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     Madeline Follett Fraser was born in 1871 in Cobourg, Ontario. She was the daughter of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Madeline Follett Fraser married James E. Durand, son of Charles Durand, on 28 September 1895 in Cobourg.^2,1 Madeline Follett Fraser died on 22 February 1948 in Victoria, British Columbia.³

     Margaret Fraser was the daughter of John Fraser. Margaret Fraser married Sir William Keith.

     Margaret Evangeline Fraser was born on 29 February 1864 probably in Edinburgh.² She was the daughter of Rev. William Fraser and Margaret Cuningham Playfair.¹ Margaret Evangeline Fraser married John Robert Roxburgh on 13 March 1889 in Marylebone Presbyterian Church, London, the marriage was performed by the Rev. Donald Fraser, uncle of the bride, assisted by the Rev. J. Munro Gibson, D.D.³ Margaret Evangeline Fraser died on 4 December 1943 in Cambridge at the age of 79.⁴

     Marjorie Fraser was born circa 1902 in Michigan.² She was the daughter of Frederick Laing Fraser and Bessie F. Beatty.¹

     Mary Fraser was the daughter of Rev. Donald Fraser M.A. and Jane Gordon.¹ Mary Fraser married Rev. John Grant on 26 March 1840 in The Manse, Kirkhill.¹

     Mary Lillias Fraser was born on 2 September 1851 in Cobourg, Ontario.^2,3,4,5 She was the daughter of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Mary Lillias Fraser married Robert Napier Mathieson, son of Rev. Alexander Mathieson D.D. and Catherine Elizabeth McKenzie, on 27 May 1876 in Cobourg, Ontario.³ Mary Lillias Fraser and Robert Napier Mathieson appear on the census of 1910 at Pittsburgh where Robert is listed as a commercial writer on a newspaper.⁶ Mary Lillias Fraser died on 8 September 1929 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at the age of 78.⁵

     Millicent Fraser was the daughter of Rev. Donald Fraser M.A. and Jane Gordon.¹ Millicent Fraser died on 25 December 1849 in Kirkhill Free Manse.¹

     Peter Gordon Fraser was born on 23 February 1913 in Fareham, Hampshire.² He was the son of Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser K.C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G. and Constance Ruth Stevenson.¹ Peter's death was registered in the quarter ending May 1992 in the Surrey registration district.²

     Selina Elizabeth Fraser was born on 2 April 1853 in Cobourg, Ontario.^1,2 She was the daughter of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Selina Elizabeth Fraser married Henry Francis Holland.¹ Selina Elizabeth Fraser died on 22 July 1924 in Cobourg, Ontario, at the age of 71.³

     Selina Torrance Fraser was born on 4 June 1870 probably in Edinburgh.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. William Fraser and Margaret Cuningham Playfair.² Selina Torrance Fraser died in 1941 in Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge,³ and is buried on 17 January 1941.³

     Stuart Alexander Fraser was born on 24 February 1872 in Cobourg, Ontario.¹ He was the son of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Stuart Alexander Fraser died on 25 April 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 79.²

     Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser K.C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G. was born on 15 June 1865 in Inverness, Scotland.^2,3 He was the son of Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. and Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon.¹ Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser K.C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G. appears on the census of 4 April 1881 at 3 Cambridge Square, London.² He married Constance Ruth Stevenson, daughter of Nathaniel Stevenson and Alice Evelyn Harcourt, on 6 June 1903 in Marylebone Parish Church, London.⁴ In 1939, the address of Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser K.C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G. was The Rookery, Roehampton Lane, London.⁵ He died on 22 May 1953 in Putney, London, at the age of 87 "FRASER. - On May 22, 1953, at a nursing home in Putney, Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser, K.C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G., in his 88th year. Funeral, Putney Vale Crematorium, 2.30 p.m., Tuesday, May 26. No flowers, by request". Notice in Telegraph 23 May 1953.¹

"Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser, C.B., C.S.I. C.M.G., who died yesterday at the age of 87, was a Royal Engineer officer who served for most of his career with the Indian Army. His inclination was for staff work, and he held a succession of staff appointments both before and during the 1914-18 war, when he saw service in France and in Mesopotamia.

The son of the Rev. Donald Fraser, D.D., of Inverness and Marylebone, he was born on June 15, 1865, his mother being the fourth daughter of Major-General Alexander Gordon, R.E. From University College School he went to Clare College, Cambridge, obtaining his commission direct into the Royal Engineers in February, 1886.

Indian service soon brought him experience of frontier warfare. He was in the Chin-Lushai expedition of 1889-90 and the Hazara expedition, 1891. He got his captaincy in August, 1896, and during the Tirah campaign of 1897-98 he was adjutant R.E. 2nd Division. He had some experience of the South African War as a special service officer, from February to December, 1900, being employed in Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and the Western Transvaal, where he was at the action of Frederickstad in October.

In 1901 he passed into the Staff College, but after graduating it was some time before he secured staff employment. He was promoted major in his corps in September, 1904, and appointed D.A.A.G. Bombay Brigade in February, 1905, passing to the headquarters of the Army in November, 1907, to become a D.A.Q.M.G. there. He left Simla in February, 1909, and at the beginning of 1910, was selected to be an instructor at the Indian Staff College. Here he remained three years, being promoted lieutenant-colonel in December, 1912. After leaving Quetta he came home and passed through a course at the Naval War College.

Eager for active service on the outbreak of the war, he had first to be content with the post of Embarkation Commandant. It was not until March, 1915, that he was appointed A.A. & Q.M.G. on the staff of the Lahore Division, then in France. In this capacity, and later as A.Q.M.G., he was with the division at "Second Ypres," and the battles of Aubers Ridge and Festubert, and accompanied it to Mesopotamia at the end of the year.

In May, 1916, Colonel Fraser was appointed G.S.O.1 on the staff of the newly formed 15th (Indian) Division, which remained on the Euphrates front, until, in October, he was transferred to the III Corps as Brigadier-General General Staff. With the corps he saw the Battle of Kut and the advance to and occupation of Baghdad, and then the operations on the Adhaim in April, 1917. He had received a brevet in March, and reached the substantive rank of colonel in December, by which time the operations in the Jabal Hamrin area had been concluded. From February to April, 1918, he acted as Chief of the General Staff to General Marshall, the Commander-in-Chief.

He succeeded to the command of the 15th Division in September, 1918, and in the following March took over the 18th Division, being promoted major-general in June. He was engaged in the Kurdistan operations of 1919-20, and relinquished command in October, 1921, From March to November, 1922, he commanded the forces in Iraq, but was not again employed until May 1924, when he was appointed to the Malaya command. Three years later he retired from the Army on an Indian pension."

Obituary in the Daily Telegraph 23 May 1953.

     Theresa Gordon Fraser was born on 23 December 1858 in Montréal, Canada.² She was the daughter of Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. and Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon.¹ Theresa Gordon Fraser was baptised on 17 February 1859 at Coté St. Presbyterian Church, Montréal. She appears on the census of 4 April 1881 at 3 Cambridge Square, London.³ She married John Fullarton Beatson, son of Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E. and Elizabeth Mary Ann Wood, on 29 October 1888 in St. Andrew's Church, Madras, India, in the notice of the marriage the groom is described as being of Mandalay, Burma and Geasmont, Helensburgh. The Times of India notes that he is ofthe Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. Ltd. of Mandalay.^4,5 Theresa Gordon Fraser died on 6 November 1932 at 13, Magdalen Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, at the age of 73 funeral service, Thursday 10 November 1932, St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, St. Leonards, 10 a.m. Interment took place at the City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell, London W.7.⁶

     Theresa Gordon Fraser was born in 1859 in Ontario.^1,2 She was the daughter of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.¹ Theresa Gordon Fraser died on 5 May 1884 in Cobourg.¹

     Rev. William Fraser was born in 1828.¹ He was the son of John Fraser.¹ Rev. William Fraser married Margaret Cuningham Playfair, daughter of James Playfair and Jane Speirs, on 21 April 1857 at 4 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow.² Mr. Fraser was ordained to the Free Church, Gourock, in 1850. From thence he was, in 1863, translated to Free St. Bernard's, Edinburgh; and, in 1880, to the Queen's Road Presbyterian Church, Brighton.³ Rev. William Fraser appears on the census of 4 April 1881 at 3 Cambridge Square, London, described on the census as "brother" presumably of Donald. He is also listed as a Presbyterian Minister.¹ He died on 18 September 1887 in Brighton, Sussex. "A sad sensation was caused in the Presbyterian Church, Brighton, on Sunday morning, owing to the death of the pastor, the Rev. William Fraser, who fell dead while preaching. The rev. gentleman was delivering one of a course of sermons to soldiers, and had been speaking about twenty-five minutes, when he was seen to lean his hand upon the Bible and immediately afterwards fall in the pulpit. Several medical gentlemen In the church at once went to him, but he never recovered consciousness, and died in two minutes from heart disease. The deceased, who was sixty-one years of age, was brother of the Rev. Donald Fraser. His wife was in church at the time of the occurrence."⁴

     William Torrance Fraser was born in 1858 in Cobourg, Ontario.¹ He was the son of Alexander Fraser and Mary Mead Torrance.² William Torrance Fraser married Florence Emily Doan on 17 May 1884 in Aurora, York, Ontario.

     Cecily Fraunceys married Thomas Charlton (alias Knightley), son of William de Knightly and Anna de Charlton.²

     Barbara Frazer married George Hyman.¹

     Frank J. Freccia was born on 30 August 1906 in Italy.¹ He married Florence G. Sewall, daughter of William Arthur Sewall and Florence Isabella Garlick. Frank J. Freccia died on 12 February 1999 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, at the age of 92.¹

     Ethel Fredericks married Thomas O. Woodruff.

     Arthur B. Freeman was born on 17 December 1855.² He married Mary Kendrick Baker, daughter of Martin Baker and Charlotte Wood, on 2 July 1894 in Lebanon, New Hampshire.^1,3 Arthur B. Freeman died on 2 November 1894 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, at the age of 38.^1,4

     Fidelia Freeman was born on 27 July 1799 in Blackstone, Massachusetts.¹ She married George W. Eddy circa 1 September 1821.¹ Fidelia Freeman died on 14 April 1888 in Chicago at the age of 88.¹

     Jeremiah Goodwin Freeman was born on 13 August 1830 in York Village, York County, Maine.^2,3 He was the son of Edward Freeman.¹ Jeremiah Goodwin Freeman married firstly Mary Eliza Sewall, daughter of Capt. Joseph Sewall and Eliza Jane Trafton, on 5 April 1866 in York, Maine, the Rev. Mr. Sawyer officiated.^1,4,5 Jeremiah Goodwin Freeman died on 28 March 1908 in York, York County, Maine, at the age of 77³ and is buried in First Parish Cemetery, York Village, York County, Maine.³

     Sarah Freeman married Ira Wadsworth, son of Deacon Peleg Wadsworth and Lusanna Sampson, in 1783. Sarah Freeman died on 18 January 1836.

     Sarah Freeman married William Moses, son of Nathaniel Moses.¹

     Sarah Freeman was born on 6 May 1700.¹ She married Benjamin Brown, son of Joseph Brown and Hannah Fitch.¹ Sarah Freeman died in 1755.¹

     (unknown) de Freford was the daughter of Sir John de Freford.¹ (unknown) de Freford married Sir Robert Malveysin Knt., of Rideware-Malveysin, son of Sir Henry Malveysin Knt., of Rideware-Malveysin.¹

     Agnes Ettie French was born on 12 February 1884 in Richmond, Lennox and Addington, Ontario.^2,1 She was the daughter of William French and Minto Grieve.² In an affidavit required before the issue of a marriage license she is described as a trained nurse then living in Washington, D.C.³ Agnes Ettie French married Caleb Bruce Cummings, son of John Wesley Cummings and Edith Raymond, on 28 May 1919 in Kingston, Ontario.³