The Freer name is linked back from my great-grandmother Clara Freer born 1869 in Ruabon, Denbighshire but her family was originally from Quorndon, Leicestershire.
Clara’s father William ran the kennels for the Wynnstay estate having learnt his trade at the Quorndon Hunt.
My great great grandfather, William Freer, was a kennel man in the Leicestershire village of Quorndon in the 1850’s.
He was born in Quorndon in 1830 and likely stayed there, until marrying, with his parents who, in 1841, were living in Barrow Gate (now Station Road).
I’m Paul’s second cousin and we share Frederick Blacknell and Clara Freer as our great-grandparents. I took up family history research earlier this year and have been amazed at what there is out there to find.
My name is Owen Ivor Owen, born in Ruabon, Denbighshire – the son of Owen Thomas Owen and Sarah Ellen Davies. My father’s brother, Robert, married Ethel Blacknell whose father and brother, Ernest, used to visit us at our home in Ruabon.
There was also a Clara Davies (née Freer) who lived with her husband, Robert, and her father in Wynnstay Park in Ruabon.
Regards—-Ivor.