Thomas Meek



By Christopher A. Meek

1. Thomas Meek was born about 1745, Ireland. He married Jean Redmond. She was born before 1760 Ireland.

  • 11. Thomas Meek was born in Ireland. He moved to Canada with his brother James.
  • 12. James Meek was born about 1777 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. He died 19 Dec 1834 at his residence in Southwold Twp, Elgin County, Ontario. He immigrated to America about 1818 and then moved to Elgin County, Ontario. He married Jane Thompson. She was born about 1773 in Ireland. She died 1848 in Elgin County, Ontario. See note on James
    • 21. Jane Meek was born about 1803 in Ireland. She died after 1851. She married (1) James Mitchell. He was born before 1810. He died before 19 Aug 1828 in "Long Point Bay" Norfolk Co., Ontario. She married (2) Ira Whitcomb. He was born about 1803 in Possibly in the U.S. He died 08 Dec 1834 in Elgin Co., Ontario. She married (3) _____ Essery. He was born before 1821. He died before 1852 when Jane Esry, age 48, was listed as a widow in the Southwold Census.
    • 22. Thomas Meek was born June 1805 in Ireland. He died 26 Dec 1880 in Ontario. He married (1) Mary Sarah Owrey. She was born Jul 1809 in Ireland. She died 30 Nov 1882 in Ontario.
      • 31. Archibald Owrey Meek was born 07 Jun 1831 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died 15 Mar 1851 in Scottsville Cemetery Ontario.
      • 32. Elizabeth Meek was born about 1833 in Elgin County, Ontario.
      • 33. James B. Meek was born 16 May 1838 in Southwold TWP, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada. He died 16 Oct 1895 in Detroit, MI. He married Rossana Jane Orr 21 May 1844. Her parents were Joseph Orr and Roseanna Marilla. She was born 21 May 1844 in Malahide TWP, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada. She died 16 Jul 1904 in Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA.
        • 101. James Albert Meek was born 27 Nov 1864.
        • 102. Jane Meek was born about 1865.
        • 103. Thomas Franklin Meek was born 20 Jan 1867. He died 8 May 1918. He married Dorothy Euphemia Putnam 5 Jun 1893 in Woodstock, Ontario.
        • 104. Henrietta Jane Meek was born about 28 May 1869. She married George Gray 9 Jun 1897 in Detroit. She died 2 Apr 1938 in Needham, MA and is buried there with George.
        • 105. Roseanna Meek was born about 1873. She married Archibald James Seaton 9 Jan 1898 in Detroit. He died in 1937.
        • 106. Frederick Meek was born 23 Dec 1879 in Detroit, MI.
        • 107. Maud Evelera Meek was born in 1877 in Ontario, Canada. She died in 1877.
      • 34. _______ Meek was born about 28 Jun 1841 in Elgin County Ontario. He died 18 Mar 1851 in Ontario
      • 35. William Owrey Meek was born 09 Jun 1840 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died 26 May 1910 in Elgin County, Ontario. He married Sarah Eleanor Dawson. She was born 01 Jan 1843 in Ontario, Canada. She died 01 Nov 1933 in Elgin County, Ontario
        • 111. Martha Alice Meek was born 07 Mar 1868 d: 13 Aug 1947. She married Charles Richard Ead. He was born 09 Dec 1865 in Of London. Ontario.
        • 112. Florence Eleanor Meek was born 27 Jul 1872.
        • 113. Eva Ethel Meek was born 10 Oct 1874 in Ontario, Canada d: Bet. 20 - 27 Jul 1941 in Ontario, Canada She married Frederick William Meek. He was born 15 Apr 1856 in Ontario. He died 23 Jan 1932 in Ontario.
      • 36. Mary Jane Meek was born about 1846 in Elgin County Ontario. She died about 1923.
      • 37. Thomas Meek was born about 1848 in Southwold TWP, Elgin County, Ontario. He died 11 Apr 1920. He married Inez Dawson.
        • 121. Ernest Meek was born after 1860
      Thomas married (2) Nancy Banghart
      • 38. David Glass Meek was born 15 Mar 1849. He died Dec 1887.
      • 39. Gemima Meek was born about 1850.
      • 40. ______ Meek was born before 1850 in Elgin County, Ontario.
        • 131. Anna Beatrice Meek was born about 1875 in Elgin County Ontario She married William James McCance. He was boen between 1868 - 1869. He died 01 Jul 1941.
        • 132. Vernon William Meekwas born in 1876 in Elgin County Ontario. He died 09 Sep 1944. He married Mabel Maria O'Neil
    • 23. Sarah Meek was born before 1810 in Ireland. She died between 1838 - 1851 in Elgin County, Ontario. She married James Ferguson He was born between 1805 - 1806 in Possibly in Ireland. He died 1885 in Elgin County, Ontario.
    • 24. John Meek was born 1812 in Ireland. He died 1867 in Elgin County, Ontario. He married Judith Lodge. She was born about 1813 in Ontario. She died 1885 in Ontario
      • 41. James Meek was born about 1838 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died after 1870.
      • 42. Ann Meek was born 19 Nov 1839 in Elgin County, Ontario. She married John Collins Willson. He was born between 1838 - 1839 in Southwold, Elgin County, Ontario.
      • 43. Thomas Meek was born 13 Jul 1841 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died 22 Nov 1919 in Elgin County, Ontario. He married Fanny Jane Barber. She was born 17 Nov 1849 in Elgin County, Ontario. She died 27 May 1931 in Port Stanley, Elgin County, Ontario.
        • 141. Frederick Barber Meek was born 18 Mar 1873 in Port Stanley, Elgin County, Ontario. He died 22 Jun 1938 in Oklahoma City, OK. He married Augusta Frances Fenn 10 Oct 1908 in Connecticut. She was the daughter of Augustus Fenn and Mary Smith. She was born 16 Nov 1871 in Plymouth, CT. She died 17 Jun 1953 in Oklahoma City, OK. See note for Dr. Meek
          • 201. Frederick Barber Meek II was born 1914 in Oklahoma City. He died 1977 in Dallas, TX. He married Mildred Clara Ahlefeld. She was born 1921 in Okarche, Oklahoma.
            • 301. Frederick Barber Meek III was born 1958 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
        • 142. Judith Izant May Meek was born 08 Dec 1879 in Port Stanley, Elgin County, Ontario. He died 26 Sep 1940 in London, Ontario.
        • 143. Victor Maitland Meek was born 15 Apr 1884 in Port Stanley, Ontario. He died 09 Dec 1964 in Ottawa, Canada. He married Almeda Sterling _______. She died 30 May 1977 in Canada.
        • 144. Thomas Harold Meek was born in 1887 on Family Farm, Pt. Stanley, Ontario. He died 27 May 1972 in Ontario. He married Marietta Stockard. She was born in 1876 in USA. She died 04 Oct 1964 in Alamance Co., NC.
      • 44. William Henry Meek was born 20 Dec 1842 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died after 1870. He married Zeruiah Mills. She was born between 1842 - 1843.
      • 45. Alfred Meek was born 12 Apr 1845 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died after 1870. He married Catherine ______. She was born about 1847.
        • 151. Herman A. Meek was born 16 Dec 1868 in Port Stanley, Ontario.
      • 46. George Edwin Meek was born in 1848 in Elgin County, Ontario.
      • 47. John Meek was born in 1851 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died in 1904. He married Nancy Welter. She was born in 1854. She died in 1879.
        • 161. Urban R. Meek was born between 1875 - 1876 in Ontario. Be married Cora _______. She was born about 1890 in Wisconsin.
        • 162. William Meek was born about 1876 in Ontario.
        • 163. George Alfred Meek was born in 1878 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died in 1957 in Houston, TX. He married (1) Lella C. Pegler. She was born in 1880. She died in 1915. He married (2) Frances ______. She was born in 1884. She died in 1953. He married (3) Hattie _____.
      • 48. Joseph Meek was born in 1851 in Elgin County, Ontario. He died after 1881.
      • 49. Jane Elizabeth Meek was born 07 Jun 1853 in Elgin County, Ontario.
    • 25. James Meek was born 6 Apr 1815 in Ireland. He died 09 Jul 1891 in Southwold, Elgin County, Ontario. He married Margaret Lodge. She was born 14 Feb 1817 in possibly in Niagria District, Ontario. She died 15 Oct 1891 in Southwold, Elgin County, Ontario.
      • 51. Elizabeth A. Meek was about 1837 in Ontario Canada. She died 30 Jul 1858.
      • 52. Jane Ann Meek was about 1840 in Ontario Canada. She died 27 Nov 1917.
      • 53. Margaret Meek was about 1841 in Ontario Canada.
      • 54. Edward Meek was about 1844 in Of Toronto.
      • 55. Charles Meek was between 1846 - 1850 in Ontario, Canada.
      • 56. Henry Meek, MD was 1853 in Ontario Canada.
      • 57. Arthur Meek, MD was between 1856 - 1857 in Ontario Canada. He died 22 Jan 1918 in Ontario.
      • 58. George A. Meek was 1857 in Ontario Canada. He died 14 Apr 1927 in Ontario.
    • 26. William Henry Meek was born 10 Mar 1817 in Ireland. He died 25 Nov 1899 in Ontario. He married Nancy McCallum. She was born between 1827 - 1828 in possibly Dunwich Twp., Elgin County, Ontario. She died 05 Oct 1894 in Ontario, Canada.
      • 61. Henry Meek was born 1847. He died in 1848.
      • 62. Mary Meek was 1849. She died in 1850.
      • 63. Amelia Meek was 1851. She died in 1853.
      • 64. Frederick William Meek was 15 Apr 1856 in Ontario, Canada. He died 23 Jan 1932 in Ontario, Canada He married Eva Ethel Meek. She was born 10 Oct 1874 in Ontario, Canada. She died between 20 - 27 Jul 1941 in Ontario, Canada.

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Information provided by E-mail Fred Meek.

James Meek of Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland

According to his obituary, James Meek was born in 1777 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. The Genealogy of Mrs. Frederick William Meek, dated 1937, states James' parents were Thomas Meek and Jean Redmond. James married Jane Tompson about 1802 in Ireland.

James immigrated to America in about 1818 and then moved to Elgin County, Ontario. The story of James's immigration as told in old family letters is as follows: First he went to stay with Meek relatives in Tennessee. After a few months, probably in the spring of 1818, James traveled north to near the present location of Cleveland, Ohio. He took a boat and crossed Lake Erie intending to land at Port Talbot, but by accident the boat arrived at the mouth of Kettle Creek where Port Stanley now is. James met with Col. Talbot, the founder of the settlement, and arranged to acquire 200 acres of land near Port Stanley. This original 200 acres became the Meek homestead and was known as Hillside.

The Hillside residence is located in lot 12 of Union road, Southwold Township. James hired Indians to help him clear the land, build structures, and start farming. His wife Jane Tompson and 6 children (Thomas, Jane, Sarah, John, James, and William Henry Meek) left Ireland in 1819 to join him, arriving in Southwold Township in 1820. The Meek family in Southwold were members of the Anglican Church.

By the time of his death he had acquired about 1500 acres in the township. He and his wife Jane are buried in the Old English Church cemetery, St Thomas, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada. James last will was written September 24, 1833 and recorded March 30 1835. In the will James mentions all 6 of his children, some of his grandchildren, and one of his brothers, Thomas Meek, Jr., who also immigrated to the Port Stanley area.

Dr. Frederick Barber Meek

Frederick Barber Meek lived in Elgin County until about 1893 when he went to the McGill Medical School, in Quebec, Canada. The family story is that he did not want to go to medical school, but his mother made him go and made his stick with it several times when he was discouraged.

We next find my grandfather Fred on May 15th 1901 when he emigrated from Ontario, Canada on the Ferry at Windsor & Detroit, to Detroit, Michigan. At that time records state he was 28, already completely gray headed, blue eyed, 6' 1", and 210 lbs. He eventually ended up in Cripple Creek, Colorado, where he started a medical practice. Sometime about 1906 or 1907, Fred was in Oklahoma City when he met his future wife Augusta Fenn. One story is that Fred was there on vacation or business in Oklahoma City (traveling with a patient) when they met. A bit of family lore is that Fred was a member of the famous Pickwick Club in OKC, a male only social fraternity. If so, then I suspect he was probably living in OKC when they met. I doubt he could have been a member of the club and married as well. Augusta was in OKC to visit her brother Emery Fenn when they met. What is known is that Fred and Augusta fell in love, and were married October 10, 1908 in Augusta's home town in Connecticut.

Fred and Augusta returned to Oklahoma City to live. In 1909, Fred became a U.S. citizen in Oklahoma City. They had two children; Francis born in 1912, and Fred Jr, in 1914. Some early memories of Fred relayed to me by his children are: he enjoyed drinking & gambling, singing Scottish songs, he was an emotional person who could cry or laugh easily; he was a good doctor and provider for his family. The Meeks were close friends with their neighbors the Blakney Family.

In the 1920 Census, Fred and family are living in Oklahoma City, on West 13th Street. In 1930, Fred is listed in the Oklahoma City directory as: Meek, Fred B (Augusta) phys, home 609 W. 19th. About 1937, Fred was in a car wreck on way to Alva, OK, and injured his leg. His health never fully returned after that accident. On June 22, 1938, Fred died from a blood clot that originated in the leg he injured in the accident. On June 23, 1938, he was buried in family plot at Memorial Gardens Cemetery, in Edmond, Oklahoma.

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