The Casey Surname DNA Project

On a recent trip to Ireland I tracked down some Casey's in two different graveyards in the vicinity of Newport, County Tipperary; Rockvale Cemetery and Ballymackeogh Graveyard. I'm working still to establish my own connection to any of them. I took photos of each Casey headstone we found in each of them and you can find those photos in my Flickr album. And there's a pretty good story in my blog on how we found them.

Below are the transcriptions from three of the headstones in Ballymackeogh.

Erected by Thomas Casey in memory of his father Michael Casey of Polough who died Oct 9 1884, aged 70 years
may his soul rest in peace

For memory of Patrick Casey
died at ashrod? Murroe
sept the ? 1943 aged 47 years
formerly of Sanger, California USA

Erected by Ann Casey Coffey in mem of beloved husband Thomas Casey who dep. This life oct 1830 aged 54 years
r.i.p. Amen

On my Flickr photostream, I have an album dedicated to 'Family Plots', with a number of Casey headstones included in the bunch. Most are from Chicago area cemeteries.

The wonderful web site at Find-A-Grave has 2,887 Caseys in their database, and they can be searched by name and state. I thought in this forum here, we might share some connections about those Caseys in Find-A-Grave that we know, and also discuss updating their records with ones that they don't have yet.