Brief Life History of Lillian Maud
When Lillian Maud Baldwell or Baldridge was born in 1874, in Bloomfield, Davis, Iowa, United States, her father, John Alexander Baldwell or Baldridge, was 37 and her mother, Marianna or Minerva Cynthia Norris, was 32. She married Charles Laraine Hamilton on 12 October 1898, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 21 July 1948, in Brown, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Riverside Memorial Park, Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (8)
- May L Hamilton in household of Charles Hamilton, "United States Census, 1910"
- Lillie M Hamilton in household of Charles L Hamilton, "United States Census, 1920"
- Lilly Baldridge in entry for Ruth Hamilton, "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2016"
Spouse and Children
1871–1920 Male
1874–1948 Female
Children (4)
1899–1965 Male
1902–1939 Male
1906–1962 Male
1914–2018 Female
Parents and Siblings
1837–1912 Male
1842–1935 Female
Siblings (4)
1862–1880 Female
1864–1914 Male
1874–1948 Female
1881–1952 Female
World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
Age 1
1879
Age 5
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 22
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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