Brief Life History of Ruth Mary
When Ruth Mary Caldwell was born on 10 November 1922, in Raymond, County of Warner No. 5, Alberta, Canada, her father, James Howard Caldwell, was 29 and her mother, Mary Rosina Jensen, was 28. She married Carl McClelland Skriver on 20 September 1943, in McLeod Lake, Fraser-Fort George, British Columbia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1931. She died on 9 November 2006, in Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Ruth Caldwell, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Ruth Mary Caldwell Skriver, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ruth Mary Caldwell in entry for Carl Mcclelland Skriver, "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986"
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1982
Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
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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History by Ruth Caldwell Skriver
My Grandfather was James Albert Caldwell, son of David Henry Sr. who came to the foothills country of Alberta, Canada in 1898. He brought his wife (Catherine Emeline Arthur) and three small boys, my f …
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