Carden Family History

I am using this blog to post interesting snippets about Carden matters. Unfortunately the blog format makes it difficult to post items in a logical order, and I cannot find how to configure the archive function to suit me. Given below is a list of posts on this blog and at my previous blog location. You will have to scroll through to find each one. (This heading revised by Arthur Carden on 4 February 2009)

2009
Latest news

2008
Carden Books
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, Spain and France
Origin of the name
Carwardine chair
Carden Gathering, 2008
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.

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

Carden Family History

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Recent News (revised 11 March 2009)


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 have had almost no contact with his descendants, though I have accumulated a good deal of information about this branch, the Cardens of Molesey. No connection has yet been found with any other branch, a "blank wall" having been reached regarding the parents of Sir Robert's father. I was delighted to receive an email on February 1st 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. With his help I am now revising my twenty year old document on this branch. He has now (March 11) agreed to supply a sample for DNA analysis.
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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 who was at our recent Carden Gathering, has agreed to become joint administrator 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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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 age22;
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.
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Saturday, 25 October 2008

Carden Books

(revised 16 Oct 2008)

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.
CARDEN OF BARNANE (366 pages - £11.09)
CARDEN OF EAST KENT (£4.98)
CARDEN OF TONBRIDGE (£6.57)
CARDEN OF BRIGHTON (£7.98 - new edition issued July 2008)
CARDEN OF TEMPLEMORE (£5.69 - draft, revised edition to be issued in 2009)

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 £3.75 p&p to the above prices of the last four books above 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 also working 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.

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.

Monday, 14 July 2008

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.

Thursday, 13 March 2008

Carden Gathering, September 2008

(revised 16 Oct 2008)

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.

In due course a report will be issued, but meanwhile the events and participants are to be found at http://cardengathering.blogspot.com/ Copies of the 65-page illustrated Report on the 1998 Gathering are available from me, for £8 including postage within UK. Those overseas should contact me to ask how much to send, and how to do so.

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.

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,” of whom a picture appears in my earlier posting on this site, to be found by clicking the word “2007” on the right, and scrolling down. This is followed by a picture of the two Carden cars which were displayed in 1998. Two were also on display in 2008.

A book “Cardens of Brighton” was written by David Carden and Arthur Carden specially for the event, and it is intended that a revised edition will be issued in 2009.

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)

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