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Seeking a researcher familiar with the BallyCassady, Ireland area  and its records to further determine birth of Owen James Cassady b. est 1803 and to develop ancestry of Owen Cassady who immigrated to the US with Sarah Rodgers b. abt 1812, Ireland. Owen filed citizen application 21 Oct 1840 in Ellsworth, Maine.

Jsbg1952

Sunday 24th Nov 2013, 05:46PM

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  • Looking at Griffiths Valuation for 1857, there were no Cassidy (and variant spellings) in Ballycassidy then:

    http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch

    There were about 200 Cassidy households across Co. Fermanagh though. In the 1901 census, there were 563 people in Fermanagh named Cassidy. There was no-one named Cassidy in Ballycassidy townland:

    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Fermanagh/Ballycassidy/Ballycassidy/

    There was one Cassidy family in the general area, which is in the civil parish of Trory:

    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Fermanagh/Ballycassidy/Trory/1363589/

    That family were Church of Ireland. Is that the denomination of your family? If so, the following church records exist in PRONI, Belfast:

    C.I. Trory, St Michael?s (Clogher diocese) Baptisms, 1779, 1784 and 1796-1922; marriages, 1779, 1799, 1801-32 and 1835-1905; burials, 1802-32 and 1835-1915; vestry minutes, 1778-1959.

    If the family were RC, then unfortunately the parish records (parish of Irvinestown) don?t start till 1846, making research much earlier than that very difficult.

    Ahoghill Antrim

    Sunday 24th Nov 2013, 06:40PM

  • Many thanks, back to the drawing board. Wish I had a smart computer. Love your country, last there about 1960, landed at Baldonnell airdrone to pick up Irish troops to take them to the Congo with the UN. Thanks again Jim Schwab

    Jsbg1952

    Sunday 24th Nov 2013, 09:59PM

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