Clan fraser



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Clan FRASER
ARMS Azure, three farises Argent

CREST Dexter, on a mount a flourish of strawberries leaved and fructed

Proper; sinister, an ostrich holding in its beak a horseshoe Proper

MOTTOS Dexter, All my hope is in God; sinister, In God is all


SUPPORTERS Two angels Proper with wings expanded and vested in long

garments Or



STANDARD Azure, a St Andrew’s Cross Argent in the hoist and of the Livery

Azure, upon which is depicted the Badge three times along with

the Motto ‘All my hope is in God’ in letters Azure upon two

transverse bands Argent



PINSEL Argent, on a Wreath of the Liveries the Crest as above, within a

strap Azure, buckled and embellished Or inscribed in letters

Argent ‘All my hope is in God’, within a circlet Or fimbriated Gules and blazoned with the style

‘Fraser, Lady Saltoun’ in letters Azure, the circlet ensigned of a

Lord of Parliament’s coronet Proper, and in the fly a strawberry

flower slipped and leaved Proper



BADGE A fraise Argent




T he Frasers probably come from Anjou in France, and the name may derive either from Ferdius, from Fresel or from Freseau. It has also been suggested that they descend from a tribe called Friselii in Roman Gaul, whose badge was a strawberry plant.

They first appeared in Scotland around 1160, when Simon Fraser held lands at Keith in East Lothian. About five generations later Sir Simon Fraser was captured fighting for Robert the Bruce, and executed with great cruelty by Edward I in 1306. His cousin, Sir Alexander Fraser of Cowie, Bruce’s chamberlain, was the elder brother of another Sir Simon Fraser, from whom the Frasers of Lovat descend. He married Robert the Bruce’s sister, Mar, who for a time was imprisoned by the English in a cage hung from Roxburgh Castle wall. Simon’s grandson, Sir Alexander Fraser of Cowie and Durris, acquired the castle now called Cairnbulg and the lands of Philorth by marriage with Joanna, younger daughter and co-heiress of the Earl of Ross in 1375. Eight generations later, in 1592, Sir Alexander Fraser of Philorth received from James VI charters creating the fishing village of Faithlie, which he had transformed into a fine town, also improving the harbor, which became a burgh of regality and a free port, called Fraserburgh. He was also authorized to found a university in the town, but the scheme was short-lived, falling victim to the religious troubles of the times. When plague it Aberdeen in 1647, staff and students from King’s College were evacuated to the town for two years, but now a street name and some lettering carved on a wall are all that remain of the early seat of learning.

The eighth Laird of Philorth also built Fraserburgh Castle, later the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, and in doing so bankrupted himself, being forced to sell the Castle of Philorth, which passed out of the family for over three hundred years until the nineteenth Lord Saltoun bought it back in 1934.

The ninth Laird married the heiress of Abernethy Lords Saltoun, and their son became the tenth Lord Saltoun. The present chief, as well as bearing the undifferenced arms of Fraser, have also a ‘grand coat’ which quarters the arms of Abernethy, Wishart and Ross. The tenth Lord Saltoun was severely wounded at the Battle of Worchester in 1651, but survived thanks to his servant, James Cardno, who rescued him from the battlefield, hiding and nursing him until he finally got his master home to Fraserburgh. In 1666 he built a house a mile from Fraserburgh which he called Philorth House, where the family lived until it was burned down in 1915. Sir Alexander Fraser of Durris was personal physician to Charles II. He was educated in Aberdeen and Soon acquired a reputation for general scholarship but particularly in medicine. He accompanied the king throughout his campaign in 1650, but seems to have been unpopular with some of the more extreme Covenanters because of his progressive scientific opinions. After the Restoration in 1660, he sat in the Scottish Parliament although he was still prominent enough in court circles to feature in the diaries of Samuel Pepys. He died in 1681. The family took no part in the Jacobite rebellion.

The sixteenth Lord Saltoun commanded the Light Companies of the First Guards in the Orchard at Hougoumont on the morning of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. It was he who, later in the day, fist noticed the Imperial Guard emerge from the hollow where they had been hiding all day, and drew the Duke of Wellington’s attention to them. The nineteenth Lord Saltoun was a prisoner of war in Germany for most of the First World War. He became a member of the House of Lords from 1936 and devoted himself to numerous public works, and latterly to promoting the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). He died in 1979 at the age of 93.

Other branches of the family also prospered. Andrew Fraser of Muchalls was raised to the peerage in June 1633 with the title, ‘Lord Fraser’. He completed the early work on Castle Fraser which stands south of the River Don near Inverurie. This magnificent castle, entirely reminiscent of a French chateau, is now fully renovated and in the care of the National Trust for Scotland. The peerage conferred on Andrew Fraser fell dormant in the eighteenth century. The nineteenth Lord was succeeded by his daughter, Flora Fraser, twentieth Lady Saltoun. She is married to Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, and he and Lady Saltoun are officially members of the royal family.


Taken from “Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia”, by Collins, HarperCollins Publishers 1994
Clan FRASER Septs


BISSET

BREWSTER


COWIE,EY,-Y

FRAHER


FRASER

FRASER


FRASER

FRASHER


FRASHIER

FRASHURE

FRASIER

FRASUER


FRASUIR

FRAYSER


FRAZAR

FRAZEE


FRAZER

FRAZIER


FRAZURE

FREESSELL

FRESER

FREW


FREZEL(L)(E)

FRISEAL


FRISELL(E)

FRISWELL

FRIZEL(L)(E)

GILROY


GILRUTH

GREWER,-AR

GRUER

KIM(M)


KIMMIE,-Y

LOVAT(T)

LOVETT

MAC CIM(E)



MAC GILRICK

MAC GREWAR,-ER

MAC GRUAR

MAC GRUER

MAC HIM,-N

MAC IL(L)RICK

MAC ILARICK

MAC ILRAITH

MAC ILREACH

MAC ILRICK

MAC IMMIE,-Y

MAC KEEHAN

MAC KEM(M)Y

MAC KEM(M)Y,-IE

MAC KIM(M)

MAC KIMMIE,-Y

MAC KREITH

MAC SEMIS(H)

MAC SHIMES

MAC SHIMMIE,-Y

MAC SIM(E)

MAC SIMON

MAC SYMON

MAC SKIMMING(S)

MAC SYMON

MAC TAVISH

MAC TWEED

OLIVER


REVIE,-Y

PHYSIL


SALTO(U)N

SIM(E)(S)

SIM(E)SON

SIMON(S)


SIMOND(S)

SIMONDSON

SIMPKINS

SIMPSON


SYM(E)(S)

SYMON(S)


SYMPSON

TWAD(D)ELL,-LE

TWEDDEL(L)

TWEEDIE


TWEED(D)ALE



Clan genealogists: Susan Whitney

Clan Genealogist


Clan Fraser Society of North America.
126 Royal View Lane
Powell, TN 37849
email: genealogist@cfsna.com
Home Page: http://www.cfsna.com


Clan genealogists (continued) Marie Fraser
Genealogy/Newsletter Editor
Clan Fraser Society of Canada
71 Charles Street E. #1101
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4Y 2T3
(416) 920-6851
email: cdnexplorer@clanfraser.ca
Home Page: http://www.clanfraser.ca
Clan Fraser Society of Australia
Home Page: http://www.ar.com.au/~frasercl

This clan information sheet has been prepared by

The Scottish Society of Louisville, Inc.

PO Box 32248



Louisville, KY 40232-2248

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