Spouses
Birth1833, Shap
Death1925, aged 92
Marriage1866, Parish of Bampton
Misc. Notes
Farming 63 acres on Rosgill St, Shap, in 1881 census ref 5203/64/2.
The Warm Land, by E. Blanch Norcross (1959), p 93:
CASTLEY - Henry Thomas Castley came to Cowichan from Rosgill Village, Westmoreland, England, in the early spring of 1887, accompanied by his sons Thomas Steadman and Elias. He was followed later by his wife and their other children, James, John, Joseph, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. James Campbell), Annie Eliza (Mrs. A. W. Munro), and Edith Margaret (Mrs. Charles Grassie). Henry Castley had been a farmer in England, and in Cowichan he bought property on the Cowichan Lake Road from Jim Auchinachie, property formerly owned by Charlie King. The land was all in heavy timber which had to be cleared before he could start farming. His son John, who married Esther Evans, eventually settled at Cowichan Lake and his three sons now live there.
CLAUDE A. GREEN July 1982