Thanks Claire. If you email me privately I have additional information on the McPeak family in Adams County if you are interested. Sandy [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Claire K Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 7:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] McPike Burial Sites 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