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     Alexander Fraser married Annabella Munro.

     Rev. Dr. Alexander Fraser was the son of Rev. Donald Fraser.¹ Rev. Dr. Alexander Fraser. Minister of Kirkhill.¹ He married Isabella Fraser, daughter of Colonel Alexander Fraser of Culduthel and Lilias Chisholm.¹

     Colonel Alexander Fraser of Culduthel married Lilias Chisholm.¹

     Alfred William Fraser was born on 11 September 1863 in the Free High Church Manse, Inverness, Scotland; at 10 a.m.² He was the son of Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. and Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon.¹ Alfred William Fraser appears on the census of 4 April 1881 at 3 Cambridge Square, London.³ On 20 September 1921 in the notice of the engagement of his daughter Queenie he is described as being of Kartum and 21 Lexham Gardens, Kensington.
Mackenzie describes him as an engineer in Queensland.^4,5

     Alice Mead Fraser was born on 13 June 1866 (though the 1901 Census gives the year as 1867).^1,2 She was the daughter of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Alice Mead Fraser married Dr. Henry Raymond Casgrain circa 1892.¹

     Amy Millicent Fraser was born on 19 March 1863.¹ She was the daughter of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Amy Millicent Fraser married Theodore Arnold Haultain, son of Major Gen. Francis Mitchell Haultain and Isabella Thomas, on 23 June 1886 in Detroit, Michigan.¹ Amy Millicent Fraser died in February 1924 in London at the age of 60.¹

     Annabella Jane Fraser was born on 27 December 1864.¹ She was the daughter of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Annabella Jane Fraser married Herbert Barber Walker circa 1890.¹ Annabella Jane Fraser died in 1927.¹

     Caroline Ruth Leigh Fraser was born circa 1948.¹ She was the daughter of Audrey Croslegh.² Caroline Ruth Leigh Fraser died on 9 April 1977 in France in a car accident.^2,1

     Col. Donald Fraser was born in 1897.¹ He was the son of Ernest Gordon Fraser and Florence Ellen King.¹ Col. Donald Fraser died in November 1975 in Rockfield, Monmouthshire.

     Rev. Donald Fraser D.D.. Free Church Minister and author.² He was born on 15 January 1826 in Inverness.^3,1 He was the son of John Fraser and Lillias Fraser.¹ Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. was baptised on 11 February 1826 at Inverness by the Rev. Robert Finlater. James Monro and George Fraser were witnesses. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen (M.A., 1842, D.D., 1872), and studied divinity at Knox College, Toronto, and New College, Edinburgh. He was ordained in 1851 a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and from 1851 to 1859 he was minister of the Coté St. Presbyterian Church in Montreal. He then accepted a charge in Inverness and in 1870 he became minister of Marylebone Presbyterian Church in London.⁴ He married Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon, daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, on 28 April 1853 in Kingston, Canada, the service was conducted by the Rev. R.V. Rogers an Episcopal (Church of England) Minister.^5,2,6 In a 1876 conveyance the address of Donald Fraser and his wife Theresa Isabella was given as at 20 Powis Square, Bayswater. Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. died on 12 February 1892 in 3 Cambridge Square, Hyde-park, London, at the age of 66 of pneumonia.^3,4 He was buried on 19 February 1892 in Chapel Yard Cemetery, Inverness,,

His obituary reads:

We announce with regret the death of Dr. Donald Fraser, minister of the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, which took place at his residence, 3, Cambridge Square on Friday night, after an illness which lasted only four days. Dr. Fraser was born at Inverness, where his father filled the office of Provost, on January 15, 1826. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, and afterwards studied divinity at Knox College, Toronto, and the New College, Edinburgh. In 1851 he accepted the charge of a church at Montreal, becoming eight years later minister of the congregation of the Free High Church, Inverness. In 1870 he came to London on a call from the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, and has since taken a leading part in the Presbyterian Church of England, having been twice Moderator of the Synod. Yesterday morning, long before the beginning of the service, Marylebone Presbyterian Church, 'Upper George Street, Bryanston Square, was crowded in every part, the announcement in Saturday morning's papers that the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Donald Fraser, would occupy the pulpit tho following forenoon, and the report of his sudden death in the evening journals, being, no doubt, instrumental in attracting such immense attendance. Before the service began Mr. Cecil Robertson, one of the deacons, who was accompanied by Dr. Renton, MP., and other prominent members of the congregation, broke the intelligence of their minister's sudden and unexpected death, Dr. Fraser, he said, died en Friday night, at 10 o'clock, of pneumonia after an illness of only four days' duration. On Sunday last he occupied the pulpit in that church as usual, and no later than Monday he occupied the choir at the annual business meeting of the congregation. Dr. Fraser was for 23 years the minister of that church. His fame was in all the churches, and everywhere he was honoured and revered; but they who know him intimately and had constant intercourse with him regarded him with deep, warm, ardent affection. The funeral would take place at Inverness on Saturday next; the mortal remains of their beloved minister would be brought to that church on Thursday, when a memorial service would be held. An appropriate service then followed, with a short address from a Canadian clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Hamilton (who was a personal friend of the deceased minister nearly years ago in Montreal). In the evening the Rev. Dr. Matthews, of Toronto, and secretary of the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance, preached to a numerous congregation. The late Dr. Fraser was unanimously elected at tho last sederunt of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of England to represent the London churches at the Great Synod to be held in Toronto this year.

At the close of his sermon in the City Temple yesterday morning, Dr. Parker spoke of the event as follows:- I have heard that Dr. Donald Fraser is dead. When will this ruthless sword, invisible, tremendous in action, cease, and give us rest awhile, lest our poverty become too painful? That sword has already wrought grievous desolation in the churches. Man after man has fallen, some go suddenly; especially in the last case for I hear that Dr. Fraser who was ill only some four days. Is it possible that some of us can only be four days off the grave? Can we be arrested, imprisoned, driven into the nameless darkness in four little days? Surely the lesson is: Work while it is called day, for the night cometh wherein no man can work. Dr. Donald Fraser has been long in London. He has been one of the most conspicuous ornaments of the Presbyterian Church in England. He was passionately devoted to the holy ministry. If now and again he came into other fields, they were collateral and not alien grounds into which he came that he might fight some battle for righteousness and liberty. In theology he was intensely orthodox; in preaching he was vigorous, varied, eloquent, practical, and most Useful. As a leader of his Church he was always to the front, wise, progressive without being rash, and strong in his very cautiousness. We cannot allow such a man to disappear in silence. We owe something to holy memories. Our recollections of this kind should be amongst our chief treasures. What a call we have had this year of desolation to the younger ministers to prepare themselves for filling great vacancies, to he baptised for the dead, to be ready to take the places of the standard-bearer. Yet of the future I have no fear. The Church is God's, not ours. He will find the leaders, the men of valour, the men needful for the present occasion and opportunity. Not one of us is indispensable to God. Yet, looking within narrow and social and fraternal lines, how poor we are made by same deaths; the air has changed its temperature, the earth has taken upon it a look of strangeness, the very ground once so familiar seems now not to care for our trespass. To outlive your generation, to become a stranger amongst the multiplied millions of earth - O this would be a penalty, this would be one of the cruel judgments of fate! I sympathize with our bereaved friends, men who gather around vacant pulpits and wonder when the familiar figure will be there. God help us to work, to love, to suffer, if need be! This is the day of splendid opportunity.^4,1



                         

     Rev. Donald Fraser M.A. was born on 13 January 1783.³ He was the son of Rev. Dr. Alexander Fraser and Isabella Fraser.² Rev. Donald Fraser M.A. was appointed in 1802, minister of the parish at Kirkhill, near Inverness.¹ He married Jane Gordon, daughter of Peter Gordon of Borlum and Mary Grant, on 2 November 1802.^2,3 Rev. Donald Fraser M.A. died on 12 July 1836 at the age of 53 "Mr Fraser attended a funeral at Kiltarlity, and was returning home in a gig driven by a boy, when the horse stumbled, and he was thrown from his seat. Mr Fraser did not seem to be seriously hurt, but he grew worse during the afternoon, and expired the same evening at eleven o’clock. He had burst a blood vessel. "The deceased was a highly popular clergyman, of great talent, learning, and eloquence, and of accomplished manners. There was scarcely a pulpit within the wide circle of the Northern Counties in which his virtues were not eulogised last Sunday, in language which came from the heart, and awakened kindred emotion on the part of the congregation." "From the "Inverness Courier," 20 July 1836.^4,5

     Edith Constance Fraser was born in 1868.¹ She was the daughter of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance. Edith Constance Fraser died on 24 January 1900 in 57 Pitt Street, Windsor, Ontario, spinster.²

     Edward Ellice Fraser was the son of John Fraser and Selina Torrance.¹ Edward Ellice Fraser died in 1852 in Kokouna on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.¹ He was buried in London, Ontario.¹

     Edward Gordon Fraser was born on 25 July 1855.¹ He was the son of Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. and Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon.¹ Edward Gordon Fraser died on 31 July 1855 of convulsions.² He was buried on 1 August 1855 in Erskine Presbyterian Church.

     Elizabeth Dorothea Fraser was born on 20 March 1905.^2,3 She was the daughter of Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser K.C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G. and Constance Ruth Stevenson.² Elizabeth Dorothea Fraser married Major Harold Charles Harker Taylor O.B.E., son of H. Harker Taylor, on 6 November 1928 in St. James's, Piccadilly.⁴

     Ella Lilias Fraser was born on 3 February 1895 in India.¹ She was the daughter of Ernest Gordon Fraser and Florence Ellen King.^1,2 Ella Lilias Fraser died on 5 June 1987 at the age of 92.

     Ernest Gordon Fraser. Engineer in the Indian Civil Service.³ He was born on 21 August 1856 in Canada.^4,5 He was the son of Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. and Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon.² Ernest Gordon Fraser was baptised on 28 September 1856 at Coté St. Presbyterian Church, Montreal. The marriage of Ernest Gordon Fraser and Florence Ellen King was registered in the quarter ending December 1893 in the Kingsclere Registration District.¹ Ernest Gordon Fraser died on 1 November 1935 at the age of 79.⁴

     Florence Grace Fraser was born on 19 November 1866 probably in Edinburgh.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. William Fraser and Margaret Playfair.²

     Frederick John Fraser was born on 6 May 1867 in the Free High Church Manse, Inverness, Scotland.^1,2,3 He was the son of Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. and Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon.¹ Frederick John Fraser appears on the census of 4 April 1881 at 3 Cambridge Square, London.¹ On 12 September 1888 he entered military service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Liverpool Regiment.⁴

     Frederick Laing Fraser was born in 1852.¹ He was the son of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Frederick Laing Fraser married Elizabeth Beattie circa 1878.¹

     Helen Millicent Fraser was born on 24 August 1861. She was the daughter of Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. and Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon. Helen Millicent Fraser died on 10 January 1866 at the age of 4 Inverness Chapel Yard #1827 (Panel). Two sisters asleep in Jesus, Helen Millicent Fraser, died 10th January 1866, aged 4 years; Lillias Isabella Fraser, died 4th May 1869, aged 4 weeks. Daughters of R.

     Isabella Fraser was born on 24 June 1758.¹ She was the daughter of Colonel Alexander Fraser of Culduthel and Lilias Chisholm.² Isabella Fraser married Rev. Dr. Alexander Fraser, son of Rev. Donald Fraser.¹

     Isabella Fraser was the daughter of Rev. Donald Fraser M.A. and Jane Gordon.¹

     Jane Fraser was the daughter of John Fraser and Lillias Fraser.¹ Jane Fraser died on 7 March 1870 in Montreal.

     Jane Speirs Playfair Fraser was born on 11 June 1858 probably in Gourock.³ She was the daughter of Rev. William Fraser and Margaret Playfair.¹ Jane Speirs Playfair Fraser married Dr. Alexander Robert Coldstream M.D., F.R.C.S.E. on 28 September 1886 in Queen's road Presbyterian Church, Brighton, Sussex, the service was celebrated by her uncle.^1,2,4

     Jane Torrance Fraser was the daughter of John Fraser and Selina Torrance.¹

     Jean Gordon Fraser was born in 1901 in India.¹ She was the daughter of Ernest Gordon Fraser and Florence Ellen King.¹ Jean Gordon Fraser married Major Hanmer Gethin Bodvel Griffith M.B.E. in April 1929 in Monmouth.¹ Jean Gordon Fraser died in 1981.¹

     John Fraser was the son of Alexander Fraser and Annabella Munro. John Fraser. Merchant and ship owner and sometime Commissioner in Canada of the British North American Land Company. Provost of Inverness.^1,2 He married Lillias Fraser, daughter of Rev. Donald Fraser M.A. and Jane Gordon. John Fraser married secondly Selina Torrance, daughter of John Torrance, on 7 May 1839 in St. James Methodist Church, Montreal.^3,4 John Fraser died in 1852 in Ontario he was thrown from his carriage, falling on his head.⁵