Mary Gertie Meeks REAL name.

Just got off the phone with the health dept. They have a death certificate, reading Mary GORDIAN Yawn, it has her father's name which they wouldn't give without $25 and the proper forms requiring a trip to Brunswick, which I need to do anyway,...sometime. The Glynn Library has newspapers from 1947 on file, but all on microfiche, which also requires a personal appearance. So, any one in brunswick have a library card? Hopefully then we can determine Mama and Papa Meek's names and go from there.

I've been reading (also editing the scanned document for rendered text, fun..) "Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement" and I found this little tidbit-
STEPHEN HOPKINS; Elizabeth, his wife; two children by a
former wife, Giles and Constanta; and two by this wife,
DAMARIS and Oceanus — the latter born on the voyage; two
servants, EDWARD DOTY and EDWARD LISTER.
Just postulating that the practice of using famous names might be at play here...hmmmm.... It's on page 338 about 3 pages from the end and before the index starts. Mention is also made of the Damariscove Islands.

Before Gramma's funeral I went to the Health Department and picked up the death certificate for G-Gramma Mary. It does say Gordian as here middle name and of course, everybody I've talked to called her Gordie. There were a few surprises though. The stone gave 1887 as her birth year the certificate said 1885. Grampa listed her parents as "BERYL" and "AMERCIA" MEEKS- and here is what I found; No less than 10 different genealogies listing "BURRELL" and "AMERICA" MEEKS with 4 listing a "son" "GORDIE" no other info on this so called "son". Everyone has the right birthdates and are all from the same place Gramma told me they were all from, much of this is also through linked at www.findagrave.com. So a new line in the family tree has finally been opened. There are a lot of names and anybody, please, anybody can also get to filling out the tree.