Frank Fraser's Photo Album

Frank Fraser's Photo Album. Chicago, IL, Nov 1938

Revised: 16 July, 2020

My eldest uncle, Francis Alexander Fraser, was born in Liverpool in 1888, son of James Wren Fraser and Mary Sargeant. In 1909 he left Liverpool and emigrated to the USA, arriving at Ellis Island, New York, on 25 Aug 1909 aboard the "RMS Caronia". Frank was going to live with his aunt Martha Lunt, Mary's elder sister, who had moved to Chicago with her husband John and family in 1888.

Frank worked for International Harvester in Chicago, but returned to Europe during World War I to join the Royal Field Artillery and fight in France, serving from 1916 to 1919. He returned to Chicago in Sep 1919 and in 1925 married Rose Bonnesen, a divorcee born Rose Elizabeth Lehn with two daughters Bonnie and Phyllis born in 1909 and 1911. Rose is listed as his wife on Frank's application for US citizenship in 1926, but by 1930 they had separated. This was apparently because Rose's teenage daughters would not accept Frank as their stepfather. In 1930 Rose Fraser was living with her daughters and a son-in-law separately from Frank, and married John Holland before 1937, because she is listed as Rose Holland, informant, on her mother Caroline Lehn's 1937 death certificate.

Frank therefore never had children of his own. He finally came back to the UK in 1958 and lived with sister Winifred Grimshaw - Frank died of a heart attack in the Essoldo Cinema, London Road, Liverpool on 19 Feb 1962. Several photos of Frank here in his 60s show he was the spitting image of my Dad Harold at the same age! For my complete family tree, see here.

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Shown on either side of Frank's Ellis Island arrival certificate are both sides of a postcard of the "RMS Caronia" sent from New York in 1909, the year Frank first arrived in the USA.

Frank returned to England on the "RMS Pannonia", arriving in Liverpool on 8 Jul 1916. He went back to the USA on board the "SS Scotian" in Sep 1919.

This page shows Frank Fraser's photo album with pictures of his family and friends from the USA and UK. Frank was born in Liverpool in 1888, lived in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from 1909 to 1958, and returned to Liverpool from 1958 until his death in 1962.

The home of Martha Sargeant Lunt and John William Lunt at 6432 South Paulina Street, Chicago, IL - picture from Judith Dolanski

Frank aged around 20, probably before he left for the USA in 1909	Frank Fraser on the Sky Ride, Chicago World's Fair, 1934
Postcard sent to Frank from Rapid City, South Dakota, 1 July 1948	Reverse of postcard sent to Frank at 6810 South Claremont Avenue, Chicago, IL, 1 July 1948. The sender's name is difficult to read!

Frank's Album, Chicago, Illinois, USA, started Nov 1938 (Thanks to Joan Coulson)

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Frank Fraser	Will Winstanley and Alice (Fraser)	Frank Fraser	Cyril Winstanley	Wedding of Harold Hesketh and Pamela Harrison, 1959
Buffalo and Erie County History Museum, Buffalo, NY			Unknown woman and baby (UK?)

Thanks to Judith Dolanski for identifying the previously unknown wedding photo on the right as that of Harold Hesketh and my first cousin Pamela Harrison, 1959.

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Tanks on Waterloo Beach, Liverpool, around 1917 (I don't know the marked person)	Tanks on Waterloo Beach, Liverpool, around 1917	Frank on right aboard the "RMS Empress of Australia", Liverpool, Aug 1955	Frank on right aboard the "RMS Empress of Australia", Liverpool, Aug 1955
Possible picture of Harold Fraser on Waterloo Beach, Liverpool, around 1917	Waterloo Beach, Liverpool, around 1917	I think this is my grandfather James Wren Fraser with his granddaughter Alice Jarrett (1911-94) on Waterloo Beach, Liverpool, around 1917	"RMS Empress of Australia"
	Frank Fraser on right with George Grimshaw, his wife Winifred (Fraser) and Mary (Wareham), wife of Reynold Fraser, Liverpool, 1952		Unknown location and date, Frank is the man on the right.

For the two photos above right taken on board the "RMS Empress of Australia", Liverpool, Aug 1955, Joan Coulson née Grimshaw is on the left, Judith Dolanski thinks the woman next to her may be Myrtle Stahl née Lunt, the woman next to Frank is still unknown (see Fraser Family USA Photos and Sargeant Album for more of Judith's Lunt/McGeachie/Fraser pictures). Frank's aunt, Martha Lunt née Sargeant, moved to Chicago with her family in 1888, and Frank moved there in 1909 to live with them. His album shows Frank kept in touch with the family throughout his US stay. He also kept in regular touch with his sister, Bertha McGeachie née Fraser, who moved to Buffalo, New York state, with her family in 1926, and whose family also appear in these photos.

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Frank Fraser aboard ship, 1920s	Mary (Wareham), wife of Reynold Fraser and Winifred (Fraser) Grimshaw	Alice Fraser	Martha Sargeant Lunt and possibly two daughters, Chicago 1919-22	Possibly two daughters of Martha Sargeant Lunt, Chicago 1919-22	Joan Grimshaw with parents Winifred (Fraser) and George
	Winifred Fraser	Nellie (Fraser), her husband Harold Harrison and son Gordon (born 1929)		Unknown women aboard ship, 1920s

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Reynold Fraser, 10th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Scottish)	Alice Fraser with Joan Grimshaw	Unidentified mounted private in the Royal Signals, World War 1	Winifred (Fraser) Grimshaw, Mary (Sargeant) Fraser and "Bella" (Margaret Fraser) Green with Philip Green (born 1932)
	Reynold Fraser, Mary (Wareham) Fraser and son Kenneth (born 1922)	Jill Coulson (born 1956)

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Reynold Fraser	Unknown woman and child	Winifred Fraser	Mary (Sargeant) Fraser	Alice Jarrett, Swansea War Memorial, South Wales	Unknown golfer
Mary (Wareham), wife of Reynold Fraser	Mary (Wareham), wife of Reynold Fraser, George Grimshaw and Winifred Fraser		Cenotaph War Memorial, Mumbles Road, Swansea, South Wales, picture from www.geograph.org.uk		Ormskirk Church
	Unknown football match, now identified as at the Marine Football Club, Waterloo, Liverpool

Thanks to Martin Heyes for identifying Ormskirk Church, one of only three churches in England with both a spire and a steeple! Thanks to Lucie Darch and Janet Marsden for identifying the location of the picture with Alice Jarrett as Swansea War Memorial in South Wales. I have no idea why she would have been in Swansea. Danny Gelder identified the girl as his mother.

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Mary Fraser, 68 St. John's Road, Waterloo, Liverpool	Three unknown ladies at sea. Judith Dolanski thinks two of these two women could be Martha (Sargeant) Lunt and Amy Priscilla (Lunt) Pickles, sister of John William Lunt. Martha and Amy came from England on the same ship as Frank Fraser on 25 Aug 1909	Winifred (Fraser) Grimshaw, Mary (Sargeant) Fraser, Elizabeth (Fraser) Birch, George Grimshaw, Bella (Fraser) Green, Philip Green, Joan Grimshaw and four younger Birch children, 1932-33	Mary Fraser's shop, South Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, 1920s - I think the children are my father on the left, and grandchildren Stanley and Doris Birch
	Mary Fraser, 68 St. John's Road, Waterloo, Liverpool	Frederick and Bella Green (both marked) at an event, 1926-30

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Irene Fraser (born 1931), married Michael Rodgers, daughters Janet, Ann and Helen

Eddie Fraser (1903-75), married Ellen "Nellie" Wadsworth, 1927

Jean Fraser (1930-2017), married Albert Harris, daughter Valerie

Simon Gelder (born 1964)

There was also a brother, Brian Wadsworth Fraser (1927-2010), but he's pictured below.

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Mary (Sargeant) Fraser with some of her children and grandchildren, Liverpool, 1940s	Will Winstanley and his son Cyril born 1927, Liverpool, 1940s		Unknown baby, Liverpool, 1940s
Possibly Leslie Birch (born 1930) and John Birch (born 1928), Liverpool, about 1940	Unknown baby, Liverpool, 1940s	Elsie Winstanley (1922-2008) with William Cookson and Alice (Fraser) Winstanley during WW2	Winstanley family, 10 Hatton Road, Litherland, Liverpool, 1940s
Elsie Winstanley ("X") with friends in the Peak District, Derbyshire, 1940s	Alice (Fraser) Winstanley, Leslie Birch (born 1930), Elizabeth (Fraser) Birch ("ME"), Jean (Birch) Burgess (born 1920) and daughter Mary Burgess (born 1938), Waterloo, Liverpool, 1940		Elsie Winstanley ("X") with friends in the Peak District, Derbyshire, 1940s

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Jean and Irene Fraser, daughters of Eddie Fraser and Nellie Wadsworth, with their uncle Harry Wadsworth	Joan Grimshaw	George Grimshaw	Alice Jarrett with Joan Grimshaw	Alice Jarrett with Joan Grimshaw
	Fraser family, Liverpool, 1950s

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Leslie Gelder and Alice (Jarrett) Gelder	Joan Grimshaw and Philip Green		Will Winstanley and Alice (Fraser) Winstanley
Will Winstanley and Alice (Fraser) Winstanley	Elsie and Cyril Winstanley	Ada (Fraser) Jarrett and Alice (Fraser) Winstanley	Unknown family - USA?
Alice (Fraser) Winstanley; Bella (Fraser) Green; Winnie (Fraser) Grimshaw	Frasers at Llangollen, North Wales: Ada (Fraser) Jarrett, Alice (Fraser) Winstanley, Alice (Jarrett) Gelder and Dennis Gelder		Leslie Birch; Philip Green; Joan Grimshaw; Cyril Winstanley; Jean Fraser; John Birch; Mary Burgess, daughter of Jean (Birch) Burgess, Waterloo, Liverpool, 1940

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Mary Sargeant "Mae" McGeachie (daughter of Bertha Fraser) with her two daughters, Sandra and Carol Waite, Buffalo, NY, ca. 1950 (this photo is also on Page 29 of Ada Jarrett's 1952 USA Photo Album, see here)	Joan Grimshaw and cousins Cyril Winstanley and Philip Green with Winifred (Fraser) Grimshaw		Unknown worker	Irene Birch and Joan Grimshaw
Unknown baby (UK or USA?)	Mary Fraser, 68 St. John's Road, Waterloo, Liverpool	Brian Wadsworth Fraser (1927-2010) with his father Eddie Fraser	Unknown bathers	Possibly daughter of Martha Sargeant Lunt, Chicago 1919-22

Brian Wadsworth Fraser moved to Scotland and married Susan Cochrane Hamilton in Glasgow in 1954. Their son, William Duncan Fraser, was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, in 1955. Bill Fraser is now Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of East Anglia in Norwich: http://www.uea.ac.uk/medicine/People/Academic/William+Fraser

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John McGeachie and wife Alice Bosack, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1940s	Bertha McGeachie (neé Fraser), John McGeachie's wife Alice, Georgina McGeachie and Frank Fraser, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1940s	John McGeachie and wife Alice Bosack, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1940s	Bertha McGeachie (neé Fraser), Georgina McGeachie, John McGeachie and wife Alice Bosack, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1940s
	John McGeachie, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1940s (the elephants are stuffed!)	Picture between Pages 13 & 14 plus writing on back, Chicago, 1961, see notes below

The couple in the photos taken at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois were wrongly identified as Mae McGeachie and her husband Thomas J. Waite, but they are actually John McGeachie and his wife Alice Marie Bosack, confirmed by Judith Dolanski and Lori Mankowski (John's granddaughter), with the other woman being Bertha's daughter and John's sister Georgina McGeachie.

Frank's writing on the back of the picture between pages 13 and 14 says: "The young couple & baby at the back on the right are Bob's grand-nephew & wife. Myrtle's husband was ill and not in this picture. Bob's wife was taking pictures and not in this." Judith Dolanski adds: "The couple in front on the right is Ethel (Lunt) and Robert Ferguson, celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Ethel is sister to my grandfather, James Lunt, who, I think, is standing right behind Ethel. The couple in front on the left is Florence (Ferguson) and Tom Lively, she is daughter of Ethel and Robert. I believe the man on left, back row is Robert Ferguson, Jr., son of Ethel and Robert. The man 2nd from left, in back row, I believe is William Paine, who was married to Mary Jane "Mae" Lunt (she died in 1956), sister of my grandfather, James. The woman third from left, back row, I believe is Myrtle Mae (Ferguson) (I don't know who she married [she married Willard Vincent Knight in 1951 and Harold Erskine Shaw in 1959 after Willard died in 1956]) daughter of Ethel and Robert. I couldn't tell if your picture had a date on it, but mine has "Our Golden Wedding Anniversary, March 8, 1961"." Robert Ferguson and Ethel Lunt married in Chicago on 8 Mar 1911. Darlene Knight, daughter of Myrtle Mae Ferguson, confirms that the three children in the picture are her and her brothers Bill (1953-79) and Vince (1956-2016).

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All these pictures are of Denise McGeachie, the daughter of John McGeachie and Alice Marie Bosack, taken in Buffalo, New York, USA, around 1944. John McGeachie was a Staff Sergeant with the US Army Air Force, 846th Bomber Squadron, 489th Bomber Group, Heavy. He was killed on a bombing raid over Villers-Saint-Paul, Oise, France on 2 Jun 1944, and is buried at Plot B Row 25 Grave 21, Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France. For more of this story see Fraser Family USA. There are lots of photos of Denise in Frank’s album, but the only online reference to her I’ve found is in the “Class of 1961”, Maryvale High School, Cheektowaga, NY (near Buffalo), which would make her born in 1943. Thanks to Judith Dolanski for the information that Denise married John Thomas Mankowski (1944-1993) - these photos of Denise have been confirmed by her daughter Lori Mankowski.

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Judith Dolanski identifies this house as 169 Fowler Avenue, Buffalo, NY, USA, and the people in the photo as George McGeachie (top left), Marion McGeachie, Andrew Stahl (1899-1955) at top right, his wife Myrtle Stahl née Lunt (1903-81) in front of him, and their son Kenneth (1938-2004) next to Myrtle. This dates the picture as around 1942, possibly the Stahls were visiting the McGeachies for John's wedding

I think this is Denise McGeachie again

George McGeachie (1893-1947)

Denise McGeachie at 390 Riley Street, Buffalo, NY, confirmed by her daughter Lori Mankowski

Judith Dolanski believes the girls in this charming photo may be Carol and Sandra Waite, the daughters of Mae McGeachie and Thomas J. Waite.

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Alice McGeachie née Bosack with Denise, born 1943	Mae (Mary Sargeant McGeachie), Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s	Georgina McGeachie, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s
McGeachie sisters, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1930s - Georgina left, Mae (Mary Sargeant McGeachie) second left and Marion second right (the girl on the right may be their first cousin Audrey McGeachie)		The Peace Bridge, Buffalo, NY, with an unidentified McGeachie sister and husband in the foreground

Thanks to Peter Potter for identifying the Bridge: "This is the Peace Bridge. The couple stands on the spit of land called the Brid Island Pier, that separates the Black Rock Canal from the Niagara River, on the left. The Peace Bridge is one of the busiest international border crossings in the world, connecting Fort Erie, Canada, to Buffalo, NY. Canada is on the far shore."

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Ethel Dwyer (1918-87), daughter of Florence Martha Lunt and Thomas F Dwyer, and her first husband Harry C Fee (1919-65), Hollywood, IL, 13 Jul 1940. Ethel later married John David Eden (1920-2009) For 1936 High School photos of Ethel and Harry see the Sargeant Album.	All the photos on this page are from the same outdoor event, the "Olde English Faire", held at the British Old People's Home, Hollywood, IL, 13 Jul 1940. The subjects, venue and date were identified by Judith Dolanski.
				Newspaper cuttings advertising the event
Robert and Ethel Ferguson with "Mary F" and Union Flags, Hollywood, IL, 13 Jul 1940	Andrew Stahl, his wife Myrtle née Lunt and their son Kenneth, Hollywood, IL, 13 Jul 1940		Possibly Sarah and Marjorie Lunt, Hollywood, IL, 13 Jul 1940	Unknown ladies, Hollywood, IL, 13 Jul 1940 (the lady on the left is the mother from the previous photo, possibly Sarah Lunt née Bowes, by then the widow of George William Lunt)
	Frank Fraser, Robert Ferguson, William Paine and Andrew Stahl., Hollywood, IL, 13 Jul 1940	Mary Jane "Mae" Paine née Lunt, Frank Fraser and Ethel Ferguson née Lunt, Hollywood, IL, 13 Jul 1940	These two photos taken at the same event come from Nancy Gamble. Mary Jane "Mae" Lunt was her grandmother.

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Woman in smart winter coat, USA, 1940s - Judith Dolanski identifies her as Myrtle Mae Ferguson (1925-65), daughter of Ethel L Lunt and Robert Ferguson (also in centre group photo)	Frank Fraser family group, USA, 1950s (Frank is top left) Judith says: "My grandfather James Lunt is standing next to Frank. Myrtle, James's sister, has on a dark dress, with a white collar, and her husband Andrew Stahl is standing behind her (he died 1955). Where the three women are sitting, the one in the middle is James' second wife, Mary (Zoleman) Lunt ( she is not my grandmother). Fern Stahl is the left of Myrtle Stahl. The young girl at the bottom is Dorothy Stahl and the little boy is Kenny Stahl. The woman to the right of Mary (Zoleman) Lunt is Myrtle May Ferguson. Judith adds: " I believe that that is Myrtle Mae Ferguson's mother (Ethel Lunt Ferguson) and father (Robert Ferguson) on the right, and the two men, kneeling are Myrtle's brothers, Robert Eugene Ferguson and George Warren Ferguson, but I don't know which is which. The older woman, also in the photo of Wayne Burns' christening in 1942 on the Sargeant Album page, could be Robert Ferguson's mother."	Woman in smart winter coat, USA, 1940s - Judith Dolanski identifies her as Florence Ethel Ferguson, sister of Myrtle May
Possibly Fern Stahl, Christmas, USA, 1940s	Stahl family group, USA, 1940s Judith says: "Yes, that is Andrew Stahl (second from top left), Myrtle (Lunt) Stahl is holding Kenny. The girl to the left of Andrew is their daughter, Fern Stahl. The little girl with the blonde curly hair must be their other daughter, Dorothy Stahl. Andrew had one brother and two sisters, who I am assuming are in the picture with their spouses."	Possibly Dorothy Stahl, Christmas, USA, 1940s

From the “Suburban Economist”, Cook County, Illinois, Jan 17, 1943: “The betrothal of Fern Stahl and Roy Anderson is announced by Miss Stahl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Stahl, 8003 Racine Ave. Mr. Anderson will be...” The online version of the article is truncated - I assume Roy Anderson was going to war, but he returned safely, and he and Fern had four children from 1945 onwards.

The unidentified girls in the two photos lower left and right are probably from Chicago, as Denise's granddaughter Lori Mankowski says they are not Denise McGeachie from Buffalo, NY, as originally thought. Judith Dolanski now thinks they are of Fern Stahl, born 1923 and Dorothy Stahl, born 1927, daughters of Andrew Stahl and Myrte Lunt. For more pictures, see The Sargeant Family Album.

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Possibly Fern Stahl, USA, 1940s

Possibly Richard and Marjorie Lunt, Lake Michigan, USA,1938-39

Frank Fraser with woman and same girl, Lake Michigan, USA,1938-39
If the girl is Marjorie Lunt, the woman is her mother Sarah Lunt née Bowes, who married Howard Hortenstein in 1941

Frank Fraser, Chicago, IL, USA,1940s

Unknown girl, not Denise McGeachie, USA, 1940s (same girl as in the Page 18 Christmas picture above right and again now believed to be Marjorie Lunt, born 1933)

Denise McGeachie, daughter of John, Buffalo, NY, USA, 1940s

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The airman bridegroom is identified below the photo as John McGeachie, and he is a sergeant in the USAAF 8th Air Force. However, Judith Dolanski does not think that the couple are John McGeachie and his wife Alice Marie Bosack, based on the high school photos she found on Ancestry, see Fraser Photos USA, and also the other photos of them above - her parents had a copy of the same photo, but the happy couple were not identified! Judith has now identified them as her father's first cousin Dorothy Jean Stahl and her husband Frank E. Stout Jr., see the Sargeant album.

Marion McGeachie and husband Edward Stonitsch, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s

Unknown man with car, Chicago, Illinois, 1947 (the number plate on the car has "ILLINOIS 1947" above it)
Judith Dolanski places the location as 6300 South Western Avenue, across from the Sears and Roebuck Company Store.

Liverpool circa 1935 - back row: Elizabeth Birch née Fraser, Winifred Grimshaw née Fraser, Stanley Birch (son of Elizabeth, born 1915); front row: Leslie Birch (born 1930), John Birch (born 1928), Joan Grimshaw (daughter of Winifred, born 1926)

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Mary Sargeant McGeachie ("Mae") and husband Thomas J. Waite, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s	Mary Sargeant McGeachie ("Mae"), Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s	Marion McGeachie, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s	McGeachie home, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s
Bertha McGeachie neé Fraser and George McGeachie at wedding of John McGeachie and Alice Marie Bosack, Buffalo, New York, USA, 18 Apr 1942	John McGeachie and Alice Marie Bosack at their wedding, Buffalo, New York, USA, 18 Apr 1942	Bertha (Fraser) McGeachie and Alice's mother Clara Bosack née Balk at wedding, Buffalo, New York, USA, 18 Apr 1942	Mae McGeachie (eldest daughter of Bertha McGeachie neé Fraser) and Thomas J. Waite at their wedding, Buffalo, NY, USA, late 1940s (definitely the same couple as in the photo above left)

The two Buffalo wedding photos left and right of the row above were not in the album.

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One of the McGeachie sisters with her son, Buffalo, New York, 1940s

One of the McGeachie houses, Buffalo, New York, 1940s

One of the McGeachie sisters with her son, Buffalo, New York, 1940s (different from picture 1)

One of the McGeachie husbands with his son, Buffalo, New York, 1940s (same boy as picture 1)

A McGeachie grandson, Buffalo, New York, 1940s (different boy from pictures 1, 4 and 6)

A McGeachie grandson, Buffalo, New York, 1940s (same boy as pictures 1 and 4)

None of the people on this page has been positively identified! The most likely McGeachie grandson is Kenneth Stonitsch (son of Marion). Mark Stonitsch (son of Marion, but not born until 1957), and James McKenzie (son of Georgina, born after 1958) are too young to be on this page.

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Pamela Harrison (1932-2009) and Joan Grimshaw, Liverpool, ca. 1935)	Joan Grimshaw, Waterloo Sands, Liverpool, ca. 1946	Joan Grimshaw, Marine Gardens, Waterloo, Liverpool, ca. 1946	Joan Grimshaw, Waterloo Sands, Liverpool, ca. 1946	Joan Grimshaw, Marine Gardens, Waterloo, Liverpool, ca. 1946	Kenneth Ryecroft Coulson, born 1922
		Wedding of Joan Grimshaw and Kenneth Ryecroft Coulson, West Derby, Liverpool, 1950	Wedding of Joan Grimshaw and Kenneth Ryecroft Coulson, West Derby, Liverpool, 1950

All these pictures are of Joan Grimshaw, daughter of Winifred Grimshaw née Fraser, born 1926, and her husband Kenneth Ryecroft Coulson, born 1922. They married in West Derby, Liverpool, in 1950.

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Presumably William Winstanley, Amsterdam, Holland, 1950s	Richard Dennis Gelder (son of Alice Margaret Jarrett and grandson of Ada Fraser born 1941), Waterloo, Liverpool, ca. 1950	Alice Winstanley née Fraser, Amsterdam, Holland, 1950s	Mary Fraser née Sargeant, Waterloo, Liverpool, 1950s	Elsie Winstanley (1922-2008) ) with her husband William Cookson and his sister Mary, Llandudno, North Wales, 1950s
		Will Winstanley and Eddie Fraser (?), Holmeswood, Lancs, 1940s	Will Winstanley and Eddie Fraser (?), Holmeswood, Lancs, 1940s (detail of picture on left)

Joan Coulson says the shorter man in the above picture is definitely Will Winstanley (born around 1897), husband of Alice Fraser, and the location is probably near the cottage he rented at Holmeswood, Lancashire (near Southport), at the start of World War II to escape the air raids on Liverpool, and where several of my cousins were sent at that time. She thinks the taller man looks like Eddie Fraser (1903-75).

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My uncle Frank Fraser, Chicago, IL, USA, 1940s	George Grimshaw, husband of Winifred Fraser	Frank Fraser, Chicago, IL, USA, 1940s	Frank Fraser reading the "Chicago Sunday Tribune" at his home in Chicago, IL, USA. Thanks to Judith Dolanski for finding the headline and dating the paper to 23 Nov 1941!	Marion and Edward Stonitsch standing in front of porch, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s	A McGeachie sister (Marion?), Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s
		A McGeachie sister (Mae?), Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s

In the bottom photo Mae appears to be standing on a beach, with a woman in the background on the left and two men on the right.

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Elsie Winstanley (1922-2008) with her husband William Cookson and his sister Mary, St. Malo, France, 1950s	Elsie Winstanley, Tarleton, Lancs, around 1950	Elsie Winstanley, Unknown location, around 1950	Unknown dog!	Valerie Cookson (born 1949), daughter of William Cookson and Elsie Winstanley, Tarleton, Lancs, around 1950
Alice Winstanley neé Fraser with her granddaughter Valerie Cookson, 1949	Valerie Cookson around 1950	Valerie Cookson around 1950	Elsie Cookson neé Winstanley with her daughter Valerie Cookson around 1950

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Wedding of Alice Margaret Jarrett and William Leslie Gelder, Sep 1939, plus reverse of photo with names - ("Me" = Ada Jarrett née Fraser, mother of the bride)	Frank Fraser with his wife Rose, Chicago, 1920s	Unknown location with boat, possibly Lake Michigan		Unknown location with island, possibly Lake Michigan
Of the Jarrett/Gelder wedding picture above, Joan Coulson says "The Hanns were close friends from across the road, she owned a sweet shop. She was known to the family as Auntie Millie. My mother Winifred (Grimshaw née Fraser) was probably in the kitchen finishing off the "reception". This was truly a very rushed wedding. Leslie had received his call up papers and had to report in two days later. Having been in the TA he was one of the first to get his papers. No one in those uncertain days knew where he was likely to have to go. They paid for a special licence in order to marry within 7 days. They had been engaged for a long time and were saving to marry, but remember that in those days female school teachers could not marry and continue to teach. Another life!!!"	Frank Fraser with an unknown man, Chicago, 1920s	Frank Fraser, Chicago, 1920s	Unknown family 9three girls and a boy), Chicago, 1920s (?)

Judith Dolanski is sure that the woman with Frank on this page is his wife Rose. She has now been identified by Judith Dolanski as Rose Elizabeth Lehn, born Chicago, 18 Apr 1886, died Chicago, 27 Nov 1971. Rose married John Peter Bonnesen (1877-1966) in Chicago on 27 Jun 1904. They must have divorced before 1918 because on the 1940 Census John was living in Nickerson, Kansas, with a new wife Flossie and sons Emery (21) and George (19). John died in Wichita, Kansas, in 1966, so the Fraser family story that Frank married a widow with two daughters is only partially true. Rose's children were John Peter (1906-06); Catherine Vernette (1907-08); Roselyn Marie Caroline "Bonnie" (1909-99, married Daniel Larkin) and Phyllis Elizabeth (1911-84, married Peter Rollinger). Rose's 1971 obituary is for Rose Holland "beloved wife of the late John, mother of Bonnie Larkin and Phyllis Rollinger, grandmother of Ronald Larkin and Robert Hulfish, and great-grandmother of three". Rose married John Holland before 1937 because when her mother Caroline Lehn died in 1937 the informant was her daughter Rose Holland.

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Unknown location, 1940s	Possibly Marion McGeachie, Buffalo, New York, 1940s	Identified by Danny Gelder as Alice Winstanley née Fraser at home in Great Crosby, Liverpool, 1950s	Jean and Irene Fraser, daughters of Eddie Fraser, with their uncle Harry Wadsworth, Leeds
Liverpool waterfront, after World War II	Margaret Isobel (Bella) Green née Fraser, 1930s	Unknown boy, Great Crosby, Liverpool, 1940s (maybe Danny Gelder)	Liverpool city centre, after World War II
	Philip Green, Margaret Isobel (Bella) Green née Fraser, Bertha McGeachie née Fraser, Fred Green, 1952

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Frank Fraser on the Sky Ride, Chicago World's Fair, 1934	Unknown table decoration (wedding?)		Mae McGeachie with husband Thomas J. Waite, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1940s
Possible Liverpool waterfront, after World War II	Frank Fraser with friend, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1940s	Eddie Fraser during World War II	Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wirral, after World War II
	Fred Winstanley, husband of Alice Fraser, Scout camp, 1950s

More photos

Page 31 (inside rear cover) - the Fraser family in the 1950s

Loose picture: Joan Grimshaw (daughter of Winifred Fraser), 1930
See her photo album

Loose picture: Winifred Grimshaw née Fraser

Loose picture: unknown boy

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