Category: Causey Migrations South and West

10 July 2024. Our Causey family lines are traceable along two main lines back to Dorchester County, Colonial Maryland. Generally speaking the Philip Causey-I (1702-1778) line can be tracked from Dorchester County, Colonial Maryland to the Causey families arriving in Craven, Pitt, and Edgecombe Counties of North Carolina between 1755 and 1770. The other Causey…

Some of the stories passed down from our grandparents and great aunts and uncles add so much humanity to our family history. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”. Our Causey Clan is no exception. In our line are Gentlemen, War Heroes, Preachers, Thieves, Drunks, Slave owners, and slaves. There…

14 November 2023 While researching Thomas Causey, Sr. today I ventured on an extensive presentation on a Thomas S. Causey, b.1861 to Jonas son of Thomas, son of Captain Wm. Causey. The story generally parallels that of other writings depicting the life of Captain Causey, this one interested me because it states his father as…

The following thesis provides prima facie evidence of the lineage from the first Thomas Causey-I of Dorchester County, Colonial Maryland to the Causey Clan of 1800 Guilford County, North Carolina, then 1820 Montgomery County, Tennessee then finally in 1840 Fayette County, Illinois.

8 May 2023 As we continue tracking various lines of the Causey Clan in America, we now delve into the Causey lines of Stewart/Henry and Lawrence/Hardin Counties in Tennessee. Let me know if you have comments or corrections. wrc

18 April 2023

18 April 2023 Some of you have been looking for that missing link. I want to begin a series of sharing information I’ve accumulated over the years. Almost all of it is in either MS Word or Powerpoint. Both are easy to convert to PDF and those internet links still work. So here is my…

7 February 2023 A few of our American Causey Clan cousins who trace their ancestors back to South Carolina are asking for help. Their Y-DNA is the same group as the Causeys from Maryland, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas… T-M70. So we have been trying to connect the Horry County, South Carolina Causeys with…

18 January 2023.

Hope you all are having a blessed Christmas and New Years celebration. It is a difficult and multifaceted challenge to tie together the Causey migration from Colonial Maryland to the Southward and Westward movement. Initially the two paths south were the Chesapeake and Inter-Coastal waterways down to North and South Carolina and the Great Wagon…