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Taken from "The House of Waltman and its Allied Families...."
by Lora S. La Mance and published by The Record Company, St. Augustine,
Florida, 1928:
Caldwell Section
Caldwell. The Caldwells were originally Norman-French. In the
Historical Collections of Joseph Habersham, D. A. R., Volume I,
the story is thus told:
There were two Norman brothers, John and Alexander, seaman, travelers
and warriors. They operated largely on the Mediterranean Sea.
They were natives of Toulon, France. After a twenty-years’
absence they returned to France. Political troubles loomed up
in the latter part of the 1300’s, and the brothers were mixed
up in it and obliged to flee from France to keep their heads upon
their shoulders.
They went to Scotland and received an estate near Solway Frith.
James I granted it on these conditions: Their estates should be
called the Caldwell (cauld well, meaning a cold spring,) manors.
If the king became involved in a war, each brother should send
a son with a retinue of twenty men of sound limbs with him to
battle for the king. A silver cup is yet preserved that is engraved
with the design of a chieftain and twenty men, all armed, behind
them a fire on a hill; under it the words “Mount Arid,”
(the hill where their estates lay,) and a further addition of
a vessel surrounded by high waves.
At the Reformation the Caldwells became Protestants of the strongest
kind. Ann Cauldwell of this Scotch line was the mother of Oliver
Cromwell. In the Cromwell wars John, Joseph, David and Andrew
Caldwell went with Cromwell to Ireland. After Cromwell’s
death and the restoration of King Charles II, John and Andrew
fled to America for safety. (Joseph and David had already died.)
Nearly all of the Pennsylvania and the southern Caldwells are
from these two brothers, or from David’s son John. They landed
at Newcastle, Delaware. From there they went to Lancaster County,
Pa. Several of John and Mary Caldwell’s sons went south,
as did several sons of Andrew Caldwell. No attempt will be made
to trace but one of these, Rev. Dr. David Caldwell from whom sprang
the LaMance and Watkins families of this book.
Andrew Caldwell landed at Newcastle, Del., December 10, 1724.
He went to Lancaster County soon after. His wife was Ann Stewart,
whom he married in Ireland six years before. Ann was a Stewart,
and from the fourteen kinds that were Stuart (the French form
of Stewart), through high and mighty dukes, lords, earls and down
to basrons and “gentles,” that line never forgot that
they were Stewarts, one of the greatest families in all Scotland
or England.
Alan, a younger son of the Count of Dol, in Brittany (France),
crossed over to England, and was given high honors by Henry I.
Alan’s second son, Walter Fitz-Alan, went to Scotland and
by David I was made dapifer, or seneschal or steward of all Scotland.
For seven successive generations they were “stewards.”
Hence the surname. Three of the seven were regents over the kingdom.
Walter, the sixth steward, married Margery, the daughter of King
Robert Bruce, and thus eventually brought the crown to the family.
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