I much enjoyed the postings by you all on this subject - good to know that
you are all still beavering away at Carden history. Who is Jeannie?
The original message was gatewayed to this list but I notice that none of
you has replied to the Message Board URL:
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.carden/649/mb.ashx so I have posted the
following message there:
"Your message was gatewayed to the CARDEN mailing list at
www.rootsweb.com
and you may like to go there and look as the half dozen responses already
posted there.
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#Carde...
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.