Alexander Fraser of Inchcoulter

Alexander Fraser of Inchcoulter, Kiltearn, Ross-shire claimed as owner-in-fee of the Levera estate in Grenada, but the compensation was awarded to James Evan Baillie, Hugh Duncan Baillie and George Ames as 'assignees of the whole compensation money.'  The same pattern was repeated for the Camden estate on Trinidad, where 'Alexander Fraser of Scotland' claimed and the Baillies and Ames counterclaimed under an assignment dated 07/07/1835, strongly suggesting the two Alexander Frasers were one and the same. In 1813, John Stewart and Alexander Fraser, both of Crossing Square London, had purchased the Camden estate in Trinidad from the failed Boldero banking concern.

1. Alexander Fraser was a partner with James Evan Baillie in J.E. Baillie & Co. of London until its dissolution in 1820. He had been in Grenada in the late 1790s, and was instrumental in raising money there for the Northern Infirmary in Inverness. In 1806 he purchased the Inchcoulter estate and created the village of Evanton there.

T71/880 Grenada No. 690; T71/894 Trinidad no. 1641.

1. This biographical material, life-dates and the name of his wife are all drawn from David Alston, Slaves and Highlanders, http://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=225176 accessed 05/03/2013.