Being part Irish myself, I've got a name similar to Meighan in my tree.....The name could have been misspelled in our case, as now we spell the name "Mithen" or "Meithen" or "Meithan"......the name in my great grandmother's marriage certificate lists her maiden name as MEIGHAN........so I don't know if it was the misspelling of the person who made the record, or whether that was the original spelling of her surname....... ----- Original Message ----- From: KinDetective@aol.com To: WIGRANT-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:44 PM Subject: [WIGRANT] MEIGHAN or MEIGHEY - Which one? Hi all, Is anyone aware of how this Grant County surname is most accepted to be spelled? In the quoted portion of the bio below, it states that Alex McPherson married Henrietta MEIGHEY. I find, from GRANT COUNTY, WISCONSIN BIRTH RECORDS - EARLIEST TO 1891 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/grant/vitals/births/to1891/birthmo.txt (thanks again, Dave), the eight listed children are born to Alexander McPHERSON & Henrietta MEIGHAN. Which way? TIA! Di -- << Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, 1901, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, Pg. 571-2: MRS. MARY J. SHINOE, ..<snip>.. (4) Alex McPherson, born in Grant county, enlisted when a boy of sixteen in the 43d Wis. V. I., and served until the close of the Rebellion. Returning from the war, he married Miss Henrietta Meighey, and now resides on his farm in the town of Paris. They a family of nine children, Estella, Alex, John, Arthur, Emaline, Bessie, Maggie, Gertrude, and Etta. >> ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237