Hugh Fraser (1870 - abt. 1946)

Born 31 Mar 1870 in Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Clara Dorcas (Roe) Fraser — married 8 Feb 1902 in St John, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

Descendants

Died about 16 Dec 1946 at about age 76 in Landaff,Cardiff, Wales

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Biography

Hugh Fraser was born in Scotland.

Born at Cabrich, Kiltarlity on 31st March 1870 at 2PM. Father listed as ploughman, mother's maiden name McLeod, parent's marriage listed as 24 June 1852 at Eskdale.

The brother who came with him to Wales was named John.

The 1901 Census gives him, age 31, living with his brother John (age 33) at John's house at Fitzharmon Embankment. With them was a 20 year old niece Jessie McLennan McLennan-979 and a servant Mary Jones.

Hugh served in the First World War in 1916

17th October 1910 Evening Express reported that: "CARDIFF DRAPERS' CASE I Mr Justice Parker had before him to-day the partnership action of Hugh Fraser v. John Fraser, relating to a credit drapery business carried on at Cardiff. Both parties resided at Cardiff, and at one time carried on business in partnership, but defendant alleged the partnership had come to an end some years ago. By a mistake the plaintiff did not appear, and the hearing was adjourned until tomorrow."

Later on the 18th October 1910 in the Evening Express it was reported that: "PLAINTIFF NOT NOTIFIED I CARDIFF DRAPERY PARTNERSHIP ] DISPUTE. I Mr. Justice Parker, in the Chancery Division, had before him on Monday the action of Hugh Fraser v. John Fraser, by which the plaintiff, Hugh Fraser, of Leewood, Sully, Cardiff, sought a dissolution and accounts of an alleged partnership between him and the I defendant, John Fraser, of Fitzhamon- embankment, in a credit draper's business I carried on at Cardiff. ) Mr. Leek, representing the defendant, said the action had been pending since May of 1909. These two gentlemen, who were brothers. had for two or three years prior to 1903 carried on a credit draper's business at Cardiff, and in 1903 a formal deed of partnership was entered into. The capital of the partnership was agreed at £10,000. On the 6th of August that year the plaintiff gave a year's notice of his intention to determine. After the lapse of a year the plaintiff called in a Cardiff firm of accountants, and on December 12, 1904, the partnership was formally determined, and all the accounts down to that date settled. Part of the partnership assets were represented by certain rounds, some of which were taken by one brother and some by the other, and a balance of 600 was shown on the accounts to be due to the defendant from the plaintiff. The plaintiff then refused to sign the deed of dissolution, but the deed was acted upon. Ultimately the plaintiff was taken into the employ of the defendant. He sought to re-open the old partnership, and instructed a solicitor of Cardiff to take proceedings, with the result that the present action was instituted. At this stage his Lordship said he had just learned that through a mistake of the cause clerk the plaintiff had not received intimation that the case would be in the list for hearing on that day, and under those circumstances there must be an adjournment to give the plaintiff an opportunity of being heard. The hearing was accordingly adjourned until today."

On 19th October 1910 in the Evening Express it was reported that the matter was again with the court: "The partnership action of Hugh Fraser v. John Fraser was again before Mr. Justice Parker on Tuesday, when the plaintiff in person opened his claim for the dissolution and accounts of a partnership in a credit draper's business at Cardiff, alleged by the defendant to have come to an end in December, 1904. The plaintiff gave evidence In support of his claim. Cross-examined by Mr. Leek, who appeared for defendant, he denied that the accounts were ever satisfactorily adjusted. There was an arrangement between himself and his brother after he had made a deed of arrangement with his creditors that he was to continue in partnership with his brother. He denied that in 1905 he was living extravagantly or foolishly, but admitted about that time he owned a motor-car, though he said he did not go about the country in it to the neglect of his business. His Lordship, having heard the evidence of defendant, held that the original partnership came to an end on the initiative of the plaintiff in 1904, and there was no foundation for the suggestion that, there was a subsequent agreement of partnership. The action, therefore, failed, and must be dismissed, with costs ."

By the 1911 Census he was living in the Margam parish of Cardiff. His birthplace on the census record is Ballacraggan Kiltarlety Inverness Shire Scotland.

He was still living in Cardiff when he died in 1946

Sources

• Family pedigree

living with brother at time of 1901 census at St Mary, Glamorganshire, Wales head of household in 1911 at Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, Wales

• Evening Express (Wales)

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