I am looking for information about my CASSIDY family, who lived on Jersey between about 1800 and the mid 1800s.
The earliest link I have is Thomas CASSIDY. He is listed on General Don's military muster for Jersey, 1815, with one woman, one female child and one male child. If this is the right family, then the woman is his wife Mary and the children would be his son Thomas (my 3 x great grandfather) and an unknown daughter. There is a possible for Mary and two ?daughters, Mary and Margaret, on the 1841 census for Jersey, on Ann Street, St Helier.
I suspect that Thomas the younger and his wife (Catherine LENNON or SIMMONS - marriage date and place unknown) were in Ireland for a time, as their last known child Margaret was born there about 1844, and they don't show up in 1841 on the island. All their other children from the first, Rosetta, in 1831, were born on Jersey.
Thomas and Catherine and family appear in 1851 in St Helier, also on Ann Street - this is where Mary CASSIDY and two daughters were living in 1841 and I think therefore that the families are related. Thomas and Catherine are both shown as being born in Ireland.
Apart from Rosetta in 1861 (who by then had married Arthur LANGWORTHY) there is no sighting of the CASSIDYs on Jersey again.
The family were obviously Irish and probably Catholic. I know that there is a Thomas CASSIDY who was baptised in 1817 at St Mary and St Peter church in Jersey. Is this my Thomas junior? If so, why was he baptised there, and not in Ireland where he was apparently born?
I would really appreciate some help with this family. In particular, I'd like to try to find deaths/burials for the CASSIDYs on Jersey - does anyone in the know have any ideas where I should be looking?
Many thanks in anticipation - and apologies for this rambling account! I will try to be more succinct if you need more info.
Cheers
Prue
