and this is it, my paternal history, from father to father to father 10 times all with the McGehee name (or some derivation or deviation from it): Patrick MacGregor of Ardchoille (called Aberach after his father) Chieftain of the Children of the Mist and is also said to have fought under Montrose at Kilsyth in 1645. He would, of course, have been subordinate to the other Patrick who was his Chief. He married Marian MacDonald of Auchatrichatan in Glencoe member of the family of the MacDonalds of Glencoe and, perhaps, a distant relative of the MacDonalds of Sleat. By her, with other children, he had two sons -- Iain, his heir, and James who settled in Virginia and was my ancestor. In the latter half of the 16th Century this branch of the Clan led such wild and hunted lives in the misty mountains that they became known as MacEagh or Sons of the Mist. It may be that it is from this Gaelic patronym that James MacGregor took the name MacGehee. Patrick MacGregor (My 10th great grandfather) was born in Scotland in 1600. His son, James MacGregor, known as William Macgayhe or MackGehee (the MacGregors apparently were trouble makers or rebels depending on who you ask, and from what Ive read the name was banned, or they were on the lamb, something to that effect) For many years, Thomas Mackgehee was called the immigrant, and identified as James MacGregor, son of Patrick MacGregor and Marian McDonald of Auchatrichaton. Believed to have come to America when Clan MacGregor was outlawed following Cromwells defeat of the Scots, he supposedly changed his name to Thomas MackGehee in an attempt to hide his identity from the Crown. However quite a number of researchers today think that Thomas was actually the son of the immigrant, William MackGahey, not the immigrant himself. Recent material suggests that a William MackGahey had sons William and Thomas in Virginia by 1653. - William is my 9th great grandfather. Born in Scotland, 1633, he sailed over the Atlantic to York, Virginia, arriving in 1953. In 1955 he married Mary Johnson and had a son Thomas MackGehee: born in 1655 in York Co, VA. He died on 27 Jul 1727 in St. Johns Parish, King William Co, VA. He was buried in VA. LAND: King William County - Thomas Mackgeehee, grantee 28 Oct 1702 256 acres in Pamunkey Neck on the west side of NiCaty Nance Swamp, beginning on the east side of said swamp :::im goin to claim that PAMUNKEY NECK, thats MY INHERITANCE!!!!! jk:: PATRICK MacGREGOR (1600 - 1661) (Born and Died in Scotland Glantrae, Argyle, son of Duncan and Christian, grandson of Gregor and Isabel Cameron, great-grandson of Duncan and Mary Campbell) is my 10th great grandfather William Mackgayhe (1618 - 1675) aka James MacGregor son of PATRICK MacGREGOR Thomas Mackgehee (1645 - 1727) aka James MacGregor son of William Mackgayhe Jacob McGehee (1707 - 1783) son of Thomas Mackgehee William McGehee (1740 - 1806) (Fought for Independence in the American Revolution, 1st Lieutenant from Prince Edward County, VA) son of Jacob McGehee Elijah M McGehee (1789 - 1858) son of William McGehee William Henry McGehee (1822 - 1911) son of Elijah M McGehee George Campbell McGehee (1851 - 1941) son of William Henry McGehee Alfred Gaston McGehee (1881 - 1967) son of George Campbell McGehee Aubrey Gaston McGehee (1905 - 1966) Mac son of Alfred Gaston McGehee James Alfred McGehee Sr. (1932 - ) aka Jim or Pop son of Aubrey Gaston McGehee James Alfred McGehee Jr. (1954 - ) aka Jim or Mick son of James Alfred McGehee Sr. James Alfred McGehee, III (1981- ) aka Bo I am the son of James Alfred McGehee Jr. Mac Moses McGehee (2008 - ) & Bach Franklin McGehee (2010 - ) You are the sons of James Alfred McGehee, III MacGehee or McGehee etc Pronounced Macgee, originally MacGregor. Outlawed by King James VI in April 1603, clansmen were left with two options: renounce the name or die. In the 17th and 18th centuries, they rustled cattle, poached deer, fled to the hills, and often enough emigrated. William came to Virginia about 1644. Persecution ended in 1774. The rest is uncertain. Clan tradition includes several entertainments, among them the protagonist of Sir Walter Scotts novel Rob Roy, the names of several of the early chiefs (Gregor of the Golden Bridles and his son Iain of the One Eye), and last but not least a line of descent from King Duncan of Scotland, the old man with so much blood in him, murdered by Macbeth at his wifes instigation. A MacGehee married an Urquhart, married a Garrard, married a Glenn, married an Ellyson, married a Court. Sources: MacGregor, History of the Clan Gregor, 2 vols.; Saunders, Early Settlers of Alabama; Tyler, MacGehee Family of Virignia, vol. 25, pp. 275- 85; Clan Gregor Society
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:11:14 +0000
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