Cadwell, N. Scotland
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sylviad1
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Cadwell, N. Scotland
Anyone know where the Cadwell line may have lived in N. Scotland in the 1600's? Walter Cadwell Was thought to have been born there and then migrated to USA sometime before the birth of his son Thomas in 1629.
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AndrewP
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Hi Sylviad1,
Welcome to TalkingScot.![[scotland-flag]](./images/smilies/scotland-happy.gif "[scotland-flag]")
Doing an search on the online IGI for John Caldwell (no Cadwells to be found), born 1610 ± 20 years produces only one result in the north of Scotland, but that is a submitted entry rather than one from the records, so it may prove difficult to verify. That one is in Ross and Cromarty. I chose john as a starting point as it is more likely to find a John than a Walter if it is occurence of the surname you are looking for.
Most of the entries are from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire - all in west central Scotland.
The records are thinner on the ground by the time you get back to the early 1600s. On a look at the dates of the earliest Old Parochial Registers (OPRs) for the northern counties of Scotland very few date before 1700. So not finding records of your people doesn't necessarily mean they weren't there. It could equally mean they were there, but there are no surviving records to show that.
All the best,
AndrewP
Welcome to TalkingScot.
Doing an search on the online IGI for John Caldwell (no Cadwells to be found), born 1610 ± 20 years produces only one result in the north of Scotland, but that is a submitted entry rather than one from the records, so it may prove difficult to verify. That one is in Ross and Cromarty. I chose john as a starting point as it is more likely to find a John than a Walter if it is occurence of the surname you are looking for.
Most of the entries are from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire - all in west central Scotland.
The records are thinner on the ground by the time you get back to the early 1600s. On a look at the dates of the earliest Old Parochial Registers (OPRs) for the northern counties of Scotland very few date before 1700. So not finding records of your people doesn't necessarily mean they weren't there. It could equally mean they were there, but there are no surviving records to show that.
All the best,
AndrewP
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sylviad1
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When I started researching this line I had to start with my maiden name that was Colwell which after some research I turned up had originally been Caldwell and after more research found that it actually had bee Cadwell. By the time I found the Cadwell connection I also found that this was a very well researched line up to the birth of Walter Cadwell's son Thomas in Hartford, Connecticut. I believe at least one deternined researcher had actually done extensive research and never found anything in Scotland. Most of the researchers thou descended with the Cadwell name intact and probaby never thought it possible that there may have been a change. As my line shows, I would have checked that out first!! ;-)
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AndrewP
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Hi Sylviad1,
One thing I learned in my family research was never to take spelling as "our lot always spelled it that way". Anything pre-(about)-1900 the spelling should not be regarded as fixed. The earlier you get, the more varied spelling is likely to be.
The IGI search that I did earlier on John Caldwell gives the spelling variations Caldwell, Calwell, Calwall, Cauldwell and Caldwell. For Cadwell (had to expand the search to anywhere in the British Isles to get any results) the spelling variations Cadwell, Kadwell, Cadwall, Cadewall and Cadwill. That's not to say that these are the only spelling variations that could be connected to your Cadwells, but it gives an idea of some names that could be considered.
All the best,
AndrewP
One thing I learned in my family research was never to take spelling as "our lot always spelled it that way". Anything pre-(about)-1900 the spelling should not be regarded as fixed. The earlier you get, the more varied spelling is likely to be.
The IGI search that I did earlier on John Caldwell gives the spelling variations Caldwell, Calwell, Calwall, Cauldwell and Caldwell. For Cadwell (had to expand the search to anywhere in the British Isles to get any results) the spelling variations Cadwell, Kadwell, Cadwall, Cadewall and Cadwill. That's not to say that these are the only spelling variations that could be connected to your Cadwells, but it gives an idea of some names that could be considered.
All the best,
AndrewP