McMullen Family

[daisynook]

Yes, this is him, I had the marriage record before and I had noticed that Fathers name was John Freel.  JB would have been his grandfather and his son would have been John Thomas Freel husband of Mary Ann Blake so the John Freel on the Register would have been right.

[heywood]

I doubt that Bartholomew ever called himself Freel - there would be no need to do so.

Thomas would only know B as his father but he obviously retained his own surname.

Bartholomew was also deceased by the time of the marriage.

Family Search has details Annie in the censuses in Illinois and her naturalisation in 1943. I can't download that properly but it does say that she emigrated into Boston in 1883  She would only be 4 yrs so obviously someone took her - a mystery! Maybe there was another Freel family who took her along with them.

[daisynook]

Yes, you are right, it wouldn't have been JB as he was dead by then.  It is strange about the Freel family some seemed to go to US and Canada but others stayed at home.  Who knows ......

[heywood]

What do you mean by 'the Freel family'.

There were these three children born to Thomas and Mary Ann

Annie Freel 1879
Mary Freel 1881
Thomas Freel 1883

Annie we have now in Chicago. Mary died and Thomas married in Hulme.
Thomas snr is in Greenacres Cemetery.

[daisynook]

I have another generation of Freels - Thomas Freel b.1884 married Frances Ruth Waterhouse and they had 4 children.  I know one of them Harry died in New York and the other 3 are still here.  I have a death record for one in 2004 so I'm not too far back now.