1770 - 1847 (77 years)
Generation: 1
1. | John Caldwell was born in 1770 in Nova Scotia; died in 1847. Notes:
[History of the county of Middlesex, Canada p571] John Caldwell settled on Concession 2, Westminster in 1818, when there were only two settlers there, Wm. Bryant and John Elliott. He was local Methodist preacher of this district.
[HMC p754]: Matthew Caldwell is of Scotch-English descent, and a son of John Caldwell, who was born in Nova Scotia and came to Ontario, settling on the Second Concession, in Middlesex County, in March, 1818, bringing his family, which consisted of a wife and seven children, with him. The names of the latter are as follows: -John, Meron, Elizabeth, Ezekiel Robert, Hannah, Sarah A., and last was born Matthew.The country was in a very wild state at the time of their settlement, not a tree having been cut where the vcity of London now stands. Mr. Caldwell entered 200 acres of land, which he managed to clear by dint of hard labor, and became noted throughout his neighborhood as a hard working man, and one whose word was as good as his bond. He was a member of the Methodist Church, being also a local preacher in the same, and lived to be 77 years of age.
John married Hannah Outhouse. Hannah was born in 1769. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 2
4. | Mathew Walker Caldwell* (1.John1) was born in Jun 1814 in Long Point, UC; died on 02 Oct 1889. Notes:
born Long Point; came to Middlesex 1818
- 2 wives, who were cousins to each other
Caldwell 1
[HMC p754]: Matthew Caldwell is of Scotch-English descent, and a son of John Caldwell, who was born in Nova Scotia and came to Ontario, settling on the Second Concession, in Middlesex County, in March, 1818, bringing his family, which consisted of a wife and seven children, with him. The names of the latter are as follows: -John, Meron, Elizabeth, Ezekiel Robert, Hannah, Sarah A., and last was born Matthew.The country was in a very wild state at the time of their settlement, not a tree having been cut where the vcity of London now stands. Mr. Caldwell entered 200 acres of land, which he managed to clear by dint of hard labor, and became noted throughout his neighborhood as a hard working man, and one whose word was as good as his bond. He was a member of the Methodist Church, being also a local preacher in the same, and lived to be 77 years of age. Matthew Caldwell, his son, was born at Long Point, Canada, in 1814, but was reared on his father's farm in Middlesex County, where he became skilled in the art of woodcraft, but received very meagre educational advantages, what education he obtained being secured in the primitive log school-house of pioneer times. After reaching manhood he was married to Margaret J., a daughter of Gabriel and Polly (Green) Manning, by whom he became the father of two children, John Henry and Sarah J. Mrs. Caldwell died six years after her marriage, and the widower then wedded Miss Maria, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah Manning, to which union was born the following family: -Margaret A., William, George, Hannah, Joseph and Charles. Mr. Caldwell has resided on the farm on which his father settled all his life. He and family attend the Methodist Church, and he has always been an upright and honorable citizen and a true friend and neighbor.
Mathew married Maria Malvina Manning* in 1847. Maria (daughter of Joseph Manning* and Hannah Schriver*) was born in Jul 1822; died on 01 May 1896. [Group Sheet]
Mathew married Margaret Jane Manning in 1840. Margaret (daughter of Gabriel Manning and Mary Ann Polly Green) was born in 1819; died in 1844. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 3
16. | Margaret Ann Caldwell* (4.Mathew2, 1.John1) was born in 1850; died in 1896. Notes:
her dates are uncertain: DWT (1850-1896); BSC (1896-1896); OGS (1888-1896)
but death record says died 1896 age 46 so must be 1850 birth
Caldwell 6; broken beyond repair
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18. | Hannah Marinda Caldwell* (4.Mathew2, 1.John1) was born in 1856; died on 16 Aug 1888. Notes:
Caldwell 4
age 32
[G. Curnoe notes]
Nichols, Henry
Farmer
of Westminster
twp. sued by Matthew Caldwell for damages for the seduction of his daughter Hannah Miranda Caldwell. Verdict for plaintiff; $500 in damages.
Free Press Oct 234, 1877 p4,c3
[this may have been Henry, son of John Nichols]
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21. | Charles Wesley Caldwell (4.Mathew2, 1.John1) was born in 1861; died on 07 Sep 1914 in London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. Notes:
The Delaware/Westminster book refers to him as Charles F. Caldwell, b. 1861, but the Ontario marriages calls him Charles Wesley Cladwell, son of Mathew & Maria, b. 1861.
Death certificate says Charles H. Caldwell, b. 1861, died London, 1914
Charles married Sarah Eliza Dale on 24 Oct 1883 in London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. Sarah (daughter of Jacob Dale and Mary Jane Walters) was born about 1863. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 4
26. | George W.M. Dale* (8.Nathan3, 3.Sarah2, 1.John1) was born in 1860; died on 23 Oct 1904. Notes:
Dale 27
never married
moesteaded with brothers Samuel, Hugh and Thomas in Enniskillen Tp.
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