Caldwell Surname History

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SURNAME MEANING
An English, Scottish, and northern Irish habitational surname denoting a person who came from any of several places in England and Scotland variously spelled that are named with Old English ceald meaning “cold” and well(a), meaning “spring or stream”, such as Caldwell in North Yorkshire, England and Caldwell in Renfrewshire, Scotland

EARLY BEARERS
Adam de Caldwella – Derbyshire – 1195
William de Caldwell – Scotland – 1342
Richard de Coldewell – Yorkshire – 1379
John de Coldewell – Yorkshire – 1379
Robert Cauldwell – Scotland – 1405

NOBLE TITLES HELD
The Caldwell Baronetcy of Wellsborough in County Fermanagh was a title created in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1683 for Sir James Caldwell, High Sheriff of County Fermanagh in 1677. He owned Castle Caldwell at Templecarne, co. Fermanagh and also bought the estate at Wellsborough.

Sir James Caldwell, 4th Baronet fought as an officer in the Austrian Army, was made Deputy Governor of Fermanagh in 1752, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753 and was High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1756.

Sir John Caldwell, 5th Baronet, officer in India

Sir John Caldwell (1775-1842), 6th Baronet, lived in Canada, where he was Treasurer General of Canada.

LANDED GENTRY
Caldwell of New Grange, co. Meath, Ireland
Caldwell of Linley Wood, co. Staffordshire, England

NOTABLES
Admiral Sir Benjamin Caldwell (1739-1820) was a senior and experienced British Royal Navy officer of the eighteenth century.

Joseph Caldwell (1773-1835) was a U.S. educator, Presbyterian minister, mathematician, and astronomer. He was the first president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

James Caldwell (1734-1781) was a Presbyterian minister who played a prominent part in the American Revolution.

John Curtis Caldwell (1833-1912) was a teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat.

Frank Merrill Caldwell (1866-1937) was a career United States Army officer who served as a brigadier general during World War I and earlier served as a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War.

James R. Caldwell (1778-1804) was an officer in the United States Navy who served in the Quasi-War with France and the First Barbary War.

Anne Marsh Caldwell (1867-1936) was an American playwright and lyricist wrote both pop songs and Broadway shows

EARLY SETTLERS
John Caldwell – Boston – 1643
Robert Caldwell – Virginia – 1646
William Caldwell – Virginia – 1646
John Caldwell – Massachusetts – 1654
William Caldwell – Virginia – 1640
Archibald Caldwell – New Jersey – 1685
John Caldwell – Georgia – 1698