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I was rather bothered to see this entry in the IGI from a text file
recently sent in.
I have a feeling that this is the original data on the TAUNTON Ma. Caswell
line. If it has been plucked from the IGI and we are all using it as our
official starting point for the Taunton line, we could be MILES off!
WHere did this data originate? Has anyone followed it up?
Ric. CASWELL (M)...................... M: 9 Feb 1618
Spouse: Mary SLAYNIE Saint Michael Cornhill,
London,
London, England
Mike CASWELL
4336 Route 31
Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA
Voice - 315 597-5140 Fax - 315 597-1457
Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike(a)caswellplating.com
Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike(a)moonrakers.com
SAND, SAWDUST AND SAWLOGS
by Frances Caswell Hanna copyright 1955
Published by Edwards Broyhers, Inc
Ann Arbor, Michigan
page 4 THE FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLERS
On a balmy day in the late summer of 1847, the Eagle, a
sailing scooner northbound from Chicago, with a family of six
aboard, stood off the entrance to Pere Marquette Lake. Unable
to sail through the shallow channel, the captain sent the family
ashore in the yawl. their oxen, cows and pigs were forced
overboard, and after circling the scooner once or twice, swam
ashore. A years provisions for the family were brought to land
in row boats. Such was the dramatic arrival of the Burr Caswell
family, first permanent white settlers in the region about
Pere Marquette Lake. Burr was forty years old, his wife, Hanna
Green, a year or two younger. Of their four children, Mary was
fifteen, George thirteen, Helen ten, and Edgar seven.
The Caswell family lived for a time in a driftwood cabin
which the father, who had fished in the adjoining waters the
previous two summers, had built for them. The cabin was near
Nin-de-be-ka-tun-ning, the Indian village of fifty "fires"
and gruesome memory. These Indians lived in lodges,
rectangular in shape, made of bark and covered with dome-
shaped roofs. Later Caswell built a spacious house from
lumber which had washed up on the beach, the historic house
still standing on the Lake Shore Road.
Don't know if this information is new to anyone. I have
the book because Frances Caswell Hanna was my great aunt.
She also wroye and published a song "Batchelor Maids".
Bob Caswell bv189(a)freenet.uchsc.edu
--
Man's space on Earth, a quick dash for shelter before the rains come down.
-Sogi
In the end, there can be only one, but there may be many pretenders.
Welcome back.
We have a new Caswell webpage at
http://www.moonrakers.com/caswell
there is a list of research groups there, which will give you the names of
other people looking for your areas of interest.
I have forwarded your letter to our new CASWELL listserver.
If you would like to join it, please send email to:-
caswell-l-request(a)rootsweb.com
in the message write only
subscribe
leave subject and signature blank.
You may also like to contact Hugh & Beulah Caswell
1276 Irwin Drive
Swift Current
Sakatchewan S9H 1Z7
Canada
tel 306 773 4854
Do you have a database of your line? If so, I'd love a copy for the
webpage.
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> From: MSchell921(a)aol.com
> To: Mike(a)moonrakers.com
> Subject: Looking for Caswell connections
> Date: Saturday, July 12, 1997 17:04
>
> We talked to each other a few months ago, but then I lost your address
and
> just didn't get my act together. I'm back. I'm looking for Caswell
cousins in
> Saskatoon and possibly Ontario. My great-great-grandfather James D.
Caswell
> and his wife (name unknown at the moment) visited my grandmother and her
> family in Saskatoon from Ontario. He had many sons, including Andrew
Wallace,
> Robert Wallace, Joseph (these 3 are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in
> Saskatoon), and my great-grandfather John who married Patience Smith
(they're
> buried in California). Since the middle name of Wallace recurs, I wonder
if
> perhaps that is my great-great-grandmother's maiden name. In any case,
I've
> heard there are Caswell cousins still living in Saskatoon and I would
like to
> contact them for a visit next summer. My mother's cousin, John Caswell in
> Turlock, California, did much research in this direction and had
contacted
> Saskatoon Caswells, but he is now in a nursing home and very senile. I'm
> afraid all the information he found may be lost. Can you help me?
>
> Melinda Schell
> MSchell921(a)aol.com
>
> Melinda Schell
Please add my name/address to the CASWELL listserver. I am doing research on
Ira Caswell of New York. Thank you.
--Mark Coomer
mscoomer(a)evansville.net
I have information for Mark Coomer who requested information on Ira Caswell.
(I responded directly to his e-mail address, but my mail was returned.)
Ira Caswell is my gg grandfather. He married Ella Malinda Hudson and his
parents are Joshua Caswell, Jr. and Jane Taylor of Centerville, Alleghany Co,
NY. Joshua is descended from the Taunton, MA Caswells and there is more
information I can share.
Joe Cornwell
Noreen Haler runs an organisation called The Caswell Surname Organisation
She has a card index of thousands of Caswell surnames
You can reach her by phone on 214 262 6074
or by mail
310 Lakeview Drive
Grand Prairie
Texas 75051
If you are writing for information on a relative, (the odds are that Noreen
already knows of him/her)
then please send a SAE and a couple of bucks for her trouble.
Mike CASWELL
4336 Route 31
Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA
Voice - 315 597-5140 Fax - 315 597-1457
Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike(a)caswellplating.com
Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike(a)moonrakers.com
I will simply add your email address to the list, which is on the webpage,
under research groups.
Your Ira Caswell research sounds fascinating.
Would you like to do an article that I could place on the webpage? Perhaps
with a photo of the farmhouse etc. ( I have a scanner)
I have forwarded this letter and my reply to the Caswell listserver, where
everyone on the list will read it.
By joining the list you can keep up with anything that is going on and send
messages to everyone else.
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> From: Mark Coomer <mscoomer(a)evansville.net>
> To: Mike Caswell <mike(a)caswellplating.com>
> Subject: Re: Fw: caswell
> Date: Friday, July 11, 1997 22:25
>
> Mike--
> Thank you for answering quickly. I would be glad to join the NY research
> group. Can you tell me how to go about it? My interest in Ira CASWELL is
> historical. He is mentioned prominently and repeatedly in William
Cockrum's
> book "The History of the Underground Railroad." Cockrum and his father,
of
> Oakland City, Ind., were both active in aiding refugees. Oakland City
> ignores their Cockrum heritage to the city's detriment. The Cockrums
founded
> both the city and the town college. Young William was a colonel in the
Civil
> War. The old Cockrum house still stands, but in bad shape, across from my
> father's house.
> After crossing the Ohio River at a certain point, runaway slaves were
taken
> to Ira Caswell's farm where he hid them overnight and sent them on to
> Cockrum the next night. From there, the Cockrums smuggled the slaves by
> night to Dr. Posey's coal mine in Petersburg, Ind.
> I am an artist for the Evansville Courier. I wrote a feature article for
the
> newspaper concerning the Cockrums and their house about 2 years ago. I
have
> been helpful in drawing attention to the house. My aim at this time is to
> locate the old Caswell property (which I have done), and recover as much
> genealogical information as possible on Ira Caswell and his family. I am
> happy to have stumbled upon such a strong group interest in Caswell
history!
> By forwarding my letter to the CASWELL listserver, have you thus made it
> accessible to the New York researchers?
> Thanks so much for your help,
> --Mark Coomer
>
>
> At 08:58 PM 7/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >Mark
> >I have forwarded your letter to the CASWELL listserver.
> >
> >Have you joined our NY research group? I'm sure this data on Ira Caswell
> >will be of some importance to many NY researchers.
> >
> >
> >----------
> >> From: Mark Coomer <mscoomer(a)evansville.net>
> >> To: caswell(a)vivanet.com
> >> Subject: caswell
> >> Date: Friday, July 11, 1997 16:43
> >>
> >> Searching for information on Ira Caswell originally of New York state.
> >> Approx 25 yrs old in 1838 when purchased 40 acres in Warrick County,
> >> Indiana. Historical interest: very active link in underground railroad
> >> pre-civil war. Farm used as "station" along underground railroad.
> >> 1850 Warrick Co., Ind.: CASWELL: Ira, 36, farmer; Malinda, 30;
> >> Christopher, 6; Emily, 2. In 1870 census, Christopher C. Caswell, 25,
is
> >> married to Serilda, 25, and has two children, Omer, 2, and Etta, 7
> >> months. In 1880 platte map, Christopher (C.C.) has apparently
inherited
> >> or bought his father's land and added it to his own.
> >> --Mark Coomer
> >
> >
>
Mark
I have forwarded your letter to the CASWELL listserver.
Have you joined our NY research group? I'm sure this data on Ira Caswell
will be of some importance to many NY researchers.
----------
> From: Mark Coomer <mscoomer(a)evansville.net>
> To: caswell(a)vivanet.com
> Subject: caswell
> Date: Friday, July 11, 1997 16:43
>
> Searching for information on Ira Caswell originally of New York state.
> Approx 25 yrs old in 1838 when purchased 40 acres in Warrick County,
> Indiana. Historical interest: very active link in underground railroad
> pre-civil war. Farm used as "station" along underground railroad.
> 1850 Warrick Co., Ind.: CASWELL: Ira, 36, farmer; Malinda, 30;
> Christopher, 6; Emily, 2. In 1870 census, Christopher C. Caswell, 25, is
> married to Serilda, 25, and has two children, Omer, 2, and Etta, 7
> months. In 1880 platte map, Christopher (C.C.) has apparently inherited
> or bought his father's land and added it to his own.
> --Mark Coomer
See bottom of note Caswells from Ireland
----------
> From: George Newbury <georgen(a)auracom.com>
> To: Moonrakers(a)Ultra.Net.Au
> Subject: Re: School Book - What a find!!!!
> Date: Tuesday, July 01, 1997 11:34 AM
>
> in the book 'KING'S BOUNTY A HISTORY OF EARLY SHELBURNE
> NOVA SCOTIA'
> by Marion Robertson ISBN 0-919680-24-0 bound
> 0-919680-21-6 pbk
>
> page 198 TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
>
> Merchants and shopkeepers far outnumbered all other trades and
> professions, numbering more than 150 between the years 1783 and 1787.
> For 'Wholesale or Retail, very low for Cash, Bills of Exchange, Fish,
> Fur or Lumber,' they offered their customers a wide selection of goods.
> Much of it was reminiscent of the well-established towns from whence
> they came rather than merchandise for sale in a new town planted in a
> wilderness on a rocky shore. In their stores were boxes of green and
> black tea: hyson, singlo,soushong and bohea; barrels of coffee,
> puncheons of molasses, brown and white loaf sugar and 'the very best
> Muscovado sugar in hogsheads and barrels from Barbadoes.'
> They sold vinegar in 40 gallon casks, Florence oil, ketchup and
> pickles. On their shelves and in bins were spices, fresh limes and dried
> fruits and grains; cheese flour and firkins of butter; Poland starch,
> pearlash, saltpeter, turpentine and soap.
> Porter came in hogsheads and barrels as did high proof rum 'of
> excellant flavour,' shrub, red port, white wines, Jamaica spirits and
> Windward Island rum.
> For ladies of fashion there were violet and plain hair powders and
> perfumery. For the men there were pipes, fine Virginia tobacco and
> snuff; shoe buckles, canes and walking sticks; silk, morocco, and black
> leather swordbelts; round and cocked hats, and black hair ribbons;
> velvet and leather stocks; London-made boots and shoes and blacking
> balls and shoe brushes to clean them; silk and worsted hose and
> stokings; white kidskin, buckskin and beaver gloves; oiled skin and silk
> umbrellas. In ready-made clothing there were Irish great coats, jackets,
> trousers and shirts, fine velvet and superfine camlet (camel hair)
> cloaks lined with green baize, calamancoes in fine satin fabric,
> sourtouts, slops (loose garments) ' of sundry kinds.' Yards of choice
> 'Irish linen, cambricks, velvets, corduroys, fustians, jeanets, queen's
> cord, tammy, durants and shalloon' waited to be sewn into cloaks and
> jackets and fine dresses. (+ a couple more pages)
>
>
> There is a very long list of names in the Appendix, however it dosn't
> mention where they came from.
> after some research found
> that the CASWELLs came from Ireland with the
> 17th Light Dragoons.
> and the 2 NEWBURYs disappeared - as usual.
>
> George
----------
Thanks.
I forwarded this to the Caswell listserver.
----------
> From: David and Pat Dorgan <dale(a)itl.net>
> To: mike(a)caswellplating.com
> Subject: Somerset 1891 census - Caswell
> Date: Tuesday, July 08, 1997 16:37
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> Found a Cassy on the 1891 census today.
>
> Esther Caswell aged 23 - servant
> living at 11 Hanham Street which is shown under Somerset, Keynsham,
Bitton,
> but to me 'cause it's where I come from it's Hanham St., Kingswood,
Bristol.
>
> Regards
>
> Pat
>
This file is now loaded to our CASWELL webpage for downloading.
www.moonrakers.com/caswell
----------
> From: Susan G Gare <suegare(a)juno.com>
> To: mike(a)caswellplating.com
> Subject: Re: CA:\FORINT\Gare.get
> Date: Tuesday, July 08, 1997 22:04
>
> Mike,
I found this information at the Rhode Island State
> Archives. It was off of a marriage reference: Luther L. Caswell son of
> James Caswell and Abbie Eliza Hazard daughter of Peleg Hazard on May 14
> 1850 in Warwick Rhode Island.
> Also after looking at the marriage record of Edward A. Caswell I found
> out the Luther F. Caswell was his father. Strange when i received the
> copy the F looked more like a L so I ran with it . Come to find out Abbie
> Mae Eliza was his mother these people had tons of middle names sometime
> they used and sometimes they didn't its really weird. Hope this helps you
> . Most of the Caswell I'm working with came from Coventry when it was the
> wilderness in Rhode Island. We have a private graveyard on Blackrock Road
> in Coventry we share it with the Chase Family.
> Thanks
>
> Susan
I think its time I updated all the databases we currently have on the
webpage.
If you have a Caswell database, or text file, on your line, please forward
it to me ASAP.
Mike CASWELL
4336 Route 31
Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA
Voice - 315 597-5140 Fax - 315 597-1457
Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike(a)caswellplating.com
Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike(a)moonrakers.com
We have several new members to our listserver, so I'd just like to remind
everyone that we have some very good message boards on the webpage which is
at:-
www.moonrakers.com/caswell
Can anyone connect to this line?
----------
> From: Stepfull(a)aol.com
> To: mike(a)caswellplating.com
> Subject: Caswell Summary
> Date: Wednesday, July 02, 1997 8:58 PM
>
> I don't know if this is what your looking for, but here it is anyway:
>
> Very little is known to me about the origins of the family. My
grandmother
> alternately described them as being either Scots-Irish or Welsh. This
> particular branch of the family appears to have come from Canada (or in
some
> cases to have remained there). I know nothing about the parents, but do
have
> limited information on the siblings. I believe the birth order was thus:
>
> Jane Caswell (married Hughes) died in Aylmer, Ontario around 1911 or
earlier.
> She had seven sons, all living at the time of her death. One apparently
> named Harry, another possibly named Robert? She was past 80 years of age
> when she died.
>
> John Caswell, resided St. Louis, Michigan.
>
> William Caswell, born around 1833. Resided Aylmer, Ontario.
>
> Robet Harvey Caswell (details below)
>
> James Caswell, resided St. Louis, Michigan.
>
> Robert Harvey Caswell, was born around 1836, probably in Ontario, Canada.
He
> married firstly Nancy Ellen Brininstool in 1865. They had two children:
>
> Ruth Louise Caswell, born 12 Jan 1866 in Jackson County, Michigan.
Married
> Andrew Josiah Smith 22 Feb 1882 in Grass Lake, Michigan. Ruth died 28
Dec
> 1918, reportedly from pneumonia after being wearied from caring for the
sick
> during a flu epidemic. 2 sons, 3 daughters, one dying at an early age.
>
> Ellen C. Caswell, born 10 Mar 1867 in Jackson County, Michigan. Married
2
> Mar 1892 in Jackson, Michigan to James Matthew Hudler. Ellen died 4 Mar
1936
> in Jackson, Michigan. No children. Ellen may have had a marriage prior
to
> James Matthew Hudler.
>
> Robert Harvey Caswell left his first wife, travelling to Illinois, and
later
> to Florida. He married secondly Alice (possibly a second cousin?).
They
> had two children:
>
> Wallace B. Caswell, born 22 Apr 1877. Married to Margret at an unknown
date.
> He resided Panama City, Florida. Operated a charter boat business.
>
> Children of Wallace B. Caswell:
>
> Wallace, Jr.
> Alice
> John Kendall (called Ken)
> Mary (married Joseph Rosa)
>
> 2nd child of Robert Harvey Caswell and Alice: Robert Leland Caswell,
> birthdate unknown. Married Hettie Jane (possibly connected to the Warwick
> family? possibly from Chipley, Florida?). He moved from Pensacola,
Florida
> to Bay County in 1908. Fire Chief. Robert died in Panama City, Florida
at
> an unknown date, at age 80.
>
> Children of Robert Leland Caswell:
>
> Fred
> Bruce L.
> Betty Jane (married Grady Roan Hartzog, Jr.)
>
> This concludes the bulk of my knowledge on this family, excepting the
> generations descending from Andrew Josiah and Ruth (Caswell) Smith.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen Fuller
We don't have a group researching Staffs, but I have now started one for
you. # 21 Staffordshire - you're it! :-)
You may like to contact 101523.721(a)compuserve.com (Roy Caswell) he has
lotsa stuff on Kazzies up north.
The updated CASWELL research list is at the bottom of this mailing, & can
be seen on the CASWELL webpage.
----------
> From: ian.beach(a)ccmail.wpcorp.com.au
> To: CASWELL-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: CASWELLS of Staffordshire, England.
> Date: Wednesday, July 02, 1997 2:38 AM
>
>
> Good Afternoon from Bunbury, Western Australia.
>
> I don't know whether this will be of any help but my Great
GrandMother
> was named Julia CASWELL, Unfortunately I haven't done any research
on
> that name yet.
>
> She lived until 1945 in a small town called SEDGLEY in southern
> Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands county). Sedgley is about 15
> miles NW of the city of Birmingham and 3 miles south of
Wolverhampton in
> the English Midlands.
>
> She married a man named Josiah ADDISS.
>
> Descendants of Josiah ADDISS & Juila CASWELL.
>
> Josiah ADDISS - d. after 1930
> ... m. Julia CASWELL - d. about 1945
>
> ...... 1 Harriet Leah ADDISS 1889 - 1980
> ............. m.Samuel BEACH 1890 - 1960
> ...... 2 Fanny ADDISS 1891 - 1983
> ............. m.Unkown
> ...... 3 Mary ADDISS 1893 - 1979
> ............. m. William Edgar HARRIS 1894 - 1961
> ...... 4 Alma ADDISS 1895 - ????
> ............. m. Hubert FLAVELL ???? - ????
> ...... 5 Julia ADDISS 1895 - 1976
> .......... ... m. Harold (or Henry) DOUGHTY 1895 - 1971
> ...... 6 Sarah ADDISS 1899 - 1979
> .......... ... m. William WHITEHOUSE 1898 - 1964
> ...... 7 Thomas ADDISS 1900 - 1918}
>
}Twins
> ...... 8 Hannah ADDISS 1900 - ????}
>
> As you can see Josiah and Julia had 8 children (7 daughters and only
one
> son), all born around the Sedgley area.
>
> Unfortunately, the son, joined the Worcestershire Regiment during
World
> War I and was posted Missing-in-action at the Battle of Bapaume in
> Northern France.
>
> Is anyone out there doing any research on the CASWELL families in
this
> area?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ian Beach
> ian.beach(a)wpcorp.com.au
CASWELL RESEARCH GROUPS
1 Taunton Ma
70412.3662(a)compuserve.com (Michael L Caswell) (Volunteered as coordinator
for this group)
100555.3655(a)compuserve.com (Terence L Caswell)
100724.724(a)compuserve.com (Diane McCracken)
drawyram(a)aol.com (Mary Ward)
103411.737(a)compuserve.com (Robert A Caswell)
WSCaswell(a)aol.com (Bill Caswell)
jcaswell(a)mail.erols.com (James Caswell)
104250.1175(a)compuserve.com (George Sanborn)
dover(a)lincoln.midcoast.com (Teri Dover)
roman(a)mpgs.enet.dec.com (Michael )
nanny(a)earthlink.net (Nancy Caswell)
HHuntoon(a)aol.com
jcornwel(a)mail04.mitre.org Joseph D. Cornwell III
2 Wiltshire UK
mike(a)moonrakers.com (Michael J Caswell)
georgecass(a)aol.com (Beverly Casswell George)
drawyram(a)aol.com (Mary Ward)
3 Blackwater/Ireland/Canada
Hugh & Beulah Caswell 1276 Irwin Drive Swift Current. Sk S9H 1Z7 tel 306
773 4854
offcon(a)oncomdis.on.ca (Sylvia Best)
4 Lincolnshire UK CASSWELL
summers(a)ozemail.com.au (Julie Summers)
bcasswell(a)oise.on.ca - Beverly Casswell 70 Southvale Drive, Toronto, M4G
1G5 Canada tel 416 429 4505
WGRIFF8415(a)aol.com (Marjorie Casswell) 12706 NE 7th Ave, Vancouver, Wa
98685-3019 tel 306 576 0965
Ed.Casswell(a)s3abac8.ssa.gov (Edwin Casswell Jnr)
5 Leicestershire UK
Derek A Casswell dek(a)caswel.u-net.com
6 Somerset UK
7 Virginia
8 Michigan
70412.3662(a)compuserve.com (Michael L Caswell)
100555.3655(a)compuserve.com (Terence L Caswell)
100724.724(a)compuserve.com (Diane McCracken
103764.3332(a)compuserve.com (Steven J Caswell)
bchm019(a)unlvm.unl.edu (Eva Burns Bachman)
9 Lancashire UK
101523.721(a)compuserve.com (Roy Caswell)
10 N Carolina
Richard Caswell (Governor)
drawyram(a)aol.com (Mary Ward)
cablack(a)olg.com Carolyn Black
11 Levi Caswell Conn/NY
100555.3655(a)compuserve.com (Terence L Caswell)
100724.724(a)compuserve.com (Diane McCracken)
drawyram(a)aol.com (Mary Ward)
TomCa3(a)aol.com (Thomas Caswell)
LawRoots(a)aol.com
dude(a)csra.net (Randy Caswell)
nanny(a)earthlink.net (Nancy Caswell)
12 Rhode Island
70621.2747(a)compuserve.com (Ward Slocum Caswell)
caswell(a)beveridge.org (Philip Caswell)
drawyram(a)aol.com (Mary Ward)
WSCaswell(a)aol.com (Bill Caswell)
13 New York
ECA(a)aol.com (Val)
75332.2351(a)compuserve.com (Daniel M Caswell)
Lawroots(a)aol.com
bchm019(a)unlvm.unl.edu (Eva Burns Bachman)
dude(a)csra.net (Randy Caswell)
williamr(a)vivanet.com (Ruth)
mvreeland(a)zelacom.com (Mike Vreeland)
LuShelle(a)ibm.net
rlrobins(a)flinthills.com Randy Robinson
fishon(a)seaknet.alaska.edu John Pickens
jcornwel(a)mail04.mitre.org Joseph D. Cornwell III
14. Dakota
birkho01(a)nol.org (Alvin & Mellisa Birkholz)
15. Iowa
danbfran(a)interl.net
16. Armagh, Ireland
davidb(a)iceonline.com (Coordinator for this group) Judy Todhunter
JMCaswell(a)aol.com
wylliams(a)ix.netcom.com
17. New Hampshire, Isle of Shoals
caswell(a)abn.unt.edu (Mark Caswell)
kbates(a)s.psych.uiuc.edu Kathy Bates
18. Northants, England
Judith Ross (Caswell) 4 College Rd Timaru, New Zealand
19. Vermont
LuShelle(a)ibm.net
20. London UK
Ann Morse annmorse(a)onthenet.com.au
21. STAFFORDSHIRE UK
ian.beach(a)ccmail.wpcorp.com.au
>
>
Good Afternoon from Bunbury, Western Australia.
I don't know whether this will be of any help but my Great GrandMother
was named Julia CASWELL, Unfortunately I haven't done any research on
that name yet.
She lived until 1945 in a small town called SEDGLEY in southern
Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands county). Sedgley is about 15
miles NW of the city of Birmingham and 3 miles south of Wolverhampton in
the English Midlands.
She married a man named Josiah ADDISS.
Descendants of Josiah ADDISS & Juila CASWELL.
Josiah ADDISS - d. after 1930
... m. Julia CASWELL - d. about 1945
...... 1 Harriet Leah ADDISS 1889 - 1980
............. m.Samuel BEACH 1890 - 1960
...... 2 Fanny ADDISS 1891 - 1983
............. m.Unkown
...... 3 Mary ADDISS 1893 - 1979
............. m. William Edgar HARRIS 1894 - 1961
...... 4 Alma ADDISS 1895 - ????
............. m. Hubert FLAVELL ???? - ????
...... 5 Julia ADDISS 1895 - 1976
.......... ... m. Harold (or Henry) DOUGHTY 1895 - 1971
...... 6 Sarah ADDISS 1899 - 1979
.......... ... m. William WHITEHOUSE 1898 - 1964
...... 7 Thomas ADDISS 1900 - 1918}
}Twins
...... 8 Hannah ADDISS 1900 - ????}
As you can see Josiah and Julia had 8 children (7 daughters and only one
son), all born around the Sedgley area.
Unfortunately, the son, joined the Worcestershire Regiment during World
War I and was posted Missing-in-action at the Battle of Bapaume in
Northern France.
Is anyone out there doing any research on the CASWELL families in this
area?
Thanks in advance
Ian Beach
ian.beach(a)wpcorp.com.au
See bottom of note Caswells from Ireland
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> From: George Newbury <georgen(a)auracom.com>
> To: Moonrakers(a)Ultra.Net.Au
> Subject: Re: School Book - What a find!!!!
> Date: Tuesday, July 01, 1997 11:34 AM
>
> Wal Roberts wrote:
> > ,
> >
> > I am sitting here at my desk in awe!!! In front of me is a "School
Book"
> > which belonged to my GGGrandfather. It is dated 1857.
> >
> >
> > Some of the arithmetic problems are in the form of accounts :-
> >
> > i.e.
> > £
> >
> > 10 1/4 lbs of Fine Green Tea at 12/9 per lb 6 /10 /8 1/4
> > 12 1/2 lbs of Gunpowder Tea at 18/5 per lb 11 /10 /2 1/2 > 17 1/4
lbs of Best Bohea at 9/5 1/4 per lb 8 / 2 /9 1/2
> > 5 3/4 lbs of Coffee at 7/3 1/2 per lb 2 / 1 /11
> > 28 1/2 lbs of double refined sugar at 1/5 per lb 2 / 0 /4 1/2
> > 31 lbs of Rice at 6 1/2d per lb 16 / 9 1/2
> > ----------
> > £ 31 / 2 / 9 1/4
> >
> > It is facinating to read these items -
> >
> > There is also an account for what looks like a material store
> >
> > listing - Camblets
> > - Dorvlas
> > - Corded Dimity
> > - Shalloon
> > - Coloured Silk
> > - Superfind Black Silk.
> >
> > Again does anyone know what Camblets, Dorvlas, Dimity ans Shalloon is
please ?
> > ---------------------
> 73 years earlier
>
> in the book 'KING'S BOUNTY A HISTORY OF EARLY SHELBURNE
> NOVA SCOTIA'
> by Marion Robertson ISBN 0-919680-24-0 bound
> 0-919680-21-6 pbk
>
> page 198 TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
>
> Merchants and shopkeepers far outnumbered all other trades and
> professions, numbering more than 150 between the years 1783 and 1787.
> For 'Wholesale or Retail, very low for Cash, Bills of Exchange, Fish,
> Fur or Lumber,' they offered their customers a wide selection of goods.
> Much of it was reminiscent of the well-established towns from whence
> they came rather than merchandise for sale in a new town planted in a
> wilderness on a rocky shore. In their stores were boxes of green and
> black tea: hyson, singlo,soushong and bohea; barrels of coffee,
> puncheons of molasses, brown and white loaf sugar and 'the very best
> Muscovado sugar in hogsheads and barrels from Barbadoes.'
> They sold vinegar in 40 gallon casks, Florence oil, ketchup and
> pickles. On their shelves and in bins were spices, fresh limes and dried
> fruits and grains; cheese flour and firkins of butter; Poland starch,
> pearlash, saltpeter, turpentine and soap.
> Porter came in hogsheads and barrels as did high proof rum 'of
> excellant flavour,' shrub, red port, white wines, Jamaica spirits and
> Windward Island rum.
> For ladies of fashion there were violet and plain hair powders and
> perfumery. For the men there were pipes, fine Virginia tobacco and
> snuff; shoe buckles, canes and walking sticks; silk, morocco, and black
> leather swordbelts; round and cocked hats, and black hair ribbons;
> velvet and leather stocks; London-made boots and shoes and blacking
> balls and shoe brushes to clean them; silk and worsted hose and
> stokings; white kidskin, buckskin and beaver gloves; oiled skin and silk
> umbrellas. In ready-made clothing there were Irish great coats, jackets,
> trousers and shirts, fine velvet and superfine camlet (camel hair)
> cloaks lined with green baize, calamancoes in fine satin fabric,
> sourtouts, slops (loose garments) ' of sundry kinds.' Yards of choice
> 'Irish linen, cambricks, velvets, corduroys, fustians, jeanets, queen's
> cord, tammy, durants and shalloon' waited to be sewn into cloaks and
> jackets and fine dresses. (+ a couple more pages)
>
>
> There is a very long list of names in the Appendix, however it dosn't
> mention where they came from.
> after some research found
> that the CASWELLs came from Ireland with the
> 17th Light Dragoons.
> and the 2 NEWBURYs disappeared - as usual.
>
> George