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About Sir James Fraser of Brea, Kt.
Sir James Fraser of Brea (C. 1600 – 1649)
James Fraser of Brea (also spelled Brae) is the first of our ancestors to veer off from the line of inherited Lovat nobility. As the second son of Simon Fraser, 6th Lord Fraser of Lovat (with second spouse, Jean Stewart), James was only distantly in line for the peerage title and all the responsibilities and opportunities that went with it. He was the younger half-brother of the 7th Lord Fraser of Lovat, Hugh. There is precious little available information on this man, probably because he didn’t play a very notable role in Highland politics. Mackenzie, the prominent 19th-century historian of the Lovat Clan only mentions him as a son of his father’s second marriage. The genealogy from the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), one of the sources that will play an increasingly prominent role in describing our family tree from this point on, confirms Mackenzie’s claim that James was the second son of Simon, 6th Lord Fraser of Lovat and that he served as governor of Inverness. Further, LDS puts his birth date at June 6, 1600, and his passing on December 6, 1649.
Mackenzie credits his father, Simon with generosity for his family, assuring all of his offspring the ability to ‘live in a more plentiful way than they could do upon a tack.’ Even an offspring of a second marriage such as James would be able to live relatively well. What little we have been able to discover about this fellow points to a devout man. He was elder for the Presbytery of Inverness in the Protestant General Assembly of 1638 (which abolished episcopacy), and sat in several other General Assemblies during his last decade of life.
Sir James, the sources tell us, married Beatrice Wemyss, the daughter of another prominent Inverness-shire family and together they had several children. Among these were: James Fraser of Brea II*, Minister of Culross and later of Inverness; John B. Fraser; Mary Fraser; and David Fraser of Mayne.
- James Fraser of Brea II (1639-1699) was a controversial religious figure, a member of the Covenanters a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement that supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs. The origins of the movement lay in disputes with James VI & I, and his son Charles I over church structure and doctrine In 1651, following the Third English Civil War, the dispute was settled, leading to Scotland's incorporation into the Common Commonwealth and the Covenanters (and James of Brea II) became less controversial.
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Sir James Fraser of Brea, Kt.'s Timeline
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1610
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Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland
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June 4, 1612
Age 2
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Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland
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1630
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Inverness, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
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1630
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Peterhead, Inverness, Invernessshire, Scotland
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1636
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Scotland (United Kingdom)
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July 29, 1639
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Kilmonivaig, Inverness-shire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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1640
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1640
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Brae, Inverness-shire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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1640
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Culduthel, Inverness-shire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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