Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: George Frazer
• Occupation: Joiner- journeyman
• Residence: 4 Apr 1881, Kirriemuir, Forfar, Scotland

Notes:

1 - 1871 Scotland Census about George Fraser
Name: George Fraser
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843
Relationship: Head
Spouse's name : Helen Fraser
Gender: Male
Where born: Kirriemuir, Forfarshire
Registration number: 646/1
Registration district: Govan Church
Civil parish: Govan
County: Lanarkshire
Address: 22 A Hamilton St
Occupation: Ship Joiner
ED: 44
Household schedule number: 76
Line: 21
Roll: CSSCT1871_144
Household Members:
Name Age
George Fraser 28
Helen Fraser 25
Alexander Fraser 1

At 1881 George, his second wife Ann and the four children by his first wife are all listed in Kerriemuir, Forfar.
After a royal mandate in 1352, officials from Dundee were allowed to protect their trading interests by going to Kirriemuir to publicly forbid trading in the town and seize the goods of offenders. This indicates that already the town was increasing its manufacturing output. The town's textile industry has been a crucial source of employment in the town for centuries. Handloom weaving in cottages gave way to textile factories in the 19th century when Stewart and Ogilvy's Gairie Linen Works, and Wilkie's Kirriemuir Linen Works became the town's main employers.
Kirriemuir's proximity to the Glens and drove roads also ensured that agriculture played an important part in the town's development. Markets, allowed by the town's Burgh of Barony status, swelled the town's population. The influence of farming continues to the present day, although the potato fields and berry fields that were found in the Northmuir area were replaced by housing during the last few decades of the 20th century.

George married Helen Macfarlane on 31 Dec 1868 in Callander, Perthshire, Scotland. Helen (daughter of Malcolm Macfarlane and Catherine Ferguson) was born on 4 Mar 1846 in Callander, Perthshire, Scotland; died in 1876 in Callander, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alexander Fraser was born in 1869 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
2. James Fraser was born in 1871 in Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
3. Catherine Fraser was born in 1873 in Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
4. Marjory Fraser was born in 1876 in Callander, Perthshire, Scotland.