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Subject: [BLACK-L] Letter to Mrs. Sam Black, Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK
Date: 17 Mar 2003 12:58:33 -0700

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Surnames: BLACK, McMAHON, MEEK, TAYLOR
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Hope this letter has names of interest to someone.
c/o Bank of N.S. Wales
29 Threadneedle Street
London E. C.
August 19, 1919

To Mrs. Sam Black
21 Hedley Street
Hebburn-on-Tyne

Dear Mrs. Black,

Acting on the kind advice of your sister, Mrs. McMahon of Mullinarry, Co. Armagh, I am addressing myself to you in the hopes that you may be able as cousin of my grandfather, Charles Meek, to help me in my efforts to place him and help on the history of our name that I am trying to compile as a hobby and for use of future generations! I am the only son of Joseph Meek, Charles’ third son. My father, you will know, is Chairman of Lever’s Pacific Plantations and lives in Sidney, N.S. Wales. His grandmother was Mary Taylor, your aunt.

Maybe Mrs. McMahon has mentioned that I called during a stay I had in Gilford; and I learnt (sic) from her a lot of particulars of Charles and his father, Thomas Meek. But she wasn’t able to tell me a few points that I was after besides those many ones she did answer. So I have included a sheet with my queries and trust you may feel able to give me what information you can.

I have learnt (sic) among others that there lived in High Street, Gilford, a certain Thomas Meek, worker in Mr. Hugh Dunbar McMaster’s mill in Gilford. Your family used to visit here. Can you say what, if any, relation he held to my g-grandfather Thomas Meek, your uncle by marriage?

What was my g-grandfather Thomas Meek in early life? Where was he born? Do you know anything of his father or uncles or aunts? Did you ever hear anything of a certain Meek who was a bachelor until he was 50 and then was thrice married and had three families? Ever heard mention of Banford or Tallylish House? Or ever hear of land round Tullylish?

You have, I am told G-Uncle Richard Taylor’s family Bible. Are there any dates concerning either of my Great-Grandparents’, their births, deaths or marriages.

Also I am told you have some old likenesses of the connection. Might I ask if there are any of Thomas Meek, Mary Meek (nee Taylor) etc.? If there were I wonder if I might ask a loan of what you could spare in order to get them photographed?

Possibly you may want to know more about who I am before you -- will have any dealings with us. I told you who I am and my father is. Am just demobilized from U.O. Yorks Lt. Inf. about two months and am awaiting the reopening of Oxford to resume my legal studies there -- Worcester College. My people, Father, Mother and two sisters, I hope to see next spring and shan’t be sorry as it’s close on three years since I saw them.

I only hope you may not think my questioning importunate nor misconstrue my enthusiasm as impertinence. Thanking you in advance for any trouble you may take on my behalf.Yours truly,
Harold G. Meek

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