Brief Life History of Floran
When Floran Caldwell was born on 21 December 1905, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, John William Oscar Caldwell, was 36 and his mother, Alice Jane Osborne, was 29. He died on 21 December 1905, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Stillborn Caldwell, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Caldwell, "Utah, State Archives Records, 1848-2001"
- Baby Boy Caldwell, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1869–1951 Male
1876–1918 Female
Siblings (13)
1895–1993 Female
1897–1976 Male
1897–1980 Female
1898–1972 Male
1901–1979 Male
+8 More Children
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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