FRASER, Alexander of Cornton, Stirlingshire ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"From the situation of the estate of Cornton in Stirlingshire, and in the neighbourhood of Touch-Fraser, it is probable that the Frasers of Cornton were cadets of the Touch family, which, with that of Oliver Castle in Peeblesshire, represent the two oldest families of the name known to have settled in Scotland.

Alexander Fraser of Cornton, the first known, may have been a younger brother of Sir Richard of Touch-Fraser, and was probably identical with an Alexander Fraser, who did homage to Edward I. at Berwick in 1296, and who, being then a knight, must have been a different person from Sir Alexander Fraser of Touch- Fraser, Chamberlain of Scotland in the reign of Robert I., the latter not having been knighted before 1308.

For this reason, too, he was probably the same person as the Sir Alexander Fraser stated by Barbour to have been taken prisoner at the battle of Methven in 1306. If so, he probably perished by the hand of the executioner, for his name does not again appear in any document except a demand for his lands by John de Luc in the same year, the wording of which might imply that he was dead."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"ALEXANDER FRASER of Cornton (in Stirlingshire) ancestor of the FRASERS OF MUCHALS in MAR. This line claimed the Fraser Chiefship through the Philorth line claimed he was the 2nd son. In 1617 his descendant ANDREW, 1st LORD FRASER (from 1633), built Castle Fraser. The last line was CHARLES, 4th LORD FRASER, a Jacobite in the '15 Rising, died in hiding in 1716. (Parliament in 1662 and Lyon Court in 1672 recognised them as Chiefs"

from Clan Fraser in Scottish History ^{1 2}

Alexander married.