Sim ele fez. Seu pai, Roose, estuprou a esposa de um moleiro sob o corpo enforcado e foi embora. Um ano depois, aquela senhora chegou a Dreadfort com um bebê recém-nascido, Ramsay. Roose queria matar os dois ali mesmo, mas resistiu à tentação quando viu que o bebê tinha os olhos. Então, ele pagou "pensão alimentícia" por alguns anos e cerca de 12 anos depois, Roose deu Ramsay e sua mãe um servo, Reek, quando ela reclamou que ela precisava de ajuda com a sua criação. Isso foi uma espécie de piada, porque Reek cheirava mal. Mais tarde, quando Ramsay descobriu a verdade sobre seu parentesco, ele se tornou o herdeiro não oficial dos Boltons.

Isso foi mencionado no quinto livro, A Dance with Dragons, quando Roose contou a Theon, mas não lembro qual capítulo.

    

Uma canção de gelo e fogo

Sim

Nos livros, ele definitivamente conheceu sua mãe depois que ela e Reek 1 o ensinaram sobre sua herança e o fizeram querer levar o nome de Bolton.

"Smitten?" Bolton laughed. "Did he use that word? Why, the boy has a singer's soul … though if you believe that song, you may well be dimmer than the first Reek. Even the riding part is wrong. I was hunting a fox along the Weeping Water when I chanced upon a mill and saw a young woman washing clothes in the stream. The old miller had gotten himself a new young wife, a girl not half his age. She was a tall, willowy creature, very healthy-looking. Long legs and small firm breasts, like two ripe plums. Pretty, in a common sort of way. The moment that I set eyes on her I wanted her. Such was my due. The maesters will tell you that King Jaehaerys abolished the lord's right to the first night to appease his shrewish queen, but where the old gods rule, old customs linger. The Umbers keep the first night too, deny it as they may. Certain of the mountain clans as well, and on Skagos … well, only heart trees ever see half of what they do on Skagos. "This miller's marriage had been performed without my leave or knowledge. The man had cheated me. So I had him hanged, and claimed my rights beneath the tree where he was swaying. If truth be told, the wench was hardly worth the rope. The fox escaped as well, and on our way back to the Dreadfort my favorite courser came up lame, so all in all it was a dismal day.
"A year later this same wench had the impudence to turn up at the Dreadfort with a squalling, red-faced monster that she claimed was my own get. I should've had the mother whipped and thrown her child down a well … but the babe did have my eyes. She told me that when her dead husband's brother saw those eyes, he beat her bloody and drove her from the mill. That annoyed me, so I gave her the mill and had the brother's tongue cut out, to make certain he did not go running to Winterfell with tales that might disturb Lord Rickard. Each year I sent the woman some piglets and chickens and a bag of stars, on the understanding that she was never to tell the boy who had fathered him. A peaceful land, a quiet people, that has always been my rule."
"A fine rule, m'lord."
"The woman disobeyed me, though. You see what Ramsay is. She made him, her and Reek, always whispering in his ear about his rights. He should have been content to grind corn. Does he truly think that he can ever rule the north?"
_{A Dance with Dragons, Reek III}

Game of Thrones

Não

... a menos que ele tenha algumas lembranças muito antigas dela quando era bebê / criança.

A conversa entre Roose e Ramsay parece indicar que, embora as origens de Ramsay sejam as mesmas no programa para os livros, os eventos que se seguiram não são com Ramsay, conhecendo apenas sua mãe nos primeiros dois anos de sua vida. Nós não nos aprofundamos mais nessa conversa, enquanto Roose se volta para falar sobre Stannis.

Roose Bolton: You've never asked me about your mother.
Ramsay Snow: Why would I? She had me, she died. And here we are.
Roose Bolton: She was a peasant girl. Pretty in a common sort of way. She was the miller's wife. Apparently they had married without my knowledge or consent. So I had him hanged and I took her beneath the tree where he was swaying. She fought me the whole time. She was lucky I didn't hang her, too. A year later she came to my gates with a squalling baby in her arms. A baby she claimed was mine. I nearly had her whipped and the child thrown in the river.
_{Game of Thrones, Season 5 Episode 5, "Kill the Boy"}