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The Fraser Family Album
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Fraser Family Photographs UK
The purpose of this small web-site is to share the family pictures I've inherited myself or received from other members of my extended family. I still need information on many of the people pictured. For my complete family tree, see here.
Revised: 19 February, 2024
This page is devoted to miscellaneous Fraser Family photographs from the UK, thanks to Robert Fraser, Lindsey Fraser, Philip Green, Joan Coulson, Phil Wadsworth and Graham Hesketh plus Dennis Reeves and Ian Riley of the Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum Trust. For Fraser family photographs from the USA, see here.
 Picture taken in Douglas, Isle of Man, ca 1882 |
This perplexing "carte de visite" printed on card was taken at the
studios of Frederick Johnson, Douglas Head Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, ca
1882. James Fraser was born in Scotland in 1824, so would have been 58,
and the man in the photo appears to be about that age. His wife, Margaret
Wren, was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1825, so would have been 57, but the woman appears
to be younger, both in her face and in her style of dress - the
distinctive skirt can be
dated closely to the early 1880s. James Wren Fraser was born in 1862, so
would have been 20, while Mary Sargeant was born in 1864, and would have
been 18. They married in 1887, about five years after this photograph was
taken. This could be Mary Sargeant and her father
James Sargeant, but that's only a guess. Another possibility is that the
man is James Fraser and the woman is Margaret's daughter Isabella by her
first marriage to Alexander McCrimen, Isabella would have been 35 in 1882. Thanks to Jayne Shrimpton for dating the Isle of Man photograph. Jayne is the author of several book including "Family Photographs and How to Date Them" published by Countryside Books, 2008, and her web-site is here: http://www.jayneshrimpton.co.uk/. For Victorian Isle of Man photographers including Frederick Johnson, see here: http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/tourism/pgrphrs/pgrhrs.htm. Frederick Johnson later expanded his business to four photographic studios in Douglas, so the date of the picture can be confirmed from the design on the reverse of the card as at that time he only had the Douglas Head Road studio. |
 Reverse of card |
South Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, 1911
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This page is from a Liverpool trade directory for 1911, showing South Road, Waterloo. At no. 29 is "Fraser Janies W. fried fish dealer". This is a mistranscription of "Fraser James W." In the 1911 Census the occupation of my grandfather James Wren Fraser was shown as "Refreshment House Keeper/Shopkeeper". This ties in with my father Harold Fraser's recollection that the family had a fish and chip shop when he was a child. This involved very long days, starting with buying fresh fish from the docks in early morning, and cleaning out the fryers last thing at night after the evening food service. |
Reynold Fraser's World War 1 Service
 10th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Scottish), King's Park, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1914 Reynold Fraser is on the left |
 Reynold Fraser, 10th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Scottish), King's Park, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1914 |
 Reynold Fraser, 10th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Scottish) |
 South Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, postcard 1914 - Mary Fraser's shop "X" is on the far left |
 Sgt. George Grimshaw, RAMC, in World War 1 - George married Winifred Fraser in 1922 |
 SS Maidan in Liverpool - Reynold Fraser and the Liverpool Scottish sailed to France on this ship in 1914 (picture from Ian Riley) |
Ian Riley of the Liverpool Scottish Regiment Museum Trust says of the postcard taken in South Road, Waterloo: "This battalion is likely to be perhaps the 9th or 7th Battalion of the KLR or perhaps a battalion of a different regiment based at Litherland or Seaforth Barracks. The South Road picture is a very nice image; I come from Blundellsands and Crosby; I think they are marching from the sea end towards the station. That side of the road has changed almost beyond recognition, particularly since Sefton Council has put in an extremely ugly office building there." Ian adds that two of the photos above would have been taken in King's Park, Edinburgh. It was the photographer Scott & Co. who came from Kirkcaldy.
Reverse of the Tunbridge Wells postcard at the top of
the page, dared 1 Nov 1914. The added note at top left says "The war will soon
be over now that we are going out."
My uncle Reynold Fraser (1892-1971) joined the 10th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Scottish) on 29 Sep 1914. Reynold's service record shows that he was wounded by a German sniper on the front line with the Liverpool Scottish at Sanctuary Wood, east of Ypres, in Belgium on 3 Jun 1915. This wound was serious enough for him to be transferred to a field hospital, then a "stationary hospital" in Rouen, France, and finally back to England on 23 Jun 1915. After recuperation he was classed as Category "B" (downgraded) and transferred to the 49th Provisional Battalion, which was a unit of medically downgraded men (in the main) of Lancashire regiments that was used on home defence in Eastern England. He was posted to Hemsby in Norfolk to work on coastal defences. He retrained as an armourer, and was promoted to Armoury Sergeant on 8 Aug 1916. He was eventually transferred to the 2nd South Lancs Regiment and returned to France in Dec 1917, joining 50th Searchlight Company in Jan 1918. In May 1918 he was transferred to the Royal Engineers and served with an anti-aircraft searchlight company until demobilisation in Jan 1919.
Ernest Kenrick, father of Ernest Kenrick Fraser, son of
Margaret Isobel Fraser
This photograph from the effects of Ernest Kenrick Fraser (1919-92) is the only one he had of his father. Banns for the marriage of Ernest Kenrick and Margaret Isobel Fraser were read out in Liverpool churches on 9th, 16th and 23rd Feb 1919, but for some reason the marriage did not take place. Their son Ernest Kenrick Fraser was born in Salford, Lancs, on 31 May 1919. There are several Ernest Kenricks or John Ernest Kenricks born around 1890 who could be the right man.
Kenneth Fraser's World War 2 Service
 Ken Fraser's US 5th Army shoulder patch |
 Ken Fraser on his motorcycle (left), Italy, World War 2 |
 Ken Fraser's US 5th Army pass |
 US 5th Army Association letter from Gen Mark Clark |
 Lt. General Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984), US Army, 1945 photo from Wikipedia |
 Ken Fraser's US 5th Army ration card |
 Ken Fraser's US 5th Army Association pass signed by Gen Mark Clark |
Kenneth Fraser (1922-92) was the son of Reynold Fraser and was in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the British Army as a motor cycle dispatch rider and was attached to US Gen. Mark Clark’s 5th Army in Italy 1943-44 including the notorious battle for Monte Cassino in early 1944. He was a temporary GI and even got a GI Ration Card. They didn’t get chewing tobacco in the British Army!
 Fusilier Kenneth Fraser and Lieutenant Reynold Fraser, Brussels, Belgium, Spring 1945 |
Ken met up with his father by surprise in Brussels, Belgium, in Spring 1945, when both were serving in the Army, and the incident was reported in a Liverpool newspaper! |
Fusilier Kenneth Fraser and Lieutenant Reynold Fraser, Brussels, Belgium, Spring 1945 |
 Corporal Kenneth Fraser, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Germany, 1946 |
Other Fraser UK photos
 Mary Fraser at home in St. John's Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, 1930s |
 68 St. John's Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, 23 Nov 2018 |
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 Elsie and Cyril Winstanley (children of Alice Fraser), during World War II |
 Alice Fraser and William Winstanley |
 Winifred Fraser |
 Winifred Fraser |
 Ada Jarrett née Fraser in nurse's uniform and Winifred Fraser in World War I |
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 Elsie and Cyril Winstanley (children of Alice Fraser), during World War II |
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 Margaret Fraser with father Reynold Fraser at her wedding to Richard Sidlow, Liverpool, 1955 |
 Margaret Fraser with cousin Pamela Harrison (daughter of Nellie Fraser), Liverpool, 1955 |
 Margaret Sidlow with son Gordon, 1962 |
 Mary Fraser's shop, South Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, ca. 1914 with three of her grandchildren |
 Ernest Kenrick Fraser (son of Bella Fraser), during World War II |
 Mary Fraser at home in St. John's Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, 1930s |
 Kenneth Fraser, son of Reynold Fraser and Mary Wareham, with fiancée Sybil Shepherd, 1949 |
 Margaret Isobel ("Bella") Fraser with husband John Frederick "Fred" Green |
 Richard Dennis "Danny" Gelder (son of Alice Margaret Jarrett and grandson of Ada Fraser born 1941), 1943 |
 Jean Harris (1930-2017), daughter of Eddie Fraser, on her 80th birthday, 2010 (on left) |
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 Harold Harrison with grandsons Graham and Michael Hesketh, Waterloo Beach, Liverpool, 1960s |
 Marriage of Harold Malcolm Hesketh (1930-96) and Pamela Harrison (1932-2011), Prescot, Lancs, 1959 - photo from Graham Hesketh via Facebook |
 Harold Hesketh and Pamela Hesketh née Harrison at a party for Leslie Gelder, Liverpool, 1960s |
 Harold Hesketh and Pamela Hesketh née Harrison, Liverpool, 1995 |
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 The Hesketh family, Liverpool, 1995 This is the last photo of them all together, Harold died in 1996 |
 Pamela Hesketh née Harrison, 2009 (she died in 2011) |
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The photo above of the marriage of Harold Malcolm
Hesketh (1930-96) is taken from a Facebook page set up in his memory. This
is the Malcolm Hesketh who married my first cousin
Pamela Harrison in Prescot, Lancs, in 1959 (he was born in 1930, she was
born in 1931). The bride in this photo is definitely Pamela. (See the wedding photo in
Frank Fraser's Photo Album, Page 2.)
 John Jarrett (1833-1900) |
 John Jarrett's headstone, Church of Ireland graveyard, Cong, Lisloughrey, County Mayo, Ireland |
 John Jarrett's headstone, Church of Ireland graveyard, Cong, Lisloughrey, County Mayo, Ireland |
 Possibly Richard Jarrett's shop in Moss Lane, Orrell Park, Liverpool, 1910s |
The photo above left of a bearded man taken around 1877 comes from Richard Dennis "Danny" Gelder, grandson of my father's eldest sister Ada Fraser (1889-1970). Ada married Richard Cecil Jarrett, born 1886, in 1910, but was unfortunately widowed in 1912 when Richard died of septicaemia after a knife accident at his butcher's shop. The bearded man is almost certainly Danny's great-grandfather John Jarrett (1833-1900), father of Richard Jarrett. This photo is a carte de visite from the London and Liverpool Photographic Company, 12A Lord Street, Liverpool, and has a handwritten date of "13/10/77" on the back. Thanks to Jayne Shrimpton of "Family Tree Magazine" for confirming that the photo is consistent with a date of 13 Oct 1877, and is therefore very likely to be John Jarrett aged 34. The street photo above right was taken in Moss Lane, Orrell Park, Liverpool, around 1910, and could be the shop where Richard worked. Ada never remarried and undertook a long and successful career in nursing (see her photo in nurse's uniform with Winifred Fraser above).
Richard Jarrett was born in Lisloughrey, County Mayo, Ireland, in 1886, son of John Jarrett and Ada Jones, who married in Dublin South in 1876. Lisloughrey is a small district of which Cong is the main village. His grandson Danny has found out that the Jarretts came to Liverpool in the 1900s because they were ordered to vacate their home by orders of the Court, due to arrears in rent. This order was instigated by Lord Ardilaun of the Guinness family. The rent arrears were due to the death of the head of the family and wage earner John Jarrett, who worked for the Guinnesses as a clerk at their residence Ashford Castle in Cong. John, who was aged 66 when he died in 1900, is buried in Cong Church of Ireland graveyard and two photos of his headstone taken by Danny Gelder are shown above. In the 1901 Census his wife Ada Jarrett née Jones is a widow aged 50 born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, with her four children born in County Mayo: Gwendoline (1884), Richard Cecil (1886), James Alfred (1890) and Edith Catherine (1893). James Alfred Jarrett died in West Derby in Sep qtr 1907 aged 17. An Edith Jarrett left Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1910, while a G Jarrett (female - Gwendoline?) left Liverpool bound for Quebec, Canada, in 1919 - they could have been Richard's sisters! Ada Jarrett died in West Derby, Liverpool, in 1924.
There was only one Ada Jones whose birth was registered in Wolverhampton in the years 1850-52, in quarter May 1851. Her baptism was at St. Mary's Church, Wolverhampton, on 7 May 1851, and her parents were Samuel and Margaret Jones. Samuel Jones married Margaret Humphries or Humphreys in Wolverhampton in June quarter 1849. Danny thinks John Jarrett was also born in England, and the most likely John Jarrett who fits the time frame was christened at Cherington, Warwickshire, on 15 Dec 1833, parents William and Hannah Jarrett (William Jarrett married Hannah Bumpus, Cherington, 22 Nov 1832).
UK Group Photos
 Liverpool, 1904 |
 Mary Fraser née Sargeant and five of her daughters, Liverpool, about 1919, plus Stanley Birch (born 1915) and Jean Birch (born 1917), children of Elizabeth Fraser |
 Reynold, Frank and Eddie Fraser maybe around 1918 when Frank was back in Europe |
 Mary Wareham and Reynold Fraser (who married in Dec 1921), and Winifred Fraser (who married George Grimshaw in 1922), summer 1921 |
 Wedding of George Grimshaw and Winifred Fraser, Liverpool, 1922 (Standing Eddie and Bella Fraser) |
 Wedding of Eddie Fraser and Ellen "Nellie" Wadsworth, Leeds, 1927 (At top left James Wren and Harold Fraser - has a face been removed at top right between the as yet unidentified woman and man?) |
 Wedding of Frederick Green and Bella Fraser, Liverpool, 1925 (Standing Unknown, Eddie and James Wren Fraser) |
 George Grimshaw, Winifred Grimshaw née Fraser, Mary Fraser née Wareham and William Winstanley, 1940s |
 Wedding of Alice Margaret Jarrett (1911-94, daughter of Ada Fraser) and William Leslie Gelder (1911-74), Sep 1939 |
 Wedding of Alice Margaret Jarrett (daughter of Ada Fraser) and William Leslie Gelder, Sep 1939 |
 Wedding of Alice Margaret Jarrett (daughter of Ada Fraser) and William Leslie Gelder, Sep 1939 (reverse of photo with names - "Me" = Ada Jarrett née Fraser) |
 Wedding of Irene Birch (daughter of Elizabeth Fraser) and Ronald Patterson, Liverpool, 1943 (Joan Grimshaw, later Coulson, is second right) |
 Harry Wadsworth with Nellie Fraser (née Wadsworth) and her daughters Jean and Irene Fraser |
 Harry Wadsworth and Nancy Wadsworth (née Verity) with Nellie Fraser (née Wadsworth) and her daughters Jean and Irene Fraser |
 Harry Wadsworth with Nellie Fraser (née Wadsworth) and her daughters Jean and Irene Fraser |
 Wedding of Jean Fraser, daughter of Eddie Fraser and Nellie Wadsworth, to Albert John Harris, Leeds, 1951 |
The four pictures above come from Phil Wadsworth, grandson of Harry Wadsworth (1893-1975), the elder brother of Eddie's Fraser's wife Nellie (Ellen Wadsworth, 1898-1971). Harry was married to Nancy Amelia Verity (1891-1965). Harry is also pictured with Jean and Irene Fraser on two photos from Frank Fraser's album, on pages 10 and 28, see here. Harry and Nellie's parents were George Henry Wadsworth (1866-1944) and Clara J. Teale (1866-1919).
Val Whitwham (Jean's daughter) says about her mother's wedding: "From the right to the left the people are:- Archie Harris (Elaine and Patricia’s father), Dorothy Ford (née Barehead, my mum’s best friend from school), Rupert Harris (my dad’s older brother), my dad (Albert Harris), my mum (Jean Fraser), my Granddad (Eddie Fraser), Auntie Irene (Fraser at this point - later Rodgers) and then a bald-headed man I don’'t know."
 Frank, Reynold and Eddie Fraser, 1952 |
 Liverpool, 1952 |
 Liverpool, 1952 |
 Llanberis Pass, North Wales, 1952 |
 George Grimshaw, Winifred Grimshaw née Fraser, Mary Fraser (née Wareham) and Frank Fraser, 1952 |
 Bob Ferguson from the USA, Harold Harrison, Nellie Harrison (née Fraser), Bob's wife Gladys (?, see below), Alice Winstanley (née Fraser) and William Winstanley at Llandudno, North Wales, 1951 |
 Page 31 (inside rear cover of Frank Fraser's album) - the Fraser family in the 1950s |
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 Bertha McGeachie, Winnie Grimshaw, Lizzie Birch, Bob Ferguson, Ethel Ferguson, Fred Green, Bella Green, Ada Jarrett and Danny Gelder, Llandudno, North Wales, 1951 |
 Alice Gelder, Leslie Gelder, Bob Ferguson, Ethel Ferguson, Ada Jarrett and Danny Gelder, Llandudno, North Wales, 1951 |
 Unidentified Scottish relative, Alice Gelder, Leslie Gelder and Danny Gelder, Scotland, 1950s |
 Leslie Gelder, Danny Gelder and two friends of the Gelders from Waterloo, Liverpool, in Port Erin, Isle of Man, 1950s |
Judith Dolanski is almost certain that "Bob from the USA" above is Robert Ferguson, and his wife was not "Gladys" but actually Ethel Ferguson (née Lunt, daughter of John William Lunt and Martha Sargeant and the first cousin of Nellie and Alice in the photo). Robert and Ethel Ferguson travelled to Liverpool from the USA in June 1951.
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These photos from the USA were supplied by Nancy Gamble from a photo album of her mother Ruth Paine. For more photos see the Sargeant Album. As Nancy and Ruth are descendants of my great-aunt Martha Sargeant, who married John William Lunt, the unidentified lady on the right may be an English relative from the Lunt side, and not a Fraser after all. Danny Gelder believes she may be my aunt Lizzie Birch née Fraser. |
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