Carden Books

The following are available direct from me at carden@one-name.org
REPORT ON THE 1998 CARDEN GATHERING (56 pages - £8)
CARDEN MISCELLANY 3 (70 pages - £4)

The following are available both from me and from http://www.lulu.com/ where brief mentions of their contents appear.
REPORT ON THE 2008 CARDEN GATHERING, Ed Tim Carden (64 colour pages £10.23)
CARDEN OF BARNANE (366 pages - £12.28)
CARDEN OF EAST KENT (£6.58)
CARDEN OF TONBRIDGE (£6.83)
CARDEN OF BRIGHTON, by David & Arthur Carden (New 2009 edition £8.69)
CARDEN OF TEMPLEMORE (£5.54)

Barnane and Templemore above are also available from the Walsh bookshop in Templemore for € 40 and € 15 respectively, and Templemore from Bookworm in Thurles for € 15.

Lulu currently adds a significant shipping fee to the above prices for UK addresses, and I charge the same price as they do if purchased from me. Those from other countries can discover the cost in their own currency by visiting the Lulu website above.

I am currently working on a revised edition of CARDEN OF TEMPLEMORE and also on CARDEN OF DROMINEER AND KILLARD and on CARDEN OF CHESHIRE which will contain extracts from Ormerod and Shaw.There are also short draft booklets on dozens of other branches: please ask me if I have written one about your branch. One such booklet newly revised is CARDEN OF WINSFORD.

Recent News

CARDEN LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. Most readers will be aware that Sir Robert Walter Carden was created a baronet in 1887, having been Lord Mayor of London in 1857/8. Over the past 40 years I had had almost no contact with his descendants, though I had accumulated a good deal of information about this branch, the Cardens of Molesey.

. I was delighted to receive an email in February 2009 from the current baronet (who does not use the title) Christopher Robert Carden, born 1946, who lives in Bolivia and is a tropical forest consultant. His photograph, taken from Genes Reunited, appears alongside.

. Chris is now working intensively on a history of his branch. No 'paper' connection has yet been found with any other branch, a "blank wall" having been reached regarding the parents of Sir Robert's father, but analysis of a DNA sample submitted by Chris and other discoveries suggest a connection with the Matlock branch and with the original family in Cheshire.
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PROOF THAT THE TIPPERARY CARDENS CAME FROM CHESHIRE. Though some early documents claimed that the first Cardens to arrive in Tipperary came from Cheshire, there was no firm evidence. It was hoped that DNA results would prove the matter, by showing a match with descendants of Cheshire Cardens. Unfortunately results for myself and two other Barnane Cardens are unique and implied that our ancestor, John born 1699, was not the biological son of Jonathan, the first Barnane Carden, though he made him his heir. Results for the only other two Tipperary Cardens to submit samples were inconclusive. In February, however, results for Peter O'Neil Carden of Australia were received, which exactly match (at all 37 loci examined) those descended from Cheshire Cardens. Wonderful!
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CARDEN DNA PROJECT. Eddie Carden, a geneticist from North Carolina USA, and his father also called Eddie both of whom were at our recent Carden Gathering, have agreed to join me as joint administrators of the project. This will ensure it continues after my demise and will soon, I hope, lead to a more efficient operation. Several new results are in the pipeline, like the one above.
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CARDENS OF MONMOUTH. I was recently contacted "out of the blue" by Steve Carden of this branch, and we can now trace its earliest member as William Carden born 1823, whose son Thomas was born in 1848 only a mile or two from Carden Hall in Cheshire.
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Contents List

2009
Latest news, Carden Books, Admiral John Surman Carden and his father.
2008
Cardens arrive in Virginia in the 1600s, Templemore from the Air, Ted’s Carden Car, Carden Gathering September 2008, Joan at Covent Garden 1990, Carden Beach (US Virgin Islands), Sir John Carden, Carden’s Bluff and Watauga Lake Tennessee, Housing Estate at Templemore, Party at Barnane 1862
2007
Carden on the Moselle, Moruya NSW, Sealyham, Lionel in Mexico, Carden Hall to rise again, Cardon in Spain and France, Origin of the name, Carwardine chair, Book Carden of Templemore, Valentine Baker, Audrey Carden furniture designer, George Carden dancer, Carden Road, Katherine Parr’s child, Karden (German motorcycles), First Google blog.
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Those interested to see my earlier posts (on my previous blog site) should visit http://arthur-carden.livejournal.com/ The main such postings are: Barry DNA, Carradine and other variants, Barnane Cannon and School,
2006
French origins? (Domesday Book), Carden Schools, Death of Bill Carden, A Black Carden, John Rutter Carden’s Apologia, Ditto (continued), Ditto (continued), Charles Berkeley Carden (2), Charles Berkeley Carden

Admiral John Surman Carden and his father

Admiral John Surman Carden (1771-1858) of the Killard branch is mainly remembered as having surrendered HMS Macedonian to a vastly superior American frigate, the USS United States in 1812. He wrote some amusing and exciting memoirs which read like a Patrick O'Brien book and can be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/. His father, Major John Carden, was in command of British forces at the Battle of Hanging Rock during the American Revolutionary War, and later apparently faked his death in battle in order to marry, bigamously, a Miss Judith Wragg in Charleston. See the story in the Report on the 1998 Carden Gathering.

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Mark Robinson is writing a biography of Major John Carden. He is seen in the picture (in October 2009) next to the plaque at Hanging Rock which commemorates the battle and mentions Major John Carden.

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A black Carden

(Copied November 2009 from a posting to my previous blog dated April 15th, 2006)

On April 11 2006 I posted the following note to the CARDEN-L mailing list.

Names of ex-slaves. Those who have read my report on our Carden DNA project will have seen that
one of those whose DNA matches the Cheshire (England) haplotype exactly was James Eugene Carden, who wrote "I am African American and have never met another 'Black' Carden except for my immediate family until about 2 years ago when I visited Halifax County (Scottsburg) Virginia. I think this is where my Great Grandfather, James H. Carden was born."

I had supposed that James' family took their surname from that of their former owner at the time they obtained their freedom. But discussing our DNA project recently with Jane Reid (who is descended from a sister of the Eleanor Arbuthnot whose attempted abduction by John Rutter Carden in Tipperary in 1856 is a well-known story), Jane drew my attention to "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925" by Herbert G Gutman, Oxford 1976. It has an absolutely fascinating chapter about the surnames used by ex-slaves, from which it appears that they very seldom used the name of their most recent owner, and the name they used often showed a great interest in their own family background right back to their earliest known ancestor who arrived from Africa, and the name chosen was often that of the original owner or even of the man who transported them from Africa.

Of course it is possible, even probable, that in the case of James' family a white Carden took a black wife and married her formally, and they gave their surname to their children in the normal way.

I am sending this note to the list as well as to James, as I think it may be of general interest. I hope James does not mind, and will respond with further information.

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Reply from James E Carden, who lives in Birmingham, Alabama. James replied almost immediately as follows, and I am reproducing his reply with his permission.

Arthur,

As I stated earlier, My Grand Father was James H Carden, who apparently was born in Halifax County (Scottsburg) Virginia. When I started my research, I found his name in the Virginia (Halifax) census of 1900. (Roanoke; ED 56 sheet 3). It appeared his mother's name was "Bady", which created a problem with further research.

After more records became available on the Internet, I discovered that there was a Bettie (Bady?) listed in the Halifax County 1870 census. In that census, she and her sister Frances were listed as "Black" and were living in the household of Bryant Carden (Black).

In the 1880 census, she and Frances were enumerated as "White" and were living in the household of John Carden (White). It also listed John's brother as Peter Carden, a Physician.

Earlier I had found a Planter, John B. Carden, who was listed in the 1860 Slave Census as owning 20 slaves (9 male and 11 female). The plantation was located on land along Key Fork and Boston Road in Wilmoth tract, as identified in deed book 66, page 507, Halifax Co. Virginia (1873).

When I visited Halifax County in 1999, I found about 50 black Carden families in the same area. I was told these were the descendents of two Carden lines that they referred to as the "Black and White" Cardens.

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James also sent the following, including a photograph of his grandfather. Grandfather James H Carden, born Apr 1885 in Halifax County Virginia. Listed in 1900 Virginia Census with mother Bettie (Bady?) Carden. Bettie Carden was born in approximately 1860 in Halifax County. Apparently was born a slave on the plantation of John B Carden, located at Key fork and Boston Road in the Wilmoth tract, Halifax County Virginia.

Cardens arrive in Virginia in the 1600s

IMMIGRANTS TO USA.

The following is to be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/. From Branch Jackson Carden, Jr.:

"Into this area, in the year 1642, moved ROBERT CARDEN recently a migrant colonist from the British Isles. The land grant office in Richmond now contains the records of these early immigrants who came to the eastern shore of Virginia from 1623 to 1666. The original lists have been indexed in recent years. During the 43-year period approximately 25,000 colonists entered the Virginia Colony. Many came with land grants obtained before embarking from England. Others came as headrights for other individuals who already possessed land grants or for companies organized by British firms for the purpose of establishing grants. ROBERT CARDEN is listed as a headright for Abraham Turner and Co. Whether or not he was also an indentured servant is not known, but he did, eventually, acquire land of his own."

After claiming that Robert Carden above was a brother of the first JOHN CARDEN of Tipperary, he continues -A number of other Cardens came to the Virginia Colony from England in the1600s, among these are:-
1635, March 28 - Joseph Curden arrived on the "Speedwell", listed as age 22;
1642 - Another Robert Cardin arrived, this time from Hillington Parish,Middlesex;
1642 - John Carden arrived;1650, October 18 - Grigory Cordon arrived transported by Lewis Burwell;
1663, June 3 - Edwin Cordon arrived transported by John Hughlett;
1672, March 23 - Roger Carden arrived transported by Edward Revell;
1672 - Robert Cardin arrived transported by Thomas Gouldman;
1674, April 8 - James Carder arrived transported by Richard Whitehead.

Templemore from the air

The second picture shows the central square of Templemore, with the barracks visible at the top. It was handed to me by John Walsh in July 1995. The first picture was sent to me in October 2008 by Jim O'Shea, Mayor of Templemore, following our group visit. The site of Templemore Abbey is in the foreground, with the lake in the distance. Double click on a picture to enlarge it.

Ted's Carden Car

Edward Carden (Ted) is a distinguised Anaesthologist - see Google for his many qualifications and publications. He is a member of the Rigsby, Lincolnshire branch of our family. He emigrated when young and now lives in Los Angeles. He is a flamboyant character who loves motor racing, big game hunting, and in November 2008 was in England shooting pheasants.

The illustration is a 1921 Carden Cyclecar which he has just purchased from a museum in Germany. He hopes to drive it on the road to exhibitions in California. A chapter in the book CARDEN OF TEMPLEMORE above gives details of the car and its designer Sir John Valentine Carden.

Carden Gathering, September 2008

(revised 11 November 2009)
The 2008 Gathering was held near Brighton, England, on September 12th, 13th and 14th, followed by visits to Carden sites in Cheshire and Staffordshire on September 15th and 16th, and in Tipperary on September 18th, 19th and 20th. Nearly 150 family members came to the Brighton event, about 40 to Cheshire and 11 to Tipperary.

Ten years before, the 1998 Gathering was held in Cheshire, where the earliest ancestors of most Cardens, worldwide, lived. The 2008 Gathering was held in Brighton because the neighbourhood holds the largest concentration of family members in England, and because of the renown of Sir Herbert Carden “the maker of modern Brighton.”

Organisers of the 2008 Gathering were principally Richard (a member of the Fishmoyne branch of the Cardens of Tipperary) and David Carden, town clerk of Burgess Hill in Sussex (a member of the Virgo branch of the Cardens of Brighton). I mostly concerned myself with genealogical matters.

A 64-page Report on the Gathering in full colour is available from http://www.lulu.com/ where the following review appears. Masterpiece! The only possible description of this volume edited by Tim Carden containing enjoyable and useful descriptions of every event and lecture during the September 2008 Carden Gathering in Brighton, Cheshire and Tipperary, with masses of photographs in colour. Strongly recommended to everyone with an interest in the family, whether they came to the Gathering or not. See "Carden Books" at the top of this blog and a reproduction of the cover above.

A book “Cardens of Brighton” was written by David Carden and Arthur Carden specially for the event, and a revised edition was issued in 2009. The front cover appears above.

Joan at Covent Garden 1990

Joan Carden, the famous Australian soprano and member of the Bendigo Branch the origins of which are on the Cheshire border, writes:

This "action" photo was taken at the Australian Musical Association's concert at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in I think 1990, by Andrew McKinnon, who organised the participation of the Australian RESIDENT singers, Suzy Johnston and me, in this fundraiser for both the AMA and Jose Carreras's Leukaemia Foundation. As we walked to the post-concert reception in the Crush Bar, I told Mr. Carreras of my family's G.F. Carden Leukaemia Research Foundation, whose funding facilitated Dr. Metcalfe's treatment which had famously saved Mr. Carreras's life. He seemed stunned by the paradox of a Carden giving her services to raise funds for HIS leukaemia foundation.

All the singers and the conductor are Australian except Jose Carreras. We're singing the bubbly Drinking Song "The Brindisi" from the first act of LA TRAVIATA, at this moment all pronouncing the word "voi"!

Left to right:
Yvonne Kenny, Jose Carreras, Joan Carden, conductor Charles Mackerras, mezzo Suzanne Johnston, and baritone Jonathan Summers.

Carden Beach, US Virgin Islands

A condominium development with the above name was promoted in 1990 and the following is taken from the sales brochure.

Archive maps reveal that a portion of the Carden Beach property was acquired in 1739 by James Barrow, who started a cotton plantation. By marrying the Widow Barrow, William Coakley, Sr. assumed ownership in 1745, and the stone and coral mills were built by 1754.

In 1781, by consolidating the Barrow parcel with the adjacent Thayler and Potter lands, John Carden, son-in-law of John Coakley, Sr., formed Carden Plantation, which remained in the Carden family for nearly half a century, producing sugar, then molasses and rum.

In the two hundred years since John Carden first walked this shoreline and gazed toward Buck Island, the land has found its place in history. A battery was constructed here in 1794 to protect Carden residents from seafaring privateers . . .

(Perhaps this was connected in some way with the John Carden who served in the Caribbean at the time of the American Revolutionary War)

Sir John Carden

(revised 16 Oct 2008)

The funeral of Sir John Craven Carden, the seventh baronet, took place at St Paul's Knightsbridge on Monday April 14th 2008. His ancestor, Sir John Craven Carden of Templemore, was created a baronet in 1787.

I was with him a few days before his death. Having ignored many approaches during the past 30 years, in the final six months of his life he invited me to visit him several times and kindly gave me many pictures and reminiscences, some of which appear in my recent book Carden of Templemore.

The picture shows the new eighth baronet, Sir John Craven Carden born 1953, a distant relative of the seventh, with his wife Celia and son Patrick. John and Celia were present at the Carden Gathering in September.

Cardens Bluff and Watauga Lake, Tennessee

Heidi Farnsworth of Alabama posted the following to the Carden mailing list at Rootsweb in March 2008.

"Lost Heritage: The People of Old Butler, Tennessee, and the Watauga Valley" by Russ Calhoun, Sr. (The Overmountain Press, Johnson City, TN):"

This book, available from Amazon and elsewhere, has some interesting information on the effects the TWA Watauga Reservoir/Dam had on the local families and community. Many of these were Carden's and their relatives. The result of this project relocated hundreds, the living and the dead. Some graves were re-interred and some were not. The town of Butler where many lived and had businesses now lay at the bottom of Watauga Lake. This is where many of my relatives lived. The book has a section with the names of the families, family history on where their home is located, how long they have been in the community, how old they are, occupation, children, and other information. It lists the people living in the household and what their plans are in relocating. Although my Dad and Uncle had talked about this event, I never knew the impact it had until I read the book. It also gave me much more insight into the history of the Carden family and some of the relatives they would marry.

CARDENS BLUFF The Cardens Bluff community, more accurately described as the area between Dividing Ridge Church and the Watauga River, was settled by the Carden, Campbell, Lewis and Smith families before the Revolutionary War. It was named for Ancil Carden, who owned the Bluff now known as Cardens Bluff. These early pioneers were of Anglo-Saxon origin, who loved their land and liberty. The soil of this valley, which lies along the Watauga River between the high mountains of the Unaka Range--now in Carter County--is still owned, loved and worked by the men and women who are descendants of the original settlers... Early in the TVA Watauga Dam Project the Cardens Bluff School, which served the community, was demolished. The students were then transported to Hampton and Fish Springs schools. Hampton and Elizabethton are the principal trading centers for the residents of Cardens Bluff." Some of the other areas, businesses and families noted in this book are: The Horseshoe Dam area, Carden's Mercantile Store, Carden's Bluff Grocery Store (owned my Mr. Mack Montgomery), Cardens Bluff Baptist Church, Cardens Bluff School (Principal Basil Hyder).

Heidi plans to visit the area in summer 2008, and it is hoped that she will supply a photograph in due course.
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Housing Estate at Templemore

This is the sign at the entrance to a new housing development at Templemore (photograph sent by Pat Bracken of the Templemore Library in February 2008). Perhaps the CARDEN name is now regarded more positively than in earlier times!

Party at Barnane, 1862

John Rutter Carden of Barnane "the woodcock" was released from gaol in 1856, having served two years for attempting to abduct Eleanor Arbuthnot. He soon returned to actively running the estate, standing for parliament and other activities. This extract from The Times of London, quoted by Mary Heaphy on the Co Tipperary mailing list, seems to show that good times had returned.

25 October 1862.
-- On Thursday last a harvest home entertainment on an unusually extensive scale took place at Barnane, the charming residence of John Carden, Esq., in the County of Tipperary. Two hundred of Mr. Carden's tenants and labourers with their families sat down to dinner in the covered racket-court, together with a number of ladies and gentlemen, who seemed greatly to enjoy the scene of festivities and happiness thus presented to them. Ample justice having been done to the good things provided, the Queen's health was given and drunk with enthusiasm. On Mr. Carden's health being proposed by one of the tenants, he observed, in returning thanks, "that it was pleasant in this severe weather to find oneself under shelter and before a good dinner, especially when so much distress prevails elsewhere, but that it was far more satisfactory to feel that amongst a number of persons thus assembled together, and representing a large class outside, no feeling but that of kindness and good will prevailed, and that the elements of discord were even more effectually excluded than the severities of the season". Mr. Carden proceeded to remark that the condition of the labouring classes now engaged more attention than formerly; that when distress came -- as is being exemplified at the present moment in the case of the distressed operatives in Lancashire - it excited general sympathy; and he expressed a hope that their next meeting might be connected with some practical purpose, such as the encouragement of those who, by the attention they bestowed, with a view to the neatness of their houses, the cultivation of their gardens, and the education of their children, might appear to have made the best use of the advantages which Providence conferred upon them. These remarks elicited much applause, admidst which Mr. Carden resumed his seat. "The Health of the ladies present" and of the "Wives and Daughters" of the farmers and labourers, was next proposed, and was responded to in a humourous speech by Mr. Boulcott, of the 86th Regiment. Mr. Fitzgerald, one of Mr. Carden's employees, then rose and gave expression to the fullness of his heart by eulogising Mr. Carden's character as a Landlord and extensive employer. The tables being cleared away, a country dance was formed, headed by the ladies and gentlemen present, after which the festivities of the evening were prolonged to a late hour by the country people.

Carden on the Moselle

Many years ago I bought back with me from a visit to the Moselle valley in Germany a bottle of excellent wine with a Carden (or was it Karden?) label from the village of Karden. I have now received, from Clare Coulburn, this photograph taken in Karden by Fred Calladine of Northampton. Double-click on the image to read the words on the banner. Fred also photographed a tablet in the church reading Pro Memoria Wilhelm Cadenbach, Pastor Bonus in Carden 1851-1890. Clearly the village name (and the monastery there) were originally spelled CARDEN. Perhaps one day a connection with our family may be found.

Moruya, NSW

In my book CARDEN OF BARNANE several pages are devoted to the hotels run by descendants in Australia. Erik and Livoni Andersen (of the Tonbridge branch) have kindly sent me the above advertisement which appeared in the Motor Road Guide to Southern N.S.W. in about 1925. Mrs M Carden ("May," née Margaret Mabel Moran) was the widow of Robert Nicholas Carden, born 1867. Moruya is near the coast, just over 300 km south of Sydney

Sealyham

C Octavia Carden (1868-1954) married Gus Edwardes of Sealyham, Pembrokeshire. When he owned Sealyham, Gus's elder brother created the Sealyham breed of terriers, and Octavia became a renowned breeder and judge of Sealyhams. The Sealyham Terrier Club will hold its Centenary show at Sealyham Mansion on April 13 next year. Henry Sutliff of Pebble Beach, California, is writing a multi-volume book to commemmorate the occasion, with which I am helping. It will include a full biography of Octavia.

Octavia later married Victor Higgon and as Octavia Higgon wrote a number of delightful illustrated manuscripts regarding the King, Carden and other families, some of which are now in my possession. She was my great-aunt, daughter of Charles Wilson Carden of the Barnane branch.

Lionel in Mexico

Lionel (later Sir Lionel) Carden of the Barnane branch built Villa Tlalocan at Lake Chapala in about 1895 while he was the British Consul in Mexico City. It is described as 'majestic' by local sources. It appears in the postcard reproduced here, dated about 1904. Click on the picture to enlarge it and read the caption, which mentions Carden.

Lionel was Minister at Havana 1902-05 and returned to Mexico again as Minister in Mexico in 1913-14 (knighted by then) during a period of great turmoil. He played a decisive and controversial role in dealings with the dictator Huerta described at length in The Secret War in Mexico by Friedrich Katz (Chicago 1981), and inadequately in the new Oxford DNB and in my book Carden of Barnane.

The picture and information have kindly been supplied by Tony Burton of http://www.mexconnect.com/ who is writing a book about those who lived at Lake Chapala at that period. Tony now adds: My guess would be that he sold it at roughly the time he left for Cuba, but certainly the property had been sold twice by about 1908, and it is very unlikely that Carden (having been close to Diaz) would have risked visiting Chapala in 1913-1914, though I'll keep my eyes open for any evidence either way.

The recent book Fenian Fire by Christy Campbell relates the extraordinary involvement of Lionel Carden, while Consul in Mexico, in running the Irish terrorist General Millen as a spy while he was responsible for many dynamite outrages in England which culminated in a bomb in the House of Commons in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s jubilee.

Carden Hall

CARDEN HALL TO RISE AGAIN

The picture is taken from a leaflet with the above title by Pochin Ltd announcing in about 2001 that they had been appointed by Steve Morgan to build the new Carden Hall, for completion in 2004.

The Financial Times stated in October 2004 that Steve Morgan’s biggest quoted investment is a £68m stake in De Vere, owners of the Belfry golf club and Brighton's Grand hotel, which bought his 192-bedroom Carden Park hotel, near Chester. It went on to mention that he lives in Jersey but also mentions “Carden Hall, the £8m regency-style country house that he is building in Cheshire to house his young second family on their return to England."

An article in the journal Builder in 2005 about Steve Morgan said: at the mention of Carden Hall he makes it clear that he is something of a stroppy customer himself. “I’m so busy with this bloody house, it’s driving me nuts,” he says. “Once the house is finished I can work something close to a normal week.” And, naturally, the problem with the house is the builders. “It’s always the builders,” he grumbles.

Footnote (added December 2008): By courtesy of Mrs Morgan about thirty Carden family members visited the new Carden Hall in September 2008 and were most impressed. Several photographs of the new building can be seen at www.julianbicknell.co.uk/view-cardenhall_cheshire.php

Cardon, Spain & France

The following was posted by an anonymous reader as a comment on my "French Origins?" posting at LiveJournal (my previous blog location).

I have been looking into yet another branch of the Cardon famille which has its roots in Spain and are known to have crossed into France and some setlled in and around Lyon area. The Famille name in Spain was Folch de Cardonne and lived in the Catalogne area in the Chateau (Castell ) D'Arbcea which is now open to the public. This famille was first recorded in the chateau in 1158, they held the title of Comte de Carrdonne. About 1475 - 1500 they became the Duc de Cardonne: the first to hold this title was Joan Ramon Folch IV.

Origin of the name

Dr A B Cottle
Department of English
University
3/5 Woodland Road
BRISTOL BS8 1TB

Saturday 9.xi.1985

Dear Mr Calladine
Your name, despite all the – n – spellings in Kenderdine, Canerdyne, Canwardyne, Kenwardine (I should think Kenworthy is irrelevant), must be from the Cheshire locality now called CARDEN, between Chester & Malpas, but formerly CARWARDINE “enclosure (O.E. worđign) at a rock (O.E. carr)”. Spellings start with Kauerthin 1230, then Kawrdin, Caworthin 1300, Cawardyn 1302, down to Carwarden 1775. The first disyllable recorded is Caeden 1462, Cairden 1489 – but surnames had been fossilized long before this. These dates, of course, all refer to the placename. The present Carwardine family (I have known one) vary in their pronunciation of themselves, as ‘kɑ:wadain & kæradai:n (sort of “cárradeen”); certainly, the change from the liquid r to the liquid Ɩ is very slight (as any Chinese or Japanese will tell you!).
Thank you for the rare gift of a stamp.
Yours sincerely,
Basil Cottle

[The above manuscript letter was received by Vic Calladine from Basil Cottle. The phonetic characters he used have been transcribed using Lucida Sans Unicode, a close approximation to IPA.]

Dr Basil Cottle was a Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol and author of The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames, 1967

Carwardine Chair

In 1994 the chair illustrated here was displayed in the Stuart Room of London Wall Museum with the following notes. Presented by Mr Thomas Cawarden, 1618 [1681 per the curator]. A gift from Mr Thomas Cawarden 4th June 1618. Master's Chair of the Framework Knitters Company, late 17th century. The chair bears the coat of arms of King Charles II at his Restoration above the elaborate carving of the Carwardine coat of arms, displaying a full griffin.

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Research is needed to elaborate these slightly confusing notes. The sling and pheons were used both by the Carden family of Cheshire and the Carwardine family of Hereford.

Photograph and notes given to Arthur Carden 7th May 1994 by Mrs Preston.

Brighton Gathering 2008

(Note. This posting was edited on 12 July and the above picture, which appeared in The Brighton & Hove Leader on 31 May, added. The article in the Leader said: "But the best memorials to Sir Herbert are the Pylons at the entrance to Brighton on the A23. He paid half the £2,000 cost himself. Now that the road is a dual carriageway, it would be a fitting tribute to a man known as the maker of modern Brighton if a third could be added.")

A very successful Carden Gathering was held near the hamlet of Carden in Cheshire in 1998, attended by 150 family members from nine different countries. A 65-page report is available - see the web site which appears in the Profile for this blog.

Plans are now being made for another such Gathering to be held on the tenth anniversary, September 2008. The venue will probably be Brighton, England, where there is the greatest concentration of UK Cardens at present. Sir Herbert Carden, mayor in the 1920s, was known as "the maker of modern Brighton." A photograph of his portrait in the Council offices appears here, and it is hoped that a new photograph, not marred by reflections, can soon be obtained. (Double-click on image to enlarge it)

A draft book Carden of Brighton was added in July 2007 to the series of books published by Arthur Carden using http://www.lulu.com/ and can be purchased from them. It is intended that a much-improved version will be published for the Gathering, and comments on the draft are invited.

Comments on these plans, and offers of help, will be welcomed by Arthur Carden at carden@one-name.org

Book: Carden of Templemore

It is hoped that by the end of 2007 I will be able to publish my next book, Carden of Templemore. A draft of the first 100 pages, printed by www.lulu.com but only available to me, is now about to be sent to those from whom copyright consent is needed for some of the pictures and text. The final version will have about 250 pages.

The illustrations alongside are of the covers of the above draft. (Double-click on images to enlarge them)

Valentine Baker

Sir John Craven Carden of Templemore, the fifth baronet, married in 1891 Sybil Baker, daughter of the famous cavalryman Lieutenant General Valentine Baker Pasha (1827-1887). The thumbnail alongside shows him with the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) reviewing the 10th Hussars, Aldershot, 8 September 1871. This painting is in the National Army Museum. Their son Valentine was the designer and manufacturer of the 1921 Carden Car and also of tracked vehicles and it is believed that the Valentine Tank was named after him. Valentine Baker was disgraced and forced to resign from the British Army after an incident with a young lady in a railway carriage, but had an amazing career with the Turkish army and elsewhere.

An excellent biography of Baker can be found in A Question of Honour, The Life of Lieutenant General Valentine Baker Pasha, by Anne Baker.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sartorius/soudan/soudan.html is the full text of a book by Mrs Ernestine Sartorius called "Three Months in the Sudan". It tells of the time (November 1883 - January 1884) she spent in Suakin in the Sudan with her husband, while he was serving there under Valentine Baker. She mentions Baker frequently (she obviously admired him) and there is a good photograph of him with some of his fellow officers. This helpful comment was received from Stephen Hallam.

Audrey Carden, furniture

AUDREY CARDEN and ELEANORA CUNIETTI. 83 Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5QH. STYLE. They mix Italian 1950s furniture with modern pieces. Get a taste at their shop, the hot favourite with the Ladbroke Grove media crowd. LOVES Jewlled light, £165, from their own shop. PROJECTS Property search, building work, decoration.
- Homes & Gardens, June 1998.

George Carden, dancer

Revised 19 May 2009
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SYDNEY - Choreographer and dancer George Carden died yesterday aged 67. He was born in 1913 and grew up at a sheep station near Moree. At an early age he began to dance and was in many J. C. Williamson shows. He left for London in 1938 and became principal dancer for the famous Windmill Theatre. He was choreographer of the Palladium Theatre in London for 13 years. He returned to Australia to choreograph "Elizabeth and Robert" and directed and choreographed the Australian production of "Call Me Madam.
- Adelaide Advertiser, March 14th, 1981.
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The above was posted in 2007. In 2009 it was discovered that on the website of the National Library of Australia he is mentioned as George Carden (George Jones). No wonder his birth registration or connection with any other Cardens could not be found. Carden was a much better stage name than Jones!
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Carden Road

There is a CARDEN ROAD off Nunham Lane in Peckham, London SE15. According to the London County Council document Names of Streets, 1955, the name was approved in 1868. This was shortly before the death of Sir Robert Walter Carden, who had been Lord Mayor of London in 1857/8.

There are a CARDEN PLACE and a CARDEN TERRACE in Aberdeen (and a Carden Coal Company).

Katherine Parr's child

This is a revised copy of an entry recently made in my LiveJournal blog.

Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII, failed to have a child by him. After his death she soon married Admiral Thomas Seymour and they had a daughter Mary on August 30 1548, but Katherine died in childbirth. Less than a year later Thomas Seymour was executed. Someone named CAWARDEN from Northumberland took the child back with him, raised her and married her off to a squire. Then she was forgotten, although both Mary and Elizabeth paid her an allowance till 1603 when records ceased.

The last two sentences are taken from a letter received in 2004 from Peg Mowat of Canada, a descendant of the Cardens of Brighton. I have not been able to find the source of Peg's information, nor any trace a Northumberland Cawarden.

At this time Thomas Cawarden of Bletchingly, knighted in 1545, was "Master of the King's Tents" and responsible for all festivals at court. He often used the name Carden, and was probably related to the Cawardens of Staffordshire. Perhaps it was he who arranged for someone to look after the child. Or perhaps it was Richard Carden, Dean of Chichester and chaplain to Henry VIII.

Andrew Millard kindly replied to the above blog, and as a result I have obtained from my local library a copy of Oxford, son of Queen Elizabeth I by Paul Streitz, published in USA 2001, ISBN 0-9713498-0-0. This amazing book (see the review at http://www.curledup.com/oxford.htm) is mostly devoted to claiming, rather plausibly, that the 17th Earl of Oxford was not only a son of Queen Elizabeth but used the pen name William Shake-speare and was responsible, rather than the "man from Stratford" for all the Shakespeare plays, sonnets and more.

Regarding the child of Katherine Parr, he says:

The existence of a second daughter for John de Vere [16th Earl of Oxford] first appeared in a will written by John de Vere in July 1562. This daughter's name, not unexpectedly, is "Mary." By any reasonable standards, this girl would be the missing Mary Seymour, daughter of Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour. The inference is that William Cecil placed Mary Seymour in the household of John de Vere, as he had placed Oxford, child of Elizabeth. . . .

Streitz does not mention Carden or Cawarden, nor does he mention the allowance paid to the child until 1603.

Karden

Walter Karden invented or improved a two-stroke engine with which the east Germans won all the motorcycle races until Suzuki stole the idea - per the BBC 23 November 1997.

I bought some bottles of wine many years ago from the small town of Karden on the Moselle, to impress my friends. Not as good as the wonderful 1995 vintage of wine from the Carden estate in Cheshire marketed by Three Choirs.

First Google Blog

This is a test to see whether I would like to use the Google Blogger rather than LiveJournal because of the difficulty I have had with the latter in inserting photographs. The image that I will try to add here is the front cover of one of my recent books.

Those interested to see my earlier posts should visit http://arthur-carden.livejournal.com/