from WDYTYA 2008 for Oliver MAxey [email protected] How far do irish records go back of MAXEY ? ======================= My notes are sketchy I ommitted dates and places Jonathan (Jack) MAXEY marreid Eileen (Kate) PARKER their child Jonathon MAXEY married Audey BARR-HAMILTON then with Carol LEVER (daughter of George LEVER) has a son Oliver MAXEY of http://olivermaxey.wordpress.com/ ========================== some deaths probaly no connection Record Audrey Maxey 17 Feb 1937 Sep 1988 51 Peterborough Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire View Record Audrey Maxey 12 May 1908 Oct 1997 89 Boston Lincolnshire View Record Audrey Margaret Maxey 25 Sep 1916 Nov 1997 81 Worksop Record Jack Maxey 21 Apr 1924 Aug 2003 79 Worthing West Sussex ===================================== census in 1901 Kate Maxey abt 1875 Tipperary, Ireland Servant Ifield, Sussex a hit at a county ============================= maxey Name Meaning and History 1. English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, so named from the genitive case of the northern English personal name Mack + Old English eg 'island', 'low-lying land'. 2. Irish: variant of Mackesy, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macasa 'descendant of Macus', a personal name which is probably a form of Magnus. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 ================================ Distribution of Mackesy Families in England and Wales in 1891 http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Mackesy-family-history-uk.ashx help please anyone? Hugh W

"Hugh Watkins" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > from WDYTYA 2008 for Oliver MAxey [email protected] > > How far do irish records go back of MAXEY ? > > 2. Irish: variant of Mackesy, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó > Macasa 'descendant of Macus', a personal name which is probably a > form of Magnus. > > > Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN > 0-19-508137-4 > > help please anyone? > I always wondered where the many tribes of Macu, Macus, and Macusi in Amazonia came from! All that translating trouble with the Macusi could have been saved if I'd realised they were emigrant Irish. It really shows how daft some of these name origin notions can get. They are hypothesising about events in the past which were not recorded, were in a language which is not today's language. in an alphabet (if recorded) which was not today's alphabet, , and with a word usage and pronunciation which was vastly different to today's. The genealogical value of these imaginary soundalikes is precisely zero. And there have been vast numbers of studies and comments to the effect that having a name does not necessarily imply any close genetic connection with previous users of that name. Nor does present place of residence necessarily indicate anything about ancestors' places of residence. Both are based on notions of stasis. People live in one place and keep one name. Neither is true. If it were, there would be nobody in Britain and we'd all be in Africa and all have the same name. Yet again it has to be said that any stats on populations, whether good or flaky, can be applied only - within quite large degrees of uncertainty sometimes - to populations. They have no bearing on genealogy, which is concerned with the ancestry of individuals each of whom has one father and one mother. You can't apply stats to one of anything. Don