CASEBY or CASBY, CASMEY, KASEBY, KEASB(E)Y, KESB(E)YUpdated March 30, 2007 |
The surname name CASEBY was first found by me with this exact spelling in a list of Freemen living in Dover, England, pre 12th cent. A.D. I believe that I and all others who proudly bear the surname CASEBY or near variants derive from this source. Oxford Ancestors, for example, produced my parental DNA line from my mouth cells sample in January 2007 and so are able to estimate from the results that my oldest Common Ancestor was from the WODAN tribe. This Clan is thought to have originated about 20,000 years ago in the Middle East and the estimated current distribution of the decendants puts about 21% as being British, like myself. As another 30% are found in Norway this might link with the fact that there is one house still standing in a small valley of ruined homes which was called KASEBY at a point near to the Sweedish border. Perhaps my ancestors could have come to Dover from that place as illgal immigrants who were not turned away because the brought big axes with them!I was amazed when I queried Clan WODAN on the Internet to find many informative and scholarly pages devoted to this ethnic groups past but sketchy and largely legendary history. Alternatively, the name CASEBY might have derived from the Latin "Casse" for Carpenter, or more precisely Casement Maker, as the stand alone wooden framework of homes and ships pre-1700's was much the same construction process. The "by" being an Anglo Saxon indication that the bearer was someone who lived and worked at the edge of a Village, such as a Carpenter would do to be near to his wood supplies, the Downs above Dover in those days being thickly wooded. Therefore, the first CASEBY to set foot on British soil might have been Roman Soldier and Carpenter (they all had other practical skills). He might have landed at Dover (DOUR), Kent, when the Romans decided to develop that insignificant hamlet into their major Port and fleet maintenance facility to replace Bologne, France, from 81 A.D. Otherwise, the surname CASEBY might be derived from Dominus de Kisby who is mentioned in the Doomsday Book and who came as one of the French Knights with William The Conqueror to England in 1066. One Caseby, William, a London Merchant and some of his family went to America around 1607, others followed at various times. Whole familes, possibly also named Kaseby, Kisbey or Casby from Northern and Southern Ireland went to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA from 1650 onwards. I would like to know about them all, please. News Flash: Proven in late 1999; Edward CASEBY, born in Huntingdon, England in 1666, went to Major John Fenwick's Quaker Colony in New Jersey in 1694 and thus, due to the misspelling of his surname in the Alloway's Creek Quaker House Monthly Meeting Minutes, began the dynasty of KEASB(E)Y in about 1695 at Alloways Creek, in what is now New Jersey, USA. |
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Ronald Rodger Caseby "NYASA" 10, Lincoln Green, Chichester,, West Sussex. PO19 5DN Great Britain-England 01243 785864
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