Family

My own family's earliest known member was Richard Mead, the grandfather of William Mead of Stamford, Connecticut. Richard Mead was born in about 1515 and lived in Watford, Hertfordshire, about 15 miles northwest of the center of London. This research appeared in an article by Gordon Remington in the January 1998 issue of The American Genealogist.

So far this is the end of the line. At the beginning of the 16th century there were a number of Meads living within 10 or 15 miles of Watford, but no evidence yet to link them to Richard Mead.

In the past it has been thought that Gabriel Mead of Massachusetts and William Mead of Stamford, Connecticut were brothers. This was not the case. Gabriel was born Gabriel Meades in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. This is the result of work I did in England in June 2002.

I am descended from William's son John, through five Ebenezers in a row, then Enoch and James Mead.

I am also working on the following families in England: Goldhurst, Kellogg, Pontifex.

My story so far:

1. Vance Mead, 1954, Greenwich CT, USA

2. Robert Mead, 1928, Birmingham, England

3. Thulia McKee, 1926, Glasgow, Scotland

4. James Enoch Mead, 1895, Evanston, Ill

5. Madge Parker, 1901, Wellington, Kansas

6. William Grant McKee, 1888, Glasgow

7. Dorothy Miller, 1896, Glasgow

8. James Lucas Mead, 1863, Rockingham, Iowa

9. Cora Vance, 1876, New York

10. Charles Parker, 1870, Illinois

11. Lois Burcham, 1876, Iowa

12. James Mckee, 1860, Glasgow

13. Agnes Elizabeth Grant, 1860, Glasgow

14. William Murray Miller, 1865, Glasgow

15. Ethel Gertrude Vyfhuis, 1866, Marlborough, Wilts.

16. James Richard Mead, 1836, Weybridge, Vermont

17. Agnes Barcome, 1841, Montreal, Canada

18. Frank Wright Van Ness, abt. 1858, New York

19. Francis Wheelock, abt 1860, New York

22. Socrates Burcham, 1850, Illinois

23. Martha Turner, 1850, Kentucky

24. Henry McKee, 1835, Ireland

25. Anne Reynolds, 1837, Ireland

26. William Grant, 1819, Bothwell, Scotland

27. Agnes Pollock, abt. 1818, Scotland

28. James Miller, 1829, Wick, Caithness, Scotland

29. Margaret Moir, abt. 1830, Scotland

30. David Vyvhuis, 1835, Deventer, Holland

31. Thulia Pontifex, 1843, Georgetown, British Guiana