Thomas Casson

Hi Carol----I reacon I found your family, but did Thomas have 2 wives?  I have him married to Martha Sykes; parents of Charles b. 12 Feb 1826 in Yorkshire who married an Eliza.  Had 11 kids I think.  Charles passed away in Iowa  on 27  Feb 1906.   Is this the one?

Family starts in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in early 1700s with William and Mary b. 1732. 

A brief outline------

William Casson married Mary Hepworth 27 June 1754 in Hudddersfield; had son Thomas b.  9 Feb 1759.  He married Elizabeth Kindar 26 March 1780.

They had son Thomas Casson b. 3 June 1792 who married Martha Sykes 19 Jan. 1815.  They had son Charles Casson b. Feb 12 1826. He married Eliza ( Goody?) b. 1831.  She died in USA 1909---Iowa too?

This is leaving out many brothers and sisters of several generations which adds up to quite a few over the decades. Hopefully, this appears the right family bar this Mary Breggs/Martha Sykes discrepancy.

1861 Census is interesting;Charles and family living in Linthwaite, Yorkshire where he's a wollen cloth dresser.

But his neighbours are interesting----on one side there's a Sykes family and on the other side of them appears to be his mother Martha b. 1793 who is a widow now farming 6 acres.

Locations associated with the family besides Linthwaite where Charles' wife and early children were born is also Almondbury, and South Crosland---Charles' birthplace.  All in Yorkshire.

Do you have any connection to the Senior family who moved from the Huddersfield region to Iowa too? 

If you'd like the children/birth years of William Casson and Mary Hepworth---

John 1785; William 1788; Elizabeth( Betty)1790; Thomas 1792;Samuel 1798.

 I did come across a Thomas Casson married to a Mary L Briggs and they had 2 sons----George Elmer and John William, both son born in the 1890s in Randolf, Nebraska.  Any connectiions?