear is leader of the flock, as I am. The Orgins of Scottish Surnames by Clifford Stanley Sims --Credit given