Georgina Fraser

1857 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Georgina Fraser
  Born	2 Sep 1857	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3]
  Residence	1861	North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Church of Scotland
  Christened	27 Nov 1862	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Interesting	teacher, story, journalist
  Music	Authored Fraser's Drinking Song
  		Fraser,Georgina-00001-FrasersDrinkingSong.jpg FRASER'S DRINKING SONG. 1 All ready? Let us drink to the woman who rules us to-night— To her lands; to her laws; 'neath her flag we will smite Ev'ry foe, Hip and thigh, Eye for eye, Blow for blow— Are you ready? 2 All ready? Then here's to the mothers who bore us, my men; To the shieling that sleeps in the breast of the glen Where the stag Drinks it fill From the rill By the crag— Are you ready? 3 All ready? Fill your glass to the maid you adore, my boys; Wish her health, wish her wealth, long life, and all joys; Full measure (May it swim To the brim) Of pleasure— Are you ready? 4 All ready? And here's to the country we live in, my lads; It is here we have struggled and thriven, my lads? God bless it, May Beauty And Duty Possess it— Are you ready? 5 All ready? A Fraser! A Fraser forever, my friends; While he lives how he hates, how he loves till life ends; He is first, Here's my hand, Into grand Hurrah burst— Are you ready?
  Name	Georgina Newhall
  Residence	1871	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Church of Scotland
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-132384
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I132384	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	James George Gordon Fraser,   b. 12 Jan 1817, , Scotland ,   d. 23 Jul 1874, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Christina McLeod,   b. 29 Nov 1815, , Scotland ,   d. 30 Mar 1877, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 61 years)
  Married	13 Feb 1842	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [4]
  Family ID	F34805	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	E. P. Newhall,   b. CA 1855,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F8609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Georgina Fraser The Project Gutenberg eBook of "The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering", by Alexander Fraser. . (2020). Retrieved 29 March 2020, from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37340/37340-h/37340-h.htm

  
  

• Notes

  "The Frasers of Stratherrick, where are they?" To this pensive question by Charles Fraser Mackintosh comes an oft echoed and lusty answer from many distant lands. Indeed the question is, "Where are they not?" for it is safe to say that there is no country where the English language to-day prevails, in which Stratherrick may not claim a son. Their new homes have not the historical charm of the old, but wherever the Frasers have gone, away from the home of their fathers, they have acquitted themselves well. A scion of a Stratherrick house was James George Fraser, who many years ago settled at Galt, Ontario. Like his brother Capt. Charles Fraser, now residing in Glasgow, Scotland, he was attached to a Highland regiment in his younger days, but withdrawing from the service, he came to Canada with his young wife, Christina MacLeod. At Galt was born a family of three sons, William, Charles and Andrew, and four daughters, Christina, Jessie, Elizabeth and Georgina, the youngest of whom is the subject of this brief sketch. On the maternal side her descent is traced from the families of Lochend and Braemore. Her great-grand parents were George Mackenzie, second son of John Mackenzie I. of Lochend (of the Gairloch family), and Christina, daughter of Captain Hector Munro of Braemore. George Mackenzie was a distinguished officer, and attained to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel of the famous Rosshire Buffs, the 78th Highlanders. His daughter Christina married Angus MacLeod of Banff with issue, two sons, Donald and George, and several daughters,[Pg 95] of whom Christina, as already stated, married James G. Fraser of Galt, Ontario. Georgina Fraser was born about the beginning of the sixties, and was educated in the public and high schools of her native town. After the death of her parents she removed to Toronto, and taking up the study of shorthand entered upon the life of an amanuensis and teacher of stenography. She taught large classes in the towns surrounding Toronto, and in Victoria University, when that institution was located at Cobourg. She was the first woman in Canada to adopt this profession as a means of self-support, and to her belongs the honor of adding a new vocation to those upon which Canadian women may enter. In addition to these duties Miss Fraser undertook journalistic work, and was the first lady writer in Toronto to conduct the department devoted to woman's interests, now so important a weekly feature in the great dailies in Canada. In 1884, while occupying the important position of Assistant Secretary to General Manager Oakes of the Northern Pacific Railway at St. Paul, Minn., she became the wife of Mr. E. P. Newhall, of the Pacific Express Co. in Omaha. Notwithstanding household cares and ill-health Mrs. Newhall still finds time to indulge in her old taste for literature, wielding an earnest pen in advocacy of those reforms which most interest women of advanced thought. She has achieved considerable fame as a writer of short stories, and her compositions of verse bear the mark of the true poet's touch. As a clanswoman Mrs. Newhall is fond of claiming the right to call herself a "black" Fraser, nature having endowed her with that darkness of hair and eyebrow which is supposed to stamp all the possessors thereof as "true Frasers." The Project Gutenberg eBook of "The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering Toronto, May 5th, 1894", by Alexander Fraser. . (2020). Retrieved 29 March 2020, from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37340/37340-h/37340-h.htm

  
  

• Sources

  [S570] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 2. [S29] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Galt - St. Andrews Presbyterian. Georgina Alexandria Fraser Born 02 Sep 1857 Parents Jas. G. Fraser & Christiana McLeod baptized 27 Nov 1862 [S1778] Census - ON, Waterloo, North Dumfries - 1861, Div 11 Page 85. [S1788] Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910, Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M11984-9 , System Origin: Scotland-VR , GS Film number: 1066695 , Reference ID: 2:G4LJ4H. James Fraser Spouse's Name:Christina Macleod Event Date:13 Feb 1842 Event Place:Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Spouse's Father's Name:William Macleod

  
  

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  Born - 2 Sep 1857 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Church of Scotland - 1861 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Christened - 27 Nov 1862 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Church of Scotland - 1871 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth