Stephen Cashel (or Cashell)
We suspect
that our ancestor
George Cashel
was not a Cashel by blood,
but was adopted by this family.
There is evidence for this, but this is not proved.
Did this family adopt George Cashel?
There is evidence that
neither parent of
George Cashel
was called "Cashel":
-
Theory of O'Connell descent
explains the theory
that George Cashel is son of a Blennerhassett father and a mother
from the O'Connell/Tuohy family,
who would not be a Cashel.
-
The suspicion as to how he got his name is that
George Cashel was adopted.
-
An adopted family would
explain why George Cashel's descendants do not DNA match any Cashel in the world
- which otherwise is hard to explain.
The Stephen Cashel (or Cashell) family is the prime suspect for the adoptive family:
- They are in Tralee, which is where the O'Connell theory
expects the adoptive family to be.
- This family in fact has a son George Cashel (or Cashell), baptised Catholic in 1808.
Names linking forward:
- The adoptive mother is "Agnes" Noonan, which would
explain George Cashel's attachment to the name "Agnes" for his daughters.
His daughter Agnes died and then he named his second daughter Agnes.
This makes sense if Agnes Noonan was his adoptive mother.
- The adoptive father is "Stephen", which would explain George Cashel's unexplained middle initial "S."
Names linking back:
- "Nelly Hassett" sponsors the baptism of their child in 1815.
This looks like Ellen Tuohy,
now
Mrs. Ellen Blennerhassett,
linked to our O'Connell family.
She may in fact be the grandmother of George Cashel.
-
George Cashel gave one of his children the middle name
"Henry" in 1844.
I wonder could this be after Ellen's husband
Henry Blennerhassett (died 1816).
Maybe Ellen and Henry helped take care of the infant George.
Maybe they were the grandmother and step-grandfather of George.
Miscellaneous:
- This family moved to Cork, which is somewhat unusual.
Maybe there was too much gossip about George in Tralee.
- There is a "Catherine Lawlor" sponsoring the baptisms.
One document thought Mary O'Connell had a sister who married Lalor.
- Probably irrelevant:
There is a "Letitia" Noonan in the Noonan family in a legal case.
This may explain how my family remembered the name Letitia.
Though perhaps a better explanation is the
Rowland and Letitia stained glass window.
One odd thing is that none of this family ever turn up later in George's life.
Though he did move far away.
Marriage of Stephen Cashel.
Abstracts from Walker's Hibernian Magazine, March 1803.
Stephen Cashel,
or Cashell.
Linen draper, of Tralee.
He mar 1803 to
Agnes Noonan [or Noonen, of Tralee].
Apparently
Limerick Chronicle says they
married at Tralee, "p.o." (probably "printed on") Sat 26 Feb 1803.
Children bapt Catholic.
Children bapt in Tralee 1805 to 1811.
Moved to
Passage West, near Cork city.
Daughter bapt 1815 at Passage West. They are listed as living there.
They maybe moved back to Co.Kerry in 1815-1828
if George Cashel was back in Co.Kerry when he joined the police.
They had issue:
- Catherine Cashell,
bapt 10 November 1805
[Tralee RC par records],
sp Catherine Lawlor.
- Stephen Cashell,
bapt 10 January 1807
[Tralee RC par records],
sp Patrick Jeefers.
- George Cashell,
bapt 24 July 1808
[Tralee RC par records],
sp Daniel O'Sullivan
and Catherine Lawlor.
He may be adopted issue and may be identical with our
George Cashel.
- Francis Cashell,
bapt 22 July 1811
[Tralee RC par records],
sp Daniel Sullivan
and Jane Howard.
- Jane Cashell,
bapt 30 Dec 1815
[Passage West, Co.Cork, RC par records],
sp Nelly Hassett.
Stephen Cashell and his wife Agnes Noonan
appear
among the list of Defendants
in two cases at the Exchequer Court of Equity, both dated 4 June 1804.
From
here
in
Exchequer Court of Equity Bill Books.
See
full size,
which has other notes.
Also has a
Letitia Noonan among the Defendants,
and her mother Catherine Noonan.
This may be sister and mother of Agnes Noonan.
Also refers to
Blennerhassett. Think this may be the solicitor.
"Agnes Cashel" in an apparent dispute with her mother,
Exchequer Court of Equity, 27 Apr 1819.
Who would "George Cashel" be?
Her son George is only age 11.
From here
in
Exchequer Court of Equity Bill Books.
Baptisms of children
Baptism of Catherine Cashell,
10 November 1805.
From
here (go to p.73).
Baptism of Stephen Cashell, 10 January 1807.
From here.
Baptism of George Cashell, 24 July 1808, Tralee.
From here.
The full line of the above.
From here.
Baptism of Francis Cashell,
22 July 1811.
From here.
Baptism of Jane Cashell, 30 Dec 1815,
Passage West, Co.Cork,
sp Nelly Hassett.
From here.
Sources yet to be consulted
- Stephen Cashel marriage possibly in
Limerick Chronicle, Sat 26 Feb 1803.
There is no extract from 26 Feb
here.
