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caldwell Name Meaning and History

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English cald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another.

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Distribution of caldwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of caldwell families
 427-851
 143-426		 1-142
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Caldwell's in Haywood County, NC j92bailey 0
Searching for relatives and info on Caldwell's in Arkansas. Caldwell searching for Caldwell's 17
Thomas Caldwell.....Barr....Ayrshire Janet Caldwell 1
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The Margaret Caldwell Mystery Joanne Sholes 1
ROCKINGHAM CO,VA CALDWELL FAMILY RUESNANNY 1
Robert CALDWELL/SC/1823 germanirish_1 16
James D. Caldwell 1835 McMinn County TN vfrancis811 1
Obit-Hurston Caldwell jkrose1 1
Earl Caldwell (b. abt. 1909-1910) tori0077 0
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