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About Hugh McKee, Anahilt Branch
One of the four named McKee brothers that are said to have settled County Antrim and County Down.
Note about parents
These profiles were disconnected from James MacKey of Strathnaver
as being his sons:
Conflicting trees differ as to the parentage of the four described McKee brothers who settled County Down and County Antrim. In some cases, James Mckee of Strathnaver, Highland County, Scotland is said to be their father. However, there is a more detailed tree available, which is based in Wigtown. This is much more likely (and much more complete), so I've (Karl David Wright) used that tree as parents of the four named brothers.'
Description
Information sent by Frank Fox July 2004 states "David who moved to Annahilt, was born 1698."
P 119 Book of McKee chart; David was on the rent roll of the Saintfield Estate in 1751 as of "Lisdonan" by 1776 a Jane Makee was listed for L6.18.8 as one of 18 tenants in Lisdoonan, per D/536/1 (PRONI) = Saintfield Estate 1776. D/240/1 Francis Price Estate Papers - in 1751 lists David Makee as one of 15 tenants in Lisdoonan - 3.11.9
Modern histories claim this David married Rebecca Irvine and had six sons and four daughters, but editors believe there is one generation between.
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As to the pioneer's wife and as to the number of his children we know nothing, although in all probability he had a large family.
There are, however-, only four of whom we have any definite knowledge.
The oldest of these was probably James, Who settled about a mile from the old homestead, in Tullywest, ....
Another son of the pioneer, Hugh McKee, got a large tract of land under Squire Price, of Saintfield, in the townland of Craigy, running from the Lisburn road west, on both sides of the Craigy road, where he had several sons and daughters...
David McKee was probably the third son of the pioneer...
The only other son of the old pioneer of whom we know anything was John, who inherited the old farm at Lisban...
From Mr. John McKee, of 30 E. Thirty- ninth street, New York, Ave learn that most of the McKees, and nearly all of the Edgars, of County Down bury at Lough Henney graveyard. The bodies of James, of Tullj-west : John, of Lisban, and all of their de scendants who had spent their lives in that locahty are there interred.
Mr. McKee writes : The graveyard is situated on an eminence overlooking the lake, surrounded by large firs, which sigh mournfullv when fanned by the breeze from the water. It is certainly a very old burying ground. There is no church at it or near it, but tradition says the ruins of some building were once visible. Here rest the remains of James Davidson, the subject of Dr. Edgar's most popular publication, "Jamy, a True Story," to whose memory a tablet has been raised.
Opposite the graveyard, out in the water and in what was once the centre of the lake before it was drained, rises up a little island known in the neighborhood as Robbin Wright's Island. It covers almost half an acre and is a perfect circle. Robbin owned it and took a great deal of pleasure in working on it. It is not natural but artificial, But when or by whom made even tradition fails to offer a hint. One day while Robbin was working- on the north side of the island he struck a tomb in which lav the remains of some Irish king or chieftain (who in life must have stood about eight feet high) clad in a coat of mail, made out of small lings, which Robbin presented to the Beltiist museum and which is there to be seen.
It is known that Irish wolves visited the cemeteries and disinterred the dead, and the supposition is that this island was made for a royal burying ground while the rest of the clan buried on the eminence overlooking the island, where Lough Henney graveyard now stands. This may be true or otherwise, but one thing is certain, that nobody bearing the name of McKee or Edgar can walk over Lough Henney graveyard without treading- on the dust of his relatives or ancestors.
History of the Descendants of David McKee of Anahilt With a General Sketch of the Early McKee’s Prof. JAMES Y. McKee. 1892. PHILADELPHIA: JOSEPH D. McKee. 1892.
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Boardmills First Presbyterian Graveyard inscription [for grandson of this Hugh] states, "Hugh McKee of Poagsburn, son of John and grandson of Hugh McKee, who with Robert Edgar joined the army of King William the third in Scotland, fought at the battle of Boyne and settled in Lisban 1690. . ."; "David McKee and his Descendants," an American publication, issued in 1892 by Prof Jas Y McKee; Killaney Parish Registers from Belfast PRO, October 1999;
Information sent by Frank Fox July 2004 states he settled at 72 Lisban Road "and had four children."
Birth of Hugh is unknown. Boardmills First Presbyterian Graveyard inscription; Super Will Index - Will dated 1746 of Bresagh.
Hodge Podge film gives rent roll for Saintfield Estate and lists Hugh in Bresagh in 1739; MIC 637/9 p 40 lists Hugh M'Kee as a Vestry-man of Saintfield in 1730 and of Bresagh in 1739.
Copy of booklet from Frank Fox, 229 Belfast Road, Ballynahinch, county Down, No Ireland BT248UP states: "The fourth (brother) settled in Lisban, near Saintfield, County Down, with a fellow-soldier named Edgar, both of whom have many descendants in the neighborhood still, who have inter-maried for several generations. This soldier-pioneer, whose name was probably Hugh, had settled, built his house, married, and possibly had some children born to him before the year 1700. On the Lisban road, going from Lough Henney to Saintfield, about half a mile after crossing the Belfast road, your attention wil be attrcted towards the right by an ivy-covered gable, which is all that remains standing of the original Edgar house. If you should go about a quarter of a mile farther on towards Saintfield, and turn to the left where the road from Tonaghmore to Carricknaveagh crosses the Lisban road, you will see the remains of the old McKee house, about a hundred feet from the crossroads, and on the left-hand side. The front wall is still standing, and is used as a fence between the road and the field. You are now on land once granted by the Crown to the pioneer for his services in the cause of the Protestant succession..."
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Apr 15 2017, 0:45:22 UTC
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Hugh McKee, Anahilt Branch's Timeline
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1668
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of Myrton-McKe Wigton, Penninghame, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1695 |
1695
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Tully West, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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| 1697 |
1697
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of Craigy, Saintfield, Down, N Ireland
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| 1698 |
1698
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of Annahilt, Down, Northern Ireland
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| 1701 |
1701
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Lisbane, Ireland
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| 1746 |
1746
Age 78
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Carickmadyroe, Kilaney, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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