John Arthur Fraser 1866
Sticking to my spring theme this week.
John Arthur Fraser was born on 9 January 1838 in London, England. His parents were John Fraser of Portsoy, Scotland, and Isabella Warren of London. His father was a tailor and an outspoken supporter of the Chartist movement. His father's parents had moved to Stanstead in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada (Quebec) as pioneers in 1831. Fraser may have taken evening classes in drawing at the Royal Academy Schools around 1852, and later he was described as "a pupil of the South Kensington Schools", but neither school has any record of him. On 4 April 1858 he married Anne Maria Sayer in Forest Hill, London, describing himself as an artist on his marriage certificate. They had three sons and three daughters. Very soon after his marriage he moved with his wife and parents to Stanstead, Lower Canada, where his grandmother had lost her husband two years earlier.
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