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The Marriage Record for Humphrey Bourne Cassingham & Sarah Boorman

Parish Church of Saint George Bloomsbury 

Register of Marriages

15 Oct 1866   

Humphrey Bourne Cassingham
b. Nov. 1840 Tenterden, Kent, England
Son of John Cassingham & Mary Bourne

d. 25 Oct 1872 in Barming, Kent, England
 

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar - Index of Wills and Administrations
     
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Surname Saturday: Hegedus

Ancestor: Maria Ana Hegedus

found in FamilySearch.org

Collection:
Hungary Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895              

Name: Mar Ana Hegedüs
Event: Baptism
Event Date: 15 Mar 1791
Event Place: Oszlop, Veszprém, Hungary
Father: Joseph Hegedüs
Mother: Maria Vollff

Film Number: 699518
Digital Folder Number: 4660099
Image Number: 427

DPMO & National POW/MIA Recognition Day

Today is

National POW/MIA Recognition Day

For more information see:

 Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office

     and: National POW/MIA Recognition Day

History of the POW/MIA Flag

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HMTS Alert & the loss of Jack Cassingham

The HMTS Alert was torpedoed and sunk in the Straits of Dover by the Seehund German midget submarine U-5330 while making repairs on an undersea telegraph cable.  All 59 hands were lost.

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CASSINGHAM, JACK. Third Engineer Officer.
Merchant Navy.
Died 24 February 1945. Aged 39.
Son of John Odion Cassingham and Kate Cassingham.
Husband of Violet Cassingham, of Folkestone, Kent.
Commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London. Panel 4.

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Visit: kentfallen.com for more information including a list of persons who perished on the ship.

August 1860 Death Notice for Harriet (Dean) Cassingham

 

Kentish Chronicle - 04-Aug 1860

 

Listed above is the death notice for Harriet (Dean) Cassingham

 Wife of Odian Cassingham

Born 12 July 1806, in Ashford, Kent, England

Daughter of James Dean & Sarah Henty

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Illinois State Archives: Civil War Muster Database

The Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls database

 is a free, searchable database that contains the transcription of each soldier's entry in the Muster and Descriptive Rolls containing information on over 285,000 soldiers from Illinois who served in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Each entry includes all of the information that was recorded in the original Muster and Descriptive Rolls including:  soldier's name; rank; age; height; colors of eyes, hair, and complexion; occupation; marital status; birthplace; residence; date, place, and term of enrollment; name; name of mustering officer; date and place of muster out; name of mustering-out officer; and remarks concerning transfers, promotions, injuries, or special duty.

In this database I located the brother of our G-Grandmother Arra Amanda Bacon:

 John N. Bacon.

September 11 Memorial

 

Hosted by CNN.com, this Memorial Website lists the names of those who died in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania when terrorists hijacked four U.S. planes on September 11, 2001, along with some photos and biographical information.

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Village of Hadley, Massachusetts, c.1663

The diagram of lots in the Village of Hadley shows our 9th g-grandfather, Joseph Baldwin, as one of the residents.

Source:   History of Hadley by Sylvester Judd; 1905
Available on openlibrary.org

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Re-dedication of the Salem Witch Trials Memorial

(Source: http://www.fold3.com)

The Salem Witch Trials Memorial located on Charter Street in Salem,  Massachusetts, where 14 women and 6 men were accused of being witches, were tried, convicted, and executed, will be re-dedicated at a public ceremony on Sunday, September 9, 2012, at 4 p.m.

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Honoring America's Workers - Happy Labor Day!

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