Fraser was born in Scotland and worked as a teacher in a private school at Maitland. On retirement he moved to Sydney. Fraser was a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales and published works about Aboriginal people from NSW during the 1880s and 1890s.
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John Fraser
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127820373
Dr Geoff Ford, Darkiñung Recognition An Analysis of the Historiography for the Aborigines from the Hawkesbury-Hunter Ranges to the Northwest of Sydney: [commonly written with English characters as 'Darkinung', Darkinyung or Darkinjung], Masters Thesis, University of Sydney, 2010, pp. 198, 334.
Dr Geoff Ford, Darkiñung Recognition An Analysis of the Historiography for the Aborigines from the Hawkesbury-Hunter Ranges to the Northwest of Sydney: [commonly written with English characters as 'Darkinung', Darkinyung or Darkinjung], Masters Thesis, University of Sydney, 2010, pp. 198, 334.
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