Notable amongst the family at this time was Blessed John Fenwick, born John Caldwell (1628-1679), an English Jesuit, executed at the time of the Popish Plot, a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI. (p. (try keyword internet search, landkreis calw). Bell provides no facts evidencing an association or correlation between the so-called Cold Well Estate near Toulon and similar use of English place names at other locations near Toulon. This place-name may also be derived from the Old English words caeld, which means cold, and welle, which means well, and indicates that the original bearer lived near a well that gave cold water. On his return to Naples, he delivered a great number of Protestants to the secular arm at St. Agata, where he inspired the inhabitants with the utmost terror; for if any individual came forward to intercede for the prisoners, he was immediately put to the torture as a favorer of heresy. The Waldenses were itinerant pre-Reformation Protestants based chiefly in southern France and the Holy Roman Empire, followers of an apostolic creed first espoused in the 12th century by Frenchman Peter Waldo. While others may have referred to him as Lord (Laird) Caldwell, he was not so described in those terms when Sir William Mure prepared the family tree more than four centuries later. Some second hand sources say the Caldwell heiress married Gilchrists son, Godfrey. After Henrys death, King Edward accused Richard of treason, and Richard became an outlaw again. It consists of 8 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Cal-dwell.. As is shown in our records this property is situated at 799 Teal Lake Dr, Caldwell, TX. But I find it much less likely than the theory I have advanced, and far better supported by numerous historical documents. Last Name Origin of the Name Caldwell The Caldwell family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Perrin and Bell overlooked the Mure of Caldwell Estate near Uplawmoor, successor to the 14th century Caldwell Estate, when Gilchrst Mure married an heiress of Caldwell. Scot resident Barry Robertson has posted a detailed article about the origin of Caldwell at caldwellgenealogy.com, called Caldwell Mystery. He suggests the Gaelic word kelt for wood. bartleby. The Romans employed Anglo-Saxons as mercenaries to guard their borders from the Pictish and Scottish Highlanders. Caldwell Of Ohio Name Meaning Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Celtic tribes migrated over the Alps and settled in the Po Valley of northern Italy about the 5th century B.C. Consensus on well rather than wel, wal, wall, waelle, wyllan, or weille, would likely also have been reinforced by the King James Version of the Bible, also known as the Authorized Bible, first published about 1611. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level, Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names, Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence, Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Caldwell, To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Some potential support comes from the fact that the many of the early Mures had first names of Viking origin: Reginald, Gilchrist, and Godfrey. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Caldwell census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more. 1390, is the first Mure of Caldwell whom Sir William Mure designated Lord Caldwell. Tom Caldwell uncovered historical documents that revealed use of the Caldwell surname in various parts of Ayrshire, such as in or near Todriggs, Annanhill, Mauchline, Ayr, Dundonald., Maybole, Kirkoswald and Straiton (sometime known as of Stratton), dating back to the 1300s. He posted the descendants of Thomas Caldwell, b. 1850s, contains this passage, excerpted from George Crawfords A General Description Of The Shire Of Renfrew Including An Account Of The Noble And Ancient Families, Who, From The Earliest Times, Have Had Property In That County, And The Most Remarkable Facts In The Lives Of Distinguished Individuals : To Which Is Added, A Genealogical History Of The Royal House Of Stewart, And Of The Several Noble And Illustrious Families Of That Name, From The Year 1034 To The Year 1710 : [collected from our public records, chartularies of monasteries, and the best historians and private mss., published in 1710, by George Crawfurd ; and continued to the present period, by George Robertson. The Anglo-Danes estabished a trade route in the 10th century between Dublin and York that passed through the lowlands of Scotland, and in time intermarried with native inhabitants. It is not probable that an Estate in southern France or Holy Roman Empire would have the English name, Cold Well. Caldwell is a rare given name for men but a very popular surname for both adults and children (#301 out of 150436, Top 1%). (Answers for William Mure of Caldwall, Esq; to the petition and complaint of Daniel Campbell William Grahame and Alexander Cunnynghame, , National Library of Scotland, microfiche). Naturally Galdwallys is such a short step from Caldwallys/Caldwalls that one must be driven to suspect a connection. It was a name for someone who lived in Renfrrewshire. In the Records of Invercauld the form Guildwell and perhaps Camdell occur. Matthew Caldwell, who arrived in Adelaide, Mr. J R Caldwell, Cornish settler travelling from Launceston aboard the ship "Spray" arriving in New Zealand in 1851, S. Caldwell, British settler travelling from London aboard the ship "Slains Castle" arriving in Wellington, New Zealand on 1st December 1852, Miss Mary Ann Caldwell, (b. 1660, grandson, Allan, b. about 1680, Lochwinnoch, and ggrandson, Allan Caldwell, b. 305-306.) Anglo-Saxon ceald; v. Coldwell and Caudle. Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland. Click. I still shudder while I think of the executioner with the bloody knife in his teeth, the dripping napkin in his hand, and his aims besmeared with gore, going to the house and taking out one victim after another, just as the butcher does the sheep which he means to kill. which can be found online at http://www. The River Rhone begins near this settlement and flows south, passing Avignon, the temporary headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church in the 14th century, as well as St. Gilles. The Caldwell Family is from Ireland, but with French and English roots. In the 2d century, York served three years as the capital of the Roman Empire, while the Emperor Severus resided there and commanded a Roman army that sought to defeat the Celtics. The webpage of the Muir Society states that Sir Reginald Mure (1267-1329) served as Chamberlain in 1329. He wrote on 6/27/02: Gault means pertaining to the lowlands, from the Gael gallda (PH Reaney A Dictionary of British Surnames p 142). In my view, the spread of the Caldwell surname throughout the English-speaking world has been one of repeated relocations of successive generations of Caldwells, from England to Scotland, then to North Ireland, and from there, to Canada, America, and Australia. "Caldwell - a surname derived from lands in Renfrewshire possessed by an ancient family of that name for some centuries." Caldwells are noted as having been in Ayrshire Scotland since at least 1349 when William Caldwell was Lord Chancellor of Scotland. There being artesian wells thereabouts he was know as Kald of the Well. Being laymen, they were forbidden to preach they were formally declared heretics by Pope Lucius III in 1184 and by the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. For more information about the Allan Caldwells of Lochwinnoch, contact Mairi Frew at Mairifrew@aol.com. Stenton, The Place Names of Nottinghamshire. John Caldwell Jun 6, 1603 - Feb 19, 1639 Mary Jane Caldwell 1632 - 1692 Walls Hill might mean the Hill of the Wallace or Welsh. 3 vols. The name Caldwell is of English origin. Robert Charles Anderson, a Certified Genealogist, and a fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, 2 Fenway, Derry, NH 03038, published in Volume 19, Numbers 1 & 2, 1991 of the Genealogical Journal of the Utah Genealogical Association, PO Box 1144, Salt Lake, Utah 84110, an article entitled, We Wuz Robbed! The article indicates that a genealogy authored by Gustave Anjou, entitled Caldwell Family, Call No. Caldwell is generally used as a boy's name. Most of the towns founded in the twelfth century were occupied by these Englishmen. 241.) : clowning around here. The old family of the name appears to have ended in the direct line in an heiress in the fifteenth century (Crawford). The Cowdans Estate lies just a few miles northeast of the Caldwell Estate. Personal surnames in France and Scotland began in the 11th century (e.g., Peter Waldo), and were near universal by the 14th century, so by analogy it doubtful that three brothers in France or Scotland in the 16th century lacked a surname at birth. While I see a particularized bias in Bells work, I am not suggesting that Bell and Gustave Anjou are of the same cloth. This is reinforced by Galdwallys Castle in Speyside which is associated with one Freskin who had Ayrshire connections. In the more anglicized county of Belfast, the d has become distinctly pronounced. 1729. ), The University Press, 90, p. They are discussed in C. Ainsworth Mitchell, The Evidence of the Casket Letters, Historical Association Pamphlets, 1927, and M. H. Armstrong-Davison, The Casket Letters, 1965. 1911encyclopedia. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more. 6.) This is reinforced by Galdwallys Castle in Speyside which is associated with one Freskin who had Ayrshire connections. I relied upon http://www.chesebro.net/wgf120. CALDWELL His second wife was Janet Fulton . The position was usually given to the most learned and scholarly men of the time and most influential with the King. It can be rendered as a variant:. Our editors have compiled this checklist of genealogical resources, combining links to commercial databases along with user-contributed information and web sites for the Caldwell surname. The Domesday Book of 1086 constitutes the first census of England. View Social Security Death Index (SSDI) for Caldwell. ngw. In Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, there is a street called Caldwell Rd., that led to the former medieval village of Caldwell, presently enveloped by the expansion of Nuneaton. The linkage of Caldwells to Waldenses would be especially appealing to Anti Papist Scotch-Irish recalling the terrors of Ulster Ireland in 1640, when Catholic Irish rebelled against Protestant abuses and sought to exterminate them. A Roman fort was built at Lochwinnoch, in present day Scotland, and a Roman road runs through the hamlet of Caldwell, near Lochwinnoch. murder them! and numbers were put to death. This was about 30% of all the recorded Cadwell's in USA. Paisley : H. Crichton, 1818 (Paisley : Printed by J. Neilson) 512 leaves : ill., facsims. The Mures of Caldwell have been identified as belonging to the House of Caldwell, and the head of the household, as the Lord (Laird) Caldwell. The Normans who occupied Scotland may have preferred French spelling without the w, as in Calduelle, than the Anglo-Saxon spelling, calde weille, which has the w. In time, Norman names became Anglicized. The meaning of Caldwell is "Cold stream". 11.) [5] New Zealand ranks Caldwell as 417th with 1,581 people. David Caldwell (1725-1824) by David A. Caldwell; Origins of Caldwell Surname by David A. Caldwell; The Caldwell Enigma For our sons and grandchildren and our descendents by David Caldwell 3, Perrin described a most barbarous persecution that was carried on against the Waldenses in the valleys of Loyse and Frassiniere. To wring a confession of this from him, Stefano was tortured until his bowels gushed out. Variants include Coldwell, Calwell, Caudell, Cadwell and Chadwell. See Terms of Use for details. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Adam de Caldwella, which was dated 1195, in the "Pipe Rolls of Derbyshire", during the reign of King Richard 1, known as "The Lionheart", 1189 - 1199. At the time of Godfrey Mures birth in 1352, Sir William Caldwell was still Lord High Chancellor, and one of the most eminent ndividuals in Scotland. Of territorial origin from the lands of the name in Renfrewshire. In this way, the whole number, amounting to eighty-eight men, were butchered. D[discussion of the meaning of a crest displaying three wells.] Alexander Nisbets History of Heraldry (1722) describes the Caldwell Coat of Arms as an argent three piles issuing from the chief sable and in the base, four bars wavy Gules and Vest. 1837), aged 24, British joiner travelling from London aboard the ship "Mystery" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 7th January 1862, Gail Caldwell (b. He encouraged town life. But this is my story and I am sticking with it. The most Caldwell families were found in USA in 1880. 'of Caldwell,' parishes in the the Dioceses of Ripon and Peterborough. The Wapentakes had their separate courts until 1340 A.D., when by a statute passed in the 14th year of Edward III, they were discontinued, and their business transferred to the courts of the shire (e.g., Yorkshire). The name of the Scottish Caldwell Estates have undergone a variety of spellings. All of these settlements are located in regions that were peopled by the Angles and were part of either the Kingdom of Mercia or Northumbria. So I am not an expert. David Caldwell (1725-1824), my ancestor. MIF 241. Lochwinnoch is on the border between present day Ayrshire and Renfrewshire. They moved into France and Spain, and eventually into Ireland and Great Britain. Worship services consisted of readings from the Bible, the Lords Prayer, and sermons, which they believed could be preached by all Christians as depositaries of the Holy Spirit. Although the Mures never adopted the surname Caldwell, use of the title Lord Caldwell likely led to widespread adoption of the Caldwell surname by people who worked, resided, or were tenants, of the Estate. In 1342 there is an entry of the fee of William de Caldwell. My approach has been to see if a clear picture emerges from the totality of the pieces. He claims that the surname Caldwell came from the Cold Well Estate near Toulon, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, now within southeast France. The Bedfordshire Coroners Rolls refer to a murder in 1269 involving assailants from the Prior of Cauldwell. 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