hi Elizabeth, not sure if you're named after Elizabeth Mckonkey, I know my mother is, and her maiden name was Lee. it's odd and somewhat comforting to see many of the christian names in a family tree repeated. for example i have a first cousin named John Lee. If i get some time today or certainly over the next week, i'll dig out a tree supplied to me by one of the mckonkey cousins, albeit a 10th cousin or something like that. it's varied with seveal branches. Madden, or Madhill and Anderson are part of it.. but i'll have to see. Your John had a bunch of siblings, aside from g grandfather Thomas, and this is by memory only mind you, there was an Ann, Jane, William, Harold. the longest lived i believe was a kind of family head known as "Abel Henry Lee", aka "Eben Henry Lee", i don't always trust the spelling in the census. The house Thomas and his wife Selina lived in in Grandsha beg, was described to me by another cousin, Jim Lee who got it from his father, as second class, ie, not brick, but stone or wood, probably stone, and as having an earthen floor. pounded down earth until it resembled concrete in texture and density. as i said before it's is a small community of three or four homes, that while still existing, cannot bee seen on google street view. i've been to Ireland, but many years ago and on business so had no time to explore. i will retire next year so i may find myself poking around there sometime. i may even look up a phone book for the area. cold calls often work. regards tom
