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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Meeke/Meek from Northern Ireland to New Zealand
« on: Monday 25 October 21 22:19 BST (UK) »
Hi Dawn,
I’m hoping you can help me.
My grandmother was also an illegitimate child of Alfred Meeks (but not with susette, with a 17 year old who died 12 days after my nan was born, Alfred was 27 at the time) in 1932, so born shortly after your cousin.
My nan passed away in 2009 and we did not know any of this prior to her passing, I’m not even sure that she knew. We have since done DNA and matched to lots of his family who unfortunately don’t know anything about him as all his siblings have passed away now. We also ordered my nans child welfare records which name Alfred as the father.
We have been researching him for 3 years and have kept hitting dead ends.
Any help would be amazing.
Thank you,
Ally.
I’m hoping you can help me.
My grandmother was also an illegitimate child of Alfred Meeks (but not with susette, with a 17 year old who died 12 days after my nan was born, Alfred was 27 at the time) in 1932, so born shortly after your cousin.
My nan passed away in 2009 and we did not know any of this prior to her passing, I’m not even sure that she knew. We have since done DNA and matched to lots of his family who unfortunately don’t know anything about him as all his siblings have passed away now. We also ordered my nans child welfare records which name Alfred as the father.
We have been researching him for 3 years and have kept hitting dead ends.
Any help would be amazing.
Thank you,
Ally.
Hi Maggie
I don't know your Meek/Meeks family but you did ask for any family with that name.
Here's a list of coincidences:
My cousin (who's now dead) was an illegitimate son of Alfred Meeks and Susette Montgomery , born in Sydney NSW in 1927.
Our Montgomery family came from your current home town, back in 1840.
One of the sons married into the Blue family (Billy Blue's granddaughter Mary Ann) and I note you have Blue in your RC name.
Alfred Meeks's father - whose name I can't remember just now - is listed on a certificate as being born in the USA - would have been sometime in the 1800s.
Stranger than fiction, as they say
Dawn M