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Research in Other Countries => Other Countries => Topic started by: Jocie on Sunday 13 December 09 09:11 GMT (UK)
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I have a Roderick Fraser Born about 1785 in the West Indies.
I have searched the West Indies entries on Ancestry without success.
Could anyone with more experience of researching this part of the world give me any advice as to where I may be able to find more information?
All I know is that he returned to England at some point.
Married Hannah Taylor in Alverstoke in 1806 and went on to have eleven children.
Any advice would be great!
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I have a Roderick Fraser Born about 1875 in the West Indies.
I have searched the West Indies entries on Ancestry without success.
Could anyone with more experience of researching this part of the world give me any advice as to where I may be able to find more information?
All I know is that he returned to England at some point.
Married Hannah Taylor in Alverstoke in 1806 and went on to have eleven children.
Any advice would be great!
Hi :)
which date is a century out please ;D
charlotte
Which date
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Sorry Charlotte.
Brain not in gear it should read 1785 that will teach me to check what I send out!!
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Jocie, we all do things like that :D :D
charlotte
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Any clues as to possible sibling ? Any Frasers amongst the 1806 marriage witnesses perhaps?
What about the other Frasers in Portsea? There was a David Fraser born around 1785 who had a son Roderick. David Fraser was a shoemaker, and Roderick was a bootmaker in the 1841 census. Could he be a brother, or a cousin?
Roderick had a son David born 1818.
Also there was a surgeon named William Fraser in Reading in 1851 who was born around 1795 in Nevis.
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Hi Shaun
It's parents and siblings where I'm stuck. He had eleven children and I'm managing to trace most of them.
There were a lot of Davids and Rodericks in the family and there seem to be two main families of Frasers living in Portsea. Both of which had Davids and Rodericks. Confusing!
One I can connect to mine. The other I suspect is related but I can't find the connection.
A lot of them worked as Military tailors mainly for the Royal Marines.
I didn't know about the William Fraser I've have a look at him. There are a lot of medics in the family so it could be possible.
Thank you so much for your help
J
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Hi
I'm also descended from the 1785 Roderick Fraser.
There was a Roderick Fraser born in Dingwall in c.1719 who was transported to the West Indies in 1747 following Culloden. I suspect he was the [grand]father of our Roderick who comes to Portsmouth in the early 1800s.
See Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775 on ancestry
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Thanks Kate. I never thought of looking there.
I'm sure you're probably right.
The only other way he could have got there was if was born there because his father was a mariner who's wife accompanied him.
This did happen occasionally I have someone in my other tree who was born in Australia although all the rest of his family and siblings were born in London.
Thanks for the help
Jo