Freeman Family History
- Freeman Name Meaning
- English: variant of Free. Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery). In New England, an English equivalent of French Foissy (see Foisy). Translation of German Freimann (see Freiman).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,829,759 Historical Documents with Freeman on Ancestry
- 1,868,793 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,163,697 Census and Voter Lists
- 203,834 Military Records
- 128,048 Immigration Records
- 2,465,387 Member Trees
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Number of Freeman families
 1,916 - 3,829  639 - 1,915 |
 1 - 638  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Freeman families
|
129 - 255 44 - 128 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Freeman census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Freeman families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Freeman census records
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