Alexander (Snr) Fraser (1810 - 1883) married Margaret Mc Bean (1814 - 1894) in Alvie, Inverness-shire Scotland, on 22nd November 1831. In 1838 the Frasers joined many other families who left the Kingussie area, and journeyed aboard the ship St George to Australia. The Frasers had three daughters with them on the voyage: Isabella Fraser (1832 - 1920), Jane Fraser (1834 - 1863) and Henrietta Fraser (1836 - 1838). Two year old Henrietta died of dysentery before reaching Australia.

The Frasers arrived in Sydney on 15th November 1838. Records show that four more children were born in Australia:

Sarah Elizabeth Fraser (1839 - 1839)

Alexander (Jnr) Fraser (1841 - 1883)

Elizabeth Louisa Fraser (1844 - 1923)

Mary Ann Fraser  (1847 - )

The Fraser family settled near Binda, which is 110 km south west of Sydney NSW. This area was already the home of the Marks family. William (Snr) Marks had arrived as a convict aboard the ship Asia on 25th April 1825. He met Ann Maria Lamb, one of the bounty immigrants who arrived aboard the ship Layton on 27th December 1833. They married on 24th February 1838 and had nine children together, including a son William (Jnr), and a daughter Martha Alice.

In a joint wedding held on 26th August 1861  Alexander (Jnr) Fraser (1841 - 1883) married Martha Alice Marks (1842 - 1886) and William (Jnr) Marks (1841 - 1927) married Elizabeth Louisa Fraser (1844 - 1923).  In September 1876 these two couples with their 13 children, set out for Queensland. Alexander (Snr) and Margaret Fraser and their grand-daughter Margaret Jane Brownlow (the 15 year old daughter of Isabella) went with them. 

The trip North took a couple of years. The Fraser and Marks families finally settled in Charleville in about July 1878. Alexander (Jnr) Fraser and Martha Fraser (nee Marks) had travelled with six New South Wales born children: William, Richard, Jane, Alexander*, Alice and Annie. Shortly after they arrived in Charleville they had a baby girl, Martha Frazer but she did not survive. Two more Frazer children were born in Charleville, Charles Frazer (1879 - 1975) and Alberta Frazer (1882 - 1884).

In 1883 both Alexander (Snr) and Alexander (Jnr) died. Martha Fraser (nee Marks) died three years later and the orphaned Frazer children were then raised by their Aunt and Uncle, William and Elizabeth Marks.

When he was 21 years old Alexander*Frazer married Agnes Jane Stewart (1871 - 1941). Agnes’ father, James Edward Stewart (1832 -1889), arrived in Australia from England in about 1854. He married Honora Doody (1831 - 1889) in Goulburn on 14 Sep 1857. Honora had also arrived in about 1854. She was from Ireland. James and Honora Stewart moved around throughout New South Wales and Victoria. They had eight sons and one daughter, Agnes Jane. (She was born in Sandhurst, Victoria on July 31, 1871). By the early 1880s the Stewart family was living in the St George region of Queensland.

Alexander*Frazer and Agnes Frazer (nee Stewart) had five children: Alice Winifred Frazer (1892 - 1975), Lily Grace Frazer (1894 - 1966), Alma Dorothy Frazer (1896 - 1983), Alexander William (‘Sonny’) Frazer (1898 - 1936), and Albert Edward Frazer (1902 - 1981). The children were all born in Charleville and then the family moved to Wyandra where Alexander worked as a blacksmith.

On 21st March 1921 Alexander William (‘Sonny’) Frazer married Bernadine Monica Grant (1898 -1966) at the Commercial Hotel Wyandra. Bernadine was the eldest of the seven children who were born to Thomas Henry Grant (1865 - 1936) and Margaret Jane Grant (nee Doyle) (1868 - 1934).

Thomas Henry Grant ’s father was Frederick Adolphus Grant (born Holt). Frederick Adolphus Holt was born in Van Diemen’s Land on December 28, 1837. His father, the Englishman William Holt (1790 - 1858) arrived in Australia in 1832 and married Mary Ann Peters (1810 - ) who was the daughter of the ex-convict Thomas Peters (1775 - 1839). Thomas Peters and his wife Mary Ann Peters (nee Hews) (1780 - 1819) arrived in Van Diemen’s Land aboard the Calcutta in 1804.

Thomas Henry Grant’s mother was Ellen Bridget Grant (nee Gorman), was the daughter of Patrick Gorman (1797 - 1879) and Eliza Gorman (nee Saunders) who married in Dublin City in April 1834. The newlywed Gormans probably arrived aboard the Medora which docked in Sydney on 1st Nov 1834. They settled in the Dapto area near Wollongong.

Thomas Henry Grant’s wife, Margaret Jane, was the daughter of Patrick Joseph Doyle (1835 - 1899) and Maria Bridget Doyle (nee Hand) (1837 - 1874). The Doyles were married in Ireland in November 1855. Ten years later they came to Australia aboard the Hannah More with their five children and a baby. They settled in Walloon, just outside Ipswich. Margaret Jane was the second of their Australian born children, and she lived most of her married life in Cunnamulla and Wyandra. Tom and Margaret Grant were managing the Commercial Hotel in Wyandra at the time that their eldest child, Bernadine Monica, married “Sonny” Frazer. 

Bernadine Monica Frazer (nee Grant) was the mother of Thomas Bernard Frazer (1923 - 1974) and the grandmother of Jane, Peter, Grant, Juliet & Annabel Frazer.