GEEnealogy
I found this at http://www2.arkansas.net/~mgee/genealo.html It is under the tittle the GEEnealogy. You might want to skip down to the highlighted part.
The name "Gee" appears to have originated with the Normans in England. A possible link to the pronunciation of the Norman surname Gui or Guy is expressed in the book The Norman People and Their Descendants. A small village in the English parish of Stockport, Cheshire - Gee Cross - appears to have taken it's name from the Gee family. There are possibly as many as three villages in France named Gee. One of these is in the Loire Valley area.
According to the book The Gee Family, copyright 1937 by W. J. Fletcher, the Gee surname cannot be directly traced beyond the 17th century, however the Gee name was prevalent, according to Fletcher, in Leicestershire from 1400, Nottinghamshire from 1460, and Lincolnshire from about 1340. I have seen unsubstantiated references to a southern Scottish origin of the Gee surname and links to such spellings as MacGee, MacGhie, MacGhee, and Magee derived from the Strathclyde Britons.
This ancient founding race of the north was a mixture of Gaelic/Celts whose original territories ranged from Lancashire, England in the south, northward to the south bank of the river Clyde in Scotland, but if this information is accurate it is almost certainly a group unrelated or at least far distant from my own ancestry.
In the 1700's Americans in New England continued to be heavily influenced by their British origins. There was a tendency to pronounce an "e" as though it was an "a". As a result the name Gee was often pronounced Jay. Since spelling at this time was not "fixed" and often a matter of personal preference the name Gee was often written, as it sounded in some dialects, "Jay". The family is definitely English and the spelling Gee is well documented in England as far back as the 1300's.
The name "Gee" appears to have originated with the Normans in England. A possible link to the pronunciation of the Norman surname Gui or Guy is expressed in the book The Norman People and Their Descendants. A small village in the English parish of Stockport, Cheshire - Gee Cross - appears to have taken it's name from the Gee family. There are possibly as many as three villages in France named Gee. One of these is in the Loire Valley area.
According to the book The Gee Family, copyright 1937 by W. J. Fletcher, the Gee surname cannot be directly traced beyond the 17th century, however the Gee name was prevalent, according to Fletcher, in Leicestershire from 1400, Nottinghamshire from 1460, and Lincolnshire from about 1340. I have seen unsubstantiated references to a southern Scottish origin of the Gee surname and links to such spellings as MacGee, MacGhie, MacGhee, and Magee derived from the Strathclyde Britons.
This ancient founding race of the north was a mixture of Gaelic/Celts whose original territories ranged from Lancashire, England in the south, northward to the south bank of the river Clyde in Scotland, but if this information is accurate it is almost certainly a group unrelated or at least far distant from my own ancestry.
In the 1700's Americans in New England continued to be heavily influenced by their British origins. There was a tendency to pronounce an "e" as though it was an "a". As a result the name Gee was often pronounced Jay. Since spelling at this time was not "fixed" and often a matter of personal preference the name Gee was often written, as it sounded in some dialects, "Jay". The family is definitely English and the spelling Gee is well documented in England as far back as the 1300's.
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