Person:John Cassanet (1)

John Vincent Cassanet was born on 21st October 1804 and baptised the following month in the parish of Bethnal Green in Middlesex, in the eastern suburbs of London. He was the son of Ann Cassanet, formerly Dean, and her husband Peter Vincent Cassanet, a linguist and teacher of mathematics, who was a Frenchman who had moved to England around the time of the French Revolution. He was reputedly from a wealthy or possibly noble family in France prior to the revolution. However, whilst John was young it seems likely that the family would have lived modestly in Bethnal Green.

John was married on 8th February 1826, aged 21, to Mary Brown Usher in Hackney, just north of Bethnal Green. After their marriage they returned to Bethnal Green, where they had two daughters: Frances Ann in 1827 and Mary Frederica in 1830.

John's mother died in 1837.

The 1841 census finds John, Mary and their daughter Frances (Fanny) living on Prospect Place in Hackney, with John working as a clerk. Their other daughter, Mary, seems to have been living at Odiham in Hampshire.

John's wife Mary died in 1846 in St George in the East, aged 44. Two years later, John's father died.

The 1851 census finds John staying at the Unicorn Inn in Melksham, Wiltshire, described as a concert traveller. He gave his place of birth as Odiham, where his daughter had been living ten years previously.

John returned to the London area, marrying again on 11th August 1852 to a widow called Catherine Bayley Hollinsworth, formerly Weatherhead. They married at Newington in Surrey, in the southern suburbs of London.

John and Catherine were only married for just over a year before Catherine died, aged 47. She was buried on 12th December 1853 in Lambeth.

The 1861 census finds John living with his daughter Fanny and her husband at 55 Wardour Street in the parish of St Anne Soho in the Liberty of Westminster to the west of London. John was working as an advertising agent.

A couple of months after the 1861 census, John married for a third time. His third wife was Emily Birch, who was nearly 35 years his junior, and younger than John's children from his first marriage. John and Emily married on 27th June 1861 at the church of St Andrew Holborn in the City of London.

John and Emily went on to have four children together between 1865 and 1872, although their eldest son died when he was only four years old. There was a gap of about 45 years between the births of John's first and last children.

The 1871 census finds John, Emily, and their children living at 15 Craven Buildings in the parish of St Clement Danes in the Liberty of Westminster. John was still working as an advertising agent, whilst Emily was described as a machinist.

By 1881 the family had moved to 12 Warrior Road in Lambeth, in the southern suburbs of London.

John died in Lambeth in 1882, aged 77. Emily survived him by 17 years and remarried in 1888.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Church of England. Parish Registers of St Matthew, Bethnal Green.

   1804 / Nov[embe]r 11 / John Vincent Son of Peter Vincent & Ann Cassanet Born 21 Oct[obe]r 1804

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 699; Book 1; Folio 36; Page 25, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Prospect Place, South Hackney, Hackney, Middlesex
   John Vincent Cassanet, male, 35 [1801-6], Cl[erk], born in county
   Mary Cassanet, female, 35 [1801-6], born in county
   Fanny Cassanet, female, 14 [1826/7], born in county
   Charlotte Jones, female, 13 [1837/8], born in county
   William Timothy, male, 13 [1827/8], born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1840; Folio 110; Page 3, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Unicorn Inn, City Bath Road, Melksham, Wiltshire
   Alfred Cox, head, married, male, 34 [1816/17], Inn Keeper, b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire
   Anne Cox, wife, married, female, 32 [1818/19], Inn keepers Wife, b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire
   John Deverell, lodger, married, male, 24 [1826/7], Agricultural Labourer, b. Melksham, Wiltshire
   John Cassinet, lodger, married, male, 43 [1807/8], Concert Traveller, b. Odiam, Hampshire

   Although John was not from Odiham, it is where his daughter Mary was living in the 1841 census, suggesting he had some connection to it. No other plausible appearance for John has been found in the 1851 census, nor has any other sighting of this John Cassinet from Odiham been found, and they are therefore presumed to be the same man.

4. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 175; Folio 13; Page 20, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: 55 Wardour Street, Westminster (St Anne), Middlesex
   John Cassanette, head, widower, male, 53 [1807/8], Advertising Agent, b. Marylebone, Middlesex
   Frederick McKenzie, son in law, married, male, 34 [1826/7], Clerk at a Theatre, b. Marylebone, Middlesex
   Fanny McKenzie, wife, married, female, 28 [1832/3], b. Marylebone, Middlesex

5. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 367; Folio 20; Page 34, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: 15 Craven Buildings, St Clement Danes, Middlesex
   John A[?] Cassanet, head, married, male, 65 [1805/6], Advertising Agent, b. Bethnal Green
   Emily Cassanet, wife, married, female, 36 [1834/5], Machinist, b. St Andrew Holborn
   Alfred Cassanet, son, male, 3 [1867/8], b. St Anne Soho
   Leonard Cassanet, son, male, 1 [1869/70], b. St Anne Soho

   Craven Buildings was in the part of St Clement Danes parish which was within the Liberty of Westminster at the time.

6. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 611; Folio 75; Page 34, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: 12 Warrior Road, Lambeth, Surrey
   John Cassenet, head, married, male, 76 [1804/5], Agent, b. London, Middlesex
   Emily Cassenet, wife, married, female, 42 [1838/9], b. London, Middlesex
   Alfred Cassenet, son, male, 13 [1867/8], Scholar, b. London, Middlesex
   Leonard Cassenet, son, male, 11 [1869/70], Scholar, b. London, Middlesex
   Elizabeth Cassenet, daughter, female, 9 [1871/2], Scholar, b. London, Middlesex
   James Birch, nephew, unmarried, male, 17 [1863/4], Coppersmith, b. London, Middlesex

7. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. John Vincent CASSANET, December Quarter 1882, Lambeth Registration District, Volume 1d, page 307, aged 77 [1804/5]