vol.1, covers up to 1903, by Peter Gibbs, pub 1972
vol.2, covers up to 1939, by Peter Gibbs, pub 1974
vols.1 and 2 reprinted with
vol.3, covers up to 1980,
by Hugh Phillips,
pub 2000
Location of Cashel, and other places, Rhodesia (on the border with Mozambique).
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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.
S of Umtali is
Cashel
(originally called Penkridge, changed to Cashel in 1957)
and Cashel Valley,
both named after
Rowan Cashel.
In the Cashel Valley, Rowan Cashel's farm
Thabanchu
is now
Svinurayi co-operative.
The micro-hydroelectric-power system at Svinurayi was installed in the 1930's.
Rhodesia was settled by whites, mostly after 1890,
and became part of the British Empire.
Black African uprisings were crushed in the 1890s.
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.
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".