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CASEBY, all that I know

CASEBY, ALL that I know. (Updated on 31/12/2001). Dear Family, Friends and fellow Genealogists, I endeavour to update my web pages frequently to ensure that you can have access to all I know. I have headed the page with "CASEBY, all that I know" because it contains all that I have managed to put onto my Family Tree! Just like yours, my time is a scarce resource. I can only devote a few hours per week to Genealogy. My two simple choices for allocated effort to Genealogy each week are as follows. One, to enter the correction or additions you send, and also to find for myself more information about connected surnames and then to publish this relevant material. Two, to spend unproductive time replying to emailed queries I have already shown that I cannot answer! I nearly always stick to the first option. If you think that you have a possible match with someone in my data then please also read my Citations and Source Notes which will either tell you where my information has come from, and how reliable it is, or it will tell you who supplied the data to me, usually with an added email address, or web site URL, for you to consult. If you do not make these simple checks before you ask me to prove the match you anticipate then it is unlikely that I can afford the time to do so for you. If you spot any errors, or gaps in the information displayed on my pages then please take the time to tell me and quote your data sources. If you download information from my site then please acknowledge the source of your information. It is annoying to spend precious time searching for information on the web only to have your own returned in disguise in another persons Family Tree without the source having a word of thanks or credit, especially when no other source but me could have provided the data in the first place! After all if you are taking the time and trouble to read this page, or borrow information, you may as well “grasp the moment” by clicking on my email address and instantly thanking me, or telling me what you know that I obviously do not know correctly. That you have wiped your feet on my virtual WELCOME mat is recorded so why seek to hide this fact from yourself? For any data you supply, unless you wish otherwise, you will be acknowledged in the Citation as its source and thus be immortalised as it author I promise you that such a prompt action will give your a warm glow of self satisfaction! Regards, Ron. CASEBY, All that I know. CASEBY, the surname variations throughout history, its probable meaning and origins, its current Genealogy and the reasons for surname confusion and CASEBY loose ends! (Genealogical that is, not Gastric!) CASEBY is a unique surname and it has many variants. It probably derives from the Old French “CASSE” meaning a “casement, or case-maker” or a Carpenter, and from its Latin equivalent. This name represented a very skilful craftsman, the sort involved in building wooden skeleton of ships, or making the framework for fine houses. These two process were the same for ships and houses in those ancient days for in both cases the framework alone had to hold, and bind, the structure together against the forces acting upon it, be they heavy sea waves or rough land winds. Indeed the construction methods were so similar that the house framework was built upside down, just as for a ship, and then transported to it permanent site. The “-BY” ending of CASEBY was an Anglo-Saxon suffix denoting that the user had become a “native” of his adoptive country. Also that he carried out his trade at the edge of a Village or Hamlet, as would be sensible for a Carpenter so that he was near trees as his source of raw materials. (The difference between a Village or a Hamlet being that the latter did not have a church in it.) It is at present only intelligent speculation on my part to conclude from the evidence available that the first CASEBY came to the insignificant hamlet at the mouth of the “Douer” river valley which is now known as Dover, Kent, England, with the Roman Army around 100 AD.

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