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The freeman Surname

freeman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Free.
  2. Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery).
  3. In New England, an English equivalent of French Foissy (see Foisy).
  4. Translation of German Freimann (see Freiman).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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freeman Family Facts

Distribution of freeman Families in the US in 1920
Number of freeman families
 759-1516
 254-758		 1-253
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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