He was to become one of the most important traders in Kirkwall but David Ramsay was not from Orkney. What brought him to the islands in the early years of the 19th century and what drove his success?
David Ramsay: Merchant of Kirkwall
The Strawplaiters of Hoy, Graemsay, Walls, Flotta and Faray
One of the youngest workers in Hoy was Jean Lyon, 14, of Clett with the oldest being Ann Lyon, 55 recorded in the census as living in ‘A Chamber’.
