I believe that most the family history of Randolph Casey is based
primarily on fairly early secondary sources. "Casey Family History" by
Lewis F. Casey in 1876 (located in the University of Texas Archives) and
William Perrin's book, "History of of Jefferson County, Illinois in 1883
(available in many genealogical libraries) and the "Mount Vernon
Register News Sesquicentennial Feature," 1976 (a recent newspaper series
of articles mostly a reprint of the two earlier works). All three of
these early versions are included in the 1980 book, "Casey Family
History" by Harold Casey (my father - deceased) and Robert Casey (me).
My book is available in many genealogical libraries but out of print for
over 10 years.
The 1876 source states that Randolph Casey "was raised and grew up in
Spartanburg District, South Carolina where he married Mary Jane
Pennington, a woman of superior mind and judgement. From the best
information (that) I can get, he must have married about 1765 or 1766."
The Register News states that "in 1760 he was married to Mary Jane
Pennington." These are the earliest sources for his first marriage.
Any other secondary sources that is recorded in the last 50 years should
carry less credibility. Lewis F. Casey was the great grandson of
Randolph Casey via Abraham P. Casey, son of Randolph Casey.
We also know from primary sources that Randolph was married to Charity
from 1787 to 1814. In 1787, "Randolph and Charity Casey, his wife of
Greenville County, South Carolina sold to Richard Robison of Abbeville
County, South Carolina 100 acres more or less." Randolph's will was
signed on May 8, 1814 in Smith County, Tennessee and listed his wife as
Charity Casey. Since both of these marriages were suppose to be to
Pennington sisters, there may be Pennington sources that could give more
detail of these early marriages.
An exciting development for these South Carolina Casey lines is DNA.
There are around 20 DNA submissions for Casey men with South Carolina
origins. Given enough time and proper selection of DNA submissions, we
will eventually be able to construct a DNA Descendancy chart based on a
combination of DNA and proven research. We really need the Randolph
Casey line represented in this research. Here are some issues that we
have discovered to date:
1) All Casey submissions with South Carolina are closely related to
date - except Elisha Casey. This really helps the Elisha Casey not waste
a lot of time attempting to connect to South Carolina Casey lines that
are not genetically related in the genealogical timeframe (200 to 300
years ago). The Elisha Casey line is more closely related to several
lines that recently lived in southwest Ireland (so research of this
Irish area would be more fruitful for Elisha Casey researchers).
2) All South Carolina Casey submissions appear to be remotely related
to several Casey submissions that all have recent ties to southwest
Ireland - not northern Ireland. Of course, it only takes one family
moving north to change this scenario - but we should now be open to the
South Carolina Casey lines having ties to Casey lines in southwest
sothwest Ireland that are known to be genetically related in a very
distant timeframe (400 to 600 years ago). Also, since these to groupings
of Casey lines are probably related in distant timeframe, having many
submissions of both groups will help determine which mutations are very
early (400 to 600 years ago) from those that are more important to
genealogical research (200 to 300 years ago).
3) The Casey DNA is almost unique in nature which is pretty uncommon
for today's DNA research with 67 markers tested. This means that any
surname with this DNA is probably Casey male DNA (adoption, etc.). We
already have one case of a Hanvey line that is a new branch of our Casey
line. This Hanvey line were neighbors of our Casey lines in South
Carolina. Of the 200,000 submissions to date, the South Carolina Casey
lines probably have unique marker values that no other submissions have
(this is hard to prove though). We do know that some marker values are
less than 0.01 % (one in 10,000) of submissions analyzed for marker
variations.
4) We have discovered two major branches of all South Carolina lines.
This means everyone should concentrate on trying to connect to only
lines in their branch and discount any connection to the other branch.
Other major branches and sub-branches will eventually evolve as we get
more lines and more samples. We have developed around a dozen possible
second level sub-branches and even third level sub-branches. Since we
do not have the actual DNA of our oldest ancestors, some of these
sub-branches may be just the grandfather's or father's mutation while
others may be more significant (mutation of the oldest proven ancestor
or his son). Many more samples will be required to separate
genealogically significant mutations (those of the first three
generations of our oldest ancestor) from recent mutations (mutations of
the donor, his father, grandfather, etc.).
5) See my web site (
www.rcasey.net) for a 30 to 40 pages of analysis of
Casey DNA to date (as well as charts and tables). Select the Casey DNA
link in the left frame. If you get a male descendant of Randolph Casey,
I will update the analysis and will let you know what is significant
about the DNA markers for the Randolph Casey line. However, I should
caution all Casey researchers, it will take many properly selected
submissions make significant inroads on how all these lines are
connected. Also, with only 67 markers available at a reasonable cost,
there will not be enough DNA information to separate all lines like we
would like to (similar to wills that do not always mention all
children). For example, my line Ambler Casey (b. 1790) and Jesse E.
Casey (b. 1797) have an exact 67 marker match (the only two lines with
different proven oldest ancestors that do to date). There is no marker
value that can separate these two lines unless more than 67 markers are
tested. Secondary sources state that these two are brothers - DNA tends
to support this connection.
casey-request(a)rootsweb.com wrote:
Today's Topics:
1. Randolph Casey (Verna Dinkins)
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:23:13 -0500
From: Verna Dinkins <vernai(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: [CASEY] Randolph Casey
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Hello, I'm new to this list and am sure that the questions I'm going to ask have
all been discussed before, but perhaps someone will have the time to go over it again. My
Internet and Ancestry search of Casey family trees seem to bring up more questions than
providing answers.
In the pension papers of Levi Casey, it states that he was born in 1767 in Spartanburg
County, South Carolina and that his birthdate was recorded in his father's Bible which
was in the possession of his brother, Zadok Casey of Jefferson County, Illinois. Does
anyone have a copy of this Bible?
How is the wife of Randolph Casey documented? I know that South Carolina kept no early
records so how does one prove that he was married to Mary Jane Pennington and then to her
sister, Charity?
Thank you,
Verna
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