Descendants of FRATER 18th c of Polmont

Notes


160. Marion Amy FRATER

details from Karen Leigh Hemmingway


169. Allan Smith FRATER

details from Leicester John Frater family Tree Document
Went to Australia as Mormon
details from Karen Leigh Hemmingway

middle name and birth year from son Maurice in email 16.6.2004


170. Dr Alexander Smaill (Alec) FRATER

details from Leicester John Frater family Tree Document
details from Karen Leigh Hemmingway

http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/Page163.htm
FRATER, Dr Alexander S. M.B.,Ch.B.,D.T.M.
He had medic training & went to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) as a Dr. He was ord as Miss
in Aust (he had no theol training; some Drs were ord & others not at that time); he went to
Vanuatu in 1915 under the John G. Paton Mem Fund (thus not under any Ch, nor paid by a
Ch). He had much dealing with our Miss, but was not a Miss of our Ch. His work was
Centred in the Paton Mem Hosp on island of Iririki in Vila Harbour, which was used by our
Miss for serious cases. Some time in 1940s Alex accepted position of Head of Central
Medical School in Suva, Fiji. Alex’s earliest yrs were spent on Tanna, where his Father, Rev
M. Frater, was Miss (Tanna was one of the Vanuatu islands). Later they ret & settled at
Waikanae Wn NZ.


Published in the London Gazette 31 December 1946 Page 22
To be Honorary Officers of the Civil Division
of the said Most Excellent Order:
Alexander Smaill FRATER,Esq.,M.B.,B.S.,
D.T.M.For medical and public services in
the New Hebrides.


Lorna Rosey FRAY

details from Leicester John Frater family Tree Document
details from Karen Leigh Hemmingway


http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/Page163.htm
FRATER, Mrs Lorna Dip.Ed.
Wife of Dr A.S. Frater above. She was a teacher; married Dr Frater & went to Vanuatu
with him.
Died - in Aust


182. James FRATER

1891 census District of Islington
87 Georges Road
Ellen Frater Head Single 21 Laundress Wash employed born Islington
James FRATER Son Single 1 born Islington

Birth cerificate in Islington subdistrict Upper Holloway shows:
5th January 1891 at Islington Infirmary, James, Boy, father Unnamed, mother: Ellen Frater a laundress of 87 Georges Road, Islington, no occ of father, sig: Ellen Frater mother, reg: 14 January 1891, C R Butcher Registrar.

letter from Dorrell 30.4.2004
Known as James Wilkins in the army.

1901 census
Name Age Est Birth Relation Gender Born
James Wilkins 30 abt 1871 Head Male Holling Hill, London, England
Ellen Wilkins 30 abt 1871 Wife Female Islington, London, England
James Wilkins 10 abt 1891 Son Male Islington, London, England
Nellie Wilkins 8 abt 1893 Daughter James Ellen Female Islington, London, England
Civil parish: Islington
Ecclesiastical parish: St Anne
County/Island: London
Country: England
Registration district: Islington
Sub-registration district: Upper Holloway
ED, institution, or vessel: 63
Household schedule number: 70


Alice Louisa Ellis WILKINS

letter from Dorrell 30.4.2004
added at end of letter that Alice Louisa was widow of Charles Wilkins!!!


185. William Oliver FRATER

email from Philip FRATER
On William Oliver's son Ronald Leonard Frater birth cert. William's occupation was second hand wardrobe dealer.
William O was a very colourful man and quite a gambler. At one time he had a flourist shop but gambled it away.
WIlliam & Nellie had 9 children and Philip confirmed 4 of them Gladys, Maisie, Fred & Sid as well as his own father Ronald.

Notes from KF
Given the birth year of William Oliver I have looked up my 1901 indexes. I have only one William FRATER born around 1896 in the 1901 census. This is a transcript from the copy:
57 Eden Grove Islington (within walking distance of other ancestors of KF's FRATER family branch)
District of St. James
William FRATER age 26 House Painter Born in Islington (est. birth year 1875)
Ada FRATER age 25 wife Born in Islington
William FRATER age 4 son Born in Islington
Ada FRATER age 2 daughter Born in Islington


191. John Archibald (Jack) FRATER

email from Lucy Marian 10.4.2007
known as Jack


193. James William Oliver (Jim) FRATER

email from Lucy Marian
JWO left Mary and their 3 children