Cassop- Guest- Book

Hi there, I have enjoyed looking at your site, I found the link on Facebook, my friend and I used to go with a couple of gorgeous Cassop girls back in the 70's if my memory serves me right they were called Jean and Doris and they were good friends, I think Jean was blonde and Doris was dark haired we had some smashing times together, we were all about 15 or 16 but for the life of me I can't recall their surnames. They were two lovely girls and I often wonder what path their lives took, they will both be in their late 50's early 60's by now and have probably moved away but all the same it was nice to have known two such lovely girls. If you Jean and/or Doris happen to see this I would just like to say Hi :-)

Great book on Cassop loved all the photos and especially from the air ...great photography

I am lucky to have been born in such a beautiful Village

I am mindful that recently emphasis has been on the Battle of the Somme because of its centenary but I wondered if there any was likely of commemorating the efforts of the men of Cassop who died in the First World War. My grandfather William Ramsay Earnshaw was the cousin of James William Ramsay who served in the Royal Flying Corps as an observer and died after being in action. His grave is in Amiens War Graves Cemetery. It may be that the Oxley Family may have something in mind and it is not my intent baulk or interfere with their efforts.
John Earnshaw

My father came from Wheatley Hill and my mother, Florence Hope was born in Quarrington Hill. I was born in London after my parents moved away but I went to Cassop school in 1939 while living with my Grandfather in Quarrington Hill.

The Hope family founded and ran a Grocery and Haberdashers shop some time in the 1860s which was eventually sold after the last of the line, Mary Jane died some time in the late 1940s.

The family names in my records include Hope, Strong, Gibson and Wood and one of my Grandfather's uncles, a John Hope was killed in Cassop pit at the age of eleven.

Please feel free to contact me if any of this is any use.

Joe Cook

Hi, from the 1851 census I am claiming Peter and Elizabeth Clark as GG Grandfather and his first wife. Jacob and Isabella I think are his brother and sister in law. Peter came to the US shortly after 1851 census, remarried and mined coal in Kentucky and Illinois.

One of his sons, my g grandfather, lost a leg in a mining accident in Cable Illinois.

No one knows what happened to his first wife Elizabeth.

Thanks for listening.

Matt Clark

Haven't seen the site yet

I moved from Cassop on getting married in the 70's. Lots of happy memories growing up there.

I keep having a look on your site - I was born in Cassop in 1958 and am related to Wilsons,Todds and other local names. My brother Franks picture is on your site (commented on this in the past, my dad Billy Hodgson took it). Theres also an old pic that I think is my grandma Isabel Ann Inchliffe (nee Welsby). My granda was Frank Inchliffe

Hi

We are the owners of the pub in the village perviously the Victoria inn

we are looking for anyone with information about the pub or old photographs of the village and surrounding area, so we can take a copy to display in the pub.

kind regards

paul