Emma Augusta Blackman (1847 - 1924)

Born 10 Jun 1847 in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Wife of Pliny Marshall Nickerson — married 30 Nov 1869 (to 1879) in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Wife of Alexander Fraser — married 5 Jul 1880 (to 5 Jul 1904) in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Died 11 Oct 1924 at age 77 in London, England, United Kingdom

Biography

Emma Augusta Blackman [daughter of William and Phoebe P. Blackman] was born in 1847^[1]. She married to Pliny Marshall Nickerson on Nov. 30, 1869 in Dorchester, MA.^[2] She married 2nd to Alexander Frazer on July 5, 1880.^[3] They lived in Paddington at the address 3 Craven Hill, Kensington, London, England.^[4]

She passed away in 1924.

Notice published in THE LONDON GAZETTE, 14 NOVEMBER, 1924. 8285

Re EMMA AUGUSTA FRASER, Deceased. Pursuant to the Act of Parliament 22nd and 23rd Victoria, chapter 35, intituled " An Act to further amend the Law of Property and to relieve Trustees."

NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any claims or demands against the estate of Emma Augusta Fraser, late of 3, Cravenhill, Hyde Park, in the county of London, Widow, deceased (who died on the llth day of October, 1924, and whose will and codicil were proved in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of His Majesty's High Court of Justice, on the 7th day of November, 1924, by Roland Burbank Swart, of 3, Cravenhill, Hyde Park aforesaid, the executor therein named), are hereby required to send the particulars, in writing, of their claims or demands to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors for the said executor, on or before the 23rd day of December, 1924, after which date the said executor will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased amongst the persons entitled thereto, having regard only to the debts, claims and demands of which he shall then have had notice; and he will not be liable for the assets of the said deceased, or any part thereof, so distributed, to any person or persons of whose claims or demands he shall not then have had notice.—

Dated this llth day of November, 1924. WILD, COLLINS and CROSSE, Kennan's House, Crown Court. Cheapside, E.G. 2, (126) Solicitors for the said Executor.^[5]

From The Case of Alexander Fraser^[6]

His first marriage (as we have seen) took place in Java in 1849, and his partner, Julia van Citters, was a Dutch woman – almost certainly part Eurasian – who had been brought up in the Indian sub-continent. His second marriage took place in the United States, to an American woman, Emma Augusta Blackman-Nickerson (1847-1924) whom he would have known in Java prior to the death there of her Boston-born husband – Pliny Marshall Nickerson (1845-1879), the American consul in Batavia – that left her a widow with two young children to provide for. Moreover, although the newly-weds then settled permanently in London, the North American connection continued, with one of his wife’s nieces (a woman of almost her own age) living with them, in effect, as her companion. In the decade that followed their marriage, the three of them took an extended trip to India, part vacation it would appear, but also part business, since Fraser was by this date on the board of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China. This was a major transnational financial institution, founded in 1850s with a chain of branches and agencies throughout the ‘the East’; his election to its board was explicitly on the grounds that he was ‘formerly of the firm of Maclaine Watson & Co of Batavia […]. Their Java business [is] a large one, and Mr Fraser’s experience of business would be very valuable […].’ He was in good company: inter alia, he was joined on the board during the course of the decade by people from Jardine Matheson and Jardine Skinner, two of the biggest European firms operating respectively on the ‘China Coast’ and in British India.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKW-XQJ : 4 December 2014), Emma Augusta Blackman, 10 Jun 1847; citing DORCHESTER,SUFFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0873755 IT 3.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZT-FGR6 : 5 January 2017), Pliny Marshall Nickerson and Emma Augusta Blackman, 30 Nov 1869; citing Marriage, Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, 111, town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 751,200.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCDY-BRS : 4 December 2014), Alexander Frazer and Emma A. Blackman Nickerson, 05 Jul 1880; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 1,433,041.
4. ↑ 1881 England Census. Class: RG11; Piece: 19; Folio: 76; Page: 1; GSU roll: 1341004, Enumeration District: 20c
5. ↑ THE LONDON GAZETTE, 14 NOVEMBER, 1924. 8285
6. ↑ https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10547/

See also:

• Stamboom Roskam - van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal » Emma Augusta Blackman
• http://www.rootspoint.com/record/1901-UK-Census/Alexander-Fraser-1817-Scotland-Aberdeen-Paddington/82e8238f-a83f-4b9f-8422-0572b20781cb/
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 08 February 2017, 19:42), entry for Emma Augusta Blackman(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MK3B-6DB); contributed by various users.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 May 2016, 22:59), entry for Emma A. Blackman Nickerson(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:9NX2-VDF); contributed by various users.

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