The photos above are from the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. They are of a Blacksmith shop at Blackall, Queensland, 1908. (The photo on the right shows Jack Funk with Dick Westoby and his step-father Sam Bond.) The images give us some insight into what Alexander Frazer’s blacksmith shop in Wyandra would have been like at that time.
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The children of Alexander Frazer and Agnes Jane Frazer (nee Stewart)
Alice Winifred 1892 - 1975, Lily Grace 1894 - 1966, Alma Dorothy 1896 - 1983,
Alexander William (‘Sonny’) 1898 - 1936, Albert Edward 1902 - 1981
This was the oldest generation of the Alexander Fraser line that I knew. They were all born in Charleville, but the family moved to Wyandra by 1905 which is about the time this photo was taken. My conversations with Alma and Grace led me to believe that they had happy memories of their childhood in Wyandra.
All of them (except my grandfather ‘Sonny’ who died when my father was 14), lived in the Southport and Surfers Paradise area in their retirement years.
Alexander (Sonny) Frazer
Lily (Grace) Frazer
Alma Frazer
Alexander Frazer, married Agnes Jane Stewart in Charleville, Queensland, on May 30, 1892.
The Queensland Electoral Roll shows the couple to be living in Wyandra by 1905. Alexander is working as a blacksmith.
Frazer
- 1. FRAZER - From Kingussie, Scotland, to Sydney, Australia.
- 2. FRAZER - First to Cabramatta and then to Binda, New South Wales.
- 3. FRAZER/MARKS/LAMB - Meeting the neighbours
- 4. FRAZER/MARKS/LAMB - An Inn, Horse Races, and Gold;
- 5. FRAZER - Bullock Drays and Bushrangers.
- 6. FRAZER/MARKS - ‘Markdale’ - On the move again.
- 7. FRAZER/MARKS - They made a long trek north.
- 8. FRAZER - The Queensland story - By 1878 the Fraser family settled in Charleville.
- 9. FRAZER/STEWART/DOODY - Charleville 1892 - Alexander Frazer married Agnes Jane Stewart.
- 10. FRAZER - Wyandra 1905 - Alexander Jnr’s son, Alexander, works as a blacksmith.
- 11. FRAZER - Wyandra 1915 - 1921 - The Great War and A Soldier’s Memorial.
- 12. FRAZER - Will they still remember us?
- 13. FRAZER/GRANT - Wyandra 1921 - 26 - A Marriage, and Christmas Mistletoe.
- 14. FRAZER - Wyandra 1928 - A Fancy Dress Ball.
- 15. FRAZER - Wyandra 1920s - Bullock Wagons to Tractors and Trucks.
- 16. FRAZER - ‘Werona' via Bollon 1920s & 1930s.
- 17. FRAZER - Barcaldine 1930’s - ‘Avonslea’
- 18. FRAZER - Barcaldine 1936 -1940s - ‘Avonslea’, Elm St. and a Flower Show.
- 19. FRAZER - Brisbane 1950s - 1960s - West End and Coorparoo.
- 20. FRAZER - Southport and Surfers Paradise.
- 21. FRAZER - ‘Werona’ and ‘Beneree’ 1955 to 1970 - ‘Of drought and flooding rain’
- 22. FRAZER - ‘Werona’ - Click go the shears
- 23. FRAZER - Cunnamulla - “I can see the water tower!”
- 24. FRAZER - Cunnamulla 1965 & 1966 - School Days
- 25. FRAZER - ‘Werona’ - The bush hath friends to meet him
- 26. FRAZER - ‘Werona’ - The magic of trees
- 27. FRAZER - ‘Werona’ - A portrait of our chook yard
- 28. FRAZER - ‘Werona’ - The moon is lonely in the sky
- 29. FRAZER - Toowoomba - ‘Someplace Green’
- 30. FRAZER Summary - Alexander Fraser & Margaret McBean to Alexander ('Sonny') Frazer.
- 31. FRAZER 2016 ’Werona’ revisited
- 32. FRAZER - Marks - Lamb - Stewart - Doody -The case is never closed.