The Casey Surname DNA Project

When thinking 'Casey' and 'Baseball', it would not be unexpected for most people to think of the slugger for Mudville from the famous poem, Casey at the Bat. But there is another Casey in baseball, whose words are better known and are sung at most games, but whose identity has been lost in the unknown verses. She shares my daughter's name, Katie Casey. Here's how it goes:

Katie Casey was baseball mad,
Had the fever and had it bad;
Just to root for the home town crew,
ev'ry sou, Katie blew

On a Saturday, her young beau
Called to see if she'd like to go,
To see a show but Miss Katie said, "No,
I'll tell you waht you can do":

CHORUS:
Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd
But me some peanuts and Crackerjack,
I don't care if I never get back,

Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame
For it's one, two, three strikes you're out,
At the old ball game.

Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names;
Told the umpire he was wrong,
all along, good and strong

When the score was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew just what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song:

I would like to make contact with all Caseys who are of the Irish Type III cluster.
see http://au.geocities.com/t120r61/index.htm
Of particular interest is the close connections of most of the Caseys on the phylogram chart.
The bulk form one group with a Hanvey showing his close relationship with this group, but there are two Caseys, while still part of the Irish Type III cluster, are quite seperate form the other Caseys.

I am presently in contact with Kit Numbers:-
29956
34073
45068
51924
53484
77349
And I would like to contact Kit numbers:-

I would like to make contact with all Caseys who are of the Irish Type III cluster.
see http://au.geocities.com/t120r61/index.htm

I am presently in contact with Kit Numbers:-
29956
34073
45068
51924
53484
77349
And I would like to contact Kit numbers:-
40325
54166
56031
56130
56874
58301
93773
99381

Regards, Dennis Wright 25505, 6PWCD

I would like to request that donors complete the information concerning their oldest known ancestor. Some submissions have nothing at all, and some have no dates or locations. With the repetitive naming that the Caseys used, it it difficult enought to keep them all straight even with complete info. But, with mimimal or no data, it makes for a difficult anaysis. Please! If you have gone to the trouble to submit DNA, finish the process and share enough information so that the rest of us can try to figure out where each donor falls within the family. Thanks!

I am wondering why DNA test #54166 is listed in the results grouping as Unassigned, when it is plainly identified as a descendant of Pleasant Casey of Tennessee. Why is it not grouped with the SC-TN Casey grouping?

Upon the urgings of Robert Casey, I have notified FTDNA to upgrade my original 25 marker test to the more sophisticated 67 marker test. BTW it was only $148 additional dollars and didn't seem to require another sample...

Just thought I'd let y'all know!

DLC
"SC and TN Caseys"
Kit 45068

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

A second set of DNA test results just received have validated the bloodline for Daniel Casey, RWS. He was born ca 1760, lived in Virginia, then moved to Georgia about 1785 where he resided in Wilkes, later Elbert County. His son John Casey married Elizabeth Pace, dau. of Barnabas Pace. Two of John and Elizabeth's sons, Wiley Casey b 23 May 1802 in GA, and Barnabas, b 3 Apr 1816 in GA, are represented by male descendants who submitted DNA for the Casey project. The identity of this Daniel Casey's father is currently unknown or unproven, but he seems to have close ties with one Roger Casey of Virginia who eventually lived in Lincoln Co., GA close to the SC border.

Kit 51924 reflecting Pleasant Casey has just been upgraded to 67 markers. While the results continue to match Caseys from TN and SC, the only PERFECT match is with one Samuel Hanvey from Ulster (County Down). The Hanvey family arrived in SC about 1766 and lived in all the same places as the Caseys, intermarrying with them over the years. It may be wise to observe this family as we do our Casey research. Perhaps a Hanvey took in an orphaned Casey boy at some point? Perhaps a Casey gem of information is hidden in some of the Hanvey records. If some of you have already made this connection,