I have uploaded a 'searchable database' of the Taunton Ma. Caswell line to:- www.moonrakers.com/caswell see the link grid for (bottom left) to connect. Please supply any connections you may have in the form of a gedcom file. I will add them to the existing database. Please ensure you DO NOT duplicate any persons already on this file - EXCEPT - the ON PERSON who connects. I can then simply merge the two file together joining your branch to the tree. Lets see how large we can make this tree! Mike Caswell Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com

For those of you who use Sanborns Mayflower Quarterly as a bible like I do you will be pleased to know that he isnt an ancient fossil nor is he dead nor stopped doing research on the Caswells. In fact - he is working on generation 5 as we speak !! and hopes get it in next years quarterly magazine. If you have questions or more especially data not in his previous works you can address it to him courtesy of the New Engand Historic Gen Soc., 101 Newbury Str., Boston,Mass. 5 th Floor Reference Dept. yours, john scott-ferree ps nancy I havent forgotten you !

The information contained here, shows a CASWELL Moated building, near CARSWELL MARSH, and also near where one of the Caswell coat of Arms was found - Binfield. If you remember, my Hugh de Carswell (1284ad) probably came from this Carswell Marsh. We're getting closer!!!!!!!! :-) -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Archer <wharcher@btinternet.com> To: Mike Caswell <mike@caswellplating.com> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 4:08 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: Oxfordshire; Ricards/Fermor >Hi Mike > >Is this of interest? I don't know how far east you're interested in CASWELLs >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Date: Wed, 14 Oct 98 15:07:24 + >From: Christopher Day >To: OXFORDSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Oxfordshire; Ricards/Fermor > >The chapel of St Mary Magdalen was a chantry chapel (one of several) >situated within the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Witney. It >was in the church's south transept. Chantry chapels, as I'm sure you >know, where set up by individuals, families, or guilds as private >chapels for the offering up of masses and prayers for the souls of >the benefactors and their families. The Magdalen chapel in Witney >church seems to have had an association with Caswell House, a nearby >estate - a medieval moated house survives there. > >ed. JRH Weaver & A Birdwood, 'Some Oxfordshire Wills' (Oxfordshire >Record Society, vol. 39, 1958):- >p.37. Thomas Richards, alias Fermour, asks to be buried 'in the >chapel of St Mary Magdalen within the church of Witney...to the >building of the aisle of St MM in that church, called Caswell Aisle, >on the south side, #20'. (1485) >p.71. Dame Emote Farmer asks to be buried 'within the church of Our >Lady of Witney before the altar of Mary Magdalen beisde my husband >Thomas Farmer'. (1501) > >So far as I know, no records specific to the chapel survive or ever >existed. > >Chris Day > > >==== OXFORDSHIRE Mailing List ==== > >Cheers > >Wendy Archer >wharcher@btinternet.com Marlow, Bucks, UK > > >

I have just received an important looking letter today, signed by Koreen K Caswell, it had an eagle on the logo and came from Washington DC. (It had be convinced for a second!) This is the same (Noreen) name used by the Hulberts/ Burkes people who are flogging 'family tree books! My father in the UK got letters from Noreen K Caswell, but she was living in Ramsbury, Wiltshire then. BUYER BEWARE! I would say that this is probably along the same format as the other books these guys flog. Basically, a word processor sticks the CASWELL name in to strategic points on the text, then prints a long list of names and addresses gleaned from the phone book (at least thats what it looks like!) It may also have a roster of names from the Civil War. But I doubt if there is anything specific in this book. (You can get this info from other sources - at less cost) I think you'll find every book for every family name is exactly the same except for the listing at back. And lets be honest, who on earth wants a listing of every Caswell in North America? Mike Caswell 4336 Route 31 Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA Voice - (315) 597-5140 Fax - (315) 597-1457 Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike@caswellplating.com Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com

I'm still looking for the parents of William S. Caswell, Sr. b. 1/16/1794 in MA; family in Taunton and Marblehead. Any help here?? I'd appreciate any help or leads. Thanks, Theresa Tindall Pye cazzy62 wrote: > Hi Gang, sorry you haven't heard from me in a few. Was in a car accident > last week and I'm just starting to get back around again. I'm hoping to get > going again by next week. We're down to one vehicle now, so Taunton trips > will be sparse for the time being. We hope to get over to the archives, so > if anyone has Taunton area Caswell's you want me to look at over there, let > me know. Keep the e-mails coming, and be sure to let me know what you are > using for sources. > > Nancy > nasimpson@snet.net > > ==== CASWELL Mailing List ==== > See the Wiltshire CASWELL family tree @ > www.redsuspenders.com/~caswell/caswell

Elijah Caswell appears in the 1790 at Plymouth,Mass. (1-6-2) he enumerates next to Israel Bradford and Samuel Ryder. Can anyone say if either the Bradford or the Ryder married a Caswell ?? Elijah Caswell was prior to 1790 at nearby Kingston,Mass. does anyone have access to Kingston probates/land/town minutes etc ?? looking for any reference to Elijah Caswell of Middleboro who m. Mercy Seekins of Raynham. john scott-ferree sorry to beat a dead horse

Several of us Australians are researching our Carswell roots from Scotland. As yet we are unconnected but would appreciate anyone out there with Scottish Carswell's to contact us with any details so we can try for a match. My particular Carswells came from Paisley, Scotland. John CARSWELL married Elizabeth BUCHANAN and had the following children: Margaret - 1818 Eliza - 1821 John - 1823 Thomas - 1825 My line is Thomas, who married twice and settled in Australia. Any info on the above or any others from Scotland would be much appreciated, Regards, Judie, from the land-down-under but now living in Maine, U.S.A. http://members.tripod.com/~jmoore2/ http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/7619/ http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/b/s/Judie-A-Abson/index.html Researching the names ABSON, CARSWELL, CHENEY, KEEPENCE, LEDGER, McCRACKEN, SMART, WALKER, WOODFORD from Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland and MOORE from England and Massachusetts/Maine, USA.

I have forwarded you letter onto my CASWELL listserver. Please visit the CASWELL website @ www.moonrakers.com/caswell And perhaps you'd like to join our CASWELL listserver too! (instructions are on the webpage) -----Original Message----- From: CATAULAVIC@aol.com <CATAULAVIC@aol.com> To: mike@caswellplating.com <mike@caswellplating.com> Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 10:46 AM Subject: Re: McGlaun/McGlaughon > >Lovie Caswell born 1766 in South Carolina died May 22, 1850 in Chambers Co., >Alabama married to John Goldsmith born 1761 in south Carolina died in Sept 4, >1841 in Alabama their son >William Hale Goldsmith & Zilpha Kornegay >James Madison Goldsmith & Margaret A S Stowe >Robert James Goldsmith & Sally Elizabeth Garrett >Katie Elizabeth Goldsmith & Wesley A McGlaun Sr >Wesley A McGlaun Jr & Joann Mescal Kelsoe Gibbs >Elizabeth Victoria McGlaun & Rubin Joseph Culpepper >that's me Vic > >Lovie Caswell's father was Mathew Caswell & Elizabeth Unknown >his father Mathew Caswell b 1690-1692 & Elizabeth Spruill b. 1694 in Lower >Norfolk Co., Virginia >His father Mathew Caswell & Johanna Bigg >his father William Caswell b. 1614 & unknown > >That's about all I know >If you know a direction to send where I can find more of my ancestors I would >appreciate that. > >Thanks for getting back to me, Vicki McGlaun Culpepper >

-----Original Message----- From: Anne Wiltshire <smuggler@OntheNet.com.au> To: Mike Caswell <mike@caswellplating.com> Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 2:08 AM Subject: The London Pollbook 1768 >Hi Mike This may or may not be of interest: > >Edward Caswall Houndsditch Cordwainer voted for The Rt Hon Thomas Harley >Lord Mayor >Regards as always >Anne Wiltshire >Runaway Bay Qld 4216 Australia >smuggler@OntheNet.com.au > >

Hi Gang, sorry you haven't heard from me in a few. Was in a car accident last week and I'm just starting to get back around again. I'm hoping to get going again by next week. We're down to one vehicle now, so Taunton trips will be sparse for the time being. We hope to get over to the archives, so if anyone has Taunton area Caswell's you want me to look at over there, let me know. Keep the e-mails coming, and be sure to let me know what you are using for sources. Nancy nasimpson@snet.net

sorry, try http://www.lds.org

Thanks, Mark! Jeez, see if i trust the Rampant Scotland Newsletter again, aye! :-} Hope all is well in NH! My 17 year old son is going to visit my folks in York, ME this week and can't WAIT to have lobster and clams! He is interviewing at U. Maine, Orono, U. Southern Maine and New England College. I so wish I could accompany him.... I miss it there so much; not a whole lot here in Illinois except corn and soybeans. Cheers, *k

A helpful person on the Scotland list got all the way into the site...try this specifically: http://www.lds.org/en/4_News_Update/19980929_Genealogy_PR.html Cheers, *k

The web site for the LDS CD-ROM was incorrectly put in the Rampant Scotland Newsletter from what I've found out. The correct address is http:www.lds.org (not "com"). I'm copying Scottie from the Newsletter so that it may be corrected in next week's edition. Thanks to all who pointed this out. Cheers, *kathy "Archibald" "Caswell"

Hi Kathy The Web address should be" www.lds.org " > 1888. > >The five CDs in the UK set focus on birth and christening records (four > >disks) and also list some marriages (one disk) More information is > >available on the church's Web site at http://www.lds.com > > > > > >

Hello, everyone, I found this information in Issue Number Seventy-seven of the Rampant Scotland Newsletter; thought you might be interested. Cheers! *kathy "Archibald" "Caswell" >Latter Day Saints Genealogy CD-ROM >The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is taking its vast >collection of genealogy information and putting some of it on new CD- > ROMs which it will sell to the public. Sources include historic censuses, >parish records, and other genealogy data sources, which the church has >collected over many years. Previously the data was only available on >micro-fiche at the Church's family history centers and main public >libraries. The records span more than three centuries, from 1538 to 1888. >The five CDs in the UK set focus on birth and christening records (four >disks) and also list some marriages (one disk) More information is >available on the church's Web site at http://www.lds.com

-----Original Message----- From: BDM2918@aol.com <BDM2918@aol.com> To: mike@caswellplating.com <mike@caswellplating.com> Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 5:39 PM Subject: A new CASWELL for you. >Mike came across this yesterday, thought you might be interested. I did search >to see if there was any obvious reason for calling the child this, and I'll >also include two other names of their children, in case there is any >significance because they too, were 'different' > >Baptisms of 3 children out of 10 of William CROW & wife Elizabeth, at >Quadring, Lincolnshire. >14 Apr 1821 Caroline Caswell CROW >1 Oct 1815 Clarke Ducket CROW >20 Mar 1831 William Tindel CROW. > >Don't need to acknowledge, unless you don't want me to send any more of these >CASWELL's as second names. >Beryl > >

Carnanton, Camden Park Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 5AE Tel-01992 539592 Fax-01892 513406 22ad September Mike Caswell 4336 Rte 31 Palmyra NY 14522 Dear Mike, A friend of ours extracted your address from the intemet re the Caswell name. Unfortunately we are not on the net so I thought I would write instead. Although Caswell does not appear to be one of our family surnames, it has been adopted as a family second name and we are most interested in trying to find out the reason as part of our investigation into our family history. Anyway, down to the facts: o In 1868 my great great granddad, Charles Jessup and his wife, Mary Jessup nee Crabb, had a son whom they called Henry Caswell Jessup. 9 In the census of 1871 they are listed as living at 16 College Street, Camberwell, Surrey (now London), England. o Sharing the accommodation was Sarah Caswell (age 59) and Clement Caswell (age 18), her son. 9 Sarah is shown as born in Stockland, Somerset about 1811/12. o Clement was born in Fiddington, Somerset about 1851/52. In the 1881 Clement is listed as born in Bridgwater, Somerset. Mary Jessup nee Crabb also was born in Somerset, England at Beercrocumb. Unfortunately that is as far as we have been able to get so far as we have hit a brick wall in trying to trace them any further back and have no- idea of the connection or the reason for Caswell becoming a family name. As the acclaimed intemet expert on Caswell's I thought you might be able to cast some light on the matter. If you can I have enclosed a one dollar bill to pay for the return postage. If not, thanks anyway for taking the time to read this letter. Best Regards Liz Walton (nee Jessup)

Since you are in Conn, here is some more Conn information on Philip A and Sarah Caswell. Their last two children according to census records were born in Conn, Abel b 18 Jun 1819 and William Henry b. 1822/23. Both died in Venango Co, Penna. Son Oliver A Caswell married Hannah Clark 30 May Lebanon, Windham Co, Conn. This is the only documentation of the family that I have from Conn. Three of Oliver A Caswell's children according to census records were also born in Conn; Oliver A. jr around 1826, Fanny H around 1829 (a graduate of Baldwin Wallace College, 1849), and Sarah Jane around 1831 ( also BW '1851). Their forth child Ann was born in Ohio in 1833. I believe that Oliver sr. was a shoemaker. Sorry to be so disorganized. Thanks again.

Hi again, sorry about that!!! I just wanted to let you all know that, maybe I was being a little over-zealous when I said I'd go once a week. Chronic Fatigue is so unpredictable and I don't want to kill myself on this!! My realistic goal will be once a month. If possible I will get over there more often. I just didn't want to disappoint anyone (including myself!). Here is my address: Nancy Caswell 493 New Britain Rd #2 Kensington, CT 06037-2150 Also, feel free to send me your lines either snail or e-mail, especially if you have your sources documented. Nancy