Freeman Name Study

Profile managers: One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message], Lynn Hemrick [send private message], and Dave Freeman [send private message]

This profile is part of the Freeman Name Study.

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.

One purpose of the Freeman Name Study is to trace the origin of the Freeman name, emigrants to, and early settlers in America. Another purpose is to have one place where people can easily view Freemans who belong to the same Freeman line or help connect Freeman lines that do not seem connected.

Feel free to add your Freeman family line or anything you feel will enhance people's knowledge of the Freeman name, including any sources on Freeman Genealogy.

If you have any questions, comments or ideas, feel free to leave a message or contact the profile manger of the Freeman Name Study, Lynn Hemrick.

How to Join

1. To join this Name Study project, reply to the G2G thread requesting interested genealogists sign up;
2. Add your name to the list of participants below, along with a brief introduction, a note about how you plan to contribute to the project. If you will be assisting in other states, or wish to provide notice that you will be inactive due to a vacation or other commitment, please note those here as well;
3. Add One Name Studies to your list of followed tags;
4. Add the template {{One_Name_Study|name=Freeman}} to the profile(s) you want to share.

Participants

Listing of Current Participants

Lynn Hemrick Freeman is my mother's maiden name and is one of my most frustrating brick walls. I'm hoping that through collaboration with other Freeman seekers, this wall can be shattered.

John Morgan Annie Freeman, my gg-grandmother's ancestors have been behind a brick wall for 37 years now. Would really like to see this wall come down, but so far haven't even had any clues.

Carolyn Martin Freeman is my paternal grandmother's line through her father, Milton Freeman. I have only gotten back to her great grandfather, Johnson Freeman, born in Georgia in 1796. Also have some dead ends on Milton's 2 wives. (see below under brick walls)

Meghan Freeman Freeman is my maiden name. I can only get back to my 2x great grandfather George Freeman before I hit my brick wall. Being a Freeman I'd like to help where I can and connect with other Freemans, although my knowledge of my Freeman heritage is solely in England and Canada at this point.

Keith Douglas Cook - Abigail (Freeman) Rich whom I'm 10 degree's from and lived in Massachusetts. I don't have much info on her but hopefully I can find some and possibly help out anybody else while expanding her profile.

Jo McCaleb - Descendant of Stephen Hopkins through Mary Snow, Elisa Freeman, Jr. his son, Henry Freeman and his children. From Massachusetts, this family line moved to Canada, returned to New York and then moved into Ohio and Wisconsin.

Task List

• Adopt Orphaned Profiles from the Freeman index
• Help complete sources for unsourced profiles
• Connect unconnected Freeman profiles.

Resources

• Linkpendium

• Cyndies List

• Lafferty, Juliette Freeman. History of the Freeman Family: Including Six Generations. Passaic, N.J.: A.L. Freeman Printing. 1914. Freeman History

• Freeman, Frederick-1799-1883. Freeman Genealogy in Three Parts. Boston: Franklin Press,

Rand, Avery and Co. 1875. Freeman History 3 parts

• Freeman Genealogy site

• Forbears website

• National Archives of Ireland

• Freeman Sources

• List of Freeman on Wikitree

• G2G feed of questions tagged "Freeman".

• Orphaned Freeman profiles on WikiTree.

• Unsourced Freeman profiles on WikiTree.

• Unconnected Freeman profiles on WikiTree.

• You are encouraged to share resource information.

Origins and Meaning of the Freeman Name

The surname Freeman origins are found in England and Ireland. In the English Middle Ages, there were two types of peasants: Serfs and freemen. Serfs could only leave the land with the permission of their lord, but freemen were free to come and go as they pleased. A serf could become a freeman if he escaped for a year and a day without being caught. [The Middle Ages] Freeman is a term which originated in 12th-century Europe and was common as an American Colonial expression in Puritan times. ... Being a freeman carried with it the right to vote, and only freemen could vote in Plymouth by 1632. [[1]]

In Ireland, the name Freeman is derived from the native Gaelic Mac an tSaoir Sept, taken from the word 'saor' meaning 'craftsman'.

Freeman Brick Walls

• Freeman Walls
• Robert S. Freeman was born in 1828 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. I can find no information about his parents or siblings. Any assistance appreciated.
• Compact Trees
• Johnson Freeman born in Georgia about 1796. He Married Ester Traywick in Clarke County, Georgia, 17 June 1819. I would like to determine with proof who his parents were, his date of birth, and date of death. Update: Narrowed down his death date to before June 23, 1882 based on newspaper legal article regarding his estate!
• Milton Freeman had two wives. I want to know where in Texas his first wife died, were they were living in Texas, and when he left. Brick wall solved!!! Found a death notice her mother put in her hometown paper in Georgia stating she died in Strawn, Palo Pinto, Texas!!! His second wife is still a bit of a mystery. Would like proof of her name as records vary, when and where they met, anything about her really.
• George E Freeman was born about 1843 in London England. I have the name of his wife but have a brick wall for both. Would love some help getting beyond this point.

Notable Freemans

• Edmund Freeman Jr migrated to New England from Sussex England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640). He was one of nine founders of the town, Sandwich, Massachusets in 1637 and he served as the assistant to Governor Bradford from 1640 to 1647.