Frasers of Fife: Generation Three | John Fraser and Agnes Stenhouse

1880 John Fraser Family Tree

24. John Fraser (James -6, Duncan -1) born 1805 - blacksmith


married at Kirkcaldy 1829


Agnes Stenhouse birth not recorded


Emigrated to Australia 1852



child of this union:


63. i. Jessie Fraser b. 1840 m. G. F. Ware



John died December 28th 1869 in Australia
Agnes died March 1841

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 

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Frasers of Fife: Generation Three | John Fraser and Ann Brown

1880 John Fraser Family Tree

11. John Fraser (William - 3, Duncan - 1) born January 3rd 1798 - at Mildeans Mill. John was a  Farmer at Westmill, Strathmiglo - 1824 to 1875


married August 1827 at Abernethy.


Ann Brown born July 25th 1804. Daughter of Gilbert Brown and Ann Williamson of Abernethly.

Children of this union:

35. i. William Fraser b. July 28th 1828, married Eliza Fairbairn

36. ii. Gilbert Fraser b. December 15th 1829, married Mary Cargill

      iii. John Fraser b. June 24th 1824

37. iv. James Fraser b. July 13th 1836, married Mary Buckley

38. v. Ann Fraser b. December 20th 1837, married James Winton

      vi. Agnes Fraser b. May 24th 1839 d. April 9th 1856

39. vii. David Fraser b. September 5th 1841, married Mary Kydd Finlay

40. viii. Robert Alexander Fraser b. October 11th 1843, married Catherine Oliphant

41. ix. Jessie Fraser b. February 16th 1846, married David Wightman Cargill



John died February 24th 1875
Ann died April 14th 1888

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 



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Frasers of Fife: Generation Two | John Fraser and Ann Johnstone

4. John Fraser (Duncan - 1) born at Saline September 23rd 1770. A mechanic at Carlisle.

married at Carlisle 1803

Ann Johnstone birth unknown

Children of the union:

     i. John Fraser b. 1805 married Mary Sanderson. d. 1875 at Newcastle on Tyne ~no issue. A Stone mason.

      ii. Duncan Fraser b. 1807  Stone mason. Enlisted into  30th regiment at Bermuda. Died a bachelor aged about 33 years.

      iii. William Fraser  d. 1818 aged 9 years

      iv. Alexander Fraser d. 1818 aged 7 years

16.  v.  Hugh Fraser  b. December 25th 1813 married Ann Amelia Cleminston

      vi. Burns Fraser  d. 1818 aged  3 years

      vii. Margaret Fraser d. 1818 aged 1 year



John died June 1st 1842 aged 72
Ann died 1834

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 

editor's note: As I entered this information I was struck by the fact that four of this couple's young children all died in 1818. A quick internet search revealed there were outbreaks of Typhoid Fever and Tuberculosis throughout Scotland that year.

Frasers of Fife: The Beginning | Duncan Fraser and Isobel Burness

Duncan Fraser married Isobel Burness and the story began. The acorn from which the mighty Fraser tree sprouted, being planted about 1763.

1. Duncan Fraser, a native of Invernesshire, date and place of birth unknown, was out in the rebellion of 1745 in cause of Prince Charlie. In 1764 he seems to have been a Miller at Craighouse Mill, Saline, Fife and in 1773 he removed to Milldeans Mill, Leslie of which he was a tenant until his death.

Isobel Burns or Burness, his wife (tradition says that she was of the same stock as Burns the Poet) and from the Session Records at Drumlithie, Kincardineshire it is found that an Isobel Burness daughter of a Robert Burness was born June 21st 1748


Married about 1763 they had the following children:


2. i. Margaret Fraser born June 10th 1764, at Saline married John Gibb

    ii. Hugh Fraser born November 3rd 1765, at Saline, contracted to Elizabeth Arnot November 15th 1794 in Kinglassie, died about Dec 1794 - no issue

3. iii. William Fraser born July 24th 1767 married Agnes Bane

4. iv. John Fraser born September 23rd 1770 at Saline married Ann Johnstone

5. v. Alexander Fraser born November 15th 1775 at Milldeans, Kinglassie married Janet Lockart

6. vi. James Fraser born 1777 Kinglassie married Mary MacLaren

    vii. David Fraser born August 15th 1779 died in infancy

    viii. George Fraser born December 25th 1780 died at 18 months

    ix. Issabella Burns Fraser born  January 29th 1782 at Milldeans, died in infancy

    x. Janet Fraser born December 12th 1793, died January 29th 1797


Duncan died about 1795/6 at Milldeans Mill, Leslie
Isobel died January 15th 1805 at Leslie

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~ 

Frasers of Fife: Documenting the Family Tree

The writing, in my father's hand, on the outside of the mailing tube located behind the furnace read: "IRONS Family Tree"

Where on earth had he acquired this, I wondered? And why was it stuffed behind the furnace? My mom, weary from the monumental task of emptying one's home of a lifetime of memories, had hastily shoved it into my hand, saying "here, you want this?" Of course I wanted it!! No brainer. But where had it come from? She was remiss to answer. Didn't know, couldn't remember, too exhausted to care.

I took it home and, like a kid at Christmas, prepared to behold the wonder the tube contained. Inside was a cloth object, rolled around a dowel, wrapped in a thin tissue. Gingerly unfurling it, I discovered a hand inked family tree on linen. Badly cracked and worn. It frightened me. And thrilled me. 

And wait! What? It was not the IRONS family tree, as my dad suspected, but the FRASER family tree! Hand inked in 1880 containing well over 700 names! Did he ever look at this tree? The last FRASER in the direct family had died over 100 years ago.

The where will forever remain a mystery, I resigned.

I unrolled it once or twice more in the passing weeks, realizing that with each unfurling I was losing bits of valuable, perhaps priceless, information. I stored it away for almost a decade, but it kept drawing me back like the Sirens of The Odyssey, until finally I could bear it no longer. I had it archivally framed so that I could bask in it's magnificence, and record electronically what my ancestor John Fraser had done by hand 135 years ago.

Behold the Tree!

The Frasers of Fife - Family Tree c.1880

My next task was to sit down and begin entering and documenting all these people. Overwhelming? Yes. How to start? Paper and pencil proved too labor intensive, so I moved to photographing bits of the tree so I could enter the names into my software program. That also was difficult and too labor intensive. I finally decided on working with my laptop stationed next to the tree, which was now hanging on an interior, shaded wall, and too cumbersome to tote around.

I decided to start a public Ancestry tree too, there might be other Frasers out there looking for more family info. After all, mine is but a tiny twig on this mammoth tree, the IRONS branch on the FRASER tree.

That decision proved to be quite providential.

compiled by John Fraser 1880

to be continued .....

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