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[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

So after posting my list of names I liked and having questions about the origin of Kaeslin, I decided to do a little research and see if I could find the site where I found the name originally. Of course, I had no such luck but I did find out some other things about the name/word:

Caeslin is apparently a place in Germany as rootsweb and ancestry.com kept giving me search results as birth places in geneaologies. In searching for an actual location of Caeslin, Germany, none of the sites I found knew where it was. My temporary conclusion (until I do a litle more research) is that it may be a 19th(ish) century place that has since been renamed. Also, the "word" at the very least isnt made up (by me) as it's in a ship's passenger list dating back to 1892 and was linked with Ohio in that list.

I've found nothing to support the name as Irish Gaelic but I did find it in a list of results at www.irishdancinginsydney.com/cladresults.html If someone smarter or more search engine ept than I can find an actual origin of the name and/or a meaning, that would absolutely make my day. I'll keep looking and if I find anything I'll probably update this.

ETA: Oh yeah, there's also someone with caeslin as her livejournal account=)
Kaeslin is also a surname.

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[bellisima87.livejournal.com]

I live in Germany and I've never ever heard of a place called Caeslin. Actually, I doubt that it exists.. but if it really does then it is for sure a really, really small village.

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

This is where I got that information:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Caeslin%2C+Germany

and http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?surname=Raether&given=Caroline it's listed as a place, country so it led me to believe that Caeslin, Germany was a town. I did do several searches on German tourism sites and returned no results for Caeslin, Germany.