Meeke/Meek from Northern Ireland to New Zealand

[maggieblue]

Janette & KHP

Thank you so much you have been so helpful.  I am so grateful.   
If I can be of any help on this side of the pond just ask 

Kind regards

Maggie

[Billyblue]

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

[Janette]

Hi Maggie,

As the children and grandchildren may be still alive I can't put there names here,If you PM your email addy,I will send the headstone photos with all the names on them,

Cheers Janette

[maggieblue]

Fantastic Janette

Many thanks.  Sent you my email by PM 

Maggie

[maggieblue]

Hi

Trying to find my connection with your beautiful country.  Relatives on my Father's.  side emmigrated to New Zealand at some point.  Interested in the name Meeke/Meek.  Looking forward to hearing from anyone with this name.

Maggie

Hi Maggie, I am in New Zealand and not sure if I can help, but My Grandfather James Meek was born in October 1893/94 moved to England and got married there. He was I believe the youngest of 5, his brothers being William, Samuel and I think Robert, with a sister Martha.  His mother was I believe Margaret, and his father I think was William.  My mother was the first of her siblings born in NZ in 1924. Her older sister born in Bolton England in 1919.  If this is of assistance please reply.  I am just getting into genealogy.

We are related  Wow fantastic

Thanks to my angel genealogists I have pieced together the family and only today was sent the death notice you put in the paper re your Grandfather.

I will send you a private message with my email address so we can communicate.

It is absolutely fantastic to have met you.  This past two weeks have been so exciting finding out about this branch of my family tree 

Maggie

[maggieblue]

Hi

Trying to find my connection with your beautiful country.  Relatives on my Father's.  side emmigrated to New Zealand at some point.  Interested in the name Meeke/Meek.  Looking forward to hearing from anyone with this name.

Maggie

Hi Maggie, I am in New Zealand and not sure if I can help, but My Grandfather James Meek was born in October 1893/94 moved to England and got married there. He was I believe the youngest of 5, his brothers being William, Samuel and I think Robert, with a sister Martha.  His mother was I believe Margaret, and his father I think was William.  My mother was the first of her siblings born in NZ in 1924. Her older sister born in Bolton England in 1919.  If this is of assistance please reply.  I am just getting into genealogy.

Raeby

Can you please PM me your email address I have tried several times to PM you and unfortunately it keeps coming up Max PM limit :-(  Think you will have to post a couple more messages on this thread before being allowed to send PM........

Maggie


Spades, Do you know why I am unable to send Raeby a PM?

Maggie

[kiwihalfpint]

Hi Maggie,

I see that Raeby hasn't been on line since 22 July 2011. 


Cheers
KHP

[Janette]

Oh how frustrating,maybe she is not getting notifications


Cheers Janette

[maggieblue]

Maggie,
My Mother was a Meek.  I live in the US and my family came here from Ireland.  I will be in Carrickfergus for the first time this summer and I have heard that Meekstown has a grave yard with some of the Meek family there.  I hope to visit the grave yard but I don't know if I will be able too.  I only have family information about the Meeks in the US so I can't help with the New Zealand connection.
Do you have pictures or names of the Meeks in Meekstown cemetery?  I would love any information you have about the Meeks who came to the US.
Jill

Hi Jill

Meekstown is a townland near Ahoghill and Cullybackey, I do not live very far from it 

There are lots of Meeks buried in the Old Cemetery in Ahoghill and several in other graveyards near by.  I have pictures of these graves and this is a very good site

http://www.thebraid.com/genealogy.aspx

which gives you the inscriptions of the all the graves in the Ballymena area.

If you give me details of your family rellies from here I can see if we are connected.  I have gathered quite alot of information on Meek/Meeke surname

Maggie