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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 10:52 BST (UK) »
Meek as a surname has been common in Gloucestershire for centuries. Just a thought, biblical christian names, Meek as in 'the meek will inherit the World' or some such phrase. 
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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 11:03 BST (UK) »
I'm with Skoosh on this one, a Surname used as a Christian name. Several examples in my own Scottish ancestry.


See where you're coming from though Regorian. If you can have a Faith, Hope or Charity, then why not a Meek.
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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 12:22 BST (UK) »
If you hear of any with a few bob Seoras, I'd be delighted to meet them.  ;D

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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 12:34 BST (UK) »
Skoosh pal, I think most o mine were as skint as yours.  ;D

I have found a couple wi some cash but it had long gone before I could get my hands on it. ;)
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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 13:11 BST (UK) »
@ Regorian, it is indeed, miners in the Forest of Dean I believe. The earliest in Scotland are in the 14th century. Supposedly from the Old Norse Mjukr.

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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 13:22 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Skoosh on Wednesday 06 May 15 13:11 BST (UK)
@ Regorian, it is indeed, miners in the Forest of Dean I believe. The earliest in Scotland are in the 14th century. Supposedly from the Old Norse Mjukr.

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Yes, my family were in FoD in the 19th Century........miners, mainly iron.
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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 13:23 BST (UK) »
Joe Meek, record producer most famous for 'Telstar' was Gloucestershire born.
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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 13:25 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Seoras on Wednesday 06 May 15 13:23 BST (UK)
Joe Meek, record producer most famous for 'Telstar' was Gloucestershire born.

Forest-of-Dean.net is full of them.
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Re: Is "Meek" a nickname?
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 06 May 15 20:41 BST (UK) »
Regorian, I think some of them moved to pits in Wales. Coincidentally a tribe of Meek's in Whitburn were also ironstone miners.

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