His daughter Bonnie (8 months) was the youngest person among the 120 who attended the Mee family reunion held at Becks during the weekend.
Mr Mee and his wife Jo live in London, and the reunion tied in nicely with plans for them to visit Casey's mother, Pauline, so she could meet the baby.
"My brother [Daniel] lives in Japan and he couldn't make it back for the reunion but it's always nice to catch up with the rest of the family, " Mr Mee said.
Mr Mee used to live in Dunedin but left New Zealand in 1998 to play rugby overseas and has been living in the United Kingdom since. He works as a salesman in London.
"There's a few characters in among this lot," was how he summed up his relations.
"They all enjoy a good singalong, so they'll be up singing before too long. They all like a bit of craic and singing and a hooley," Mr Mee said.
The reunion involved two branches of the family, descended from Hinkson and Jane Mee, of Ireland, who settled in Becks in 1874.
The original farm at Becks, Prospect, is still in family hands, with Hinkson's great-grandson Tom the fourth generation of Mees to farm the sheep, beef and cropping property. Tom is the only remaining Mee farming in the district.
The two branches of the family were quite different, several of the relatives said. The descendants of Hinkson's son James - known as the Ben Dhu lot, after the name of his farm - were "rowdier" than the Prospect crew, who were descended from Hinkson's son Thomas.
The reunion brought together relatives from all over New Zealand, as well as from Australia and England. The group was based at the Becks Hall on Saturday, with tours of the family's old farmhouses followed by a "hooley" that evening.
The event finished with a visit to the St Bathans cemetery and a picnic yesterday.
