James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser
Jamie Fraser
Full name: James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser
Also known as: Sawny, Jamie McTavish, Lallybroch, Broch Tuarach, Red Jamie, Dunbonnet, Seumas Mac Dubh, Alex MacKenzie, Alexander Malcolm, Sawney Malcolm, Q.E.D.
Born: 1st May 1721 (the Year of the Ox)
Parents: Brian Fraser & Ellen MacKenzie
Siblings: William & Jenny
Wives: Claire Beauchamp, Laoghaire MacKenzie
Biological Children: Faith & Brianna Fraser, and William Ransom
Foster child: Fergus Fraser
Step children: Marsali & Joan McKimmie
Occupation: many, including Laird of Broch Tuarach, mercenary, outlaw, groom, smuggler, printer, soldier, traitor, farmer
Physical Characteristics: Taller than most people, with red hair and blue slanted cat eyes. Left-handed with large, blunt-fingered hairy hands (Outlander, chapter 15) Powerful and fair with the body of a warrior and the grace of a natural athlete (Outlander, chapter 16) Claire estimates Jamie weighs around 15 stone or 95kg (DIA, chapter 6) Jenny describes Jamie's hair as being the colour of a red deer's pelt (Outlander, chapter 30) Claire describes it as having all the colours of red and gold mixed together in tones of copper, cinnamon, auburn, amber, red, roan & rufous (V, chapter 27) Jamie's eyelashes are a deep auburn, nearly black at the tips but a pale blond near the roots and he has a very hairy chest. Jamie suffers from debilitating seasickness when on a boat (DIA, chapter 38) Jamie is incapable of closing one eye in a wink, and instead blinks owlishly when trying to wink (V, chapter 27)
Jamie's father Brian played a large part in shaping his character. When Jamie transgressed when young Brian would punish him with a beating. This took place on the gatepost outside so that the tenants of Lallybroch would know that the boy who would one day be laird understood justice (DIA, chapter 31)
Significant Moments:
1726: Jamie's elder brother William gives him the cherrywood snake for his 5th birthday
1727: Jamie's elder brother Wiliam dies from smallpox
1729: Jamie's mother Ellen dies in childbirth along with her youngest son, Robert
1731: Jamie's father Brian teaches him to fight fast and clean (Outlander, chapter 11)
1731-1734: Jamie is taught to fight with a sword by Ian's father John Murray. John convinces Brian Fraser to allow Jamie to use his left hand for his sword and John tells his son Ian that during a sword fight, his job is to stand to Jamie's right and guard his chief's weak side (DIA, chapter 33)
1735: Jamie spends two years fostering with Dougal so he could become familiar with his mother's clan (Outlander, chapter 22) Jamie has his first kiss from Dougal's daughter Tibby (Outlander, chapter 28)
1737: Jamie spends a year at Castle Leoch to learn manners & Latin and other useful things (Outlander, chapters 8, 22) Jamie goes on his first raid with Dougal (V, chapter 32) Colum teaches Jamie how to play chess (DIA, chapter 9) Jamie leaves suddenly to go back to Lallybroch after being preyed on by the Duke of Sandringham who wanted to bed him (Outlander, chapter 24)
1738-1739:
Jamie spends a year in France at university (Outlander, chapter 16) Brian Fraser books Jamie passage to France on a ship that sails from the harbour at Beauly, close to Lord Lovat's lands. Lord Lovat has not spoken to his son Brian since Brian married Ellen, and he has never seen any of Brian's children. Just as Jamie is about to board the ship, Lord Lovat arrives. Not a word is spoken between them, but Lord Lovat watches Jamie as he boards the ship and when Jamie returns his stare, he finds Lovat's eyes to be as cold as stone (DIA, chapter 40)
Jamie lives with his cousin Jared for a time in Paris (DIA, chapter 6) Jamie fights a duel with Charles Gauloise over Annalise de Marillac. Jamie wounds Charles but Annalise rushes to Charles's side. Jamie goes back to Scotland to mope (DIA, chapter 11)
1740:
Jamie is arrested at Lallybroch while trying to defend Jenny, taken to Fort William and brutally flogged by Jack Randall. Randall offers to cancel the second flogging if Jamie will give himself to him. Jamie refuses (Outlander, chapter 22)
Jamie's father Brian dies a few days after watching Jamie receive his second flogging. (Outlander, chapter 4). When Jamie recovers from his second flogging he is extracted from Fort William by some friends and during his escape the soldier who gave him the first flogging is killed by Jack Randall. Although it wasn't Jamie who killed him, he is blamed and a price of ten pounds sterling put on his head as a murderer, forcing him to live as an outlaw and unable to return home to Lallybroch (Outlander, chapter 7).
Directly after his escape from Fort William Jamie is taken to Dougal's house to recover and Dougal tells him that Jenny is pregnant to Jack Randall and living with another English soldier (Outlander, chapter 16)
Once recovered Jamie goes to France where he spends two years fighting with the French army (Outlander, chapter 15) In October Murtagh takes Jamie to join the group of mercenaries that Ian Murray is serving with in France. Murtagh tells Jamie to stay with Ian and not to come back to Scotland. Jamie's wounds on his back are still raw and he blames himself for his father's death (Virgins)
The mercenaries' first job is to deliver a wagon of rugs to a Jewish moneylender in Bordeaux. They are ambushed en route but manage to fight off the attackers. Some of the attackers get away with one of the rugs, one is killed and another is tortured for information. He reveals that he was part of a Jewish group of bandits who rob other Jews (Virgins)
Ian tells Jamie that he will help him kill Jack Randall, but Jamie says he wants Ian to do something else for him. He wants him to go home and look after Jenny and Lallybroch. But Ian tells Jamie that Jenny has enough tenants to look after her and Jamie needs him here (Virgins)
After delivering the rugs, the mercenary captain takes Jamie and Ian to meet their next client, a Jewish physician named Dr Hasdi. Dr Hasdi wants Jamie and Ian to safeguard and protect his granddaughter Rebekah as she travels to Paris with a very old and precious Torah scroll and a large sum of money that make up her dowry. Rebekah is to marry the son of the chief rabbi of the Paris synagogue. Once the negotiations are completed, Dr Hasdi takes Jamie into a small room and treats the wounds on his back (Virgins)
Jamie and Ian go to a tavern with attached brothel afterwards and Jamie is attracted to one of the young prostitutes. They witness one of the mercenaries, Mathieu, take a prostitute by force in the tavern yard in front of many people, and are both left feeling disturbed and aroused by what they've seen, and guilty for not intervening (Virgins)
Two days later they set out for Paris. Jamie and Ian are on horseback accompanying the coach carrying Rebekah and Monsieur Peretz who is custodian of the Torah scroll. On the second day of the journey the coach is attacked by bandits. As Jamie and Ian try to fight them off the coach overturns and Monsieur Peretz is killed. The two attackers escape and no sign of the coach driver can be found (Virgins)
Jamie and Ian take Rebekah and her maidservant on horseback and decide to ride to Saint-Aubaye to seek help in righting the coach and dealing with Monsieur Peretz's body. Jamie feels unwell at Saint-Aubaye and is given some medicine by Rebekah which makes him hallucinate. While Jamie is in this non-lucid state, things get hot and steamy between Ian and Rebekah. The next morning Jamie and Ian discover that Rebekah and her maid have absconded with the Torah scroll. On questioning the ostler they learn the women left three hours past moonrise headed toward Bonnes (Virgins)
Jamie and Ian split to follow the trail of the women when they get to a crossroads. Ian is met by Josef from their mercenary company who tells him that the rest of the mercenary party was attacked again by the same band of Jewish bandits they'd already encountered. The mercenaries managed to fight them off and protect Rebekah's dowry money they were guarding but four of them were badly wounded. Ian doesn't tell Josef that he and Jamie have lost Rebekah and the Torah scroll (Virgins)
Jamie and Ian track Rebekah to a small manor house owned by the Vicomte Beaumont. When they knock on the door it is opened by one of the bandits who attacked the coach. He turns out to be the Vicomte, Pierre d'Anton. Jamie and Ian are ushered in at knifepoint and Ian sees that the rug which was stolen from their wagon is on the floor (Virgins)
Pierre tells them that he and Rebekah have been betrothed for four years. Pierre explains to them that Rebekah's mother married a Christian and was declared dead by her father. When Rebekah was 14 she fell in love with 16 year old Pierre d'Anton and they were betrothed. But Rebecca's father died and she went to live with her grandfather, Dr Hasdi, and embraced her Jewish heritage. Pierre vowed that he would covert to Judaism so he could still marry Rebekah, but her grandfather did not believe that Pierre would be prepared to give up his title and property which would happen if he became a Jew. He feared that Pierre would revert to being Christian and Rebekah with him once they were married (Virgins)
Pierre says that he and Rebekah arranged for Pierre to abduct her on the journey to Paris and that Rebekah had told him that the rug was part of her dowry and she had had some men deliver it. Pierre locks Jamie and Ian in the wine cellar where they help themselves to the wine and figure out that Rebekah is the person providing information to the Jewish bandits about which wagons they should attack, and that the rug is her share of the profits. They decide that Pierre is ignorant of this (Virgins)
That night Rebekah and Pierre are married in his garden in accordance with proper Jewish custom and the Law. They get Jamie and Ian to witness the wedding so they can tell Dr Hasdi. When the marriage ceremony is over Jamie asks Ian to detain Pierre while he talks with Rebekah. Jamie tells Rebekah that if she doesn't give him the Torah scroll to return to her grandfather, he will tell Pierre about her involvement with the gang of bandits. Rebekah reluctantly hands over the scroll and Jamie and Ian take it back to Dr Hasdi (Virgins)
After leaving his house they go back to the tavern which they had previously visited and Jamie seeks out the brown-haired girl he was attracted to. He sees Mathieu with her and is overcome with rage. He shouts at Mathieu to let go of the girl, but Mathieu ignores him. Jamie takes out a pistol and fires at Mathieu and all hell breaks loose. Mathieu turns on Jamie, and Ian when he goes to Jamie's aid, and Jamie is overtaken with great rage and throttles Mathieu. As his rage dissipates he turns to the girl only to find that she is dead with a bullet hole in her breast, most likely from the gun that he fired (Virgins)
Ian takes Jamie to the cathedral of St Andre to confess his sins, but Jamie refuses so Ian takes him into a side chapel and together they pray for the girl, for Jamie's father and for all their loved ones left behind in Scotland. They leave the cathedral and face the future together (Virgins)
Jamie confesses his sins to his uncle Alex the Abbot and swears he will never kill again. He asks Alex if he can become a novice at the Abbey, but Alex says no (Exile, chapter 1)
1741:
Jamie is initially in France fighting with the French army (Outlander, chapter 15) Later he returns to Scotland and spends some time living rough and raiding as an outlaw with a group of lads (Outlander, chapter 6)
1743:
Jamie is hit over the back of the head in a surprise attack from behind and knocked unconscious. He wakes up to find himself in the Abbey of St. Anne de Beaupre in France. (Outlander, chapter 7)
When Jamie recovers from his wounds he travels back home and is met by Murtagh (Exile, chapter 1) Thinking that Jenny has borne Jack Randall's child and is living with another English soldier Jamie feels he cannot return home and face her (Outlander, chapter 16)
Jamie tells Murtagh about killing the young woman in France and how he has sworn never to kill, but he also reveals that he doesn't mean to let anyone kill him. Jamie finds his father Brian's dirk in Murtagh's saddlebag and keeps it. The next day Jamie and Murtagh are met by Dougal MacKenzie who says he has come to protect Jamie from Jack Randall who is hunting him. Both Jamie and Murtagh are suspicious of Dougal and fear he might try to hurt Jamie. They make plans to run from Dougal once they reach open ground (Exile, chapter 1)
But the party are but are surprised by British soldiers en route and as they try to escape Jamie is shot at and his horse throws him. He lands on his shoulder and dislocates it. Dougal and his men take Jamie to a small cottage and ask the woman who lives there to shelter them until it is dark (Exile, chapter 2)
Jamie meets Claire for the first time when she resets his dislocated shoulder (Outlander, chapter 3)
For more of Jamie's timeline click on the links below:
Jamie's Outlander timeline
Jamie's Dragonfly in Amber timeline
Jamie's Voyager timeline
Full name: James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser
Also known as: Sawny, Jamie McTavish, Lallybroch, Broch Tuarach, Red Jamie, Dunbonnet, Seumas Mac Dubh, Alex MacKenzie, Alexander Malcolm, Sawney Malcolm, Q.E.D.
Born: 1st May 1721 (the Year of the Ox)
Parents: Brian Fraser & Ellen MacKenzie
Siblings: William & Jenny
Wives: Claire Beauchamp, Laoghaire MacKenzie
Biological Children: Faith & Brianna Fraser, and William Ransom
Foster child: Fergus Fraser
Step children: Marsali & Joan McKimmie
Occupation: many, including Laird of Broch Tuarach, mercenary, outlaw, groom, smuggler, printer, soldier, traitor, farmer
Physical Characteristics: Taller than most people, with red hair and blue slanted cat eyes. Left-handed with large, blunt-fingered hairy hands (Outlander, chapter 15) Powerful and fair with the body of a warrior and the grace of a natural athlete (Outlander, chapter 16) Claire estimates Jamie weighs around 15 stone or 95kg (DIA, chapter 6) Jenny describes Jamie's hair as being the colour of a red deer's pelt (Outlander, chapter 30) Claire describes it as having all the colours of red and gold mixed together in tones of copper, cinnamon, auburn, amber, red, roan & rufous (V, chapter 27) Jamie's eyelashes are a deep auburn, nearly black at the tips but a pale blond near the roots and he has a very hairy chest. Jamie suffers from debilitating seasickness when on a boat (DIA, chapter 38) Jamie is incapable of closing one eye in a wink, and instead blinks owlishly when trying to wink (V, chapter 27)
Jamie's father Brian played a large part in shaping his character. When Jamie transgressed when young Brian would punish him with a beating. This took place on the gatepost outside so that the tenants of Lallybroch would know that the boy who would one day be laird understood justice (DIA, chapter 31)
Significant Moments:
1726: Jamie's elder brother William gives him the cherrywood snake for his 5th birthday
1727: Jamie's elder brother Wiliam dies from smallpox
1729: Jamie's mother Ellen dies in childbirth along with her youngest son, Robert
1731: Jamie's father Brian teaches him to fight fast and clean (Outlander, chapter 11)
1731-1734: Jamie is taught to fight with a sword by Ian's father John Murray. John convinces Brian Fraser to allow Jamie to use his left hand for his sword and John tells his son Ian that during a sword fight, his job is to stand to Jamie's right and guard his chief's weak side (DIA, chapter 33)
1735: Jamie spends two years fostering with Dougal so he could become familiar with his mother's clan (Outlander, chapter 22) Jamie has his first kiss from Dougal's daughter Tibby (Outlander, chapter 28)
1737: Jamie spends a year at Castle Leoch to learn manners & Latin and other useful things (Outlander, chapters 8, 22) Jamie goes on his first raid with Dougal (V, chapter 32) Colum teaches Jamie how to play chess (DIA, chapter 9) Jamie leaves suddenly to go back to Lallybroch after being preyed on by the Duke of Sandringham who wanted to bed him (Outlander, chapter 24)
1738-1739:
Jamie spends a year in France at university (Outlander, chapter 16) Brian Fraser books Jamie passage to France on a ship that sails from the harbour at Beauly, close to Lord Lovat's lands. Lord Lovat has not spoken to his son Brian since Brian married Ellen, and he has never seen any of Brian's children. Just as Jamie is about to board the ship, Lord Lovat arrives. Not a word is spoken between them, but Lord Lovat watches Jamie as he boards the ship and when Jamie returns his stare, he finds Lovat's eyes to be as cold as stone (DIA, chapter 40)
Jamie lives with his cousin Jared for a time in Paris (DIA, chapter 6) Jamie fights a duel with Charles Gauloise over Annalise de Marillac. Jamie wounds Charles but Annalise rushes to Charles's side. Jamie goes back to Scotland to mope (DIA, chapter 11)
1740:
Jamie is arrested at Lallybroch while trying to defend Jenny, taken to Fort William and brutally flogged by Jack Randall. Randall offers to cancel the second flogging if Jamie will give himself to him. Jamie refuses (Outlander, chapter 22)
Jamie's father Brian dies a few days after watching Jamie receive his second flogging. (Outlander, chapter 4). When Jamie recovers from his second flogging he is extracted from Fort William by some friends and during his escape the soldier who gave him the first flogging is killed by Jack Randall. Although it wasn't Jamie who killed him, he is blamed and a price of ten pounds sterling put on his head as a murderer, forcing him to live as an outlaw and unable to return home to Lallybroch (Outlander, chapter 7).
Directly after his escape from Fort William Jamie is taken to Dougal's house to recover and Dougal tells him that Jenny is pregnant to Jack Randall and living with another English soldier (Outlander, chapter 16)
Once recovered Jamie goes to France where he spends two years fighting with the French army (Outlander, chapter 15) In October Murtagh takes Jamie to join the group of mercenaries that Ian Murray is serving with in France. Murtagh tells Jamie to stay with Ian and not to come back to Scotland. Jamie's wounds on his back are still raw and he blames himself for his father's death (Virgins)
The mercenaries' first job is to deliver a wagon of rugs to a Jewish moneylender in Bordeaux. They are ambushed en route but manage to fight off the attackers. Some of the attackers get away with one of the rugs, one is killed and another is tortured for information. He reveals that he was part of a Jewish group of bandits who rob other Jews (Virgins)
Ian tells Jamie that he will help him kill Jack Randall, but Jamie says he wants Ian to do something else for him. He wants him to go home and look after Jenny and Lallybroch. But Ian tells Jamie that Jenny has enough tenants to look after her and Jamie needs him here (Virgins)
After delivering the rugs, the mercenary captain takes Jamie and Ian to meet their next client, a Jewish physician named Dr Hasdi. Dr Hasdi wants Jamie and Ian to safeguard and protect his granddaughter Rebekah as she travels to Paris with a very old and precious Torah scroll and a large sum of money that make up her dowry. Rebekah is to marry the son of the chief rabbi of the Paris synagogue. Once the negotiations are completed, Dr Hasdi takes Jamie into a small room and treats the wounds on his back (Virgins)
Jamie and Ian go to a tavern with attached brothel afterwards and Jamie is attracted to one of the young prostitutes. They witness one of the mercenaries, Mathieu, take a prostitute by force in the tavern yard in front of many people, and are both left feeling disturbed and aroused by what they've seen, and guilty for not intervening (Virgins)
Two days later they set out for Paris. Jamie and Ian are on horseback accompanying the coach carrying Rebekah and Monsieur Peretz who is custodian of the Torah scroll. On the second day of the journey the coach is attacked by bandits. As Jamie and Ian try to fight them off the coach overturns and Monsieur Peretz is killed. The two attackers escape and no sign of the coach driver can be found (Virgins)
Jamie and Ian take Rebekah and her maidservant on horseback and decide to ride to Saint-Aubaye to seek help in righting the coach and dealing with Monsieur Peretz's body. Jamie feels unwell at Saint-Aubaye and is given some medicine by Rebekah which makes him hallucinate. While Jamie is in this non-lucid state, things get hot and steamy between Ian and Rebekah. The next morning Jamie and Ian discover that Rebekah and her maid have absconded with the Torah scroll. On questioning the ostler they learn the women left three hours past moonrise headed toward Bonnes (Virgins)
Jamie and Ian split to follow the trail of the women when they get to a crossroads. Ian is met by Josef from their mercenary company who tells him that the rest of the mercenary party was attacked again by the same band of Jewish bandits they'd already encountered. The mercenaries managed to fight them off and protect Rebekah's dowry money they were guarding but four of them were badly wounded. Ian doesn't tell Josef that he and Jamie have lost Rebekah and the Torah scroll (Virgins)
Jamie and Ian track Rebekah to a small manor house owned by the Vicomte Beaumont. When they knock on the door it is opened by one of the bandits who attacked the coach. He turns out to be the Vicomte, Pierre d'Anton. Jamie and Ian are ushered in at knifepoint and Ian sees that the rug which was stolen from their wagon is on the floor (Virgins)
Pierre tells them that he and Rebekah have been betrothed for four years. Pierre explains to them that Rebekah's mother married a Christian and was declared dead by her father. When Rebekah was 14 she fell in love with 16 year old Pierre d'Anton and they were betrothed. But Rebecca's father died and she went to live with her grandfather, Dr Hasdi, and embraced her Jewish heritage. Pierre vowed that he would covert to Judaism so he could still marry Rebekah, but her grandfather did not believe that Pierre would be prepared to give up his title and property which would happen if he became a Jew. He feared that Pierre would revert to being Christian and Rebekah with him once they were married (Virgins)
Pierre says that he and Rebekah arranged for Pierre to abduct her on the journey to Paris and that Rebekah had told him that the rug was part of her dowry and she had had some men deliver it. Pierre locks Jamie and Ian in the wine cellar where they help themselves to the wine and figure out that Rebekah is the person providing information to the Jewish bandits about which wagons they should attack, and that the rug is her share of the profits. They decide that Pierre is ignorant of this (Virgins)
That night Rebekah and Pierre are married in his garden in accordance with proper Jewish custom and the Law. They get Jamie and Ian to witness the wedding so they can tell Dr Hasdi. When the marriage ceremony is over Jamie asks Ian to detain Pierre while he talks with Rebekah. Jamie tells Rebekah that if she doesn't give him the Torah scroll to return to her grandfather, he will tell Pierre about her involvement with the gang of bandits. Rebekah reluctantly hands over the scroll and Jamie and Ian take it back to Dr Hasdi (Virgins)
After leaving his house they go back to the tavern which they had previously visited and Jamie seeks out the brown-haired girl he was attracted to. He sees Mathieu with her and is overcome with rage. He shouts at Mathieu to let go of the girl, but Mathieu ignores him. Jamie takes out a pistol and fires at Mathieu and all hell breaks loose. Mathieu turns on Jamie, and Ian when he goes to Jamie's aid, and Jamie is overtaken with great rage and throttles Mathieu. As his rage dissipates he turns to the girl only to find that she is dead with a bullet hole in her breast, most likely from the gun that he fired (Virgins)
Ian takes Jamie to the cathedral of St Andre to confess his sins, but Jamie refuses so Ian takes him into a side chapel and together they pray for the girl, for Jamie's father and for all their loved ones left behind in Scotland. They leave the cathedral and face the future together (Virgins)
Jamie confesses his sins to his uncle Alex the Abbot and swears he will never kill again. He asks Alex if he can become a novice at the Abbey, but Alex says no (Exile, chapter 1)
1741:
Jamie is initially in France fighting with the French army (Outlander, chapter 15) Later he returns to Scotland and spends some time living rough and raiding as an outlaw with a group of lads (Outlander, chapter 6)
1743:
Jamie is hit over the back of the head in a surprise attack from behind and knocked unconscious. He wakes up to find himself in the Abbey of St. Anne de Beaupre in France. (Outlander, chapter 7)
When Jamie recovers from his wounds he travels back home and is met by Murtagh (Exile, chapter 1) Thinking that Jenny has borne Jack Randall's child and is living with another English soldier Jamie feels he cannot return home and face her (Outlander, chapter 16)
Jamie tells Murtagh about killing the young woman in France and how he has sworn never to kill, but he also reveals that he doesn't mean to let anyone kill him. Jamie finds his father Brian's dirk in Murtagh's saddlebag and keeps it. The next day Jamie and Murtagh are met by Dougal MacKenzie who says he has come to protect Jamie from Jack Randall who is hunting him. Both Jamie and Murtagh are suspicious of Dougal and fear he might try to hurt Jamie. They make plans to run from Dougal once they reach open ground (Exile, chapter 1)
But the party are but are surprised by British soldiers en route and as they try to escape Jamie is shot at and his horse throws him. He lands on his shoulder and dislocates it. Dougal and his men take Jamie to a small cottage and ask the woman who lives there to shelter them until it is dark (Exile, chapter 2)
Jamie meets Claire for the first time when she resets his dislocated shoulder (Outlander, chapter 3)
For more of Jamie's timeline click on the links below:
Jamie's Outlander timeline
Jamie's Dragonfly in Amber timeline
Jamie's Voyager timeline