Brief Life History of John
When John Mee was born about 1803, in Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Mee, was 29 and his mother, Phillis Wood, was 29. He married Phoebe Chambers on 18 January 1829, in Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Heanor, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Brinsley, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871.
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- John Meys, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- in the Nottinghamshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937
- John Mee in entry for Thomas Mee, "England, Nottinghamshire, Church Records, 1578-1937"
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1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English (mainly East Midlands): occupational name from Middle English mee, meie, mie (Old French mege, mie) ‘physician’. Compare the synonymous Mayer and Myer .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’, a personal name meaning ‘honorable’. This name was also adopted for various other Irish names, e.g. Meehan , and also in Ulster for McNamee .
French (Mée): habitational name from any of the places called (Le) Mée in Mayenne, Eure-et-Loir, and Seine-et-Marne, derived from Old French me(i)s ‘farmstead’ (from Latin mansus). This surname is rare in France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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