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Transportation
Alexander Fraser was transported on the Batavia, departing 30th Sep 1817 and arriving 5th Apr 1818 with 220 passengers.
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| Primary Source | James Smee in 'Births & Baptisms Marriages & Defacto Relationships Deaths & Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
High Court of Justiciary. MONDAY - JANUARY 13. This morning Alexander Fraser was put to the bar, and an indictment read against him charging him with five different acts of falsehood, fraud, and wilful imposition, by going into different cloth-merchants' shops, in the city of Edinburgh when the proprietors were absent and producing a pattern of cloth, and pretending that came from some neighbouring cloth-merchant, cozen and impose upon the shopmen and apprentices, and carry off quantities of cloth. Tile pleaded guilty to the first, fourth, and fifth charges in the indictment, and having adhered to his confession in presence or the Jury, they found him guilty accordingly,  in terms of his judicial confession. Mr Brodie, as Counsel for the prisoner, addressed the Court shortly, in mitigation of punishment, and read certificates of his character from his late master, and stated, that  he was driven to commit the acts which had been found guilty, entirely from necessity. The Court having  shortly consulted among themselves, and their Lordships delivered their opinions, the Lord Justice Clerk. alter suitable admonition to the prisoner, a young man about twenty years of age, sentenced  him to transportation beyond seas for the space of seven years. Perthshire Courier, 16 Jan 1817. Hulk Records. HO-9-4-(2 p 21) (Justitia at Woolwich) Received 1 May 1817. Alexr. Fraser, age 22, Falsehood Fraud & Imposition, Tried Edinburgh. 13 Jan 1817, 7 years, Transp 3 Oct 1817.
Family connections for Alexander (Fraser) are: Some amendments added Jul 2025. FRASER James (Fraser) married Magdelina (Anderson). He died in 1809. Magdelina (Anderson) died in 1818. James (Fraser) & Magdelina (Anderson) produced perhaps 2children: 1.John (Fraser) 2.Alexander (Fraser) son of James & Magdelina (Anderson) was born on 30 6 1797 in Edinburgh & became a grazier. He was tried for stealing at Edinburgh Court of Justiciary, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 5 4 1818 after a voyage of 6months on BATAVIA; he was Protestant; he was assigned to Rev. Henry (Fulton) at Christ Church Castlereagh & employed at Glebe schoolhouse. He married as emancipist Lydia Margaret (Fulton) on 8 10 1827 at Christ Church Castlereagh & lived on 60acres near to Glebe. He was recorded in 1828 as a clerk & in 1830 as a settler, He became Clerk of Court in Penrith courthouse & first Penrith Postmaster. He became scretary of Bridge Building Committee for building of first bridge over Hawkesbury River & secretary of MUIOOF (Oddfellows/Freemasons?) Lodge. He was recorded in 1828 with his wife as Clerk to the Bench in Evan district. He died on 14 2 1866 age66 & was buried in family plot at Christ Church Castlereagh. ..[Some details taken from this Website] ..Lydia Margaret (Fulton) was born on 10 9 1805 & baptised on on 29 9 1805 on Norfolk Island. She went to Sydney with her parents in 1806. She was recorded in 1828 with her husband in Evan district & also recorded in 1830. She died on 15 8 1870 age64 & was buried in family plot at Christ Church Castlereagh. ..Details of Lydia Margaret (Fulton)s family are given in entry for Henry (Fulton MINERVA 1800) on this Website. ..Alexander (Fraser/zier) & Lydia Margaret (Fulton) produced 10children: ..1.James (Fulton (Fraser) was born 13 12 1828 at Castlereagh & baptised on 29 12 1828 at Christ Church Castlereagh. ..2.Ann Lydia (Frazier) was born on 17 8 1830 at Castlereagh & baptised on 15 9 1830 at Christ Church Castlereagh. She died on 14 5 1899 age68. ..3.Magdelina (Fraser) was born about 1840. She died in 1845 age5 & was buried in family plot at Christ Church Castlereagh. ..4.Henry Alexander (Fraser) was buried in family plot at Christ Church Casttlereagh. ..5.-10.??? (Fraser) REFERENCES Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'
NSW Census Index 1828. Alexander Fraser, age 31, F.S. per Batavia, 1818, protestant, Clerk to the Bench, Holds 110 acres of land, 60 acres are cleared and 30 cultivated. Has 3 horses and 60 horned cattle. Lydia Fraser, age 23, B.C. Evan district,
Lydia Margaret (Fulton) was born in colony Christ Church Castlereagh in 1805-recorded in Sydney 1928 & 1930. Their children were James Fulton & Ann Lydia born 1828 & 1830 Christ Church Castlereagh as well as Magdalina .
I have a photo of Alexander Fraser & one of his wife,Lydia (nee Fulton)taken probably in the late 1850s. N.B. On checking what I wrote in my earlier comments I noted an error regarding Alexander's father's. He died in 1809.
Alexander Fraser is buried in the old Anglican Cemetery at Castlereagh near his wife, Lydia,his son, Henry Alexander & daughter Madelina as well a number of other family members (all in a wrought iron fenced plot). Nearby there are the tombs of a number of other relatives of his wife Lydia, including her father, the Rev. Henry Fulton & her mother Anne as well as her brother John Walker Fulton & her brother-in-law, John MacHenry.
On arrival in Australia he was assigned Rev Henry Fulton at his Church at Castlereagh where he was employed at his Glebe Schoolhouse. In 1827 he married Henry Fulton's daughter Lydia, & they had 10 children & lived a a small farmer (60 acres nearby). Alexander became the Clerk of the Court in Penrith Courthouse as well as the first Postmaster. He was secretary of the Bridge Building Committee thyat built the first bridge over the Hawkesbury River & also secretary of the MUIIOF (Odd Fellows Lodge) which assisted with the medical work in the district. His parents were James Fraser & Magdelina Anderson of Edinburgh & he had an elder brother, John. FRom what I can gather his father died in 1709 & his mother in 1818. One of Alexnder's daughters, Magdelina, died aged 5 in 1845 while all but one of the other children married. There is much more, of course, if you wish to use it. Regards, John Fraser