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Author: carden118
Surnames: Carden
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I am the administrator of the Carden DNA project at FTDNA and I would very much like to
know how DNA testing indicates anything about Scottish Cardens, as I am not aware of
that.
The only early Scottish Carden that I have found is a reference to Archibald Carden, Laird
of Carden in the proceedings of the House of Lords for 1709 and to Sir Archibald Carden,
Knyght in a commission to the gentlemen of Stirlingshire in 1651. I have found no other
Scottish Cardens prior to about 1750, and I reckon that there was a Lord Carden whose
family name was Stirling who took his name from a place called Carden, and that the
surname Carden did not exist in Scotland. There were plenty of Cardens there later but
they came from England.
If you go to
http://www.tntcarden.com/tree/ensor/CardenOrigins.html#Carden Tower
You will find a long entry about Carden Tower including a reference dated around 1170 in
which William the Lion referred to "my forest of Carden".
Regarding the arrival of Cardens in USA, Beth Danies held a seminar on the subject at the
1998 Carden Gathering, reported in the Gathering Report to be found at
www.lulu.com; there
is an item in my blog at
http://cardenhistory.blogspot.com/ about Carden arrivals in
Virginia in the 1600s; and I have written a document about Cardens in the American
Revolutionary War. There is also an item in my blog about black Cardens in USA, one of
whom has Carden DNA.
Arthur Carden of Horsham, England.
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