Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Fraser was born about 1815, in Nashwaak Bridge, Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Thomas Fraser, was 33 and her mother, Mary McKenzie, was 38. She married John Lightbody Sr on 26 June 1841, in New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada in 1861.
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- Margaret Lightbody, "New Brunswick Census, 1861"
- Margaret Fraser, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
- Margaret Leasher, "Canada, New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938"
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1867 · British North America Act
The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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1880 · Legislature in Fredericton Destoryed by Fire
On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
Name Meaning
Scottish: apparently a nickname from Anglo-Norman French fraser(e), fresere ‘strawberry plant’. Fresel and Frisel, from Anglo-Norman French fresel ‘strawberry’, are early variants of the Fraser surname, the modern Gaelicized form of which is Friseal. See Frizzell . The crest on the Scottish family's coat of arms takes the form of a strawberry plant, but its antiquity is unknown. Claims of a habitational derivation, in particular from a place called la Frézelière in Anjou (France), are attractive but they lack verifiable evidence.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
History: There are two clans Fraser in Scotland, with common ancestry going back to Simon Fraser of Keith in East Lothian, who lived in the 12th century. One of these clans has its seat at Philorth Castle (subsequently re-named Cairnbulg) on the northeast coast of Scotland. Sir Alexander Fraser, 8th laird of Philorth (c. 1536–1623) converted the fishing village of Faithlie into the burgh of Fraserburgh in the 1590s. The other clan is Fraser of Lovat, associated mainly with the city of Inverness are. They are descended from Simon Fraser, a younger son, who lived in the early 14th century. In Gaelic, the head of Clan Fraser of Lovat is known as Mac Shimi ‘son of Simon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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