Frederick O Cassingham 1884-1918

Frederick Odian Cassingham

Born in 1884, son of William & Clara (Judd) Cassingham

Died 23 Oct 1918 in France

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 UK, WWI Pension Record

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Annie Cassingham (1888-1957) of Gravesend, Kent

Annie Cassingham

daughter of John Edward & Charlotte (Hearn) Cassingham 

A dressmaker and the last of three spinster sisters that resided at 68 Kent Rd, Gravesend, Kent. The other two sisters were Alice who died in 1945 and Louisa, a children's nurse, who died in 1949. Albert Odian Cassingham was her nephew, son of her oldest brother, George, who passed in 1938.

 England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

Stone House Hospital

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The Mercantile Marine War Medal

This week FindMyPast is bringing over 600,000 new records online, including:

• Merchant Navy, First World War Medal Cards, 1914-1925

In this database I was able to find a Cassingham cousin who was recorded in the 1901 & 1911 UK census records as a Marine Engineer:

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The Mercantile Marine War Medal was awarded to members of the Merchant Navy for one or more voyages through a war or danger zone during the course of World War I.



Massachusetts Birth Records - Online images at your fingertips

FamilySearch.org provides free access to many original records. 

Easily searchable, the Massachusetts, Birth, 1841-1915 collection contains 3,818,515 records which can be viewed as they were recorded in the state registers. Below is the birth record for Gertrude A. Hughes, born 29 Nov 1897 in New Bedford, MA, daughter of Edward L. and Lillian Emily (Cassingham) Hughes.

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1775 Baptism Record for John Cassingham

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Above is the baptism record for our 4th G-Grandfather John Cassingham, son of John Cassingham and Alice Sampson. Baptized in Tenterden, Kent, England, on 7 April 1775 by a minister of the Protestant dissenting Church.

Occupation: Farm Bailiff

 

John Cassingham

Occupation: Farm Bailiff

Barming, Kent, 1851 England Census Record

 

 Farm Bailiff:  An overseer appointed by the possessor or proprietor of a farm to direct and superintend the farming operations.

Historically, the farm bailiff oversaw the collection of rent and taxes from the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor.  Was also known as a grainger  (derived from the Latin granicarius; a derivative of granica, meaning granary).

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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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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The Newsworthy 1846 Marriage of Thomas Cassingham to Eliza Amos

Thomas Cassingham  -  age 65

&

Eliza Amos  - age 14yrs

Married in Challock, Ashford, Kent England

  21 March 1846

Carlisle Journal

Free Digital Library of Historical Directories

      
Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It is a free website produced by the University of Leicester and is very user friendly being searchable by location, decades, or keywords.
      
Using this site I was able to locate our ancestor, Odian Cassingham, listed  in the History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847  under Folkstone Hundred as a Farmer: 
                                                

In reading the descriptive of his parish, I also came across the name of his home, Copperhust, where he resided on Knoll Hill in Aldington, Ashford, Kent:

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FreeREG website for UK Parish record searches

FreeREG provides free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K.

The FreeREG database currently contains 3,376,277 Marriages, 9,460,271 Baptisms and 6,472,793 Burials.

A Baptism record search for our surname Cassingham in Kent yielded the following positive result:

1899 Marriage Record for Rose Cassingham & Alfred St.John of New Bedford

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The London Gazette

A Treasure Trove of Historical Information

        

Britain’s oldest continuously-published newspaper has recorded significant political events, the everyday working of government, and, to some extent, the lives of ordinary everyday people since the plague of 1665 drove King Charles II from London. 
  

 The London Gazette is available online for free and the majority is key word searchable.


By the early eighteenth Century the Admiralty and War Office published despatches in the Gazette and submitted details of the appointments and promotions of their officers, a process known as “being gazetted”.  

    

In 1712 an “Act to Relieve Insolvent Debtors” required publication of insolvency announcements.

The Gazette continued to grow, the railway building boom of 1845, legislation on Patents and Company Law in the 1850s and 1860s, and from 1870 notice of civil service recruitment and examinations contributed to the publication. Civil service notices continued through the first half of the twentieth century and included bodies such as the post office.

Below I found a reference to our Cassingham relative:

(THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 26, 1895)

In 1899 a Naturalization Act resulted in the publication of lists of those granted British citizenship and in 1925 the Trustee Act picked up pre-existing practice by specifying certain legal privileges for executors giving notice of deceased’s estates in the Gazette. Notices of this type provide family historians with a rich trail of information.

For more information about the London Gazette visit us at www.london-gazette.co.uk/about, a special search facility is available for beginners at www.london-gazette.co.uk/search/steps/1 or use advanced search www.london-gazette.co.uk/search.

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Occupation: Draper

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1890: Thomas Cassingham, Draper, is listed in the Applications for Debtors Discharge.

Draper :   A dealer in cloth; one who is a wholesaler or retailer of cloth, mainly for clothing; or one who works in a draper's shop.  

Harding, Howell & Co., 1810. A fashionable draper’s shop at 89 Pall Mall, 1796–1820.  Reproduced in London: A Social History by Roy Porter.

The Draper's Shop

 Girls Own Paper 1894

(Source: The Family Recorder)

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Rosabell (Cassingham) St.John of New Bedford, MA

       

Rosabell (Cassingham) St.John

Pine Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, MA

(photo by  D J Pimentel / findagrave.com)


b. 4 Dec 1878 in Providence, RI
daughter of Albert Odian (Frank) & Emma (Warburton) Cassingham
m. Alfred Adelard St.John on 13 June 1899 in New Bedford, MA

I am hoping for a random act of a genealogically kind person to clear the lichen off of Rosabell's stone.   

    

Rosabelle (Cassingham) St.John

   

 Rosabelle (Cassingham) St.John
       

b. 4 Dec 1878 in Providence, RI

daughter of Albert Odian (Frank) & Emma (Warburton) Cassingham

m. Alfred Adelard St.John on 13 June 1899 in New Bedford, MA

1958

 New Bedford, Massachusetts

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Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915 at FamilySearch.org

Massachusetts Birth Records, 1841 - 1915

This collection contains the name index and images of  Massachusettes state birth records from 1841-1915. The registers of births are arranged in volumes by year. Within the volumes the birth entries are arranged by town then numerically by the number it was entered into the registers and are searchable on the FamilySearch.org site.

My latest find in this collection:

Birth record of our Grandfather

 Albert Edward St.John

son of Alfred & Rosabelle (Cassingham) St.John

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The Dean Family of Kent, England

Harriet Dean, our 3rd G-Grandmother, 

married Odian Cassingham 

on 25 April 1839, in Tenterden, Kent, England

A Cassingham cousin provided me with bible records that had details of Harriet's parents and siblings.  From there I was able to use http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ to compile her ancestry shown here:

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J. Cassingham - War Hero Recognized

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 4 MARCH, 1918

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/

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