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Author: genealogygeorge
Surnames: Calder/Cawdor
Classification: queries
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Cawdor/Calder Castle has been in Campbell hands since Muriel Calder was kidnapped and
married to Sir John Campbell in 1510. Thus the name "Campbell of Cawdor." I
reprinted the chart from "The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor" many years ago. It
shows the Thanes from Donald in 1295 to Muriel in 1510 and then the Campbell Thanes from
1510 to Frederic Archibald Vaughn Campbell, born in 1847. In 1972 Lord Cawdor (now
deceased) and Lady Cawdor (previously divorced from him) took my family and I on a tour of
the Castle. The present Lord does not live in the Castle, but his German step-mother
inherited it and is now in charge of the Castle and opens it to tourists. If you would
like a copy of the chart for $2 postage, send an email to genealogygeorge(a)yahoo.com not
by replying on this board.
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