I’m not sure how many parts this Blog will have. So far I have:
- Looked at my second great-grandfather, Geoge Frazer, who was quite old in 1926
- Looked at one of his sons William, his wife and family. William moved to the Boston area and married but moved back to the family homestead after a fireworks accident.
- I thien looked at his daughter Violet Frazer and family.
George, Son of George William Frazer
Next, I will look at George:
George stays in Irleand. His son George A is shown as living but this cannot be right. In fact, I suspect that all his children likely have passed away. I wonder if I have a photo of George. In a previous Blog, my best guess was that this was George to the right of “Old George”:
In that Blog, I guessed that the photo was taken in 1899 and that George would have been about 20 years old. From that previous Blog, I mention that George lived at his grandfather’s farm in Derrycashel. I wrote this in that Blog:
George (1879) – He moved in with his Aunt Isabella and worked his grandfather’s farm in Derrycashel, County Roscommon. He married Annie Craig in 1915 and had one girl and three boys and died in 1960.
Let’s start with the 1926 Census as that is new:
The first thing of interest I note is that George is down as being born in Derrycashel. I would have thought that he would have been born where his parents lived in Ballindoon. I do have a record of him being baptized in Kilmactranny which was the Church of Ireland Parish Church for Ballindoon.
At the age of 19, George was living with his unmarried Aunt in Derrycashel. At that time, his birthplace was Sligo, so it must have been Ballindoon.
The 1911 Census is pretty much the same information 10 years later:
The next big event was George’s marriage to Annie Craig:
Annie was born in County Sligo:
Here is Hollybrook:
It is quite close to Mullaghfarna. Here is the Craig family in 1901:
Here is the same family in 1911:
Now we see Richard E who married Martha Fairbanks from my previous Blog. Martha would be George Frazer’s niece, if I have it right.
Violet Frazer Born 1916
Violet marries at the Kilbryan church George Alexander Warren:
Here is the Kilbran Church which I understand is now a private dwelling:
George Warren dies in 1976 and Violet in 2009:
If I have the Drumcliffe Church Yard location right, this is also the burial place of W. B. Yeats:
Here is the Ardtrasna mentioned on the grave stone even further North:
I don’t have a lot of information on Violet’s siblings.
Susan Jane Frazer Born 1887, Ballindoon, County Sligo
Here is what I have now:
Here is a DNA relative from Ancestry:
Faye is my third cousin. It looks as if I am better using Faye’s information:
Here is Faye’s timeline:
From this, it would appear that I could find the family in the 1926 Census. Here is what I find in Doreenasoo:
For some reason, the names do not match up. Did the family move away briefly during the Census? Here is the problem. When I search for all of Dooreenasoo, I see this:
A ‘w’ can look like an ‘n’. However, with all the other Crawfords around, common sense would determine that it should have been Crawford.
I do admit that some surnames look like Cranford and some like Crawford.
Here is Dereenasoo:
Here is Faye’s grandfather, George Musgrave Crawford (Susan’s son):
I have to say that genealogy with photos is more fun than without them.
Summary and Conclusions
- I looked at George, son of George William Frazer who lived at his granfather’s house. The grandfather was James Frazer of Derrycashel, County Roscommon.
- I looked at George’s daughter Violet who married George Alexander Warren. I believe that family also lived for a while in Derrycashel, but George Warren was buried to the North of Sligo in the same cemetery as W. B. Yeats.
- I looked at Susan Jane Frazer. She was the youngest daughter of Old George Frazer. She marries Stuart Edward Crawford of Dooreenasoo, County Roscommon and has several children.
- I was able with the help of one of my DNA matches, Faye, to correct and add to that family’s genealogy in my Ancestry Tree.