CASEY name variations -
. CAISSIE & QUESSY names - 1665-1998 Acadia-Quebec CANADA
Many thanks to Richard Casey for information following: (quoted here)
Our earliest known ancestor in North America is a young Irish refugee
named
Roger Casey. When first listed in the 1671 census in Port Royal, Acadia, the
enumerator spelled the name as he heard it. This trend continued until
literacy caught up with the system and persons could recognize a mis-spelling.
If it were not for the internet and this list, I could not have linked up
with desceendants of Roger Casey now in several parts of the world. In this
case I used the Quessy variant which is still in use in Quebec.
Here is a list of the various spellings that I have found for the Casey name.
As for Chessy, it is still pronounced that way by some older Acadians in
villages in New Brunswick, but I have only seen it spelled that way in two or
three church records, usually by priests who were not familiar with the name
and spelled it as it was given to them. It was not often used in official
records. Here are some of the name spellings and the source.
Roger Kriessy 1671 Port Royal Census
Roger Kessy 1685, 28 juin deposition proces de sorcellerie a Québec
Roger Karsy 1686 Census
Roger Guercy 1698 Census
Roger Guessi 1700 list
Roger Chessy 1701 list
Jean Roger, 1703, obviously Roger Casey
Jean Keney, 1707, obviously Roger Casey
Pierre Queney, 1707, Roger's son Pierre
Jean Kessy, 1714, again Roger Casey. His son Jean is on the same list.
Le vieux Roger 1715, 28 March (Le vieux "old man")
Joseph Kessy, 1751, Roger's grandson
Anne Quessi, 1752 Larocque's census, PEI
John Cassie, 1776 deposition when English and Acadians settlers attempted
to import the American Revolution to Nova Scotia.
Etienne Quesis, 1783 St-John River census
Jean Quessy, 1789 sépulture act en Batiscan Quebec
The spelling of Caissie, is relatively new (early 1800), but it is now the
generally accepted spelling for all of Roger's descendants in New Brunswick.
Those Caissies are Francophones; later arrivals from Ireland, after 1800, were
Caseys and Anglophones, and in this way it is relatively easy to distinguish
the two groups. Some have become Caseys because it used to be easier, much
easier, to get a job in New Brunswick if you had an English sounding name.
Please
post connections per CASEY surname (or variant) first per
Subject line format sequence: (example: use ONE at a time per post)
QUESSY & CAISSIE etc CASEY name variations - 1665-1998 Acadia-Quebec
CANADA
or (example 2):
CAISSIE (book or web page etc), TIME period, & LOCATION/country
or generally per Subject sequence:
CASEY, firstname & key YEAR & LOCATION/country < fill in actual data
mailto:CASEY-L@rootsweb.com
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ spell address exactly this way!!!
with explicit full detail in body of message, please -thanks
- the body of e-mail should continue from the Subject & add more
This may include connections, spouses, collaterals, source, origins