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Author: jcady622
Surnames: CADY
Classification: queries
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The name arrived in three periods
1. 1630-1700 Nicholas Cady arrived early and his descendents all track to New England
before 1776/ 90% of Cady;s from New England are related to Nicholis.
2, 1715-1754 Person;s being persecuted by the Church of England. Mostly Scottish
Presbyterians
who Cromwell had moved to Ireland. They later called themselves Scotch-Irish to seperate
themselves from 3. There were over 100,000 but onlu about 150 Cady;s mostly in the
south.
3/ Irish Catholics the second largest group to come to America, over 2 million with
several hundred with the surname all after 1840 (Largest: German) couple hundred surname
Cady.
Althooough pronounced and spelled the same. The origin of the name is different
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