MEE family 1803 Diseworth 1804 Abraham 1824 Prudence Thomas Mary MEE=======v====ATKINS WALTERS====v==== | | | | |------|----|---|--------|-------| | | | | | | | 1840 1842 1844 1847 1853 | Maria Abraham William Thomas Arthur | | Herbert | | | | | 1844 Cromford 1855 Heage William 1874 Ellen MEE=========v=============WALTERS 1926 | 1921 | |--------|-------|-------|------|--|----|------|-------|-----|--------|------| | | | | | | | | | | | 1876 1878 1879 1881 1882 1883 1886 1889 1891 1892 1894 William Arthur Thomas Ellen Bertha Susan Joseph May Abraham Sarah Fred m1876 m ? 1980 1965 Sarah Polly

Family tree sent by Bob Mee of Canberra. An enlargement can be found on the CD of the Wirksworth website.

Emails on the subject Colin Potts writes: I've just read your notes on William Mee of Cromford, and might be able to help you with earlier generations of the Mees. I have a particular interest in the Mees, but some generations earlier - My interest is Abraham Mee 1740 and Elizabeth Wardle and their offspring. The relationship between William Mee and Abraham Mee is as follows Abraham Mee b 1779 married Elizabeth Wardle in 1771 and had 8 or 9 children - Elizabeth, Mary, Abraham, Jane, William, Joseph, Frances Ann, Thomas, and John. Abraham's will only identifies 7 beneficiaries - William and John are not mentioned). (I have a copy of this will). I am not convinced as yet about William and John - I still need absolute proof. Son Abraham (b 4 10 1779) married Elizabeth Mason 17 1 1801 and had 6 children - Thomas, Maria, Elizabeth, Abraham, George and William. Grandson Abraham b 1811 married Sarah Richards 4 12 1838. They had 5 children - Maria, Abraham, William (i.e. your William), Thomas and Arthur Herbert. You have shown on your Mee Family tree that the parents of these 5 children were Abraham Mee (1803) and Prudence Atkins (1804). The 1851 Census records Abraham Mee (Abram Mee) (aged 38) - Farmer of 14 acres, Sarah Mee (aged 31), Maria Mee (aged 10) - Scholar at home, Abram Mee (aged 8) - Scholar at home, William Mee (aged 7) - Scholar at home, Thomas Mee (aged 3) living in Heath End, Ashby de Zouch. Perhaps we need to correspond on this to reach some conclusion. Changing subject slightly, I see on you an extract of the Mee Tree received from Bob Mee of Camberra. I have a copy of the complete page - but it is an earlier version - it has less marks on it. I shall have to contact Bob Mee for more information. Careful study of this has shown that there appears to be several errors. Well that's all for now - tell me what you still need and I may be able to help. PS In the above I have quoted birth years and birth/baptism dates - some are as yet unverified) - and therefore care needs to be taken with these. --------------------- Dear John, Please find enclosed an article from Chesterfield CAMRA magazine regarding pubs in Cromford. Hope it is still of use & interest to you. Still making enquiries regarding William Mee, if I come across anything I will get in touch. Regards Philip Benfield The Bell Inn Cromford. ---------------------- Hi John, As part of my MEE investigations I 'met' a lady on the Internet from Shardlow (Jean Snow) whose maiden name was MEE. When I came to the UK last year for my sisters funeral, my wife and I met up with Jean and we exchanged items of interest. Here is what I have. She had had around to see her Don Henderson who is a MEE researcher and of vintage stock (aged) but a real pleasure to talk to. He had several B2 sized sheets with all the Mee's info on. He allowed Jean to copy them and she then copied them and gave them to me, that were relevant to my family. Now as luck would have it I have the Mee information for Cromford 1833-1984 and I have scanned that page for you. Now it is all hand written and very very small. I hope you can read it, if not may I respectfully ask you to contact Geoff Mee (geoffDOTmeeATvirginDOTnet) he is a cousin of Don Henderson and he will advise you or even send you a hard copy. Don is getting on in life and doesn't do anything on the computer it is all hand written, he is still in the carbon paper era. Jean Snow can be contacted on Derby 01332-xxxxxx or jeansnowATbtinternetDOTcom (contact for this phone) I'll tell you how good Jean is, I had heard that there was a book in the Leicester library entitled 'Genealogy of the Mee family'. So I asked Jean if she could go and have a look at it, it might be worth while. She did and found it was a reference book and was not to be taken away. She used her charm and managed to photo-copy, in the library, the whole book, and send it out to me by e-mail. Unfortunately the book doesn't contain any info on the Cromford Mee's. In the book (Info gleaned from the Court Rolls of 1552) it relates to one of my ancestors who in 1550, John Mee got fined 2p for allowing his horse manure to pile up and block the Kings highway at Ingelby. In the book it has a copy of his will dated 27 June 1552 and he leaves all his goods and chattels to members of his family, hence we get a record of some of his relations even though there is no actual births recorded at that time. Hope this helps in someway. Best Wishes Bob Mee Canberra 12 Aug 07 ---------------------- Hi John, Just looked thru' my MEE tree and I can find the following info on your William Mee * as follows. Born 30 Aug 1844 died 1926 in Cromford. Children (I have 11 children) William b.2-5-1876 married Sarah 18-5-1920 Arthur b. 5-5-1878 Tom b. 12-4-1879 married Polly Ellen b. 17-10-1881 Bertha b. 1882 Susan b. 28-7-1883 Joseph b. 8-8-1886 May b. 21-5-1889 Abraham b. 1891 died 1980 Sarah Alice b. 5-12-1892 Fred b. 1894 died 25-3-1965 I have William Mee * born 30-8-1844 he had a sister Maria b.1840 brother Abraham b. 11-3-1842 another brother Thomas b. 3-10-1847 and another brother Arthur Herbert born 1853. I think he married a lass called Ellen (Also name of first girl child) she died 28-5-1921 and this marriage William-Ellen was the start of the Mee's in Cromford. I can trace this family line to Thomas Le Mey of Breedon born circa 1530 whose father was Matthew Le Mey 1305 born possible in Long Whatton whose family goes back to William Le Mey 1167 also of Long Whatton. When you get into the Mee tree boy it is 'busy' I have much more info, just ask me and I'll tell you.... 'if I can'. I obtained all my info from Geoff Mee of Cheshire (geoffdotmeeATvirgindotnet) he lives at xxxxxxxx (contact for this address). . If you communicate with him please say hello from me from downunder. Cheers for now Bob Mee Canberra Australia 30 July 07

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