-----Original Message----- From: Connie Leaman <roncon3@email.msn.com> To: Mike Caswell <mike@caswellplating.com> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 2:43 AM Subject: Re: The Irish/Blackwater/Canadian Caswell Book >The earliest Caswells I know of are the original immigrants, my g g >grandfather Andrew Caswell b 1801, Fort Hill, County Armagh, Ireland and g >g grandmother, Mary Jane Dickson b 1813 Fort Hill, Altamackin, Castle >Blaney, County Armagh, Ireland (now called Forkhill). She was the dau. of >James Thomas Dickson who immigrated with his dau. and son-in-law. Andrew is >known to have joined the Presbyterian church at Clarkebridge in 1825 at the >same time a Joseph Caswell, probably a brother, did. He and Mary Jane had 10 >sons and 3 daughters (one place in my notes says 14 children), and my g >grandfather, John J Caswell, their 7th child, was born aboard ship in the >gulf of St. Lawrence May 1, 1847 or 1848. They lived in and about >Palmerston, Ont., Canada. Later some immigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, >(particularly Clark's Crossing) Canada, including my g grandparents and >their newborn son, my grandfather Albert E. Caswell b 5/24/1884 a year >later. There was a reunion celebrating this immigration westward in 1983. >Later still many came to the U.S., particularly California. Many people >have researched this whole family, but I think no one has been able to find >much about them in Ireland. There is another book PIONEER GIRL by Maryanne >Caswell Hillyard about these Caswells in Canada. She was my grandfather's >first cousin. > >Connie Leaman > > > >