Brief Life History of Margaret
Margaret Caldwell was born about 1714, in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom as the daughter of James Caldwell. She married William Wallace about 1740, in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
- Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910
- Margaret Caldwell in entry for Martha Wallace, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
Spouse and Children
1710– Male
1714– Female
Children (1)
1741– Female
Parents and Siblings
World Events (3)
1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
Age 88
1811 · The Tron Riot
Age 97
1815
Age 101
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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