Anna Maria Fraser

1811 - 1893

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Daughter of William Fraser of Goldstone Hall in British Guiana [q.v., died at Tain, Ross & Cromarty August 1830 in his 43rd year] and Mary Stuart or Stewart of Barbados. Fraser was active in British Guiana from 1815. Mary Stuart was possibly free woman of colour.

  1. In 1881 Anna Maria Fraser, age 70, occupation "Spinster" born British West Indies was living with her sister Sarah Tait, age 72, occupation "Bible woman", born Canterbury Kent, and one female servant. In 1891 she was a boarder in the house of a clerk and his family, age 80, at 105 Church Street, Inverness. She died a spinster at 105 Church Street, Inverness, 18/09/1893, aged "About 83 years", with her parents names given as William Fraser and Mary née Stewart. The informant of death was Fredk A. Black, "Law Agent of the deceased".

  2. Mentioned in the will of her father William Fraser who died at Tain, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland, in August 1830 age 43.


Sources

T71/885 British Guiana claim no. 181.

  1. 1881 and 1891 censuses online; General Register Office for Scotland Deaths 1893 098 406 Inverness.

  2. http://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=164896 [accessed 25/01/2013].


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Name in compensation records
A. M. Fraser
Will

Inventory:

Wearing apparel and personal belongings at 105 Church Street, Inverness £5

Sum at credit of deceased in current account with the Inverness Savings Bank (including interest) £20 9s 7d

Sum on Deposit Receipt in name of F.A. Black, Solicitor, Inverness on behalf of deceased with the Caledonian Banking Company Limited at Inverness (including interest) £50 8s 0d.

Eighty three shares of the capital stock of the Caledonian Banking Company Limited £352 15s 0d.

Total amount of personal estate £428 12s 7d

Executor was Frederick Alexander Black, Solicitor, Inverness.

Will:

I, Miss Anna Maria Fraser, presently residing at Number One hundred and five Church Street, Inverness, being desirous of settling the succession to my means and estate after my death do hereby appoint Frederick Alexander Black, Solicitor, Inverness to be my sole Executor, and I direct him (First) to make payment of all my just and lawful debts and deathbed and funeral expenses. (Second) To pay and deliver the following legacies to the persons afternamed and designed videlicet: (1) to my neice Maria Dixon, daughter of Giles Dixon and presently residing at number four hundred and three West Superior Street, Chicago Illinois – One hundred pounds. (2) To Mary Ann Dixon, sister of the said Maria Dixon and presently residing at number four hundred and Rock Springs Wyoming – Twenty five pounds. (3) To Mrs Martha Dixon or Nicholas also sister of the said Maria Dixon and presently residing at Anderson Avenue, Woodland Hills, Cleveland, Ohio, Twenty five pounds. (4) To Mrs Louisa Sern or Grell, daughter of William Sern and presently residing in Barbados, Twenty five pounds (5) To Ann Eliza Seon sister of the said Mrs Louisa Seon or Grell Ten Pounds. (6) To Mrs Hannah Dunlop, wife of David Dunlop, Insurance Superintentent, and residing at Number Ten Nithsdale Place, Pollockshields, Glasgow – Twenty pounds (7) To Mrs Elizabeth Black, residing at number forty six Academy Street, Inverness, Ten pounds (8) To Mrs Janet Mackay, residing at Gordonstone, Gordon Terrace, Inverness, Ten pounds; (9) To Dr John Wilson Balck, residing at number forty six Academy Street, Inverness – Ten pouns. (10) To Mrs Anne Munro residing at Number One hundred and five Church Street, Inverness should I be residing with her at the time of my death all my body clothing and wearing apparel. And the residue of my said means and estate (after payment of all the legacies above specified and as the same shall be finally ascertained and fixed by a writing under the hand of my said Executor) I leave and bequesth to Thomas Young Seon, brother of the said Mrs Louisa Seon or Grell and sometime of Barbaodes and thereafter of Trinidad; and I authroise my said Executor in the case of each legacy payable to a married woman to make payment on her individual receipt and I direct that the said legacy shall be for her own separate use; and I specially empower my said Executor to make the usual professional charges as a Law Agent in respect of his trouble in connection with the Executry and thereby revoke all settlements of a testamentary nature executed by me at any time heretofore and I consent to registration hereof for preservation. In Witness Whereof I have subscribed these presents written on this and the preceding pages by James John Paterson, clerk to the said Frederick Alexander Black at Inverness on the seventeenth day of March Eighteen hundred and ninety two before these witnesses the said James John Paterson and Alexander Kenneth Beaton clerks to William Mackintosh Architext, Inverness.

Reference: SC29/44/28 INVERNESS SHERIFF COURT.

Wealth at death
£428 12S 7D

Associated Claims (1)

£35 9s 10d
Awardee

Addresses (3)

Inverness, Inverness-shire, Highlands & Islands, Scotland
105 Church Street, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Highlands & Islands, Scotland
Douglas Row, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Highlands & Islands, Scotland