Allan Ramsay. [A biography.] - National Library of Scotland

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6o FAMOUS SCOTS
' Registrate to Allan Ramsay, weegmaker, and Christian
Ross, his spouse, North East Parish — a son, Niell.
Witnesses, Walter Boswell, sadler, and John Symer,
merchant. 9th October 17 15.
* Registrate to Allan Ramsay, weegmaker, and Christian
Ross, his spouse. North East Parish—a son, Robert.
Witnesses, John Symer, merchant, and Walter Boswell,
sadler. The child was born on the loth instant. 23rd
November 17 16.
' Registrate to Allan Ramsay, bookseller, and Christian
Ross, his spouse — a daughter named Agnes. Wit-
nesses, James Norie, painter, and George Young,
chyrurgeon. Born the 9th instant. loth August
1725-'
Besides these named above, Chalmers states that
Christian Ross brought Allan Ramsay three other
daughters, who were not recorded in the Register,—one
born in 17 19, one in 1720, and one in 1724,—who are
mentioned in his letter to Smibert as ' fine girls, no ae
wally-draigle among them all'
In 1 7 19 our poet published his first edition of Scots
Songs,'—some original, others collected from all sources,
and comprising many of the gems of Scottish lyrical
poetry. The success attending the volume was instant
and gratifying, and led, as we will see further on, to other
publications of a cognate but more ambitious character.
Almost contemporaneously was published, in a single
sheet or broadside^ what proved to be the germ of the
Gentle Shepherd—to wit, a Pastoral Dialogue between
Patie and Roger. The dialogue was reprinted in the
quarto of 1721, and was much admired by all the lovers
of poetry of the period.