Clan Ramsay International
The former Clan Ramsay Association of North America came into being in 1978 and has been thriving ever since. The Clan meets annually at one of the Highland Games around the United States or Canada for their AGM - the annual grand meeting. Clan Convener Dr. Carl Bailey of SC leads the Clan in America with the present Clan President, Pam Ramsey McNeil of Indiana; past-presidents John E. Ramsay of Raleigh, NC and Richard McGraw, of North Carolina; vice-president, Mike Ramsey of Texas; and treasurer / membership chairman, David F. Ramsey, originally of West Virginia, presently of Dunedin, FL. Many others contribute hours per week of their time to make this organization run as efficiently as it does. Among those are or have been Ron Ramsey, Bob and Mary Alice Ramsey, Mona Ramsey, Alice Ramsay, Nancy Miller, and John Ramsey Henderson. Many others represent Ramsay / Ramsey persons around the World. Please take time to visit the website - shown above - to learn more. And if you're a Ramsay / Ramsey or related person - please consider a membership. Further festivals for the coming year are listed at the Clan Ramsay International website. Of course, all of this comes under the approval and leadership of the Clan Chief, Sir James Hubert Ramsay, the 17th Earl of Dalhousie - of Scotland.
STEPHEN WILLIAMS
PRESENT Colorado State Commissioner
Assumed the state commissioner role in 2023 after Wayne Ramsey Premo led the clan in Colorado for 10 years. Steve has both an ancestral and personal connection to Clan Ramsay and Scottish heritage growing up through the ranks of the Celtic festivals of North Carolina as a young piper. His Ramsay lineage is through his maternal grandmother Lola Ann Ramsey Pickering (1914 - 1992) of Dickenson Co., VA, traced back to the early Ramsey families of Pittsylvania Co. VA ca. 1730s which is well established. As a bagpiper since youth in NC, Steve found it accommodating to join a Denver-based pipes and drum group when he moved here. He has been a participant in Colorado Scottish festivals since the early 2000s and is proud to continue as the lead for his Ramsay family connection.
Wayne Ramsey Premo
FORMER Colorado State Commissioner
Assumed the state commissioner role in 2013 after Danny Ramsey led the clan in Colorado for many years. Wayne had become involved with Ramsey family history on the heels of his grandfather Carl Wayne Ramsey of Lincolnton, then Durham, and later Hillsborough, North Carolina, his uncle Robert Wayne Ramsey, the history professor, and aunt Barbara "Bo" Ramsey (Robbins), co-conspirator of the facts. Current research with other Ramsey descendants centers on establishing the family line from North Carolina back to Pennsylvania, then probably Ireland, and finally Scotland. Presently, individual Colorado Ramsay / Ramsey family histories are being researched and compiled into a coherent Colorado Clan Ramsay database that attempts to link them to the earliest Ramsay / Ramsey lines in both America and Europe. Wayne is a retired research geologist (emeritus) for the US Geological Survey in Lakewood.
Virginia "Ginny" Premo - Past commissioner AIDE
Agreeing to help her father out at festivals, Ginny quickly became a positive force within the Clan Ramsay Colorado organization. With the exception of only one festival, she and her fiancé Jesse Glover have attended all other Colorado festivals over the past ten years and have been key to the success of our festival presentations. Ginny is a principal tent interior designer and organizer, and lead public relations director (and occasional confrontation mediator). She loves Celtic mythology, music, and art although she is a currently employed as a chemist in Golden, Colorado, while helping raise her daughter, Anny (Andromeda) Glover.
Jesse Glover Clan Ramsay Colorado Art Director
Jesse has been almost singly responsible for all the Clan Ramsay Colorado artwork, including the following: parade banner design, Ramsay Scotch Ale label and banner (oh yeah, and the ale itself), Green Man, Cone Man, unicorn pole pieces, Ramsay throne, burlap map of Scotland, Clan Ramsay amulets, leather armature pieces, poster designs - including the "House of Unicorns" seen in the background of this webpage. In fact, he was instrumental in helping to create this website. While he loves art, and especially Celtic art design (and music), he is a US Navy veteran, a graduate of CSM Golden in chemical engineering, and currently is working in a government management role mostly from home in Arvada, CO. Beside the new love of his life, his daughter Anny, he is especially keen at brewing beers and ales, likely will taste one or two, and is said to be handy in a fight. He says he is mostly Irish - I believe him.
Green man CLAN RAMSAY COLORADO MASCOT
A past and current fixture with Clan Ramsay Colorado at nearly every festival so far over the past nine years, Green Man has "wowwed the crowds" - but mostly the wee folk - the children. They follow him everywhere and if we had a dollar for every photo taken with him, we'd be a rich clan indeed. On occasion he can be found standing around, silently providing shade, perhaps poofing on a pipe of dried foliage and/or quaffing a cool drink. The only thing that makes him move on are roaming dogs... ever circling.
Often we have to ask him to leaf us alone, but we soon find we are barking up the wrong tree... however, come winter he is finally exposed.
Tim Hale & Family - Clan Contributor & Participants
Tim joined the "crew" of Clan Ramsay festival participants in 2015. Descended from Ramsey families in Arkansas, but originally from North Carolina, then Alabama, he has happily and fully embraced this Ramsey family history (see Colorado Family Histories Tab) head on. He and parts of his immediate family have participated since the Elizabeth Celt Fest 2015. He was instrumental in the design and acquisition of the new Clan Ramsay standard banners seen in many of the photos on this website.
Working with local Scot / Celt tartan seamstress, Carrie Simpson of Castle Rock, CO, he has initiated many thoughtful Clan Ramsay items, including place mats and napkins, face masks, and X has stockings made of Clan Ramsay tartan.
Assisted by companion Alex Hale and their daughter, Jeanie, the Hale family have provided much appreciated assistance with tent set-up, design, and tear-down. Much thanx to the Hale family for all their hard work, good times, and companionship.
Dennis Hurt & Lady Susan - Clan Participants
Dennis first came aboard the Clan group in 2014. Admitting that he had a distant Ramsay ancestor, he also quickly pointed out that he had in his possession a much already established text about at least his near Ramsay family connections - a copy of which he bestowed upon the traveling Colorado Ramsay / Ramsey library. Since then he and his "better half", the Lady Susan, and their new terrier Robbie have been making the festival "rounds" including Colorado Tartan Day and the Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Festival and Games in Estes Park. There, Dennis has volunteered to help set up festival tents and other structures. He has been instrumental in helping set up Clan Ramsay tents. And his group of ladies and dogs are always keen to be in the Saturday morning parade in downtown Estes Park. Much kudos to his family and friends in Estes Park, Colorado.
Matthew Paul Ramsey & Family - Clan Participants
Matthew and family, wife Megan and children- Matthew Jr., Emma, and Kaylee - first came aboard the Clan group in 2022. Matthew had long been researching his Ramsey roots and knew a bit about his ancestors. Obviously, he was thrilled to find and meet his Clan representatives in Colorado - making the festival "rounds" including Colorado Tartan Day, Elizabeth Celt Fest, and the Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Festival and Games in Estes Park. There, Matthew and family have volunteered to help set up festival tents and participate as hosts. He was instrumental in helping set up Clan Ramsay tents at several festivals, including this year's Colorado Tartan Day. He and his son were keen to be in the Saturday morning parade. We all look forward to this family's participation through the years and perhaps eventual leadership of Clan Ramsay Colorado. Thanx much to him and his family for their efforts since 2022 and beyond.
