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From: "Tim Casey" <>
Subject: [CASEY-L] Re: Cacy spelling
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:35:06 -0500


Probably best answer to this is that in those days spelling wasnt a top
priority people spelled the way it sounded to them or how the census takers
spelled it , some did not have much education as schools in the 1700's and
1800's were hard to find. For instance Randolph Casey of Arkansas his family
spells it Cacy , but when you see his relatives in Jefferson Co IL and
Johnson Co IL spell their name it is Casey. Take the name Driese , it became
Dries, Trees, Treece, Treese, Fries , the English could not read ,
understand German so variations came about.
Just an opinion
Tim Casey

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