When Sophia Cornelia Freeman was born in 1829, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, Rev Nathaniel Freeman, was 51 and her mother, Mary Baron Fox, was 44. She lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1850. She died in 1886, at the age of 57.
English: from Middle English freman, fremon ‘freeman, free-born man’ (Old English frēomann, frīgmann), used also occasionally as a personal name. As an African American surname it was in many cases adopted as a name denoting a man freed of slavery. See also Fryman and Free .
Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery ).
Americanized form of French Lafrenière (see Lafreniere ).
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