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| Lanarkshire, Scotland |
As I have been working on this Surname Saturday post, I have been finding out much more about this branch of my family, which I will share in upcoming blog posts.
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| Lanark Township, Ontario |
I found the reference for this book in an index (U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s) on Ancestry.com, and then looked at a copy of of the book at the NEHGS Library, where I scanned the above page. Ancestry.com has another index: Canadian Immigrant Records, Part Two which provides additional information about David Freeland's family: that his wife was age 28 and that the family included: "male child age 7; female children ages 8.5, 3, 9, 11."
Update as of October, 2016: David and his family, had moved south to the United States during the 1820s, living in New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, by the time of the 1830 U.S. Census.
In the 1850 U.S. Census, I find David Freeland, occupation Weaver, in the household of his son, James, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
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| U.S. Federal Census. Year: 1850; Census Place: Allegheny Ward 2, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_744; Page: 76B; Lines 7-10: Record for James Freeland family |
In the 1860 U.S. Census, I find David Freeland in the Buffalo, New York, household of his daughter, Mary Wolf, her husband, Frederick Wolf (a Lake Captain), and their two children, Oswald and Charlotte.
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| U.S. Federal Census. Year: 1860; Census Place: Buffalo Ward 5, Erie, New York; Roll: M653_746; Page: 810 (140); Lines 30-34: Record for Frederick Wolf family including David Freeland |
I couldn't find a David Freeland in the 1840 U.S. Census that seemed to fit my David Freeland. (The 1840 census is not an every-name census, and doesn't include as much detailed information as later census records.) However, I did find an entry for "Freder. Wolf" in Buffalo, New York, which included two males of the appropriate ages to be Frederick and his father-in-law, David, and one female of the appropriate age to be Frederick's wife, Mary (Freeland) Wolf. If this is the same Frederick Wolf, it appears that David Freeland's wife died by 1840.
I do not know when David Freeland died, but possibly sometime between 1860 and 1870. UPDATE: He died in 1862 in Buffalo, New York.
The names of his children that I do know include James, Barbara, Mary and Anna. I descend from his son James.
Generation 2:
James Freeland was born in Scotland sometime between 1815 and 1821. He married Nancy Rainey, whom I have written about, as she is one of my long-lived female ancestors. I have also written about James previously, as he was a plumber in the 1850 and 1860 census.
There are two men with the name of James Freeland who served in Union forces from Pennsylvania in the Civil War and it is possible that one of them is "my" James, but again, I need to do more research on that. He died about 1863, based on the family's listing in Pittsburgh City Directories in the 1860s.
They had at least five children, born between 1850 and 1858. Mary (b. 1850), William (b. 1854), Claudine (b. 1855), Edward, Emma (twins, b. 1858). In the post about Nancy Rainey Freeland, I shared several census records and city directory images showing.
I descend from their daughter Mary who I believe is the oldest.
Generation 3:
Mary Freeland was born in February 1850, in Pennsylvania, presumably Allegheny. She married James Hunter on April 13, 1871. See their portraits here.
They had ten children, who are listed here with their birth dates. I am descended from the second oldest, Percy. Mary (Freeland) Hunter died on March 14, 1902. She, her husband James, and at least eight of their children are buried in Pittsburgh's Union Dale Cemetery. (See Mary's Find A Grave Memorial.)
Generation 4: Percy Earle Hunter married Marguerite Lysle.
Generation 5: Helen Lysle Hunter married Lowell Townsend Copeland
Generation 6: my mother
Generation 7: Me
My name is Alexander Freeland Thomson Findlay, named after my paternal grandfather, alexander, a WW1 disabled vet. Thomson was my mothers maiden name. Her father was John and mother was Ethel (Barnsley). my maternal grandmother was Jessie Morrison and she was one of six or seven sisters, some in Glasgow and some in Stranraer on the seacoast next to Ireland. I do not know where the Freeland comes from as my parents are deceased, but I was told that there are very few Freelands. Hope this helps. My father said I should be proud to be one
ReplyDeleteI also remember my mother telling me that there were not many Freelands. It would be interesting if you could determine where Freeland is in your ancestry and see if it goes back to Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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This is very interesting. My immigrant (3rd great-greatgrandfather), John McPherson (1793-1850) also went to Lanark County and then to New Hartford, Oneida Co., New York. He came from Scotland in 1821 on the "Earl of Buckinghamshire," but his movements, at least for those few years, mirrored your ancestor's. Your guy went to PA, mine went back to family in Lanark, UC. It makes me wonder if my guy was also associated with the textile industry in some way. Thank you for the post. Sharleen Thomas Espedal
ReplyDeleteThese immigrants often migrated in groups or followed each other (chain migration). It's very possible that they knew each other or at least knew people in common.
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