Caddy's part 2

This is a picture of the church at Cartmel, now known as Cartmel Priory, church name St Mary & St Michaels.














I finally got round to going to Kendal RO, good day as well I managed to get a parking space outside the building.

Searching through the Cartmel St Mary & St Michaels registers I found another child of my John Caddy and Elizabeth (still no surname) who was called Philip and baptised on 1st April 1821. Since coming back from Kendal I found a Philip Caddy who I thought might be the right one and he married Eleanor Thompson in 1859. So I sent for the marriage certificate to see who it had for Philip's father, this does confirm that it's a good match. Father down as John Caddy, Labourer and they are living not too far from Cartmel where the family are from.

I then couldn't find Philip on the 1861 census but did find a possible death on 19th December1860, which I sent off for. The age matches my Philip. Poor guy's cause of death was "killed by falling down an iron ore shaft" and place of death was Lindale Moor, which I have since found out was a local Iron Ore mine close to where they were living. I then finally tracked down his wife, noted as being called Ellen Caddy on the 1861 census living with her mother Marie Thompson and her daughter Elizabeth Margaret Caddy (born in 1860). So thats another line to follow when I have some spare time.

Back to what I found at Kendal - I wanted to find a link between my John Caddy (1787/1788) and Henry Caddy (c1784) who is the ancestor of a lady who has contacted me recently and I feel they were probably brothers. Anyway I found a John Caddy born 5 July 1788 in Flookburgh, which is the place of birth my John has used on the census returns. The fathers name was Jonathan Caddy and mother Anne. So searching through more baptism records I found Jonathan baptised 23 Feb 1777, Margaret born 20 Dec 1778, another Jonathan born 20 Aug 1781, Harry born 14 Dec 1784, Michael 28 Jan 1793 and William 29 Jan 1796 all born in Flookburgh and parents Jonathan and Anne Caddy. I think Harry is the Henry I have been trying to find a link too. I was a little worried at first because of finding 2 Jonathan's but searching the burials I found a Jonathan who died 26 Sep 1777 so that must be the first child.

Searching further back I couldn't find a marriage of Jonathan and Anne, so will have to search in the area of Cartmel when I have some more time to go back to Kendal.

I do have more to tell but not enough time to tell it now, will follow on soon

Kendal Records Office

Well I finally got to Kendal, car park at the Records office was full to spilling over, so anybody wanting to visit there don't bother trying to get on the car park in the morning. So I had to find another car park, luckily there is a shopping centre close by so I parked on there.

So in I go, I have to say the staff there are absolutely lovely, really helpful, I always hate asking for help as staff in records offices are usually so busy, but at Kendal they are great they take the time to help everybody who comes through the door.

Unfortunately I still haven't found Ellen Wilson's father, but I am now quite sure its not Thomas Brown as I did find her marriage in the Kirby Lonsdale parish records and although it was difficult to read it does not say Thomas Brown, although it is a Thomas it looks more like Boote or Booth. I have got a copy of the marriage cert. from the GRO but it is a typed copy and the fathers name is obviously mis-transcribed.

So anyway I had taken a list of people I wanted to find including all Ellen Wilson's half siblings baptisms. Which I was successful with most of them, and also a couple of their deaths.

One of Ellen's half sisters was Elizabeth Mary Brown and I was so excited to find a letter that had been put in the parish records, so therefore somebody had kindly copied it when they copied the registers onto the microfilm. It is dated 7 Apr 1932, she would have been 77 at the time.

It's a sweet little letter asking for a copy of her baptism record, she has detailed her parents names, her full name and the approximate date of her christening and it's spot on with the information I have found for her. But the best thing about this was I didn't know who she married but on her little letter she had signed her name, obviously her married name, which was by this time Elizabeth Mary Bentham. So then I went back to the parish records and found her marriage, the reason why I hadn't found her before was on the marriage register she had put her name as Mary Brown. So I took this information home and checked the census records and fond her on the 1881, 1891 and 1901 census and interestingly she had her name as Mary in 1881 but then has reverted to Elizabeth Mary in 1891 and 1901. Aren't our ancestors a pest keeping changing their names?

I would have taken a copy of the letter but I wasn't using the microfilm that has the printer attached to it and somebody else was using it so will get a copy of it when I next go there, as there is still lots for me to look for there.

Anyway apart from putting a huge scratch down the side of my car when I was reversing out of the car parking space it was a fun day at the Records office.

Kendal Records Office

I am off to Kendal Records office today, which I am really looking forward to, have got a list of "people" I want to find today, but the most important one is to find who the father was of Ellen Wilson.

I am also, hopefully, going to visit Kirby Lonsdale after the records office to see if I can find any relevant graves at St Marys church, I have no idea if there are any there but it will be nice to visit there even if I am on a wild goose chase.