Edward Cashel, of Rhodesia
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Edward Cashel
[Edward Baldwin Cashel],
descendant of
Edward III,
born est c.1855, Ireland,
Church of Ireland,
JP,
FRCSI,
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), qualified in Dublin,
corresponded with
James Franklin Fuller 1901
[letter attached to
[NLI] copy of
[O'Connor, 1816]],
he asks:
"Would you be good enough to let me know whether
Cashell should be spelled
with one or two l's - Many of our family use only one l at present",
he is referring to the fact that Fuller spells it Cashell,
but all his branch are consistently spelt Cashel,
emig first to
Vredenburg,
South Africa,
mar pre-c.1905 to ---- [English, Church of England,
emig to Vredenburg, South Africa],
emig 1910 to
Rhodesia (where
his brother Rowan
also settled),
in 1910 he was in Southern Rhodesia Government Medical Service,
he died 1942, age est c.87 yrs,
she went back to South Africa,
lived at
Craigie, 1 Blake Street,
Observatory,
Cape Town, South Africa,
she died c.1966,
had issue:
- Bessie Cashel,
born (must be pre-1905) Vredenburg, South Africa,
mar 1922 to Hugh Murray Fletcher
and had issue.
- Arthur Cashel, mar and had issue:
- Ronald Cashel.
- Dorothy Cashel.
- Edward Cashel, mar and had issue.
- Isabelle Cashel, mar --- Gilbert and had issue.
- Jacobie O'Leary Cashel [dau],
wrote
letters about family tree 1976.
- Rowan Cashel, mar ---- and had issue:
- Linda Margaret
Cashel, mar Donald Payne.
- Jennifer Cashel,
mar Pat Finch.
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History and politics
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- Brief history
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Rhodesia was settled by whites, mostly after 1890,
and became part of the British Empire.
Black African uprisings were crushed in the 1890s.
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As many African countries gained independence in the 1960s,
Rhodesia and South Africa were the ones with large
(though still minority) white populations.
Rhodesia declared independence in 1965,
setting up (or rather continuing) white minority rule,
independent now of Britain.
Like the South Africa situation, this caused international outrage
and UN sanctions.
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Black (marxist) guerrilla war against the white government in 1970s
led to new settlement
and majority-black government 1980.
The marxist-authoritarian
Mugabe
became prime minister,
established increasingly repressive government.
In the years since then,
more than half the white population has left,
the economy has collapsed,
and recently famine has broken out.
- Recent
human rights report
on Zimbabwe, from Freedom House.
Zimbabwe is now rated as "Not Free".
- Old
Rhodesia
online.