I’m a Frasier! Me and my older sister are beginning to dig into our ancestry, so thank you for this! We would love to take our dad to Scotland some day. Already subscribed! ❤

The reason apparently that BPC and the Jacobite Army turned around at Derby - mind you, the blocking Government Armies were actually out of the way and the road to London was almost completely clear(!!!) was a double agent gave BPC and the clan chiefs intel that they were about to be set upon by the Government Armies, many Highlanders had actually deserted as individuals and small groups with their loot from the march south and they were getting a bit far from their bases in Scotland plus most of the Highland Chiefs were more about establishing a separation from the Union and a free Scotland rather than putting BPC's dad back on a British throne. BPC wanted to go on but his clan leaders refused and the chance - which actually was a fairly good one it seems - of marching on London was lost.

Simon the Fox in Outlander is played by Clive Russell (Blackfish Tully in Game of Thrones & Big Innes in Still Game)

A pretty good history of Clan Fraser and "The Auld Fox." on a side note there is a great liqueur produced in Scotland named Frasier. Whisky based and sweetened with Strawberries.

Simon Fraser is my 7th great grandfather, its such an honor to be apart of a great Scottish Clan ❤

Who Will Remember? Who will remember Fraser of Inverallochy? Buried in the English telling of Drumossie Moor Buried in time to be forgotten Fraser of Inverallochy bravely led his clansmen Into a clash of metal against metal Still alive while all around his men fell His death was a murder ordered by the Black Prince No, I’ll not commit murder Wolfe said, So, another emptied his gun into his heroic and defiant heart, Into Fraser of Inverallochy - A poem by Zaynab El-Fatah Source "Isobel of Glenmoriston" by Zaynab El-Fatah (2023)

The Master of Lovat went on to raise the Fraser Highlander Regiment for the French and Indian War, which would serve under General Wolfe at Quebec 1759. What the British actually did in the aftermath of Culloden was, while banning Tartan, weapons and bagpipes in the private clan armies, was opening recruitment of Scots into the British Army, starting with the 43rd Highlanders, later the 42nd Black Watch and then later more Highland Regiments raised for the SYW/F&IW conflict. The Master of Lovat literally went from a Jacobite regimental commander in 1746 to a British Army general by 1759 and many Jacobites, ironically, became ferocious supporters of the British Crown during the 1750's and even the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

By the way, the 15th Lord Lovat (and 25th Chief Fraser of Lovat) was commander of the 1st Special Service Brigade - the Commandos - at D-Day and they famously marched to the relief of Pegasus Bridge over the Orne River, accompanied by his piper Bill Millin. The Germans, despite keeping up a heavy fire, did not shoot Piper Millin who kept playing the pipes during the attack. The captured Germans were later asked why they didn't shoot the piper and they replied "Doodlesack Dumkopf!!".

I always knew my grandma was a Fraser but I recently learned she descends from Scottish Fraser of lovat

As a Lovat Fraser myself, I can confirm that the Frasers are, indeed, split into two separate clans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍 Check out their individual Wikipedia pages to read their respective takes on the chieftanship. It was most stark, in my experience, at the Homecoming gathering in Edinburgh in 2009. There, every clan had its own tent to welcome clan members. Us Frasers had two 😉

Just for accuracy's sake, when you mentioned the Union of Crowns, it was actually in 1603, with the accession of Mary Queen of Scots son, James the Sixth/First. What happened in 1707 was the Treaty of Union 😉👍 As for the current MacShimi, Simon, the 16th Lord Lovat, he lives in London. Beaufort Castle fell out of Fraser hands in 1994 when it was sold to meet inheritance taxes. And, finally, my own Bonnie Prince Charlie connection is that, after the Battle of Culloden, the Prince fled the field and went down into nearby Stratherrick, my family's glen. A strath is a wide glen, btw. He briefly stopped at one of my relative's homes at Gorthleck Mains Farm. Whilst catching a hasty meal, a guard noticed some redcoats coming, so he jumped out of the first floor window to start his long, arduous journey over the sea to Skye. I have been in that room, and there's a fascinating feeling when you're in there 😉👍

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Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 16th Lord Lovat. Whilst still at Harrow, he assumed the title of Lord Lovat on the death of his grandfather in 1995. His father Simon (then Master of Lovat and heir to the title) had died the previous year whilst riding on a hunt at the family's Beaufort estate. Due to considerable debts, the family was forced to sell Beaufort Castle.

Another thing, re your great video, the clan members in the Lovat Fraser land to the east of Loch Ness, to this day mostly reside in Stratherrick, a strath is wide glen, that is about 1,000ft up in the mountains. It runs parallel to the loch, with villages such as Torness, Errogie, Gorthleck and Whitebridge along the route of the B862. Having said that, the major Clan Fraser cemetery is at Boleskine, overlooking Loch Ness, on the B852. My family come from Stratherrick, where many, many Frasers still live. I can trace my particular line with a paper trail going back to the late 1600s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great work! Could you make a video about the Frasers of Culbokie/Guisachan?

I'm from england and from my Dads side of the family name is Irish and my mum's side is Scottish my grandad is Scottish native from the macdonald clan

So is it correct to say that in 1746 Simon Fraser raised an army of Frasers that was lead into battle by the Frasers of Philorth?

I had ran across the historical reference that a Simon Frasier had tried to poison the British King with witchcraft and fled to Europe in the failure. His heirs reverses the family names to hide from assassins. But i am curious as to their re-settling in the Americas,particularly around the Great Lakes area, where my ancestors hail from. Incidently i was raised singing Jacobite songs in grade school.

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I did not know Clan Fraser of Lovat was real clan. I thought it to be imagination of Diana Gabaldon.

Scotland is still occupied territory by the brittish , end the union alba shaor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A very well done overview and many thanks from an American Fraser of Lovat! My Fraser ancestors came from the Beauly area, migrated to Glasgow and then to New York and New Jersey, USA. As masons and plasterers they helped build the Woolworth Building in New York City. It was the tallest building in the world from 1913 till 1930! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworth_Building

You have pretty much the same ancestry as myself mostly Scottish with some English and Welsh. Love your channel man. Edwards Welsh pride by the way

Lord George Murray (4 October 1694 - 11 October 1760), sixth son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl. Fucking detested Bonnie Prince Charlie,he thought of him as a waster and reckless. Too many sycophants in the Jacobite heirachy effected the fighting ability and willingness to adapt and manoeuvre.