Looking for O'Phee's and Parish

Hi,

I suspect your O'PHEE name is a phoenetic spelling of O'FEE.  I checked for O'PHEEs in the GRIFFITH's Valuation and did not find any.  However, there were nine O'FEEs listed and are only found in Northern Ireland:

7 in County Antrim

1 in County Derry

1 in Befast City

You should not neglect Mac FEE (20 found) and FEE (172 found)

I checked in MacLysaght's Surnames in Ireland and did NOT find the name O'PHEE but do find the following:

(O) FEE, FEY, FOY, FYE - All these are variant anglicized forms of ? Fiaich.  They are occasionally changed to Fay by absorption or made HUNT by pseudo-translation; in modern contracted spelling fiach (raven) and fiadhach (hunt) are identical.   The most numerous of the forms given above are FEE (in Fermanagh, Armagh and Cavan) and FOY (Cavan and north Connacht).  MIF

Since you believe your man was born in 1864, you should try to get a copy of his birth record from the GRO, see: http://www.groireland.ie/   

I checked the birth records collection for Ireland on www.familysearch.org and find 13 possibilities (search of John O'PHEE).  See:

https://familysearch.org/search/record/results#count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Ajohn~%20%2Bsurname%3Ao'phee~&collection_id=1408347

 and 173 found for John O'FEE ar: https://familysearch.org/search/record/results#count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Ajohn~%20%2Bsurname%3Ao'fee~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1864-1870~&collection_id=1408347

Good Luck to you.

James McNamara

Feakle Clare Admin

feakle@irelandxo.com