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22.01.2022 https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=304 My 33rd great grandmother on my mothers side she is both my 26th twice and 28th twice on the Mckimmie side.

19.01.2022 The earliest written record of Frasers in Scotland is in 1160, when a Simon Fraser held lands in East Lothian at Keith. In that year, he made the gift of a church to the Tironensian monks at Kelso Abbey.[15] The Frasers moved into Tweeddale in the 12th and 13th centuries and from there into the counties of Stirling, Angus, Inverness and Aberdeen.[16] The first definite record of the name in Scotland occurs in the mid-12th century as "de Fresel", "de Friselle", and "de Fresel...iere",[5] and appears to be an Angevin name. The French surname "Frézelière" or "de la Frézelière" or "Frézeau de la Frézelière", exists in France to this day,[7] and is still concentrated in the area of Anjou.[5] It also corresponds with the Scottish version in its spelling. Belief in the name's Angevin origin has also been firmly held by the Frasers themselves. Whilst in exile in France, Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat "entered into a formal league of amnity" and "declared an alliance" with the French Marquis de la Frézelière and claimed common origin from the "les seigneurs de la Frézelière There is other evidence of an ancient connection with Anjou. An 18th century document La Dictionnaire de la Noblesse states that a Simon Frezel was born to the knightly Frezel family from Anjou and, sometime after the year 1030, established himself in Scotland. It also states that Simon Frezel's descendants multiplied and eventually became known as Frasers.[10] This would also explain the prevalence of the name Simon throughout clan history, as all Frasers (by descent) would have the knight Simon Frezel as a distant but common ancestor. See more

16.01.2022 MacShimidh is a Nobel Tittle in the peerage of Scotland

15.01.2022 Simon Fraser, known as "the Patriot", fought first with the Red Comyn, and later with Sir William Wallace and Robert the Bruce

15.01.2022 one of our family was a famous Scottish composser

13.01.2022 At the Siege of Inverness in 1562 the Clan Fraser of Lovat supported Mary, Queen of Scots: Scottish historian George Buchanan, a contemporary, wrote that when the unfortunate princess went to Inverness in 1562: "as soon as they heard of their sovereign's danger, a great number of the most eminent Scots poured in around her, especially the Frasers and Munros, who were esteemed the most 'valiant of the clans inhabiting those countries in the north.' " These two clans took Inver...ness Castle for the Queen Thomas Fraser, 10th Lord Lovat (16311699), was a younger son of Hugh, 6th Lord Lovat (15911646), hereditary chief of the Clan Fraser. He was known as Thomas of Beaufort, which marked him as the belonging to the second line of the family tree after the chiefly family, the Lovats. As an eighteen year old, he led 1000 Fraser men in support of the deposed Stuarts in a battle with Oliver Cromwell’s army in 1651 at the Battle of Worcester. Losing, he was kept in jail at Inverness for several years.[1] Eventually released, he married Sybilla McLeod, the daughter of John McLeod, chief of the Clan McLeod. They had fourteen children together, although nine died in childhood. The eldest son, Alexander (1664 -1689), died of wounds while leading Frasers in support of the deposed Stuart King James II forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie. Chief Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was appointed as Captain of one of an Independent Highland Company gave his support to the Jacobite leader Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), Frasers were on the front lines of the Jacobite army at the Battle of Falkirk, and the Battle of Culloden in 1746

13.01.2022 12 generations direct ancester

09.01.2022 Wiliam McKimmie, Australia 18551933 William McKimmie and his family and a harnessed horse in front of haystack on the Bundoora family farm, 1900. McKimmies Road, Bundoora was named after William McKimmie who farmed the local area.