 Freeman's father, Edward, his grandfather, also called Edward, and his great-uncle Thomas Russell, all played first-class cricket and his brother, another Edward, also played for Dorset.His uncle was Tich Freeman who played for Kent between 1914 and 1936 and is the county's leading wicket-taker.When Freeman died at the age of 96 in 2013 at Westbury on Trym in Bristol he was Kent's oldest surviving player and the last surviving player who had played for the county before World War II.