Catherine (Fraser) Freeman (abt. 1783 - abt. 1812)

Born about 1783 in Shelburne, Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Freeman — married 26 Mar 1801 in Liverpool, Queens County, N.S.

Descendants

Died about 6 Jun 1812 at about age 29 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Catharine Fraser was born circa 1783 in Shelburne Nova Scotia, the daughter of Hugh (born in 1740 Scotland) and Mary Fraser.^[1][2] Her marriage record states her parents as "Hugh Fraser & Mary his wife late of Shelburn".^[3]

On March 26 1801, she married Robert Freeman, son of William Freeman and Mary Elizabeth Cobb Freeman, in Liverpool, Queens co., Nova Scotia.^[3] They had children, including:^{[4] [5]}

1. Mary, born March 18, 1802, in Liverpool;^[3] who married James McClearn of Liverpool
2. Eliza Thomas, born September 15, 1805
3. Robert Watson, Aug. 6, 1806; who "went to sea, and never heard from."
4. Catharine, May 1, 1809; who married Stewart Freeman of Liverpool.
5. William Twining, born March 10, 1813; who married Letitia Freeman, daughter of Simon and Hepisbeth Morton Freeman on November 26, 1840

Catharine Fraser Freeman died 6 June 1811 in Liverpool, and is said to be buried in the Methodist Burying Ground, in Liverpool NS (according to the secondary sources listed here)

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.laurenandtristan.net/datafiles/p992.htm#i30263
2. ↑ http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/fraser/1627/
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Liverpool Township, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Township Records, p. 242.
   Digital images of microfilm. FamilySearch, DGS film 007561003, item 4 "Liverpool Township MG-4 vol 180".
4. ↑ Freeman genealogy in three parts; Part 2; Franklin Press: Rand, Avery and Company. Boston, 1875; pg 185, 276
5. ↑ http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/h/a/Julie-A-Whalen/GENE2-0016.html#CHILD99

• "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/185543221/person/292441526596/facts : accessed 7 December 2023), profile for Catherine Fraser.