I found the following references to Cadell/Caddell Family History but have
never had access to the books: THE CADELLS OF BAUTON, GRANGE, TRAVENT, AND
COCKENZIE, ETC 1668-1890 by Stevenson (John House (?)) published by
Edinburgh Press 1890 and located in Edinburgh Public Library and Edinburgh
Signet Library.
Anybody out there researched this lead?
Sorry this is a bit long, but it may fit or furnish a clue someone is
already working on:
Also have exerpt of: THE CADLES IN IRELAND from the Genealogy of the Cadle
Family including English Descent by Henry Cadle
"The Cadles in Ireland"
An account of the family of Caddell of the Nauls was compiled in 1730 by
Charles Linegar. In the manuscript is set forth the lineal descent of the
family from the early Welsh Princes, through Sir Walter de Caddell, Knt, who
accopanied Richard, Earl of Strongbow, in his expedition to Ireland in 1169.
He married, soon after, Marebella, eldest daughter of Sir Richard de Burgo,
Earl of Ulster, and by her had a son and heir, Walter de Caddle, who married
Arabella, daughter of Lord Vesey, Lord Justice of Ireland, and seated
himself at the Nauls.
Burke's "Landed Gentry of Ireland" contained the following: Cary-Caddell,
of
Harbourstown, Ireland. Mrs Cary assumed by royal license 5 May, 1900, the
additional name and arms of Caddell. Her lineage goes back to John Caddell,
of the Nauls, who made his will 29 Sep 1581, in which he mentions Richard
Caddell of Harbourstown. Arms: Arg. on a bend sa., three roses of the
field (Cary) on an escutcheon of pretence quarterly 1st and 4th arg. fretty
gu. on a cheif vert a lion rampant of (Caddell); 2d and 3d arg. three
lozenge-shaped arming buckles tongues fesswise gu. (Jerningham). Mrs
Cary-Caddell's seat is Harbourstown, Balbriggan, co. Meath. Residence, 10
Mansion Place, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.
Sir Bernard Burke, in his Baronetage, ascribes the origin of the Irish
Caddells to one Richard Blake, alias Caddell, who he says accompanied Prince
John to Ireland in his attempt at conquest in 1185, and from whom he derives
the descent of the Blake family.
Hardiman in his manuscript, however, does not attempt to trace the line
further back than Richard Caddell, called "the black", who was sheriff of
Connaught in 1303.
There was a Welsh element in Ireland and in the 16th centruy a district
styled the "Welshmen's Country," and many of John's followers were
drawn
from the Welsh country.
In 1640, John Blake "alias Caddell", petitions that "he and his
ancestors
whose heir he is by lineal descent of eleven generations are seized by
inheritance of the castle and two mills of Kilterragh within the liberties
of Galway, etc., the same having been bought from Thomas Hebridge by his
ancestor Richard Caddell called the black."
Eleven generations would be about 300 years, and thus the date of the
existence of Richard Caddell is approximately that of the sheriff above
mentioned, and corresponds with the century when first the name is found as
a surname in and about Westbury. (See Illustrations, Historical and
Genealogical, of King JHames' Irish Army, under heading Blake.)
The middle of the 16th cent was the period of the risings of the O'Neil,
and among the names of the English summoned for the 'general hoysting
northward against Shane O'Neill "out of the barony of Rolothe and the county
of Dublin, Caddell of Caddellston is summoned, and again in 1566, Caddell of
Caddellston, and Caddell of the Nall, both are summoned. (See 15th report
of the Historical Mss. Commission, part III, Acts of the Privy Council.)
"At the general hostyng northwarde against the Skottes" in the muster of 2
Jul 1556, Patrick Caddell of Caddellston, in the barony of Coolock, is to
supply one archer on horseback, and from the barony of Dulyke, in County
Meathe, Caddell of the Nall is mustered in person and with two archers on
horseback.
Dulyke barony in Meathe is about 15 - 20 miles north of Coolock barony in
Dublin, and at this time the English were mostly confined to the strip along
the coast.
Domestic state papers for the reign of Elizabeth under date of Aug 10,
1590, contain a reference to a letter of one Dennis Rowghane, a priest,
apparently accused of complicity in the Spanish conspiracy in Ireland, in
answer to Robert Caddel's letter to Sir John Perrot.
It is evident that while one branch of the family may have assumed the
name of Black or Blake, from the appearance of an ancestor, in accordance
with the custom of taking a significant name, descendants of the family in
other branches kept the original name and multiplied, and that moreover the
Caddell-Blakes kept alive the knowledge of tehir original name.
It is possible that the Dublin Caddells were of a later migration.
In 1643/4 a Mr Caddell had a house in Castle St Ward in Dublin (See 14th
report, part Vii, of the Hist Mss. Com.)
Whether any connection exists between the Irish and Scotch families is
unknown.
Among the musters of the English troops under the Earl of Ormond, in 1644
at Dublin, occur the names of the following Caddells: George Caddell, in
Sir Thomas Meridith's Company. James Caddell in Capt Thomas Gascoigne's
Company. That was after the general Irish massacres and Roman Catholic
rising of 1641.
From Carew Mss.: 1596 In preambulation of the English pale in the barony
of Cowlock were found John Caddle at Mooreton, and Goerge Cadle at Cadleston.
In the barony of Duleek, in county Meath, were found Richard Cadle of the
Nall, and Robert Cadle of Herbertstown.
From the Patent Rolls for Ireland:
1545. Edward Caddell, gentleman, to be transcriber of the Exchequer.
1536. A similar position held by Robert Caddell.
1547. Livery of possession of the estate of John Caddell of Caddellston to
son and heir, Patrick Caddell
1559. Feofment of John Caddell of Caddellston to Thomas Caddell, vicar of
Balmadon, estate in trust for Margaret Eustace, wife of the said John, and
her children, Edward, Robert and Jennett.
1626. Sir James Caddell is mentioned.
1282, in the month of August, Roger de Bygod, the fiftheand last Earl of
Norfolk of that family, and a great leader in the time of Edward I, going to
Wales on the Kings's service, nominated as his attorneys in Ireland for one
year William Cadel and another. (Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I.)
On the 3 January, 1296, request to Richard de Bourgh and others, among
them William Cadel, to be faithful to John Wogan, Justiciary of Ireland, and
to be present with horses and arms at Whitehaven, as the King proposed to
set forth from there.
24 Nov. 1296, a pardon is issued, on account of their services in the
Scottish war, to William Cadel, of Cloyneynan, knight, Richard Cadel and
William, son of Robert Cadel, for all homicides, robberies, and other
trespasses in Ireland. (Patent Rolls, Edward I.)
From the Parliamentary Writs is obtained the following, which, it will be
observed, cover much the same ground: 18 Oct 1295, Wm Cadel, on of the
faithful in Ireland, ordered to obey the instructions of John Wogan, the
Justiciar, concerning a lefy of foot and horse. William Cadel ordered to
perform duty in person, 1 Mar, 1296. Ordered to appear with horses and arms
at London, 1 Aug, 1297, to receive the King's commands for performing
service beyond the seas.
The above entries probably give the clue as to the origin of the Irish
famil of Cadel, and show that they were from England, and from their
connection with the de Bourghs and the location of the name in the early
days, it is fair to assume that they were all from the west country and very
likely of the same family."
Earlene Scott