Ruthanne Cassa Buchanan third generation of Anthony Cassa 1858-1948 and Lucy Nesta Cassa 1872-1957.
Anthony met Lucy on the ship from Italy but I do not have the port of entry. Once source tells me Anthony was born in San Gregorio, Province Salerno, Italy. It is also noted per Lucy's Bible that they married in Allentown Pa.1894
Anthony was 21 when he arrived in the US. lucy came from the same city and province but the two only met aboard ship. There is a vast difference in their ages.
Their first child, Joseph R Cassa was born in Bethlehem Pa. 1895. They then moved to Greensburg Pa. and Rose Cassa Campolongo was born 1896. Other births were: Charles 1898-1914; Theresa Lizzie Cassa Pampillonia 1899-1963; Angelo B 1900-1988;Frank K Cassa 1902-1995; George Cassa 1903-1903; Richard Carmen Cassa 1905-1984 Nicholas A Cassa(my father) 1908-1986; Dominic Cassa 1909-un; Vincent Jimmy Cassa 1914-1979.
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New Amsterdame is now called New York City. In addition the boundaries of a city , town, county or country may have changed over time. Your ancestors may have moved to another country without even packing their bags.
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Nicholas A Cassa, Sr: Died of Alzheimer's. 1908-1986
Lavern Ruth Hull Cassa: Died of . Anerism. 1915-1989
Nicholas A Cassa Jr: Died of Diabetes , Heart Failure. 1933-2003
Clara J Cassa Charles: Died of Alzheimer's . 1933-2006
Mary Elizabeth Braithwaite Hull Kepple: Died by Food Poison. ? -1974
Daniel I Richards: Died from Heart Attact. 1933-1984
Hazel Gertrude Miller Cassa: Died of Heart Attact. 1903-1946
Richard Carmen Cassa: Died of old age. 1905-1984
William Eugene Cassa: Died of Caner. 1929-1980
James Cassa : Twin to Hazel Frances Cassa: Died SID.
Vincent A (Jimmy) Cassa: Died by his own hand. 1917-1979
Mildred Louise Hull Cassa: Died by her own hand. 1979
Jack John Cassa: Died by his own hand. 1944-1979
Sharon Cassa: Died by her own hand.
Pasqule Campolongo: Died of Heart Failure.1915-1977
Quentin Dennis Zambano: Died in Vietnam. 1946-1967
Susan Ann Conjelko Fetsko: Died of heart Failure. 1928-1993
Joseph James Nagle: Died of Heart Failure.
Quentin Zambano: Sr: Died of Heart failure.
John (Nmi) Rondello: Died of Cancer.
Mario pampillonia: Died by Auto. 1921-1990
Zacchary James McQuaide: Died SID. 1990-1990
Lodewyk Johannes Cassa: Hauge Holland. Died of Diabetes 1919-2003
Jan Cassa: Hauge Holland.
Theadora Maria Van Cuylenborg Holland. Julu 22 1921 - July 4th 2008
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Material collected by my sister Clara Roberts,Dansbury,Charles,Barnes.
Ruthanne Cassa,Misiolek, Buchanan will continue to have her works known through Cassatree websites
Mary's birth certificate shows her name as "Bairthwait" and her mother's spelling the same, but it shows her father's name as Braithwaite.
The date shown on the birth certificate from the county is shown as 10-19-1894, with the place of birth as East Huntingdon Township.
Letter from county with birth certificate says: "Please note the birth date and the difference in spelling of the last name. We must copy the birth record exactly as the original in our docket book. Ruffsdale is in East Huntingdon Township."
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Does anyone know if Anthony Cassa and Lucy Nest had any siblings? Send email Ruthanne Cassa r3485@yahoo.com
Cassa is a rare Surname. Not like Jones, Smith or even Buchanan. That's why I make it my duty to research every Cassa I come in contact with.
The message above mentioned ;"Ancestors moving to other countries, without even packing their bags". Could undoubtedly be missing links in The Anthony Cassa & Lucy Nesta Cassa genealogy.
Surnames as we know them today were first assumed in Europe from as early as year 1100.
While searching information highway for answers: "Who held the first surname? "
Ans: The first family (Fossil).
So! that's where the saying ,"You old Fossil" came from.
0rganization of the surname as we know it today can be ascribed to the "Norman Race" about 1120.
I am sure for most second generation Italian American children who grew up in the 40's, 50's & 60's there was a definite distinction between us and them. We were Italians, everybody else, the Irish, the Germans, the Polish, they were Americans.
I was well into adulthood before I realized I was an American. I had been born American and lived here all my life, but Americans were people who ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on mushy white bread. I had no animosity towards them, it's just I thought ours was the better way with our bread man, egg man, vegetable man, the chicken man, to name a few of the peddlers (Hucksters) who came to our neighborhoods. We knew them, they knew us.
Americans went to the A&P. It amazed me that some friends and classmates on Thanksgiving and Christmas ate only turkey with stuffing, potatoes, and cranberry sauce. We had turkey, but only after antipasto, soup, lasagna, meatballs and salad!
In case someone came in who didn't like turkey, we also had a roast of beef. Soon after we were eating fruits, nuts, pastries and homemade cookies sprinkled with little colored things. This is where you learned to eat a seven course meal between noon and four PM, how to handle hot chestnuts and put peaches in wine. Italians live a romance with food. Sundays we would wake up to the smell of garlic and onions frying in olive oil. We always had macaroni and sauce.
Sunday would not be Sunday without going to mass. Of course you couldn't eat before mass because you had to fast before receiving communion. We knew when we got home we'd find meatballs frying, and nothing tasted better than newly cooked meatballs with crisp bread dipped into a pot of hot gravy (not sauce).
Another difference between them and us was we had gardens. Not just with flowers, but tomatoes, peppers, basil, lettuce and "cucuzza". Everybody had a grapevine and fig tree. In the fall we drank homemade wine arguing over who made the best. Those gardens thrived because we had something our American friends didn't seem to have. We had Grandparents.
It's not that they didn't have grandparents. It's just they didn't live in the same house or street. We ate with our grandparents, and God forbid we didn't visit them 3 times a week. I can still remember my grandfather telling us how he came to America when he was young, on the "boat."
I'll never forget the holidays when the relatives would gather at my grandparents' house, the women in the kitchen, the men in the living room, the kids everywhere. I must have fifty cousins. My grandfather sat in the middle of it all drinking his wine he was so proud of his family and how well they had done.
When my grandparents died, things began to change Family gatherings were fewer and something seemed to be missing. Although we did get together usually at my mother's house, I always had the feeling grandma and grandpa were there.
It's understandable things change. We all have families of our own and grandchildren of our own. Today we visit once in a while or meet at wakes or weddings. Other things have also changed. The old house my grandparents bought is now covered with aluminum siding. A green lawn covers the soil that grew the tomatoes. There was no one to cover the fig tree, so it died.
The holidays have changed. We still make family "rounds" but somehow things have become more formal. The great quantities of food we consumed, without any ill effects, is not good for us anymore. Too much starch, too much cholesterol, too many calories in the pastries. The difference between "us" and "them" isn't so easily defined anymore, and I guess that's good. My grandparents were Italian-Italians, my parents were Italian-Americans. I'm an American and proud of it, just as my grandparents would want me to be. We are all Americans now...the Irish, Germans, Polish, all U.S. citizens.
But somehow I still feel a little bit Italian. Call it culture..call it roots...I'm not sure what it is. All I do know is that my children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews, have been cheated out of a wonderful piece of our heritage.
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