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PRESENTS, Do or may concern, WE, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, Knight Commander Of the Royal Victorian Order, Baron of Learney, Kinnardy and Yeochrie, Advocate, Lord Lyon King of Arms Send greeting, Whereas, EDWARD HASLETT FRAZER, Esquire, Doctor of Medicine of the University of Trinity Dublin, residing at 231 Macquarrie Street, Sydney in the State of New South Wales, Australia, having by Petition Unto Us of date 22nd of January 1952 Shewn: THAT he, the Petitioner Was born on the 22nd of July 1900, and is the only son of Edward King Frazer, Doctor of Medicine, Riverstown, in the County of Sligo In Ireland, and his wife, Sara Maud, daughter of Samuel Torrens Haslett C.M.S. of Foyleview Park in Co Derry, and his wife Mary, Daughter of Joseph Robinson: THAT the petitioners father, the said Edward King Frazer, born 16th August 1866, died September 1919, was the Third son of Archibald Frazer of Shaniwilly, (otherwise Oldbrook), in County Leitrim and his wife Fanny, daughter of Edward King Little, of Daleview in the said County, and his wife Margaret Wilton: (I now know this information to be incorrect, he married Mar 1837 Eliza Wilton b 1807 . Dec 1999 ED) THAT the Petitioners grandfather, the said Archibald Frazer, born 7th August, 1838, Alexander Frazer of Shaniwilly and his wife, (married 1834) Mary Hamilton. That the said Alexander Frazer born 1806, was the third Son leaving issue, of Archibald Frazer and his wife Ann Stinson, Which Archibald Frazer was forth son of Archibald Frazer of Cleragh and A-ughifinegan, born 1690, who appears to have been son of certain Frazers, alias Frizells, namely Edward, Adam and Hugh, who as Royalists emigrated to Ireland following incidents in opposition to the Kirk and Covenant in the Burgh of Irvine in Ayrshire, younger brothers of Robert Frazer of Knock, sometime apparent of Knock, and his wife Mary Hamilton, relict of William Glen of Barr: AND the Petitioner having prayed that such Ensigns Armorial might be granted Unto him as might be found suitable and according to the laws of Arms, KNOW YE THEREFORE, that We have devised, and Do by These Presents Assign Ratify and Conform unto the Petitioner and his heirs, And unto the other descendants of his great great great great Grandfather, Archibald Frazer of Cleragh and Auhhnifinegan, with such due and congruent differences as may hereafter be severally matriculated for them, the following Ensigns Armorial, as depicted upon the margin hereof, and matriculated of even date with These Presents upon the 148th page of the Thirty-eighth Volume of our Public Register of ALL Arms and Bearings in Scotland, videlicet: - Azure, on a Fess between three cinquefoils, two and one, accompanied by a Rose in Chief Argent, barbed and sealed Vert, a trefoil slipped of the third, between two martlets Sable, a bordure per pale, dexter engrailed ules. Sinister Or: Above the shield is placed N Helmet befitting his degree, with a mantling Azure doubled Argent, and on a wreath of liveries is set for Crest a demi-stag proper attired Azure, playing a set of bagpipes proper, and bag Azure, semee of cinqufoils Argent, and in an Escrol over the same, this Motto, "JE SUIS PREST AUSSI"; by demonstration of which Ensigns Armorial, Insignia of Nobility, he, and his successors in the Same, are amongst all Nobles, and in all places of honour, to be taken in the N-oblesse of Scotland: IN TESTIMONY WHEREAS We have subscribed These Presents, and the Seal of Our Office is affixed hereto at Edinburgh, this Eleventh day of March in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominion Beyond the Seas, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, Etcetera, and in The Year of Our Lord, One thousand, nine hundred and fifty-two. Signed. Thomas Innes of Lerney. LYON |
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