Freedman Family History
Freedman Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): status name in the feudal system for a
serf who had been freed.Jewish (American): Americanized form of
Friedmann (see Fried).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Freedman
Name Distribution of Freedman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Freedman families
 394 - 785  132 - 393 |
 1 - 131  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Freedman families
|
172 - 341 58 - 171 |
1 - 57 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Freedman families
|
17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Freedman census records
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Freedman Family Origin
Freedman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Freedman
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Freedman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Freedman census records
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Freedman Civil War Service Records
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