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Edward Cashel, of Rhodesia

Edward Cashel,
Edward Baldwin Cashel,
born est c.1855, Ireland.
Church of Ireland.
JP, FRCSI, Doctor of Medicine. (M.D.) Qualified in Dublin.

He corresponded in 1901 with the genealogist James Franklin Fuller. See letter attached to [NLI] copy of [O'Connor, 1816].
He asks: "Would you be good enough to let me know whether Cashell should be spelled with one or two l's - Many of our family use only one l at present".
He is referring to the fact that Fuller spells it Cashell, but all his branch are consistently spelt Cashel.

South Africa:
He emigrated, first to Vredenburg, South Africa.
He mar before around 1905 to ---- [English, Church of England, she had emigrated to Vredenburg, South Africa].
They had several children in South Africa.

Rhodesia:
They moved in 1910 to Rhodesia (where his brother Rowan also settled).
In 1910 he was in Southern Rhodesia Government Medical Service.
He died 1942, age est c.87 yrs.
His wife went back to South Africa.
She lived at Craigie, 1 Blake Street, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.
She died c.1966.
They had issue:

1. Bessie Cashel,
   born (must be pre-1905) Vredenburg, South Africa.
   She mar 1922 to Hugh Murray Fletcher and had issue.

   
   

2. Arthur Cashel,
   born (must be pre-1910) Vredenburg, South Africa.
   He died pre-1976.
   He had issue:
   1. Ronald Cashel.

   
   

3. Dorothy Cashel,
   born (must be pre-1910) Vredenburg, South Africa.
   She died pre-1976.

4. Edward Cashel,
   born (must be pre-1910) Vredenburg, South Africa.
   He died pre-1976.
   He had issue.

   
   

5. Isabelle Cashel,
   born post-1910, Rhodesia.
   She mar --- Gilbert [Church of England].
   He died pre-1976.
   She went to South Africa.
   As at 1976 she was living Cape Town.
   They had issue.

   
   

6. Jacobie O'Leary Cashel [dau],
   born post-1910, Rhodesia.
   She never married.
   She moved to South Africa.
   Lived with mother at Craigie, 1 Blake Street, Cape Town.
   She wrote letters about family tree 1976.

   
   

7. Rowan Cashel,
   Rowan Frederick Knipe Cashel,
   born post-1910, Rhodesia.
   The name Rowan in the family goes back to Sarah Rowan in the 1720s.
   N.C. (Native Commissioner).
   He reported on the fall of a tree on the Bakery in Melsetter, E Rhodesia, 19 July 1952. See Ch.18 of [Sinclair, 1971].
   District Commissioner stationed in Melsetter as at 1953.
   He was NOT in the BSAP. (That is his uncle Rowan.)
   He lived 10 Morecambe Avenue, Belvedere, Salisbury (later Harare). There in at least 1976-1991.
   Author of the book, The Baobab in Fact and Fable [printed privately in South Africa]. See review in [Mullin, 2002].
   [Lyn Mullin] says: "I am under the impression that Rowan Cashel commuted between Zimbabwe and South Africa in the last years of his life".
   He died July 1995, at the Fairways Homes, Bodle Avenue, Eastlea, Harare.
   He had issue:
   1. Linda Margaret Cashel, mar Donald Payne.
   2. Jennifer Cashel, mar Pat Finch.