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The frei Surname

frei Name Meaning and History

German: status name for a free man in the feudal system, a variant of Frey.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The frei name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the frei family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of frei Families in the US in 1920
Number of frei families
 9-15
 4-8		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 39 - Messages: 85
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Johann Jakob Frei 1852 Baltimore/MD Verena Steiner 3
Freis from Germany Pat 6
Frei Family from Switzerland bernie5437 0
John Frei, Germany > Ca, Died 12/31/1865, San Francisco sandrabordelon 0
Obit: Rose (Frei) Melville-Ness b.1918 Leader, SK kttrucking1 0
Friedrich Frei jamesfry76 2
OBIT-Clayton H. FREI Janetlrk 0
Frei, Charles Emil christinesue515 0
Searching for information on Freis family history michellef426 0
Frei AliceJBlue 2
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