Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : habitational name from a place called Frelinghuizen.
- Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691–c. 1748) was a Dutch Reformed clergyman born at Lingen on the Ems, Germany, near the Dutch border. He accepted a call to the Dutch congregations of the Raritan Valley in NJ (founded 1699) and was influential in the ‘Great Awakening’ in the Middle Colonies.
