Brief Life History of Seled I
When Rev. Seled I Caldwell was born on 6 January 1817, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Rev. Samuel Craighead Caldwell, was 51 and his mother, Elizabeth Lindsay Caldwell, was 32. He died on 29 July 1899, in Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in McGregor, McLennan, Texas, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Seled Caldwell - birth-name: Seled Caldwell
- Seled I. Caldwell, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1817–1899 Male
1828–1902 Female
Parents and Siblings
1765–1826 Male
1784–1825 Female
Siblings (9)
1805–1832 Male
1808–1889 Female
1810–1863 Male
1812–1892 Male
1814–1899 Male
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 2
1830 · Trail of Tears
Age 13
1846
Age 29
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 ceald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another. Possibly also from Caldwell (Warwickshire), Caldwall (Worcestershire), Cauldwell (Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire), Caudle Green (Gloucestershire), Caudle Ditch or Cawdle Fen (Cambridgeshire), Chadwell (Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Wiltshire), Chardwell (Essex), or Chardle Ditch (Cambridgeshire, early recorded as Kadewelle).
Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of Ó Fuarghuis or Ó hUarghusa ‘descendant of (F)uarghus’, a personal name whose literal sense ‘cold’ + ‘choice’ was reinterpreted as coming from fuaruisce ‘cold water’.
History: Several Caldwells emigrated from Scotland to America by way of Ireland in the 18th century. James Caldwell (1734–81), a son of settler John Caldwell, was born in Charlotte County, VA, and was a militant clergyman during the revolutionary war. Andrew Caldwell, a Scottish farmer, emigrated to North America in 1718 and started a family in Lancaster County, PA. His son David was a Presbyterian clergyman and well-known revolutionary war patriot.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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