Casad | Cossart
CASAD is a very early Americanization of the French COSSART. I have the CASAD-COSSART lineage traced back to Jacques COSSART who was born in Liége, Belgium in 1595. Jacques COSSART's son, also Jacques COSSART, sailed aboard the Dutch ship Pumerlander Kerk (1662) from Amsterdam, arriving in what is now New York on 18 February 1663. In 1673, Jacques moved from Manhattan to a farm in the Dutch area of New York called Bushwick.
Jacques' son, Anthony Cossart, was born in 1673 in New York and married Elizabeth Tymensen Valentine. Their son Jacob Cossart was born 1701 in Bushwick and married Anna Cox. Their son, Anthony Cossart II, was born between 1733-35 in Somerset County, New Jersey. Anthony was a Revolutionary War soldier (the name spelled Corsat and Corsort on archives). He married Catherine Coon in Somerset County, New Jersey. Their children were the first to use name CASAD. Their son, Thomas Casad, is my direct ancestor. According to an autobiography by a daughter of Thomas Casad, Lydia Casad-Cox-Moore-Sexton, it was at this time that the spelling of their surname was changed to CASAD. It is reported that Thomas and his brothers Jacob and Aaron changed the spelling to Casad, while Samuel, the other brother, took the spelling COSAD which is now spelled COZAD by many descendants. There is much more to tell, but these early ancestors set the stage for the rest of us.
Anyone who is interested in the CASAD, COSSART, COZAD or any other variant spelled families is encouraged to contact me. I have also begun to discover that there are some unrelated variants of the Casad name.
Hauck
When the Casads arrived in Escondido, California, they encountered a rural area populated by first- and second- generation immigrants from a variety of homelands. My grandfather married Alice CHRISTENSON, the daughter of Andy Albert CHRISTENSON, whose parents came from Denmark, and Katie HAUCK, whose parents were among the first settlers in Escondido, California. The HAUCK family is among a group of Germans who had been living in Russia. I have been able to determine that the HAUCK family was living in Kassel, in the Ukraine, a village founded in 1808 as part of the Glückstal colonies, in the Oblast of Odessa, known today as Veliko-Komarovka. The Haucks were among the large number of Germans in Russia who had been settled there under the generous 1763 manifesto of Catherine the Great of Russia which sought to settle and cultivate the newly gained land. Sometime between 1888 and 1892, due to changes in Russian policies towards the German immigrants, the Hauck family immigrated to Escondido, via the Dakota Territories. These Danish and Germans from Russia branches of my ancestry are the ones that are the least well documented and therefore, the ones on which I am most focused at present.
Cormack
I am also doing research on my mother's father's family. One line of my family's origin is from Scotland. My mother, whose maiden name is Susan CORMACK, is descended from the Cormack family of Steven's Point, Wisconsin, who arrived there shortly after 1885 from Roseneath, Alnwick Township, Northumberland County, Ontario (Canada). After moving to Wisconsin, my great-grandfather married a daughter of the prominent GAGNON family, themselves Québécois immigrants from Canada. Before the CORMACK family immigrated from Scotland, sometime between 1817 and 1840, they most likely hailed from the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, near the modern town of Drymen in Sterlingshire, Scotland. (Cormack is regarded as a sept (family) of the Scottish Clan Buchanan).
Mottier
I recently discovered a significant amount of information about my maternal great-grandmother's family (MOTTIER), which I have been able to trace back to the 16th century in the French-speaking canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The Mottier and Siebenthal families are credited in a book entitled Our Native Fruit for having been among those who started the grape wine industr
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- Wedding: The Ottoboni Family: (49 KB)
Back row from left to right: Michelle's Uncle Jim, Michelle's father Jim, Michelle and Andrew, Michelle's mother Louise, Michelle's brother Dominic and Michelle's aunt Patricia. Front row: Michelle's Aunt Mary, Michelle's sister Frances, Michelle's sister Anita, Michelle's grandmother Ione, and Michelle's cousin Lynn.
August 4, 2001. La Jolla, California.
Photograph by Hank Steckel, Camelot Photography.
- Wedding: The Casad Family: (36 KB)
The father of the Groom and his siblings. Left to right: Mary Ann Campos, Martha Barker, Eugene Casad, Lee M Casad.
August 4, 2001. La Jolla, California.
Photograph by Susan Casad.
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Andrew and Michelle Casad.
August 4, 2001. La Jolla, California.
Photograph by Hank Steckel, Camelot Photography.
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Casad Family Genealogy