International Brigade Health Grounds Rejects

[lissyc_x]

Hi Lissyc_x,

Iv'e recently learned of Casey ancestors down in Ipswich,
can you please give any details on Charles Frederick Casey's parents,
looking forward to hearing from you.

Derek

Unfortunately I don't know their names. I know that his Father was possibly from Cork, Ireland (he had at least lived there at some point) and fought and died in WW1.

His Mothers maiden names was Daykin/Daikin, possibly from Norwich/Ipswich.

Is this helpful at all?

[stockton]

  Not sure yet will check archives, the records and list of men who fought with the International
Brigade can be obtained from Karl Marx library London also the IBM, just google, will get back to you with any thing found on Charles.

All the best.
Derek

[stockton]

Hi all, after many a year i'm revisiting this post, i'm now trying to find information on Charles Frederick Casey from Ipswich.
Is Lissyc_X still around who posted she was related to Frederick Casey.
I'm trying to find out who Charles Frederick Casey's parents were:
I think its possible were could be related.
Any help much appreciated.
Derek.

[stockton]

Hi again, just checked my files and came up with this that might help.
Francis Casey married Ann Sharkey.
Thier first child: Bernard Casey. Born 1861. Cove of Cork Ireland.
Bernard married Mary Higgins i believe this couple lived in Ipswich and Charles Frederick Casey could be decended from these Casey's.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
Derek

[Sam Swift]

Going back to Robert Casey, his WW1 service record has a copy of 2 letters he wrote in 1938, which  you may have seen. One letter is dated 28th Feb 1938, which would be during the Spannish Civil War period.
He wrote as a member of the Old Contemptibles, requiring confirmation that he had been issued with the 1914 Star Clasp. In another letter, he states that the Old Contemptibles required a written statement that he was entitled to wear his clasp.

There was a branch pf the Old Contemptibles in Stockton and members had to be entitled to the clasp. They were entitled to wear their medals at their annual memorial parades. There was one in 1938, at Ashbrooke, at which the Sunderland Branch were part of the parade (reported in the Sunderland  Echo 29 Aufg 1938, p.3). Preseumably his letter was in advance of this parade.

[stockton]

Hi Sam, i'm one of those lucky people who's grandfathers WW1 records survived, Robert's son (my dad) was a man of few words, he him self was a merchant seaman during WW11, herdly ever mentioned his time at sea or!! his father's time in WW1, i had to learn about both just before computers were in peoples homes like today. My dad in early 80s spoke to jack jones (trade union leader of old) and asked jack if he'd met his dad Robert out in Spain, jack just said he met a lot of great lads out there in Spain, i've never stopped hoping some where thier is a photo of my grandad Robert Casey just waiting to be found, i never met him and no photo's of him ever came our way sadly.
I've often thought perhaps my dad remembers his father going off to join the international brigade but that he could have been rejected on medical grounds but!! My dad said his fathet went and thats set in stone for me.
Thanks for reply sam.
All the best.
Derek

[stockton]

From memory sam, i think it was a Sunderland news paper that reported a story about grandad Robert from his hospital bed The Sunderland Royal Infirmary October-November 1914, when grandad said he had, like others been hit by a german dum dum bullet, if only they had taken photos that day for the papers, it was this incident that solved the mystery why grandad was on the kings own scottish borderes hospital rolls december 1914.
All tbe best.
Derek