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The Frasers & Marks families who travelled from Binda to Qld between Sept. 1877 and July 1878

Alexander (Snr) Fraser 67 yrs & Margaret  Fraser (nee McBean) 63 yrs

Alexander (Jnr) Fraser 36 yrs & Martha Alice Fraser (nee Marks) 34 yrs

William Fraser 13 yrs

Richard Fraser 11 yrs

Jane Fraser 9 yrs

Alexander Fraser 7 yrs  ***(He married Agnes Jane Stewart in Charleville and was a blacksmith in Wyandra for several years. In 1924 he was successful in a land ballot for a property which he named “Werona”)

Alice Fraser 4yrs

Annie Fraser 1 yr

William (Jnr) Marks & Elizabeth Louisa Marks (nee Fraser)

Elizabeth Louise 15 yrs

Emma Jane 13 yrs

Margaret Ann 11yrs

William Alexander 9 yrs

Elijah James 7 yrs

Victor Clarence 5 yrs

May Honor 1 yr

Margaret Jane Brownlow 15 yrs - the only daughter of  Isabella Larkham/Brownlow/Crilly (nee Fraser) 

* Alexander (Jnr)’s daughter Martha Frazer was born in Qld in July 1878, and died within 2 weeks.

 The Frasers who stayed in the Binda area in 1877

Jane Cashmere (nee Fraser) had died in childbirth 14 years earlier (at age 29), she was buried with her baby in Binda .

Mary Ann MacDonald (nee Fraser) was 30 years old. She was living at a property called “the Diamond” near Binda with her husband and five children.

Isabella Larkham/Brownlow/Crilly (nee Fraser) was 45 years old. She had already been widowed twice and had married again by the time of the 1877 departure. She had eight sons ranging in age from 27 to 5 years, when her only daughter Margaret Jane Brownlow left with her parents for Queensland.

* Margaret Fraser (nee McBean) returned to Binda after Alexander (Snr)’s death in Charleville in August 1883.  She lived with her daughter Isabella until her death in Jan 1894. She was buried at Binda.

BINDA SCHOOL HOUSE, NEW SOUTH WALES

The illustrated Australian news for home readers. Published  1870 by Ebenezer and David Syme 

via the State Library of Victoria

Shows the wooden school house with large playground;

 includes on the right, the Church of England and the Farmers' Home Hotel.