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James George Gordon Fraser

Male 1817 - 1874  (57 years)


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  • Name James George Gordon Fraser 
    Born 12 Jan 1817  , Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Historic Building 150-152 Beverly St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    brick 
    • two story brick house, 1974 in excellent condition
    Occupation 1851  Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Merchant 
    Residence 1851  Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Presbyterian 
    Occupation 1861  North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Farmer 
    Residence 1861  North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Church of Scotland 
    Occupation 1871  Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Telegraph Operator 
    Residence 1871  Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Church of Scotland 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-126434P 
    Died 23 Jul 1874  Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Buried Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I126434  Generations
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2024 

    Family Christina McLeod,   b. 29 Nov 1815, , Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Mar 1877, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 13 Feb 1842  Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Children 
     1. Jennet Fraser,   b. 1844, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Jessie McLeod Fraser,   b. 12 Jan 1845, Caledonia, Haldimand Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jan 1929, Whitby, Whitby Twp., Ontario Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     3. Christina Marjorie Fraser,   b. 25 Oct 1845, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Mar 1930, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     4. Elizabeth Frances Fraser,   b. 18 Dec 1847, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jan 1926, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     5. William Fraser,   b. 25 Sep 1850, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Charles James Fraser,   b. 4 Dec 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Apr 1889, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years)
     7. Georgina Fraser,   b. 2 Sep 1857, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Andrew George Wood Fraser,   b. 30 Apr 1860, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F34805  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • In 1853, Galt having grown to be a prosperous village and aspiring even then to be the "Manchester of Canada," a larger library was required that on the 31st of May of that year the "Circulating Library" was merged in the "Galt Mechanics' Institute." For the books contained in the former institution the sum of $160 was paid. Morris C. Lutz was the first president, and James G. Fraser the first librarian.

      First Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society

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      In Galt, on Thursday morning, 23rd inst., at half-past 7 o'clock, James G. Fraser, aged 57 years and 6 months.

      Galt Reporter Jul 24 1874 pg 3

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      "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 
    1. [S570] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 2.

    2. [S313] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1851, Pg.26.

    3. [S1778] Census - ON, Waterloo, North Dumfries - 1861, Div 11 Page 85.

    4. [S122] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Mount View CC#4495 Internet Link .
      Cross on top)/ In memory of/ James G. Fraser/ born Jan. 12, 1817/ died July 23, 1874/ also his wife/ Christina McLeod/ born 29 Nov. 1815/ died 30 March 1877/ Erected to the dear memory of/ beloved and revered parents/ by their sorrowing children

    5. [S1034] Book - City of Cambridge Local, Architectural Conversevation Advisory Committee Local Building Inventory, Report onf 150-152 Beverly Street, Cambridge - pg 30.
      two story brick home, 1974 - excellent condition, constructed by James G. Fraser a grocer of Galt.

    6. [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

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 12 Jan 1817 - , Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsHistoric Building - brick - - 150-152 Beverly St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 13 Feb 1842 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Merchant - 1851 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Presbyterian - 1851 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1861 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Church of Scotland - 1861 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Telegraph Operator - 1871 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Church of Scotland - 1871 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 23 Jul 1874 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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