To whom it may concern. If you look closely you will see that I didn't do
the research...and, someone asked for that. If I had remembered who it was,
I most assuredly would have sent directly.
Let me say this. All genealogies are valuable even if there are errors.
ALL of us should prove whatever is around without taking any family research
for granted. The Net is full of genealogical errors and for myself, I work
with wills and deeds, but still find what anyone/everyone has done to have
substance to work with.
The best, Audrey
----- Original Message -----
From: beachguy <o2tan(a)venicebeach.com>
To: <CALDWELL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:15 AM
Subject: [CALDWELL-L] RE: CALDWELL Genealogy from "The Old Free State"
Okay, can we all just agree that this part of Audrey's post has
been
repeatedly discounted as crap? "Caldwell" isn't a French name
and Oliver
Cromwell's grandmother wasn't Ann Caldwell.
I know that it comes from "The Old Free State," Vol. II by BELL, but that
doesn't make it so. There is so much data available to dispell this that,
without context, we just continue to perpetuate falsehoods and confuse
newbies.
> "This family is a very ancient one. It is said to be descended from
> the Albigenses and Waldenses of the Piedmont section of Italy, who
> were driven into France by the Roman Catholic persecutions. Some of
> the CALDWELLS, who were living at Mount Arid, near Toulon, France,
> earned the enmity of Francis I, of France, and after his escape from
> imprisonment under Charles V, of Germany, three CALDWELLS, brothers,
> John, Alexander and Oliver, emigrated to Scotland, and there with
> the consent of James I, purchased the estate of a Bishop named
> DOUGLAS, located near Solney Frith. It was provided that "the said
> brothers, John, Alexander and Oliver, late of Mount Arid," should
> have their estate known as "CALDWELL" on condition that when the
> King should require they should each send a son with twenty men of
> sound limbs, to aid in the wars of the King."
> "There is a cup, preserved as an heirloom, which represents a
> chieftain and twenty mounted men, all armed, and a man drawing water
> from a well, with the words underneath, "Alexander of CAULDWELL." It
> also shows a fire burning on a hill, over the words, "Mount Arid,"
> and also a vessel surrounded by high waves, which latter was
> intended to commemorate the fact that their ancestors were seamen in
> the Mediterranean, in the latter part of the Fourteenth Century."
> "Oliver CROMWELL's grandmother was Ann CALDWELL, and Joseph, John,
> Alexander, Daniel, David and Andrew, of CAULDWELL, went with
> CROMWELL to Ireland, and in various capacities served his interest
> there, after his accession to the Protectorate. Upon the restoration
> of Charles II, a number of the family emigrated to America."
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