Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Caldwell Records: John and Sarah (Dillingham) Caldwell, Ipswich, Mass, and Their Descendants, Sketches of Families Connected With Them by Marriage, Brief Notices of Other Caldwell Families
The nationality of the Caldwells is not evident. The words cold and well, in sound and meaning (different letters being used), are common to several languages. The name applied to place and family can be traced in England, Scotland, Ireland, and France for several centuries. In England the name, applied to place, appears in the time of William the Conqueror (1066 In Scotland the Caldwells of Caldwell in Ayrshire, had become a prominent family as early as 1349. They furnished at that date a chancellor to Scotland. Caldwells from Mount Arid, near Toulon, went into Scotland in the reign of Francis I.
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