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Edward Cashel, of Rhodesia

• References:
  • Family tree of Cashel of Rhodesia, by Spencer Cashell
    • His main source is letters 1976 from Jacobie O'Leary Cashel.

  • Barbara Goss (also here and here)
    • The Story of Melsetter by her mother Shirley Sinclair, 1971.
      • contents
      • introduction
      • acknowledgements

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • The History of the British South Africa Police
    • 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:

1. Bessie Cashel,
   born (must be pre-1905) Vredenburg, South Africa,
   mar 1922 to Hugh Murray Fletcher and had issue.

2. Arthur Cashel, mar and had issue:
   1. Ronald Cashel.
3. Dorothy Cashel.
4. Edward Cashel, mar and had issue.
5. Isabelle Cashel, mar --- Gilbert and had issue.

6. Jacobie O'Leary Cashel [dau],
   wrote letters about family tree 1976.

7. Rowan Cashel, mar ---- and had issue:
   1. Linda Margaret Cashel, mar Donald Payne.
   2. Jennifer Cashel, mar Pat Finch.

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Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

Place names

• "Northern Rhodesia" is now Zambia.

• "Southern Rhodesia" became "Rhodesia" and is now Zimbabwe.
  • The capital Salisbury is now Harare.
  • In Manicaland province, in the Eastern Highlands, on the border with Mozambique:
    • The main town Umtali is now Mutare.
    • 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.
    • Further S, Melsetter is now Chimanimani.
    • Further S, Chipinga is now Chipinge.

• "Cashel Valley" range of foods

History and politics

• History (and here and here)
• Timeline (and here and here)
• Politics
• News

• Brief history
  • 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".

• Old Rhodesia online.