Posted by david mckee
on 1/4/2005, 1:30 pm, in reply to "PHILADELPHIA MCKEE FAMILY"
65.33.166.147
I'll tell ya a storie that was told to me by my grand father who I was rased by and his brothers.It's A storie about 5 brothers who came from scotland thru ireland and settled in the philadelphia,pa area. The area that for many a year was the home to the Philadelphia Navy yard !!! The storie is that thay setteled the land which is located at the head of the schuylkill river were it meets and joins the Delaware river !!! If you go over the I-95 bridge in Philly you get A great view of this property,and ya can see why it would be A great place to settle in the early days of our country and that city!!! It must have been full of game and had much fishing as well as water and timber all of which were most needed and prized in early american life!!! the storie of how the McKee famley moved and why was not told to me ,or I do not rember it ,i'll say !! The only peace of it I do recall is that the brother that I come from moved to western Penna. And, settled in and around the Johnstown area !! were there is still to this day lot's of McKee kin and related famley. Of note "McKee's rock" & "McKee's port" is some of the things that are well known in that area !!! My grand dad was named Charles William McKee the first of 5 children . brothers ,robert,thomas,jack[don't know if his real name was jack or john ??? we always called him jack !!!] and sister florence.
Charles was born on feb/22/1916 and lived thru the great flood in Johnstown,Pa. My grand dad married and lost A first wife and child and then some time latter married a gal from Summerset,Pa named Blodwin Ayers. which thay had 2 children one boy named Don and A daughter my mom named Charlotte. Then Some time after moved to Leaperville,Pa. which is part of Ridley Twp,Pa. were I grew up !! I belive that my grand dad's father which I belive to be named Robert after his fathers brother who was named Charles after his brother were 2 of the 5 I spoke of before???
so that being the case that makes my grand dad's father one of the 5 brothers ??? or one of there son's ??? This is the storie I was told as a child and I would like to know any more Info any one may have on such things!!! Any one with any stories or Info Please e-mail me and lets share notes !!!
Thanks
David William McKee
coetteo@cfl.rr.com
four.bits@lycos.com
--Previous Message--
: I am seeking information about the following
: McKee family members who resided in the
: Philadelphia area in the late 1800-early
: 1900s: Bessie McKee was married to Thomas
: Welsh, Sadie McKee was married to Harry
: Ransom (they later moved to Tuscon AZ),
: David McKee was married to Nora (unknown
: surname), Mary McKee was married to Herman
: Kracke move to Mt Ephram or Camden, NJ;
: Joseph McKee (no additional info known) and
: Kate McKee (no additional info known).
: All are brothers/sisters of the same McKee
: family. I am trying to determine parents
: names and from what part of Ireland they
: came as well as any additional information
: about each individual.
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