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William FREE

Male UNKNOWN - DECEASED    Has no ancestors but more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name William FREE 
    Relationshipwith Rodney VOJVODICH
    Birth UNKNOWN 
    Gender Male 
    Death DECEASED 
    Person ID I21996  MyBradyTree | Ancestor of Darryl William BRADY
    Last Modified 13 Oct 2024 

    Family Anne HOBOURN,   b. UNKNOWN   d. DECEASED 
    Marriage 13 Apr 1702  Royston, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Thomas FREE,   b. 1703, Royston, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Dec 1768, Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    â–» Mary FORDHAM  m. 17 Oct 1723
    Family ID F4161  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Oct 2024 

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  • Notes 
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      Free is the term used to identify a man that was free-born, as opposed to those born as serfs during the feudal system of the middle ages. It is derived from Old English freo = free. Freeman, Freebody are variations. Cognate forms include Frei, Freier, Freyer, Frey, Freimann, Freymann (German); Frig, Frigge, Frige, Frie, Friehe, Freye, Friemann (Low German); Frey, Frei, Freyman, Freiman (Swedish).

      French is the English ethnic name for the man who came from France, from the The name Fry is an English nickname derived from the name Free, which described the man who was not a serf, but a free-man. It occasionally was derived as a nickname for a small person, from the Middle English word fry = child, offspring. Frye is a variation of the name.

      "Orwell is a parish adjacent to a Roman road, 3 miles north-west from Shepreth station on the Hitchin, Royston and Cambridge line of the London and North Eastern railway, 8 south-west from Cambridge and about 7 north from Royston, in the hundred of Wetherley, petty sessional division of Arrington and Melbourn, union of Caxton and Arrington, county court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Barton and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."

      The soil is clayey and chalky, and the subsoil clay, gault and limestone. The crops are wheat, barley beans and fruit. The acreage is 2,083 ; the population in 1921 was 469.
      [Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]

  • Reference  Darryl Brady. "William FREE". Brady Family Tree in Western Australia. https://www.bradyfamilytree.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I21996&tree=BRADY2008 (accessed October 15, 2024).