Hello Listers
My interest in the above family names is through the second wife of Henry
McKee and her mother, Mary Ann Duncan.
I am trying to track the parents of Mary Ann, her sister Margaret and their
brother Robert Duncan.
I have in the Benson, Carson and the McKee family notes, identified
several people that are also on the marriages and birth lists that Gloria
posted on the Co. Tyrone list last week. .
I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is connected and
researching this McKee /Carson/Benson family.
I have notes on William Henry McKee born in London Dec 28 1827 and
married Sept 13 1853 Catherine Patterson [ Coulon Louth]
They had children Mary Letitia Mckee June 18 1854
William Thomas Harvey McKee July 13 1855
John McKee Dec 5 1856
Thomas McKee July 31 1858
Fred ............................................................?
Minnie
Henry McKee -------------------------------?
The family notes [ which came some years ago from an elderly descendant in
the USA]
Henry McKee married Jane Carson - [they lived at #1 Northland Row ,
Dungannon ] -
this was Henry's second marriage[ Henry was known as Harry] and that
Jane Carson 's- mother was Margaret Duncan, Scottish, who lived in Omagh,
Ireland in a big stone house on a hill - she died at the age of 62.
I dont know whether this reference to age 62 at death is to Jane or her
mother.
Margaret was my great grandmother -
Jane's mother was Mary Ann and she was Margaret's sister.
Jane Carson's father was William Carson and in my family it is said that
he married Mary Ann Duncan.-
this is also how it is in the Carson newsletter /database of Carson
emigrants from Ireland to other countries. --[ not Margaret.]
William and Mary Ann had seven children -
1. Jane
2. Margaret to USA never married
3. Mary Anne to USA never married
4. Andrew to USA never married
5. James Carson-
-his daughter Margaret[Peggy] to the USA
- his three sons [William, Robert, Henry ]to New
Zealand
6. William Carson to USA
7. John Carson to Australia .
Robert Benson m. Minnie McKee
they had 10 children
Richie and Harry Benson went to Canada.
Mary Benson married Charlie Patton and went to Australia.
Hope to hear from someone out there with a connection..
Regards
Aileen