Caldwell Family History
Caldwell Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any
of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are
named with Old English cald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring’,
‘stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the
surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Caldwell
Name Distribution of Caldwell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Caldwell families
 631 - 1,260  211 - 630 |
 1 - 210  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Caldwell families
|
582 - 1,162 195 - 581 |
1 - 194 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Caldwell census records
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Caldwell Family Origin
Caldwell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Caldwell Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Caldwell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Caldwell census records
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Military Service by Caldwell
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