When Jonas Elisha Freer was born on 9 May 1789, in Marlboro, Ulster, New York, United States, his father, Elias Elisha Freer, was 49 and his mother, Martha Everett, was 39. He married Sarah Cooley on 15 February 1810, in Ontario, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 5 August 1854, in Lima Township, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Lima Center Cemetery, Lima Center, Lima Township, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States.
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English: sometimes from Middle English frere, frier ‘brother, friend, comrade’ (Old French frere). During the 13th century, however, the word increasingly denoted ‘member of one of the mendicant religious orders’, the usual modern sense of the word friar. The first friars arrived in England in 1224. As with Abbot , Monk , Nunn , and Prior , late medieval use of Frere as a nickname was probably uncomplimentary, for by the mid 14th century the once popular friars had become a byword in satirical literature for self-indulgent, smooth-talking hypocrisy. Friars were not allowed to marry, but some of them probably fathered children. After the Reformation former friars were free to marry, and one such is said to have been the progenitor of the Friers of Melrose parish, Roxburgh, an instance, if true, of post-medieval surname creation. The name may also be occupational, for someone who lived or worked at a friary (Middle English frere ‘house of friars’).
Americanized form of French Frère (see Frere ).
German: cognate of Friedrich .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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