Carden Family History

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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 ha...

  John Carden the haberdasher, 1630   Some readers may have purchased a copy of my CARDEN IN AMERICA SUPPLEMENT in which I have tried to r...

Those wishing to see the current list of books about the Carden family available for purchase from Lulu should visit   http://www.lulu.com/s...

I will be 90 on 28th June 2019.  Apologies for not inviting you to a party.    I will be having tea 3pm – 5pm in the Great Court Restaur...

The third Gathering in England was held at Lewes and Cheshire in September 2018, previous ones having been in 1998 and 2008.  Immensely succ...

Ted wrote in 2018:       Sorry about the get together. I’m due to be shooting pheasants in Scotland at that  time.     Back from South Afr...

This beer mat (among many other Carden items) was displayed by Brian Woodford at the recent Carden Gathering in Lewes, England. The DWAN...

[I will soon delete this post as a google search revealed that in my post in March 2007 below I said that the chair was  A gift from Mr Thom...

The John Carden who died in Montreal in 1775 was a successful soldier who is mentioned in many records, but whose origins are not yet known....

The following announcements will be found at www.lulu.com (put CARDEN in the search box), where the books may be purchased.

Jon Varnedoe of the Barnane branch A few days ago I was amazed to hear from Jon.  He is descended from Lionel Gillette Carden of Calif...

I have sent this message to all Mayo & Sligo family members for whom I have an email ID If you visit www.lulu.com and put CARDEN ...

Lynn Bateman wrote in 2011: Agatha Christie seemed quite fond of the name Carden.  She used it in two of her books for minor characters, an...

A new edition of the above Supplement is now available from www.lulu.com, with about 50 additional pages, mostly about the attempted abd...

Those who attended the 2008 Gathering will be sad to hear of the death of Father Robert ("Bob") Carden OFM, on August 1st 2017. ...

For information about the Carden Gathering planned to take place in England in September 2018 visit http://cardengathering2018.blogspot.c...

The cardoon flower. Photograph courtesy of  Shihmei Barger The cardoon (French: "cardon") is a thistle-like vegetable cultiv...

Those who visit www.lulu.com and put CARDEN in the search box will find that a new edition of Carden of Templemore has been issued. ...

SIR HENRY ROBERT CARDEN’s SWORD It is not certain that this is Sir Henry’s Sword, though it is a fairly typical sword of a Dragoon offi...

Joan has been a friend and regular correspondent since we first met at Covent Garden in March 1974, when she sang the top role of Gilda in ...

As many of you already know, my beloved wife Atty died on Saturday January 23 rd . She had been discharged from hospital at the end of ...

Readers may be amused at this picture recently taken by the staff photographer at the Tank Museum, Bovington, of myself with a 1927 fore-r...

This portrait of Sir John was sold by Adams in Dublin on October 13th 2015 for €2,700.00, below the estimate of €3,000.00 - €5,000.00. The...

Many of you will have seen Dr Thom Carden’s chart at http://www.tntcarden.com/tree/Carden/CardenChartDrThom.pdf It is an amazing diagra...

A splendid video of someone singing “Carden’s Wild Domain” was posted on August 15 2015 by Joe Coughlan to the facebook page related to his ...