This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: freeman foreman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2UB.2ACI/1777 Message Board Post: Does any one know if the Freeman and Foreman families living in Bertie Co in the 1700 -1800 period are the same people . I keep coming up with Foremans in My research of William Freeman born 1759. Who married Mary Bryan in Martin Co about 1786.When I search the Foreman Family I keep getting the same info I have on Freemans, dates, surnames,etc. Did the surname Freeman start with this generation ?deriving from the surename Foreman?