This reply is to the question if there are any Pike families in Franklin County today. Anyone looking for living people came go to www.yellowpages.com-then click on the tab for "white pages" where you can enter a surname or full name and any state you wish and it will bring up all the people by that name. It's run by Embarq.---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Claire K <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:45:41 -0400 >Hi Sandy, > >My McPeakes were Catholics from Donegal who came to Philadelphia in the >1830s, and stayed there. And the name changed almost immediately, not >just over time! The marriage and baptism records show the name >variously as Pike, McPake, etc. Later on, cousins settled into McPeak >and have been that pretty steadily since. All my US McP research has >been in Philadelphia (and only on a handful of families), so I don't >think I'd have any information that'd help you, but if you have any >Phila. connections, let me know (off list, don't want to go so off topic >for a Franklin Co. list!) and I'll see what I can dig up. > >Good luck with your McPs. I don't get the sense that there's many of us >searching this name... > >Claire K. > > >Sandra E. McGee wrote: > >> What county in Pennsylvania did your McPeakes live? It is interesting how >> the surnames have changed over the centuries. Did you have any McPikes >> living in Virginia, Maryland or Pennsylvania in your records? All of the >> McPikes living in Franklin County moved to Ohio before the Civil War and >> enlisted in Ohio. I would be willing to share my research with you on my >> McPike family. Thanks for your help. >> >> Sandy McPike McGee >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Claire K >> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:57 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] McPike Burial Sites >> >> Sandra E. McGee wrote: >> >> >>>...surname McPike or >>>similar surnames such as McPeak, McPeke, McPyke or Pike? >>>.... >> >> >> Not what you asked, but... I have McPeakes (not in Franklin Co, though, >> and not this early) and can tell you the name is Irish, originating in >> Cos. Derry and Tyrone. In US records, I have found my family as McPeak, >> McPike, McPake, as well as Pike, Peak, and Pake. Lots of variations >> with this one! "Pike," incidentally, seems to be the most common of the >> variants, at least in the few McPs I've searched in the US. Hope that's >> somewhat helpful. >> >> Claire K. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >