John Fraser

1810 - 1872  (61 years)

• Name	John Fraser  [1]
  Birth	20 Sep 1810	Scotland, United Kingdom   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1814
  Death	7 Jun 1872	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Cause: He died by accidental drowning.
  Burial	9 Jun 1872	Montreal, Quebec, Canada   [3]
  Person ID	I5441	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	John Fraser,   b. 1774, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland d. 31 Oct 1856, Stanstead, Memphrémagog, Quebec, Canada (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Isabella Forbes,   b. 1786, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. 29 Aug 1872, Montreal Quebec Canada (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F17953	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabella Warren,   b. 1814, St George, Middlesex d. 1875 (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	1835  [3]
  Children	1. John A. Fraser,   b. 9 Jan 1838   d. 1 Jan 1898, New York, New York, NY (Age 59 years)   2. William Lewis Fraser,   b. 1841   d. 16 Oct 1905, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 64 years)   3. Ethelwyn Ruby Fraser,   b. 20 Nov 1869, Montreal, Quebec, Canada d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2624	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Notes

  The Ormond reference records erroneously: "The tradition of political liberalism is a long one in the Fraser family. Malcolm Fraser’s fifth great-grandfather, Simon Fraser (c. 1668-1747), Twelfth Lord of Lovat is referred to in English histories as "The Jacobite Fox." He was imprisoned for his political views at the age of thirteen, and at sixteen joined the insurrection in favor of King James. He was impeached for high treason for his activities in furthering the lost cause of the Stuarts. At the age of seventy-eight, he was beheaded in the Tower of London, and it is recorded that he was the last man to be the victim of this cruel form of capital punishment." Marie Fraser of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada notes there are "discrepancies in the inventive ancestral connection of Malcolm Fraser to Simon Fraser Lord Lovat [Malcolm's claimed 5th great grandfather], whose eldest son Simon (1726-82) married in 1765, without issue; or his youngest son Archibald (1736-1815) who also left no legitimate surviving male issue."

  
  

• Sources

  [S747] Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens (Web site of the Ormond Memorial Art Museum. Updated 11 Mar 2004., Especially footnote 3. http://www.ormondartmuseum.org/FraserBio.htm. [S747] Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens (Web site of the Ormond Memorial Art Museum. Updated 11 Mar 2004., http://www.ormondartmuseum.org/FraserBio.htm. [S747] Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens (Web site of the Ormond Memorial Art Museum. Updated 11 Mar 2004., Footnote 4. http://www.ormondartmuseum.org/FraserBio.htm.