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FRASER, Alexander Shipmaster at Peterhead
(About 1715-1796)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. ARBUTHNOTT, Christian
2. MIDDLETON, Ann

FRASER, Alexander Shipmaster at Peterhead 1 2 3 4 5 6

  • Born: About 1715
  • Marriage (1): ARBUTHNOTT, Christian on 20 November 1735 in Peterhead parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1 2
  • Marriage (2): MIDDLETON, Ann 3
  • Died: by 25 April 1796 6

   User ID: B857.

  General Notes:

"Fraser
Alexander
25/4/1796
shipmaster in Peterhead
TD&I
Aberdeen Commissary Court
CC1/6/59"

from Wills and Testaments 6

  Noted events in his life were:

1. owner: of sloop 'Peggy', 1796, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 3


Alexander married Christian ARBUTHNOTT, daughter of Thomas ARBUTHNOTT 4th in Rora, 'Auld Baillie', Jacobite 1715 and 1745 and Christian YOUNG, on 20 November 1735 in Peterhead parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 2 (Christian ARBUTHNOTT was baptised on 17 October 1712 in Peterhead parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 4.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Christian, who married Captain Fraser ... "

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions




"ARBUTHNOT
CHRISTIAN
ALEXR. FRASER/
20/11/1735
232/ 10 275
Peterhead"

from Index of Marriages 1 2

Alexander next married Ann MIDDLETON.3 (Ann MIDDLETON was born about 1750.)


  Marriage Notes:

"The Commissary forsaid ratifies .... the foregoing Inventory and Confirms the said Ann Middleton Executrix dative qua relict to the said deceased Alexander Fraser her husband .... "

from Wills and Testaments 3

Sources

1 e-books, Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions by John A. Henderson (1907) Peterhead parish.

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

3 National Records of Scotland, 1796 Fraser, Alexander (Wills and testaments Reference CC1/6/59, Aberdeen Commissary Court).

4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

5 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Peterhead parish Aberdeenshire Baptisms.

6 National Records of Scotland, https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Legal records - Wills and testaments.

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