James Fraser

1802 - 1854  (52 years)

• Name	James Fraser
  Born	1802	, Morayshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1852	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	innkeeper
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-119904
  Died	17 Jul 1854	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Buried	Pioneer Pergola Cemetery, St. Andrew's Park, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Person ID	I119904	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2024

  
  

  Children	1. Elizabeth Fraser,   b. 1831, , Scotland ,   d. 8 Jun 1909  (Age 78 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2024
  Family ID	F12925	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret Murray,   b. 1824, , Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Margaret Fraser,   b. 1847, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Elizabeth S. Fraser,   b. 1849, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 May 2024
  Family ID	F30058	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  A-1-53 James Fraser: The Last Will and Testament of James Frazer of the Village of Galt in the County of Waterloo, formerly of Murrayshire in that part of Great Britain, called Scotland, Stone Mason. …I appoint my wife Margaret Murray, and my two friends Thomas Blacklock and John Young to be Trustees and Executrix and Executors of my Will. I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Margaret Murray one Bedstead with suitable bedding, six chairs, one sideboard, one clock and one table. I devise unto, and to the use of my said Trustees all the real estate and bequeath to then all the personal estate, to which I shall be entitled at my decease upon the trusts and subject to the declarations following. Upon trust, as soon as when to them may seem proper, to sell and convert into money my said estate, both real and personal and upon such terms as may seem to them most advantageous. Upon trust thereout in the first place, to pay or retain all my debts, and my funeral and testamentary expenses, and then next to pay to my eldest daughter Mrs Elizabeth Lunn, wife of William Lunn, the sum of Five pounds, which I bequeath unto her as a legacy, and to invest the surplus of the said trust monies in such securities as my said trustees may think best the annual income whereof shall be paid to my said wife Margaret Murray, during her life, which said provision shall be in lieu of Dower, and immediately after her decease to divide the said Trust Fund equally among all the children I shall have had by my said wife Margaret Murray - and if but one child, then to that child but if it shall so happen that at the time of the death of my said wife, no child of mine shall be living, of which she is the mother, or no child of such child, then the whole of the said Trust Fund shall revert to my daughter Elizabeth Lunn. And I declare that if any of my children, by my wife Margaret Murray, shall die in her lifetime, and any child or children of such child shall be living then the share of the said Trust Fund in favor of my child shall be payable then the Share of the said Trust Fund to which the child so dying would if living have been entitled under the trusts aforesaid, shall be payable, by my said Trustees to the child or children of such child, as the same would have been payable had such child of mine lived until the said Trust fund had come to dispose of as herein provided for….I hereby appoint my said Trustees Guardians of my infant children and dispose and commit the custody and tuition of them for such time as under the age of twenty one years, or being girls shall marry which first shall happen…. Witnessed by James Fairgrieve and William Scott Will dated 20 May 1854 Probate granted 18 December 1854 Died 17 July 1854 Surrogate Court Records Copybook Register A 1853-1871 transcript to 1863. Frances Hoffman transcriber.

  
  

• Sources

  [S313] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1851, Div 1 Pg 5. James FRASER Innkeeper Scotland Presbyterian 49 Margaret FRASER Scotland Presbyterian 27 Margaret FRASER JR. Galt Presbyterian 4 Elisabeth S. FRASER Galt Presbyterian 2 Frederick Gustav BEITZ Chandler Prussia Lutheran 30 not a member of the family John HENDERSON Labourer Scotland Presbyterian 25 not a member of the family James DRUMMOND Mason Scotland Presbyterian 42 not a member of the family James THOMPSON Labourer Scotland Presbyterian 33 not a member of the family [S530] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Pioneer Pergola (formerly St. Andrews Presbyterian) CC#4488 Internet Link. In/ Memory of/ James Fraser/ A native of Murrayshire/ Scotland/ who died July 17th/ 1854/ in his 52nd year [S1737] Probate - Wills of Waterloo Register A 1853-1871, Will of James Frazer - A-1-53 20 May 1854. [S313] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1851, Div 1 Pg 5.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1802 - , Morayshire, Scotland Occupation - innkeeper - 1852 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 17 Jul 1854 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Pioneer Pergola Cemetery, St. Andrew's Park, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth