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Surnames: Cawood, Pope, Skidmore, Ball
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I, too, have roots in Cawood, Harlan County, Kentucky! Cawood, Kentucky is named after my
gggrandfather Berry Cawood (1758-May1848) who received a land grant in Harlan County,
Kentucky as an American Revolutionarey War Hero.
Cawood, Kentucky is a quiet mountain community in Kentucky's southeast. Once a
farming village, and later a coal mining area. My family moved from Cawood, Harlan
County, Kentucky to Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky in the 1930's. Middlesboro,
which is near various coal mines, is a sister city to Middlesborough, England - and got
it's name from English settlers. Bell County adjoins Harlan County and sits near
Cumberland Gap where Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia meet. Middlesboro, Kentucky sits in
a bowl where a meteorite landed thousands of years ago.
I descend from Stephen Cawood II - who immigrated to Charles County, Maryland, America
about 1666. He was born about 1630 in Pontefract, England. He married Ann Terrett.
Nice to "talk" to you!! Mary Lu