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The following is from Frazier Family History by Irvin Frazier,
published by the author in 1974:

"The name Frazier apears to have originated in the South of France, in the
year 916 A.D. Apparently it was applied to one of our earliest ancestors,
whose name formerly had been Berry, by King Charles of France, as a
take-off on the French word for strawberry. This ancestor served the King
some strawberries out of season, and in turn was given his new name by
the King, that of FRAISE, the French word for strawberry. He chose to
retain this name from that time forward, and many years later the
representation of three stalks of strawberries were used in the Frazier arms
and became a part of the Frazier crest.;CHRONICLES OF THE FRASERS, THE WARDLAW MANUSCRIPT."
This original manuscript was prepared in 1666 by Master James Fraser, Minister
of the Parish of Wardlaw (now Kirkhill), Inverness, Scotland. It traces
the genealogy of the Frasers from 916 thru 1674. In 1905 the manuscript
was made available to the public by being published in Edinburgh
as Vol.XLVII of Publications of the Scottish History Society, printed
at the University Press."

I.F. citing the same book, declares that "many of the Frasers of France came
from Normandy across the English Channel to England and Scotland with William
the Conqueror in 1066 A.D."

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