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Henry William Freeland and Samuel George Freeland of Angmering
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Henry William FREELAND (1819-1891) - A photographer based in Angmering from around 1866 to 1874. ( Active in Littlehampton from 1869 to 1874 ). |
Samuel George FREELAND (1848-1898) - A photographer based in Angmering from around 1870 to 1874. |
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H. W.
Freeland - Photographer
Henry William Freeland began to take photographs professionally in the 1860s. A number of photographic views carrying the details of "H. W. FREELAND, Photographer, ANGMERING, SUSSEX", provides evidence of his work in the late 1860s.* On 8th May, 1869, the Littlehampton News published the following advertisement :
H. W. Mardon, was the publisher of Littlehampton's newspaper and proprietor of the West Sussex Stationery & General Stores in Littlehampton's High Street. Henry William Freeland was primarily a photographer of local views and buildings, but he is known to have taken photographic portraits.[The William C. Darrah Collection of Cartes-de-visite in Penn State University holds a carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman by H. W. Freeland of Angmering). From around 1870, Henry Freeland, or his son Samuel George Freeland, visited Littlehampton twice a week, taking portraits at Mardon's premises on the High Street of Littlehampton. This arrangement appears to have lasted for only a few years. At the time of the 1871 Census, Henry William Freeland gave his occupation as "Photographer". Henry's twenty-two year old son Samuel George Freeland was also described as a photographer by the census enumerator. During this period, Freeland's small photographic views carry the collective name of "H. W. Freeland & Son" (Henry Freeland's first son, Henry junior, had died in 1866, in his early twenties). Henry William Freeland and his son Samuel George Freeland worked together as professional photographers for the next three or four years.
* H .J. F. Thompson, in his booklet The Picturemakers, mentions a carte-de-visite view of Surrey Street, Littlehampton, photographed by Freeland, which could be dated "within the narrow limits of 1866-68" |
Gallery of Photographic Views by H. W. Freeland and Freeland & Son of Angmering |
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H. W. Freeland and Samuel George Freeland after 1875 Around 1875, Henry William Freeland established a Chemist's shop at Commerce House. The 1881 census of Angmering describes Commerce House as a "Grocer's & Chemist's Shop". In the census return, Henry William Freeland gives his occupation as "Chemist, Druggist & Stationer". No mention is made of photography. Henry Freeland was assisted in the Chemist shop by his two unmarried daughters, Lucy Lee Freeland, aged 31, and twenty-seven year old Harriet Freeland. Henry's bachelor son, Alonzo Joseph Freeman, aged 25, worked alongside his father as a chemist, but he is also described as a "Dentist" in the census return. Samuel George Freeland, Henry and Lucy Freeland's eldest surviving son, had married Mary Ann Constable of Slinfold in 1875. At the time of the 1881 census, thirty-four year old Samuel Freeland was living in Baker Row, Angmering, with his wife Mary and their two young sons - Henry Octavius (born 1876) and Reginald Albert (born 1878). Samuel Freeland, like his father, appears to have abandoned photography as a profession. Samuel Freeland gives his occupation as "Grocer's Assistant", so presumably he was running the grocery side of his father's business. Two more children were born to Samuel and Mary in Angmering - Theodore George in 1882 and Florence Gertrude in 1883. At the end of 1883, Henry's youngest daughter, thirty year old Harriet Emma Freeland, married agricultural labourer Richard Doig, some seven years her junior. Harriet was widowed just over a year later when Richard Doig died, aged only 24. In 1884, Alonzo Joseph Freeman married Mary Mason Holyland of Angmering. By 1886, Alonzo Freeland, and his wife had left Angmering and had settled in the village of Kibworth Beauchamp, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire, where he continued to work as a chemist and dentist. Three daughters were born to the couple in Leicestershire - Mabel Lucy in 1886, Cecelia in 1890 and Vida in 1893. Henry William Freeland's wife, Lucy Lee Freeland, died in Angmering in 1888 at the age of 68. Henry William Freeland died in 1891 at the age of 71 (death registered in the East Preston District in the 2nd Quarter of 1891). Henry Freeland's eldest son Samuel George Freeland took over his father's chemist's shop, but within 8 years he too was dead. Samuel George Freeland died before he reached his 50th birthday during the 1st Quarter of 1898. Commerce House finally passed to Henry Freeland's widowed daughter, Mrs Harriet Doig, who briefly ran the shop as a grocery store, before finding work as a dressmaker. |
**From: 'Kibworth', A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5: Gartree Hundred (1964), pp. 167-87. |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
Thanks to Deborah Herbert ( a descendant of Joseph
Clark Freeland, a younger brother of Henry William Freeland ) for
providing details of Henry William Freeland's family background and
information on his early life. Acknowledgements also to Stephen Griffiths (
a descendant of Cornelius Julian Freeland, another brother of Henry
William Freeland ). A special thank you to Neil Rogers-Davis and the Angmering Village Life website for supplying information about Angmering
and some of the photographs featured on this page. SOURCES : The Picturemakers by H .J. F. Thompson |
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