1788 Burial Record of Priscilla Dean

Priscilla Newman

born c.1760

married Thomas Dean

2 Feb 1785

in Appledore, Kent, England

Buried 2 March 1788

Canterbury Archdeaconry burials record book

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Tombstone Tuesday: John & Sarah (Dean) Clements of Knox, Ohio

John and Sarah (Dean) Clements came to the United States from England with their family in September 1828 and resided in Ohio. They are buried at Kenyon College Cemetery in Gambier, Knox, Ohio. 

Sarah 

Wife of John Clements 

Died June 5, 1842 Aged 53 Yrs 9 Mo 2 da

John Clements 

Died April 7 1863 Aged 83 Yrs 10 Mo 9 Da

(photos from findagrave.com)

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 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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Recommendation: 7 years transportation

A segment from:  
Prisoners convicted on the Lent Home Circuit in 1793, reprieved on 'favourable Circumstances' and recommended for mercy on the conditions set against their names:
Kent Assizes at Maidstone, 11 March:

"John Wellard, for stealing goods and money, value £4:11:2, property of Benjamin Briggs, goods, value 23/-, property of William Dean, and goods, value 6/3 property of James Dean, from the dwelling house of William Dean senior.  Recommendation: 7 years transportation."

In this case, found on TNA, our ancestors were listed as the victims.
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Transportation was where convicted criminals were sent to the colonies to serve their sentence and was part of the penal system in early eighteenth century England. Prisoners were assigned to convict ships going to the American colonies and later to Australia, and persons who received a transportation sentence were not normally allowed to return to England. It is thought that many of the convicts did very well after being transported, serving only a short time confined or labouring before being released on licence.

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Occupation: Victualler

A victualler is traditionally person who sells food or other provisions; a purveyor of spirits; innkeeper. A licensed victualler refers to a the landlord of a public house or similar licensed establishment.

Chiefly in British reference as shown below for our English ancestor William Dean: an innkeeper

Conveyance (lease and release) for £100 -  10 and 11 Mar 1775:
Richard Sharpe of Stone in Oxney Kent yeoman (only son of TS in AMS5834/10-12) to William Dean of Appledore Kent victualler as AMS5834/8 now in 2 dwellings, late occupied by William Noakes, now William Collins and John Kesford Bounds as AMS5834/8 except E: John Smith; S: James Lamb; dower of Ann Richard Dean widow of TS, now wife of WD excepted
W: H Waterman, John Woollett

Surname Saturday - Cassingham / Casingham

On this beautiful fall Surname Saturday morning I will highlight our Cassingham line.

Albert Odian (Frank) Cassingham married Emma Warburton on 12 June 1875 in Providence, Rhode Island, and later moved to  Middleboro, Massachusetts where Frank was last recorded in 1892 as an employee at Star Mills.  We have not located a death or burial record for A.O. Frank Cassingham but believe it to be between 1892 & 1895 when Emma Warburton Cassingham is recorded as marrying John K. Smith.

Albert Odian Cassingham was born c. 1840 in Aldington, Ashford, Kent, England - the son of Odian Cassingham and Harriet Dean.
 
His father, Odian Cassingham, was born 23 Apr 1807 in Woodchurch, Kent, England - the son of John Casingham and Ann Barber.

John Casingham was baptised 7 Apr 1775  Presbyterian, Tenterton, Kent, England and was the son of John Casingham (born c. Apr 1737) and Alice Sampson.

Our line ends with the parents of John Casingham :  Thomas Casingham and Katherine Ordian married in Saint Mary Bredin (pictured on right), Canterbury, Kent, England, on Aug 3rd, 1731.

Cause of Death: Phthisis

Harriet Dean, born 12 July 1806 in Appledore, England;

daughter of James Dean & Sarah Hinty.

Married Odian Cassingham on 25 April 1839 in Tenterden, Kent, England.

Died 7 July 1860 in Ashford, Kent, England.

Cause of death: phthisis.

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Phthisis: Greek word meaning "a dwindling or wasting away"

(Pronounced TIE-sis): A wasting or consumption of the tissues.

The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis or consumption. In 460 BC Hippocrates identified phthisis as the most widespread disease of his day and observed that it was almost always fatal.

Phthisis and consumption are archaic names for tuberculosis (TB). A person afflicted with tuberculosis in the old days was destined to dwindle and waste away like the heroine of Puccini's 1896 opera "La Boheme." In other words, the afflicted appeared to be consumed by the disease.
Other old TB terms include the King's evil or scrofula (TB of the lymph nodes in the neck) and Pott's disease (TB of the spine).

First isolated in 1882 by the German physician, Robert Koch, TB is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Still present in today’s society, tuberculosis can usually be treated successfully with antibiotics.