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KEECH Family Members

​​​Page last updated 22 May 2024.

Meaning of… (See https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname): 
KEECH:

• English (mainly Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire).
• Nickname for an fat person, from Middle English cach, caiche, cage, kech, a word of unexplained origin but presumably the antecedent of modern English dialect keech (variant catch) ‘lump of congealed fat; fat of a slaughtered animal rolled up into a lump (in preparation for sending to the chandler or tallow maker to make wax)’.
• Variant of Kedge, a nickname either from Middle English kegge, kigge ‘cheerful, pleasant, agreeable, merry’, or from an unrecorded Middle English kegge ‘belly’, for a pot-bellied person.

KEECH family pages done are:

• BUCKLER, June Lorraine (m. KEECH)
• KEECH, Blanche Antonia (m. ?)
• KEECH, Carl Martin 
• KEECH, Horace Richmond 
• KEECH, James Henry 
• KEECH, Leigh Richmond 
• KEECH, Ruth Estelle (m. SELLNER)
• KEECH, Virginia Leigh 

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​m. = maiden name

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