Gwen, the names in our families are incredibly similar as are the dates. Except the varied spellings. Thomas, William, and Alexander are all brothers in my family too. We also had a James who was later known as Diego and Martin who may be from MORTHOUGH. Bonnie mailto:[email protected] >From: "Gwen Boyer Bjorkman" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [MCBEE-L] RE: Thomas McBee >Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:32:14 -0700 > >Hi Bonnie: I do not think that our Thomas McBee is related to Murthough >McBee. Here are the facts. > >Fact 1. Thomas Mcaboy m. Rachel Rilet 21 Feb. 1797 in Frederick Co, MD: >wit: Wm. Mcaboy & Ed. Rilet. [Therefore William McBee has to be a >relative.] > >Fact 2. There is a Thomas Mockaboy 1800, T. McBee 1810 Frederick Co. MD. >census. > >Fact 3. There is a Thomas McBee 1800 tax list, Thos. McBee 1810 census >Berkeley Co., VA. [In other words, there is more than one Thomas McBee in >this area.] > >Fact 4. There is no William McBee in Frederick Co. MD lists, but there is >a >William McBee in the 1800 tax list for Berkeley Co. VA. William McAboy d. >in 1813 and there is an estate administration for him. Frederick Co. DB WR >33:190, 1808 William Macbee of Berkeley Co., Va. to Daniel James of >Frederick Co., Md. proves that he is the grandson of Peter Becraft and >inherited the land from his grandfather per his will. Now if Peter Becraft >would have only named his grandson Thomas in his will. But possibly Thomas >is younger than I thought and was born in 1779 after the will of Peter >Becraft was written. I have the will. > >Fact 5. Our Thomas McBee named his first son William. He named his first >dau Nancy and I think that Nancy Macby, widow, who m. Georg McDonald 19 >Sept. 1780 in Frederick Co, Md could be his mother. [But widow of whom? >Where did George McDonald go?] > >Fact 6. Alexander McAboy witnessed the will of William Boyd of Frederick >Co, VA in 1771. Berkeley Co WB 1:84-86. Mathew McAboy wit. the will of >John Dalrymple of Berkeley Co in 1777. [WB 1:74-75] > >Gwen Boyer Bjorkman >[email protected] > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bonnie&Jeff Treon [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 1:00 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Thomas McBee > > >Gwen, hi our last name is MCVOY but has been spelled as MCAVOY prob. >originally, and MACABOY. Larry Mocabee is also researching this >MORTHOUGH MACABOY (MCABOY, MCBEE) etc. The MCABOY name apparently >is SCT and has been spelled as MCBEE by many families even to this >very day. I ALWAYS look under ALL related SPELLINGS. I have found >my ancestors also listed as MCBEE, MCAVOY, MCABOY, MCBOY, MACABEE. ETC. So >we are probably all connected somewhere even though we spell >the surname differently. Larry another researcher and he has been >most helpful in my research of MCABOY/MCAVOY/MCBOY/MCBEE/MCVOY etc. >Bonnie McVoy Treon in NC >mailto:[email protected] > >** Was he the THOMAS who was related to MERT/MURTH/MORTHOUGH????? > > > > >==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== >We have this list and GenConnect courtesy of Rootsweb Genealogical Co-op. >Do your part! <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> > >============================== >Search the Social Security Death Index online for FREE! >http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >The most powerful SSDI search engine on the Internet! > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com