Previous Post: Our Scottish Cousins
Based on the oral tradition Dr. Priddy Meeks gave us, our immigrant ancestor would've been born in England sometime between 1680 and 1710. His name would've been William Meeks. YDNA testing has located two relatives whose ancestors are from Scotland. A search for records on ancestry.com for persons named William Meeks (or variants of that name) reveals 46 people born with that name between the years 1680 and 1710. I have verified that those records are not duplicates of each other. I have created a map that shows the birth locations of all of those Williams. The two yellow dots are the ancestral locations of our two relatives identified by YDNA. As you can see in this map, the heaviest concentrations are Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire in England. And the Lothians in Scotland, which is were are relatives are from.
Note: As mentioned in previous posts, it is entirely possible that Dr. Priddy Meeks skipped a generation(s) identifying the immigrant ancestor. There are another 63 William Meeks born in England between the years 1593 and 1680.
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