Freer Family History
- Freer Name Meaning
- English: from Old French and Middle English frere ‘friar’ (Latin frater, literally ‘brother’). This was a status name for a member a religious order, especially a mendicant order, and may also have been a nickname for a pious person or for someone employed at a monastery. Americanized spelling of French Frère (see Frere). North German and Dutch: cognate of Friedrich.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 492,403 Historical Documents with Freer on Ancestry
- 78,125 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 61,745 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,855 Military Records
- 59,250 Immigration Records
- 285,428 Member Trees
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Number of Freer families
 254 - 506  85 - 253 |
 1 - 84  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Freer families
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28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Freer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Freer census records
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