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This profile is part of the Frazier Name Study.

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How to Join

Please post a comment and add your Wiki Id at List of Project Members below. When you join as a project member, feel free to add the project member sticker to your profile as follows: {{Member|ONS|name=Frazier}} which will display as

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... ... ... is a member of the Frazier Name Study Project.

If you have any questions, contact the project leader Edie Kohutek. Thanks!

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Frazier and its variants. There is a list of variants below, including Frasher, Frazer, and Fraser. The hope is that researchers will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people tracking their Fraser/Frazier famiy lines and to break down brick walls.

Origin of Name

Frazier (and its variants) is a common surname because it is a Scottish Clan name, with Fraser being the more common Scottish spelling. It is thought the name Fraser came from the French word for strawberry, la fraise or le fraisier. Clan members took on Fraser as a surname even if not descended from the head of the clan but were simply in liege with him. By working together, perhaps we are attempting to track all family groups from the Clan Frasers that originated in Scotland and determine their migration in the New World.

We are developing a master list of Fraser/Frazier immigrants which you can find below in Project 2. The project includes the heads of the family who migrated from Europe and tracking those emigrant ancestors as they migrated east or south (or otherwise). We then add that Family Group on each biological descendant of the family.

History of Fraser Clan

For more information about Clan Fraser see this page: Clan Fraser Page from Scottish Clans Project

Variants of Frazier

Fraser
Frasier
Frasher
Frashure
Frayser
Frazer
Frazier
Freshour
Frazar

Other names with same origin as Frazier:

Frazee
Fraze
Freier
Freyer
Frizzell
Frissell
Brazier

List of Project Members

If you want to become a project member, please click on edit above and post your name here with the pound sign in front of it and add the tag frazier_name_study to your tags in order to follow discussion in G2G regarding this study. You may add the following sticker to your profile page below the biography heading: {{Member|ONS|name=Frazier}}

As a project member, list the tasks you will be working on after your name. You may also edit and add information to this free space page.

Edie Kohutek - I am working on creating state subcategories for the index of profiles; my present project is to create pages for Family Groups headed up by an Emigrant/Settler.
Kathy Frazier Mrs
Amy (F) W
Carol Fuchs
Scott Fraser
Janice Anderson
Joe Frazer II
Lynn Shahnazi
Thressa Paplanus
Greg Lavoie Helping with Frasers found in Québec
Gwen (Bell) Darby
Janine Guimont
Skip Magyar
K Frazier
Alexis Hall
Dawn Theberge
Robin Frazier
Bob Frazier
Leslie (Frazier) Easterling
Cindy (Fritz) Strube
Larry Frazier
Sarah (Barrila) Fergione

How You Can Help

1. Add the Category to Profiles

As a project member, please add the Frazier Name Study category to each profile which is a Fraser or any of the variants of Fraser by adding the following to those profiles: [[Category:Frazier Name Study]]

Do not place the category on the spouse of a Fraser/Frazier, but do place it on the children of Fraser and who are born with that name or any of its variants.

Also place the category for where the person is born as follows: [[Category:State, Frazier Name Study]] See the list of place sub-categories below. If you need help adding a place category, contact the profile manager.

The One Name Study template is reserved for profiles of the Emigrant Settlers who came from Europe to the New World as described in #2.

2. Emigrant/Settler Ancestors

Please add the template for the Frazier One Name Study to profiles for each emigrant/settler arriving in the New World from Europe, above the Biography heading as follows: {{One Name Study|name=Frazier}}.

Their name should also be added to the Subsection "Emigrant/Settler Ancestors" with their dates and places of birth and death. A family group will then be created. Please send the profile manager a message requesting that a family group be created. Then the family group sub-category can be added to each descendant of the Emigrant.

3. Improve Profiles

Improve Frazier/Fraser profiles by fleshing out their biographies and adding sources with online links when possible.

4. Frazier Cemeteries

Add Frazier cemeteries to the sub-category on the Category:Frazier page.

5. Cemeteries on Frazier Profiles

Add a category to all Frazier profiles for the cemeteries that they are buried in. These will then be listed in the Cemetery Project for further linking.

6. Online Frazier History

Create a list of links to online research articles regarding Frazier history and genealogy to enhance our knowledge and ability to make connections.

7. Scottish Clans Research

Add links to Scottish clan projects or groups.

Links to Emigrant Settler Ancestors

Frazier Family Groups

Each number links to an index of profiles in that Family Group.

FG1 [1]: Colin Frazer - Born about 1662 in Scotland; died 26 Mar 1715 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

FG2 [2]: Alexander Frazier - Born about 1687 in Scotland; died about 1750 in Chester, Pennsylvania

FG3 [3]: John Fraser - Born about 1721 in Scotland; Died about 1773 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania

FG4 [4]: George Thomas Frazier - Born about 1725 in Invernessshire, Scotland; died about 1790 in Randolph County, North Carolina

FG5 [5]: John Cuffy Fraser - Born about 1737 in Scotland; Died 1816 in Montgomery County, North Carolina

FG6 [6]: James Frazier - Born about 1798 in County Armagh, Ireland; Died unknown date in Butler County, Pennsylvania

FG7 [7]: William Frazer - Born about 1833 in Ireland; Died about 1897 in Ontario, Canada.

FG8 [8]: Joseph Frazier - Born about 1661 in Ireland; Died about 1741 in Pennsylvania Colony.

FG9 [9]: Malcolm Fraser - Born 26 May 1733 in Abernathy, Scotland; died 14 Jun 1815.

FG10 [10]: John Fraser - Born about 1809 in Scotland; Died unknown date.

FG11 [11]: John Frazier - Born about 1727 in Inverness-shire, Scotland; Died about 1775 at sea while a resident of Boston, Massachusetts

FG12 [12] : William Cowie Fraser - Born in Peterhead, Scotland in 1908; Died 29 Jul 1966 in Ontario, Canada.

FG13 [13]: John Fraser - Born in Scotland about 1816; Died 4 Nov 1888 in Cherokee County, Iowa.

FG14 [14]: Alexander Fraser - Born in Inverness-shire, Scotland about 1831; Died about 1921 in New South Wales, Australia.

FG15 [15]: Peter Fraser - Born in Inverness-shire, Scotland about 1844; Died about 1916 in Victoria, Australia.

FG16 [16]: Alexander Fraser - Born about 1791 in Scotland; Died 21 Jun 1862 in Ontario, Canada West.

FG17 [17]: James Fraser - Born in Farraline, Dores, Scotland about 1760; Died 14 Oct 1822 in Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada.

FG18 [18]: George Frazer - Born about 1740 in Scotland; Died about 30 Jun 1809 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Massachusetts, United States

Links to Famous Frasers and Clan Research

Simon Fraser 11th Lord Lovat The last nobleman to be beheaded at Tower Hill.

Clan Fraser of Lovat Gives a general history of the name and association with William the Conqueror

Fraser Surname research: URL https://www.dropbox.com/sh/izus2qav7r916hh/AAAUTzp8jP6Lw-IWH4sdaOaFa?dl=0

Free space page listings Frasers in various publications: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Emigrants_to_North_America_from_England%2C_Scotland%2C_and_Ireland

Sub-Projects of "Frazier"

Frazier DNA

A sub-project of the Frazier Name Study is to try to facilitate easier DNA comparison of Frazier descendants. This is in a formative stage. For the page, go HERE

Native American Name Studies

Chickasaw Nation Category:Chickasaw, Frazier Name Study
Choctaw Nation Category:Choctaw, Frazier Name Study

Place Name Studies

Scotland Category:Scotland, Frazier Name Study

Ireland Category:Ireland, Frazier Name Study

England Category:England, Frazier Name Study

Canada Category:Canada, Frazier Name Study

Australia Category:Australia, Frazier Name Study

Cemeteries

Kentucky, Fletcher County, Frazier Cemetery [19]
Missouri, Daviess County, Frazier Cemetry [20]
Tennessee, White County, Fraiser's Chapel Cemetery [21]
Tennessee, Dickson County, Frazier Cemetery [22]

How about creating a sticker for the project members of individual name studies? Aug 31, 2019.
Do you have a Frazier, Fraser, Frasher ancestor who came over from Europe to North America? May 27, 2019.
How do I create subcategories to track family groups in their migration across North America? May 26, 2019.
Will you volunteer to write a history of the Fraser Clan of Scotland? Sep 13, 2018.
Are you a Frazier, Frazer, or Frasher? Jul 10, 2017.

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Leana (Coates) Korthuis

I would like to join this project.

Leana Korthuis Coates-4311

I’ve been working to trace this parentage of Elizabeth Hulda Frazier and her likely brother Andrew Jackson Frazier.

Elizabeth was born in October of 1812, and every census we find her on says her birthplace was Indiana. andrew born 1816 also says born in Indiana.

Elizabeth and Andrew live in Arkansas and we find Elizabeth’s husband with likely her and their first child in the 1830 Arkansas Census. His name is Wiley Joy.

I found a Manson Frazier in 1828 records of Lovely County Arkansas and also two more Frazier’s on the 1830 census but we have no real idea how they all connect. In 1850, Wiley and Elizabeth have a Francis Frazier age 18 living with them born in Missouri. By 1860 they have already moved on to Texas and near them is a Wiley F Frazier, and after he died his wife takes their children back to McDonald Missouri.

We have an extensive group of family with DNA tests and I’ve been trying to triangulate which Frazier line we belong to. I’m not having a lot of luck, but I’d be willing to go over my research with anyone willing to help.

The history recorded nearly 120 years ago by a granddaughter of Wiley and Elizabeth said that the family left Indiana because the father had orders to report to Fort Smith, Arkansas and that he died once they reached Little Rock. That would be about 1821. We have no record of the name of her father, or mother, she was only referred to as Granny Frazier. However, she was said to have great skill at weaving, and that her father had been a doctor that studied in Europe.

Would love to add our family profile to early Arkansas Frazier’s and Texas pioneer Fraziers. Elizabeth was murdered in 1864 along with her daughter and they’re written up in several books, some more legendary in the account than others. Proof of her maiden name has been found on one sons death certificate.

posted Feb 12, 2022 by Leana (Coates) Korthuis

Larry Frazier Jr.

I would like to join.

Frazier-5845