Hello Maureen
Thank you for your response - it's getting lonely
on this list!
I keep relevant old emails and see that we have
been in touch before!
My wife's maiden name was CLEE - and unlike my
common Yorkshire name ELLIS! it has been reasonably
easy to trace all her recent ancestors - who moved from
the Ludlow area ( via IGI data) in the late 18th century
up to the borders around Knighton.
Don't think there is any connnection with your Catherine.
I'm fortunate in that my wife's CLEE family were notable
shopkeepers in Knighton and the "traders" seem to have
intermarried so there's quite a few records in the public
domain inc old Victorian photos of the High Street shops.
I have a book about old Ludlow in the 17th century - picked
up at a FH fair down here in the "South" - which mentions
some Clees living in those days! So maybe there is a
connection after all!..
Thanks again
Richard Ellis with common Ellis ancestry!
-----Original Message-----
From: MJen512444(a)aol.com [mailto:MJen512444@aol.com]
Sent: 09 February 2006 17:29
To: WLS-RADNORSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [WLS-RAD] Re: WLS-RADNORSHIRE-D Digest V06 #8
To Richard Ellis particularly,
I see from your posting that you have had no response concerning the
surname
CLEE.
Well, I do have a connection albeit not a direct line to a Catherine CLEE.
Sometimes written differently in the Parish Records. i.e. Chatherine etc.,
However, this Catherine cLEE, wherever she originated, married my twice
great grandfather Jonas Smith in Kington, Herefordshire (from memory) 1778.
They
produced some children then moved to Colva, Radnorshire. Catherine Smith,
nee CLEE died 1796, (again from memory), and Jonas Smith remarried in 1801
to
my own great great grandmother. So, I do not have a direct link to this
Catherine CLEE, and she may well have just returned to Radnorshire from
Kington
for all I know. If you have any CLEE family in Radnorshire, then you might
find this useful to know.
One of the children of Jonas and Catherine was another Jonas Smith, who was
said to be living in London in 1823. Other names of children are James,
several of them in fact, so that might be a significant name possibly on
the Clee
side. However, a James Smith was born of the second marriage, so either
explanation might be possible I suppose.
Anyway, enough of that for now. If you think this might be useful to you,
then Iwill have done my little bit.
Best regards,
Maureen Jenkins
Rhondda