To everyone, Just want you to know that each day I can hardly wait to see what the group has on the list. It is so incrediable to see such help for fellow extended family member of so many years past pulling together. I thank you all for your unselfish help and I love to hear the successful finds that you have. Jean Stark Corwin Pennsylvania. P.S. My Stark family went to Maryland with so many of your families I have been reading in past IP. I'm still looking for Heavener and Mee family members. Did the Mee family spell their name Mee or Mye? I notice their name included in the very early list but not in later lists. Thanks again. >From: SLWillig <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [IP] Great IP Group >Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:19:37 -0700 > >Dear Terry & Everyone... > ><<PS (for Susan): Can I post some more Tenison Groves material on the list >(if >anyone's interested)? I'll check what's been sent already and assemble some >of the extra stuff I've typed out, if that's OK>> > >You bet.. Have at it! Sharing is most welcome. This is a particularly >wonderful mailing list group in that regard... We're very fortunate. Thanks >to each and every one for being a part of this IP group. > >Susan > > >==== IRL-PALATINE Mailing List ==== >Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about >events. Small minds talk about people. > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Hi, Jean - ><<Just want you to know that each day I can hardly wait to see what the >group has on the list. It is so incrediable to see such help for fellow >extended family member of so many years past pulling together. >> What a nice thing to say! It's a great group indeed. << I'm still looking for Heavener and Mee family members. Did the Mee family spell their name Mee or Mye? I notice their name included in the very early list but not in later lists.>> Hank Jones' book, *Palatine Families of Ireland* has four references to the surname of MEE. The alternate spellings Jones cites are MYE and even MACE. pp. 90, 81 "The first settler in Ireland with this surname [MACE] was Johann Philip Mace." It goes on a bit and apparently the name MACE is mentioned in the Tenison Grove papers. Then Jones says, "Perhaps this man (above-mentioned) was the founder of the MEE family of Co. Limerick, which is said to be of Palatine origin. Some of the family resided on the Oliver Estate at Kilfinane, and Mary MEE, [wife of] Thomas, was bur. there in 1875, aged 60 yrs." There is mention of Thomas MEE as a landowner at Ballycampion and of Joseph MEE of Kilfinane, who married Margaret BATEMAN. The next reference is to the MYE bunch... the "emigrant ancestor" of which was David MEY. He, too, is mentioned in the Grove papers as the head of a Palatine family in Ireland on 13 Jul 1715. Hope this helps a bit, Jean. Susan