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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Freer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Freer families
 141 - 279  48 - 140 |
 1 - 47  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Freer families
|
254 - 506 85 - 253 |
1 - 84 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Freer families
|
28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Freer Family Origin
Freer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Freer
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Freer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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