Mary Fraser (née Rowland)

1. Daughter of Edward Rowland, niece and heir of Gabriel Rowland of Chatsworth coffee plantation.

2. Of Liverpool when she married William Fraser, aide-de-camp of General Nugent, in Liverpool in 1807. Their son John Nugent Fraser was baptised in Exeter 06/01/1808.

3. Presumably in Jamaica 1817-1823 when her husband registered enslaved people on Chatsworth estate in the slave registers. Not clear where she was in 1826 but she registered enslaved people herself in 1829 and 1832.

4. Died in 1834.

We are grateful to David Barker for assistance in compiling this entry.

1. Will of Gabriel Rowland PROB 11/1510/38.

2. Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany vol. 69 part 1 p. 397. Ancestry.com, UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960 [database online]. Familysearch.org batch no. C05091-1.

3. See estate evolutions for Chatsworth estate.

4. Letter to Commissioners from John Nugent Fraser, Lieut 37th Regiment, 19/8/1835: he had not since death of mother in 1834 been able to get leave of absence to go to Jamaica to investigate claims, knew it was contested. T71/1592 letter to Lt John Nugent Fraser of 37th Regiment, Mitchell's town County of Cork, Ireland, granting extension for filing counterclaim; T71/864 Port Royal 76.