So, Arthur...how do we pressure Joan to get the net and join our list?
Sounds like we need her! And I think she'd really like all of us
because we're such charming and wonderful people. I sure wish we could
pin down the first Cardens who came over here!
Beth
Ron - thanks for your note on the 13th century monk who
abbreviated his name Carwarden to C'arden. As you know, in
the 16th century Sir Thomas Cawarden (only one r) of Bletchingley
was often spelled, and presumably pronounced, Carden.
Please, Ron (or anyone else who was there), could you tell us all
what Joan Carden of Spain said at the Carden gathering last
September about medieval Cardens? I despair of getting her to write
it down for us, and I missed her lecture. She said to me "Arthur, you
are totally wrong in thinking the name originated in the 12th century
in Cheshire - it existed in the south of England long before that."
Could you perhaps telephone her, and tell us what she says?
[Joan Carden of Spain, in her 80s, has undoubtedly made the best
collection, anywhere in the world, of Carden information and has
spent thousands of hours extracting information from libraries and
record offices. I so wish she was on the net!]
Arthur Carden from Cornwall, England
Arthur E Carden,