Is "Meek" a nickname?

[Seoras]

In which case Skoosh, the Meeks really did inherit the earth 

[Rosinish]

Seoras......there's a Meek (surname) on South Uist site & I knew of a George Meek (now deceased)

Anne Marie

[Skoosh]

ammack, I fancy the S.Uist Meek might be the Gaelic Prof' Donald Meek, Tiree, originally off the Whitburn Meeks.

http://meekwrite.blogspot.co.uk/

Skoosh.

[Rosinish]

I fancy the S.Uist Meek might be the Gaelic Prof' Donald Meek, Tiree, originally off the Whitburn Meeks.

Skoosh,

I would assume too ?

Annie

[Skoosh]

He's a bit of a national treasure Annie, always meant to contact him but no email No.

Skoosh.

[hiraethu]

I know you said you weren't super interested in the original image from SP, but I had 6 credits close to running out that I have no use for at the moment, so I downloaded the OPR. Definitely looks like Meek to me, so doubtful it's a transcription error. Digitally, anyway. Could have been misheard etc

Hope it helps some anyway, or at least a tad interesting.

(the file is too large, so i've included just an edited version for here. if you want the original let me know and i can either email it to you or upload it somewhere and send you the link.)

[Ruskie]

Wow, writing is lovely and neat and clear. Meek without a doubt.

[Skoosh]

H, it was certainly a Perthshire name, before the Reformation they were tenants of the Abbey of Cupar and landowners afterwords. Meik of Ledcarsie's descendants were civil engineers, built the stonework of the Forth Bridge & founded Halcrows the engineering company.

 This Meek of yours was possibly named after a grannie or the local minister or doctor?

Skoosh.

[chinakay]

Hiraethu, thank you so much! Very kind of you! Certainly looks like Meek, and the Ancestry transcription reads the same.

I have found a marriage of James Soutar and a May Mitchell in 1825, which is likely them. May, Mary, Meek? Mary and May, those are interchangeable, but the Meek angle is interesting.

And the BIG BONUS....I have just found who HAS to be James in the 1861 census. He is the right age, and he's a shoemaker which is right....and where he's living? In Dundee, in Tindal's Wynd, same street as his widowed daughter. Bingo :-)

Cheers,
China