When Peter Calder was born on 11 May 1745, in Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Calder, was 18 and his mother, Isobel Henderson, was 22. He married Ann Couper on 11 July 1771, in Bower, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in 1801, in Kershaw, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 56.
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Scottish: habitational name from any of the places called Calder in Midlothian and Caithness, or Cawdor in Nairnshire.
English: perhaps a habitational name from Calder in Cumbria, named from the river on which it stands (probably a British name, from Welsh caled ‘hard, violent’ + dwfr ‘water, stream’). However, the modern surname in England seems to be of Scottish origin, rather than from the Cumbrian placename.
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