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Surnames: Caudill/Caudle/Caddel/Cadle
Classification: Query
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You may want to visit the local LDS Family center and look at Batch #C032853. This is the
IGI record for Stephen Caudle , christened 21 Nov 1688 at Withington, Gloucestershire,
Eng. This date falls within the accepted time given (1685-1690) for the birth of Stephen
Caudle, who is thought to be the patriarch of the Caudles/Caudills in VA,NC,KY and
elsewhere. I only made reference to the remark of a person who claimed to be a Cawdor
researcher that he had never come across the spelling Caudle or Caudill as a derivative of
Cawdor. I have looked at the Scottish Church records from 1400 to 1800 and could find the
spelling of Cadel/Caddel but none with Caudill/Caudle.In the 1983 edition of the Alleghany
County Heritage-NC, one of my relatives,Daniel Jack Caudill,is quoted as saying that his
father and grandfather were born in Scotland and came to America in the 1800s. Records
show that both of these people were born in Wilkes County,NC. He was in fact related to
Stephen Caudle who!
is recorded in VA by 1731.