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Name: FRASER, Isabell 'Isa' 'Bella', Mrs
Nee: Patterson, sister of Mary (Joiner), Lylie (Cleland), Jessie (Morrell and Jon 'Jack' Patterson
Birth Date: 9 Apr 1894 Sunderland
Death Date: 18 May 1986 Cheltenham
First Date: 1938
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Sunderland 1918 Stanley Fraser (1887-1934)
Children: Sheila McPherson (1920, twin); Doreen Patterson (1920, twin); Norman Douglas (17.3.1925 Sunderland-30.4.2007 Newcastle upon Tyne); Charles
Book Reference: Patterson family book
General Information:
Called 'Isa' by her family but 'Bella' by her friends. Went to London in the mid 1930s then to Nairobi in 1938 and worked there during and after World War 2 for some 30 years then returned to England. Travelled to Kenya on German ship "Adolf Woermann" and was in Suez canal during Munich crisis. "Adolf Woermann" was one of the first German ships sunk after the outbreak of war in 1939.
Ray Morrell: She went to Nairobi in 1939 to visit her sisters, was caught there by the war, and eventually stayed for nearly 30 years. After the war she was followed out to Kenya by all her children. All eventually left except for Charles Fraser who built a house at Kilifi.