Linda, I'm not familiar with Cooper Cassidy, my study of the Cassidy family
started with my spelling of the name and went back from there, trying to
establish the connections with other spellings. Iowa in the 19th Century
was a very common place to see the spelling of Casady and that is where my
family spelling originated; the Simon Casady family got their way of
spelling the name in Iowa too. Virtually everyone in the country with the
Casady variation is related to either the Simon Casady family or mine and
went through Iowa at one time or another; there is a branch of the family
spelled Casady in Northern Missouri that I haven't been able to link
directly to Simon though.
My branch of the Cassidy family came out of Jackson County, Ohio in 1851 and
I believe is linked to Andrew Cassidy, born in Ireland in 1800, but I
haven't been able to document the relationship directly; he moved west from
Pennsylvania to Ohio about 1830. Other descendants of Andrew moved to St.
Louis and kept the Cassidy spelling, but I'm not sure how they dispersed
from there.
The Simon Casady family came to Iowa sometime in the years between 1820? and
1840 from Connersville, Indiana and is found there with the Cassidy
spelling. As the Simon Casady family dispersed from Iowa, most kept the
Casady spelling but there are some variations found in Iowa, most
particularly Cassady as the family moved south and west in the state. We
also see several individual families spelling their name Cassidy, that seems
to be more common in the northern part of Iowa and those families seem to be
more connected with the New York and Canadian branches.
A lot of what I have gleaned has been from records and stories other family
members have sent me and I do not know how much of it is documented and how
much is casual, undocumented study. I have been able to shore up a lot of
the information I have via census and other records, but I cannot, for
example, document to Genealogical standards that Simon Casady of Des Moines,
Iowa was indeed Simon Cassidy of Connersville, Indiana.
Please do share what you know about your Cassidy's travels and moves. I
would very much like to know where they came from in Ohio and when they
moved to Iowa, as well as where they located there. The move back to
Ohio/Pennsylvania, when and where might provide additional clues. I'm not
at all sure when I might be able to get back into my records and start
trying to match up branches and names again, but I have saved every email
I've received about the Cassidy family over the last 12 years so there is a
lot of information in that which could help.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: cassidy-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:cassidy-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of LMeans1446(a)aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:48 PM
To: cassidy(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CASSIDY] CASSIDY Digest, Vol 5, Issue 32
Jim Cassidy,
I am connected to the OHIO Cassidy's. I use
Tribalpages.com to track my
progress (slow but sure). My Cassidy's moved to Iowa and then moved back
to Ohio/PA. Cant figure out who is connected to who since they all seem
to have the same given names. But "Cooper" Cassidy is one of my people.
Any help you can give me would be appreciated, and I would love to share my
info too!
Linda Means
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