Michael Grant's Family Tree: The Freeman Family

I don't know much about this branch of the family. Hillel Free(d)man, its patriarch, was a wholesale warehouseman; his wife Betty came from "Russia" (which could mean anywhere in the Pale of Settlement) to the UK (Burnley) at the age of twelve when her parents died. She was sent to live with an aunt but when she arrived, with nothing more than a label around her neck to identify her, she found the aunt had died.

The Blacks, Betty's family, lived in Sunderland. I don't know anything more about them.

Place names are birth places if no other places are given; all dates are in British format (DD/MM/YYYY). All living people have been removed from this tree before placing online; if you recognise anyone here as being related to you, please don't hesitate to , especially if you have material to contribute, in return for which I will happily share the full version, with photographs, PDF trees and other materials!

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Hillel, Harry FREE(D)MAN 1872/3?-1950???
Lithuania? -> South Shields -> Leeds
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D in surname on daughter Fay's birth certificate
13 Gower Street, Leeds on daughter Fay's birth certificate
16½ Mile End Road, South Shields in 1901 census
18 Leazes Park Road, Newcastle in 1911 census
Birth date from 1901 census; I can't be sure this is the right person. (Where
is Auntie Gertie if it is!?) The census gives his birthplace as Poland NK,
which doesn't entirely rule out present-day Lithuania.
http://www.anetz.co.uk/naturalisedfreedmans/listoffreedmans.htm gives: Henry
Freedman (Draper) of High Park Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; born 1873, son of
Morris & Flora of Russia; married, father to Hilda, Gertrude. HO/334/32,
HO/144/B34455, Date 17/04/1901, Certificate A11961. Unlikely to be ours, but
not impossible.
Tailor, later Wholesale warehouseman
= Betty, Betsy (Rebecca?) Black 1872/3-1961
`Russia' -> Burnley at age of 12 -> South Shields
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Birth date from 1901 census, which confirms her as being from "Russia NK".
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|- Fanny (Fay) FREE(D)MAN 12 August 1893-1972
|  Leeds -> South Shields
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|  First residence 13 Gower Street, Leeds
|  Called Frances in the 1901 census (16½ Mile End Road, South Shields), if it
|   is the same person.
|  28 Belgrave Tce, N/cle on wedding certificate
|  D in surname on birth certificate
|  = Marks (Max) TAYLOR c.1888-25 December 1965
|  Jaffa -> Blackpool -> San Francisco -> Newcastle
|  In Leazes shul, Newcastle 4 March 1914
|  נָחוּם
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|  38 Crimbles Street, Leeds on wedding certificate
|  President, Hebrew Jewish Board of Guardians 1960-4
|  Clothing retailer
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|  +---
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|- David FREE(D)MAN 1894/5-fl. 1911, d. < 24.9.1933
|  Leeds -> South Shields -> Newcastle
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|  1901 census.
|  1911 census. RG14PN30561 RG78PN1752 RD558 SD2 ED4 SN73
|  Machiner (at 16)
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|- Chaim (Hymie, Jack), Hyman FREEMAN 20.3.1895?-20.7.1959
|  Leeds -> N/cle
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|  Hyman, and aged 5, in 1901 census
|  = Rebecca (Betty) CROWN 10.12.1893-27.3.1984
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|  +---
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|- Rosie FREEMAN 1901?2-c.1977 South Shields -> N/cle
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|  Was partially deaf
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|- Rachel FREEMAN 1903?4?-(died in 20's) South Shields -> N/cle
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|  Mother uncertain
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|- Gertrude FREEMAN 1907?8?-5.7.1982 Leeds -> N/cle
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|  I had birth "1898?" but the 1911 census gives "Girty"'s age as 3.
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|- Zena FREEDMAN 1909?10?-Died in infancy or WW1 Newcastle
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|  Name from 1911 census
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+- <Seven children> FREE(D)MAN -Died in infancy or WW1
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  Mother uncertain

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