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Sorry Moderator and Hello again Thomas,  I hope this constitutes the 3rd post so that we may then correspond privately.   I found your Thomas in the 1901 census for Monaghan and the family (after his demise) in 1911 census.   It is interesting to see your Grandfather as a baby in the 1901 census.   Also I found in the IGI records a birth date for Anne Jane, Ellen and Charles LEE, born to Francis and Elizabeth.   I have a story to tell you about a niece of Thomas Lee's and it bears out the truth of a comment you made in your last posting.   Will be in touch again soon.   Elizabeth

Hi Listers,  I am rather excited to have come across these postings about Francis LEE and Elizabeth McCONKEY.   I am hopeful that I may be about to add some new data to my own family history programme.   My Gt. Grandfather was John McConkey LEE, born about 1849 (depending on which census record one believes) in Co. Monaghan, Ireland.   John's father was recorded as Francis and he (John, according to a family story) spent some time in the U.S.A. as a young man before returning to Ireland to marry my Gt. Grandmother Sarah HALL on 3rd Dec. 1889 in the Churchof Ireland, Killeevan, Co. Monaghan.    I do not have official record that his mother was Elizabeth McConkey, but the fact that he has McConkey as his middle name encourages me to make contact with you people here.   Witness at his marriage to Sarah, was Thomas LEE.   John bought a place at Gortgranard, Annalore, Clones, when he returned from the U.S.A. and that is where my Grandmother was brought up.   I would love to have data on both the LEE and McCONKEY families as I well remember my mother speak of the McCONKEY's when I was a child visiting in Monaghan.   Elizabeth, Western Australia

Thank you very much for this information;  it is new to me and I appreciate your response to my posting.   Elizabeth

Yes, thank you very much for your contact;  I did find Robert GORDON in both census records.   

My Gt. Grandfather John GORDON was the son of James GORDON b. 1795 cc and Jane HARBISON b. 1827 cc and was born at Templetate, Co. Monaghan.   The last five children of this family emigrated to California.

Jane HARBISON's parents were Matthew HARBISON and Margaret LEMMON who married on 21/03/1823 County Monaghan.   Matthew and Margaret HARBISON,  along with most of their children, emigrated to California also, some in 1872. 

Gt. Grandfather John LEMON was born 1840 cc (according to 1901 census records for Monaghan) and at the time of his marriage to Harriett WILLIAMSON his father's name was given as David LEMON, in the presence of Thomas LEMON and Mary LEMON.

All LEMMON/LEMON ancestors have the birth address of Killacronaghan, County Monaghan.

When I was a child I visited my Grandmother Margaret LEMMON, (daughter of John LEMON) who was married to Robert Henry GORDON, widowed and living with her son John GORDON at Killacronaghan.   I don't know if this was the original Killacronaghan LEMON farm or not.   The GORDON family had a farm at Templetate and that was the birth address for most of them.

It would certainly appear that we tie in here somewhere but it becomes very confusing because there were a lot of first cousin marriages, both in Monaghan and in California.   I am corresponding to HARBISON, LEMON and GORDON cousins
in U.S.A.

I have seen a marriage on the LDS web site for David LEMON b. 1779 to a Mary TODD with a son William born 1817 cc, but I cannot find a direct connection with my own family even though they both have the Killacronaghan address.

Hopefully we can find this connection between us.