Thomas was born in 1846 at Biddenden, Kent, and was christened there on 29th November, son of James Freeman and his wife Harriet (Brook). Like his father, he was a bricklayer. He married Susan Witherden at Biddenden in 1868. They lived there all their married lives and had eight daughters and three sons. Susan died in 1909, after which Thomas apparently moved to the neighbouring parish of High Halden. His brother George was shown as living with Thomas from the 1881 census until Thomas died in 1915. (Note: the census of 1911 shows Thomas as living in High Halden, but he apparently died at Wagstaff. Wagstaff is actually in Biddenden, but close to the parish boundary. I suspect that Thomas and his brother were in a cottage on the High Halden side of the boundary. He was buried at Biddenden on 21st October 1915 aged 69 years.)
The first child of Thomas and Susan was Harriet Freeman Witherden (Aveline) 1868 - 1929. The other ten all had the surname Freeman, some of them proving elusive when trying to trace their records. The best information I can give at present is that they were: Elizabeth (Jazzard) 1870 - 1899+, Emily 1871 - 1881+, William Thomas 1873 - 1897+, Alfred 1875 - 1969, Fanny (Pinnock) 1876 - 1962, Rosa (Head) 1878 - 1906+, Hannah 1879 - ?, Caroline Daisy (Mansell) 1882 - 1962, Susannah 1884 - 1901+, John James 1887 - 1901+. (The sign '+' means "on or after this date".)
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