(I think your probably meant 1830 census).
Those were my thoughts too but then if you look at the J in the names John
and Joshua it looks exactly like the first letter of the name in question (Jno
or Ira). Another thing to remember - A John Casey received a land grant in
Wayne County in 1826 so good chance he was still in the county in 1830. BUT on
the other hand as far as I can tell this enumerator did not abbreviate John
as Jno anywhere in the entire county. Also - check image 1 of 65 (on
ancestry.com - enlarge to 100% or higher) in the Wayne County 1830 census images. On
that page (about 4th name down) is a John Isom - the J in John and the I (i)
in Isom look exactly the same to me. So..........
Still have not found out identity of John Casey age 14 in 1850 Wayne
County, TN who later marries and moves to Sharp County, AR. He's not mine so
don't
know why I'm worrying!
Speaking of pronunciation - When I first started researching my Casey line
30+ years ago my mother ask me (my mother's mother was a Casey) why I was
saying "Casey" and I said because that is the way the name is pronounced. She
said she had never heard it pronounced that way - she said her mother always
called it Kazey. I thought this must have just been an "Oklahoma thing".
However when I finally went to Newton County, AR where my grandmother was born the
natives didn't know anything about "Caseys" but knew all about
"Kazeys" -
even though they spelled it C a s e y!
Vonda
Vonda
In a message dated 4/22/2007 9:44:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
thorfinn(a)ameritech.net writes:
I looked at "ira casey" in the 1840 census. I do think it is I R A, rather
than JNO. In part, I think this because the census taker spells out John
elsewhere on the page rather than using the Jno abbreviation. I have
another hypothesis, however:
Could Ira Casey actually be Aaron Casey? Here's my thinking:
In another census, and a non-Casey branch of my family, a boy named Aaron
was recorded as Ira or Iran. This could have happened as a matter of
census-taker background, combined with what my mother so delicately put as
"substandard Southern speech" (Who really knows what American English in
Wayne TN sounded like in 1840, anyway??). The name of the boy in my family
was spoken of as Eye-uh ruhn. Not hard to see how that could have been
confused with Ira. This Aaron was from Henderson Co TN, not far from Wayne
County.
Now, I haven't been closely following your genealogy, DLC and others, so I
just offer this as a hypothesis.
Rita Casey
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