Geisweid-Geiseway-Gassaway?
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Geisweid-Geiseway-Gassaway?
 LGyswyt1282
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Posted: 1 Feb 2002 12:30AM GMT |
Classification: Query
(also same posted at board "Gasaway")
For a long time I believed Gassway was an English (language) corruption of the German name Geisweid - there are areas in the Siegerland (east of Koeln, north of Siegen) where my family was corrupted to Geiswey for centuries. In the Netherlands, abt. the 1730's the spelling Geiseweyt is known. And then it is a small step to Gasaway.
What I found in overseas records:
a. Isaiah Casaway was listed in the assessment list of Bethel Twp., Lancaster Co., PA, in 1751. He is probably identical with Isaiah Guschweyd, in Williamsburg (= now Jonestown) 1740.
b. Patrick Caseway and Mary Craig had a child Jean bapt. in Albany, NY, 30 JAN 1757, witnesses: John Graham, William Hanna, Mary Chase, Matty Grain AL). This was the only time that this name was found in the area 1683-1809.
Leo Gijswijt, Postbus 25056, 3001 HB Rotterdam, Netherlands
For a long time I believed Gassway was an English (language) corruption of the German name Geisweid - there are areas in the Siegerland (east of Koeln, north of Siegen) where my family was corrupted to Geiswey for centuries. In the Netherlands, abt. the 1730's the spelling Geiseweyt is known. And then it is a small step to Gasaway.
What I found in overseas records:
a. Isaiah Casaway was listed in the assessment list of Bethel Twp., Lancaster Co., PA, in 1751. He is probably identical with Isaiah Guschweyd, in Williamsburg (= now Jonestown) 1740.
b. Patrick Caseway and Mary Craig had a child Jean bapt. in Albany, NY, 30 JAN 1757, witnesses: John Graham, William Hanna, Mary Chase, Matty Grain AL). This was the only time that this name was found in the area 1683-1809.
Leo Gijswijt, Postbus 25056, 3001 HB Rotterdam, Netherlands