McGee

I am in Us and have very little family history on the McGee family- Is the name Irish or Scottish? We have a blonde blue eyed daughter and we are brown haired and brown eyed- we have traced an english root but not the mcgee side- there is also several red haired green eyed kids in the family. Just wondered. Would love to know if their are any mcgee's in Scotland who may have a family link.

Hi McGee,
I'm scots-irish with the name of McWilliams and currently live in California.

Try the website www.in***ey.com/hall/trace.htm and input the name of McGee. I just popped in there real quick and your family history mentions the area of Dumfries in the Lowlands, (a really beautiful place!)

Hope that helps some...(also, look for the topic marked Geneology for lots more sites & info!)

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Di (aka ^..^ ~ Willy)

Welcome!!! Sorry, but McGee is not a name listed in my Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia.

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Gaol, Dilseachd, Cairdeas



[This message has been edited by Becca (edited 28 February 2000).]

You calling me a LIAR Becca!!!!




(*chuckles*)

Hi Becca and Di,
All the McGhees I know in Scotland spell it with the 'h'....they're McKays as I recall.

<hehe> Yepper, calling each of ya a liar!!!

HELP CELTO!!! Sorry fellas, but "The Book" doesn't even list the one's that Cloud stated......don't know .

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Gaol, Dilseachd, Cairdeas

I hope this helps,

MacGee

MacGee is an Ulster name which is more usually written Magee. In Irish it is Mag Aodha, ie. son of Audh or Hugh, the Mac, as is often the case when the prefix is followed by a vowel, becoming Mag. It has been stated that our Ulster MacGees are of Scottish extraction, having come to Ireland during the Plantations of Ulster in the early seventeenth century. There certainly is a numerous Scottish family so called, who are akin to the MacDonnells and claim descent from Colla Uais and so an Irish origin. There are Gaelic Irish MacGees also. They belong to the country on the boarders of Counties Dnegal and Tyrone. The name is more usually associated with Co. Antrim because the largve isthmus on the east of Lough Larne is called Island of Mgee and this territory was at one time in the possession of the Magees. In early mediaeval times a MacGee was chief of a sept in Co. Westmeath but these were dispersed after the Anglo-Norman invasion. The early history of the MacGees is thus obscure, but people of the name were prominient in various phases of Irish life in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Most of these were northern Protestants. Various forms of spelling are as follows: McGhee, McGee, and Magee.

I do have more info...