Isaac James Caldwell Sr.

Brief Life History of Isaac James

When Isaac James Caldwell Sr. was born on 29 April 1833, in Perth, Lanark, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, David Caldwell, was 51 and his mother, Mary Ann Vaughn, was 41. He married Eliza Ann Russell on 16 February 1858, in Rush Valley, Tooele, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Clover, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 8 November 1892, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Isaac James Caldwell Sr.
1833–1892
Eliza Ann Russell
1840–1919
Marriage: 16 February 1858
Isaac James Caldwell Jr.
1859–1882
William Henry Caldwell
1862–1907
John David Caldwell
1863–1883
George Lavar Caldwell
1865–1932
Fanny Eliza Caldwell
1867–1873
Emily Marie Caldwell
1869–1964
Richard Elmer Caldwell
1874–1959
Elizabeth Jane Caldwell
1877–1946
Margaret Adeline Caldwell
1878–1955
Herbert Vaughn Caldwell
1881–1881

Sources (58)

  • Isc J Caldwell, "United States Census, 1860"
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  • Ann Kay in the Derbyshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1845

EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Joshua Breckon BIRTH 24 Apr 1804 DEATH 1845 (aged 40–41) BURIAL Tooele City Cemetery Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, USA Show Map PLOT Section 1 MEMORIAL ID 208591655

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Tooele, Utah Territory, United States 1856: Shambip, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Tooele, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Tooele, Utah, United States

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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Isaac James Caldwell - life story

EARLY LIFE Isaac James Caldwell was the youngest son of David Caldwell and Mary Ann Vaughn. He was born April 29, 1833 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. It was there that his family he …

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