Mead Name Study

Profile managers: One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message] and Jerry Mead [send private message]

Please join the effort by placing the following above the biography line in each of your Mead profiles:
{{One Name Study| name=Mead}}

Mead Name Meaning

• A topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English mede ‘meadow’ (Old English m?d).
• Or metonymic occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead (Old English meodu), an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey.

Our Goals

* Work cooperatively together with other Mead profile managers to create the best Mead tree possible. * Add the category for Mead Name Study to profiles. * Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources to Mead profiles. * Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies for Mead profiles. * Check for duplicates and request merges. * If you are a male with the surname Mead, Meade, etc., and haven't already, please consider testing your yDNA so that we can all have a better understanding of our heritage and possibly make new discoveries.

What are the Main Branches of the Mead family in America?

Descendants of:

• • Gabriel(Goodman) Mead abt 1635 in Massachusetts.
  • William Mead abt 1635 in Connecticut.
  • Andrew Mead Ireland to Virginia abt 1685.
  • Jon Mead to Virginia in 1642
  • Robt Mead to Virginia in 1662
  • Francis Mead to Maryland in 1680
  • William Mead in Cecil County, Maryland, about 1680

Others?

What are the key reference works on the family?

• Connecticut Meads^[1][2][3]
• Virginia Meads^[4]
• Others?

How to Join

Please contact the project leader Jerry Mead or post a comment to the right. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Sources

1. ↑ "The Mead Family", Spencer P. Mead, 1901 New York, Knickerbocker Press.
2. ↑ "Ye Historie of the Town of Greenwich..", Spencer P. Mead, 1911, New York, Knickerbocker Press
3. ↑ "The English Origin of William Mead of Stamford, Connecticut" The American Genealogist, Volume 73, page 1.
4. ↑ "Some of the Meads", G. C. Callahan, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jan., 1902), pp. 191-197. Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture DOI: 10.2307/1915231 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915231