Hi All Cashen/Cashin/Cashion Researchers,
I recently found this information:
The MacCashins were hereditary physicians in Upper Ossory. Many MacCashins
were 1640 Irish Papist proprietors in Co. Leix As early as 1304 the name
occurs in Co. Kildare and in 1331 in north Tipperary, which adjoins Co. Leix.
The Hearth Money Rolls of 1666 indicates that it was common in Co. Tipperary.
The Hearth Money Rolls for Co. Leix are not extant, but Petty's "census" of
around the same time found Cashins numerous there. Most notable of the
physicians was Conly Cashin who wrote a medical tract in Latin in 1667. It is
stated that the Cassans of Sheffield House (Capoley) were properly de
Cassagne, a family having left France on the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes, went to Flanders from where they came to Ireland, their ancestor was
an officer in the army of William of Orange. At the end of the eighteenth
century there was a notable firm of shipowners in Waterford, Cashin, Wyse and
Quan. This family of Cashin came from the parish of Kilshane in Co.
Tipperary. Placenames of interest in this connexion are Ballycasheen, near
Killarney, and Ballycashin in Co. Waterford. Ballycasheen, in Co. Clare near
Corofin, is nearer to Connacht than to South Munster. This is not very far
away from the Sodhan country with its sept of ÓCasáin. It is suggested that
bishop John O'Cassin, who resigned the see of Killala in 1490, belonged to
this sept..
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Also located this:
Muiredach or Mulrooney Mullethan, King of Connaught in the
7th century, and of the line of 21, ancestor of that branch of the
Hy Brune Tribe called after him, The Clanna Mulrooney, and
which became so powerful as to attain to the dignity of a separate
tribe. The Families of the Clanna Mulrooney were the
O'Conors Don, O'Connors Sligo, O'Connors Roe & Corcumroe,
McCaffertys, McCavertys, McCashines, McDonoghs and
Dennisses, McDermotts, Magins, O'Connertys, O'Conaghtys,
O'Mulrooneys and O'Malones.
Number of Banners: 27 Name: Mc Cashine Original Name: O'Connor Founder:
22 Muiredach (above) meaning: Grandson of Helper
Countiea in which were posses'ns : 9
Number of Banners: 27 Name: O'Cashine Original Name: Mc Cashine Founder:
22
Meaning: Son of little high temp'd Chief Countiea in which were
posses'ns: 10, 13, 32
(I personally, don't understand this part of the information?)
Source:
A Genealogical History of the Milesian Families of Ireland
Author: B.W. DeCourcy
Call Number: R929.1 D29 S
Page 26
This book contains the genealogy and history of the Milesian family of
Ireland.
Bibliographic Information: DeCourcy, B.W. A Genealogical History of the
Milesian Families of Ireland. W.F. Overdiek . Ohio. 1880.
I am still looking for my GG grandfather, Peter Cashen (unk date of birth,
County Cork, Ireland -- died before 1851, County Cork, Ireland) who married
Mary Margaret Harrington (abt 1808, County Cork, Ireland? -- 4/7/1874,
Glenarm, Illinois.
Mary Margaret came to America with her children (John, Mary, Timothy, Peter,
and Elizabeth Ann) in 1851 after the death of her husband, Peter, in Ireland.
My family was in the Sangamon Co., Illinois area. Hope to find someone with
information?????
Thanks,
Linda Cashen Gaunt