fwd from Wash.Co MD list today: CENSUS STUFF on MACKABEE: [email protected] fwd frm MDWASHIN-L > hi, my name is Mike Mc Abee. I am researching my surname MACKABEE, which was > changed to Mc Abee by my grandfather about 1915. However, with the multiple > ways available for spelling my surname, I can't rule any of them out as being > "wrong". From census lists of 1830, 1850 and 1860 I know there are MCABEEs > living in these counties: > > Gassaway MC ABEE - Wash No Town Listed 1830 > > William Mc ABEE - Wash. Hagerstown 1850 > > Othias Mackabee - AA 1860 > > C.W. McABEE - Fred. Bucky's Town 1850 & 1860 > > James MCABEE - Harford Abingdon Dist 1860 > John Mc Abee - Harford Abingdon Dist 1860 > Joseph Mc Abee - Queen Anne Centreville 1860 * > > Any info on these McAbee/MACKABEE families would be greatly appreciated as I > have no info on "my line" of MACKABEEs before 1860. > > My line of McAbee/MACKABEE "starts" in Queen Anne Co., 1860 > * Joseph Mc Abee (30) > Susan (wife - 30) > Mary (dau - 3) > Susan (dau - 1) > > Oral family history says two borthers had a "fight" and thereafter never > spoke to another. > Coincidentally (?), my Joseph shows sons (1880) census: > > Joseph > John > James > > - possible relationship to John, James in Harford County? > "Gassaway" seems like an extremely unusual first name to me; coincidentally, > in the 1870/1880 (?) AA (Anne Arundel Co MD)census, there is a GASSAWAY family > listed - related? > > There are other Mc Abee/MACKABEE in the 1870/1880 census for AA county; > for the time being trying to go back in time to the next generation, > eventually to the when and where we arrived in America. > > A cousin from whom I'm expecting some info shortly, recalls being told that > we origionally came from Vermont and had been in Maryland since the 1800s; I > do know there's a James McABEE/MACKABEE listed in a pre-1800 Md Census. > Mike Mc Abee >