Hi Keri,
Regarding McKee, I have been researching the McKees of Creevytenant. Here's an interesting starting point I came across:
Prof. James Y. McKee of Philadelphia, USA, compiled a volume published in 1892, “A History of the Descendents of David McKee of Anahilt, With a General Sketch of the Early McKees”. This suggests that four McKee brothers who fought with William of Orange’s army settled in Ulster after 1690, including one possibly named Hugh, whose son James, of Tullywest, had a son in turn named Hugh who took up a farm in Creevytenant, according to the account written.
Another son of James McKee, of Tullywest, was Hugh, who got a farm in the townland of Crevytenant, about a mile from his father's towards Ballynahinch, where his great grandson Hugh McKee, who had married a Miss Gill, died childless about the year 1880, and the farm passed out of the family name.
Of course I don't know if these are related to your McKee origins (or indeed the original poster wacha). One of my ancestral families, 4x great-grandmother Agnes
died in 1881.
She left a will. In her will of 1878, Agnes left the farm to her sons Hugh and Samuel McKee, subject to payment of legacies of 2/6 (if required) to each of Robert and Alexander McKee, Eliza Douglas and Agnes Smyth, and £10 to be paid in four equal instalments annually to her daughter Mary Gillespie (the first payment to be a year after Agnes’ death). Hugh McKee (junior) and Samuel Law, both of Creevytenant, were appointed as executors. Letters of administration were granted to Samuel McKee on 14th April 1882. I've traced all the named children except no information on Robert McKee (maybe he went to Scotland or USA?)
