Carden Family History

Photograph taken during a family visit to the exhibition featuring Admiral Sackville Carden   Matthew, Charlie, David, Adam, Richard,...

Carol Smith of the Matlock branch has made some exciting speculations about the forebears of the Molesey, Worcester, Winsford, Randle, Mon...

Joan Carden, the famous Australian soprano, has drawn my attention to the death aged 85 in December 2014 of Dr Donald Metcalf, holder of t...

The exhibition mentioned below runs from 28 March until the end of January 2016.  My son Mark and I were invited to a preview which took pla...

These two photographs appeared in a document published by The Society of Automotive Historians.  The top photo is titled "The motor ...

Sackville Hamilton Carden, nephew of my grandfather, belonged to the Barnane, Tipperary, branch of the family. His papers were given to me...

Those who have a copy of Carden of Templemore will have seen the a chapter on the Lockwood family, which intermarried with members of th...

A group of us visited Templemore as an extension of the Carden Gathering in 2008, and were entertained wonderfully by Jim O’Shea, the may...

Sir John Valentine Carden, the tank designer, built Carwarden House near Camberley in Surrey, England, in 1932, soon after he inherited t...

I received a request from the NLI for a copy of Carden of Barnane so I have just made a donation to the library of the current editions of ...

My wife's sister tells me that the motor museum at The Hague has a Carden cyclecar on display. So don't visit The Hague without taki...

Carden Gathering - Virginia 2013 - (This report kindly written by Richard). More than 40 members of the Carden family clan attended the...

Visitors to www.lulu.com (put CARDEN in search box) will see that a new edition of Carden of Cheshire is now available. The revised fron...

There appears to be no connection between Cardenton, Co Kildare, Ireland, a well known golf course and the site of the 2011 ploughing chapio...

Chuck died at Cape Cod, USA, on March 28th. 2013  He will be greatly missed by all who knew him personally, including those who remember ...

Isabel Carden, daughter of the seventh baronet (1926-2008, Templemore branch) lives in New York.  In the Queen's birthday honours in Ju...

Visitors to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Carden  will find that a family member is the United States Representative to the Associat...

While revising my Carden of Cheshire book mentioned below, I contacted Jane Stephenson who gave us such a wonderful talk in 1998 about the ...

CARDEN IN AMERICA COMPILED BY CHUCK CARDEN The above book is now available from http://www.lulu.com/ where the following description will...

(revised 15 May 2012) The above book is now available from me or from Lulu  http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/carden  where the following ...

After 1932, when Captain Andrew Carden died, the mansion came into the possession of Walter Thompson, his 'good friend.'  The Thomps...

Colonel Robert Carden was appointed Governor of Antigua around 1660-1665. He was captured by the French during an invasion of the island in ...

Eddie Carden of Hampton VA kindly drew my attention to this photograph from http://schehrer2.homestead.com/    It is reproduced with the per...

Those interested in canals should study the following books - The Worcester and Birmingham Canal: Chronicles of the Cut by Revd. Alan Wh...

A new edition of CARDEN OF TEMPLEMORE is now available, far more comprehensive than the 2007 edition. See the page on Carden Books in the me...

A solicitor by trade, John Carden, of Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, England loved racing; first cars at Silverstone and later horses round Ai...

These three portraits appear on the website of the National Portrait Gallery. The sitters are, respectively, Sir Robert Walter Carden, 1...

Those who joined the visit to Tipperary which followed the 2008 Carden Gathering (and others) will be interested to see this excellent pict...

Readers may like to visit http://cardin-bunn.com/ where they can read more about the Richard Cardin who was sent by the Earl of Romney to m...

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...

Sir Lionel was mentioned in a blog in 2007 to be found quite a long way below. At the 2008 Carden Gathering my nephew Matthew Carden gave a ...

Admiral John Surman Carden (1771-1858) of the Killard branch is mainly remembered as having surrendered HMS Macedonian to a vastly superior...

The following extracts, including the pictures (described as "early 1900 photos"), are taken from Trish and Thor's site http:/...

(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 CARDE...

IMMIGRANTS TO USA. The following is to be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/ . From Branch Jackson Carden, Jr.: "Into this area, in the...

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 1...

Edward Carden (Ted) is a distinguised Anaesthologist - see Google for his many qualifications and publications. He is a member of the Rigsby...

(revised 11 November 2009) The 2008 Gathering was held near Brighton, England, on September 12th, 13th and 14th, followed by visits to C...

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

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

(revised 16 Oct 2008) The funeral of Sir John Craven Carden, the seventh baronet, took place at St Paul's Knightsbridge on Monday April...

Heidi Farnsworth of Alabama posted the following to the Carden mailing list at Rootsweb in March 2008. "Lost Heritage: The People of Ol...

This is the sign at the entrance to a new housing development at Templemore (photograph sent by Pat Bracken of the Templemore Library in Fe...

John Rutter Carden of Barnane "the woodcock" was released from gaol in 1856, having served two years for attempting to abduct Elea...

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 Karde...

In my book CARDEN OF BARNANE several pages are devoted to the hotels run by descendants in Australia. Erik and Livoni Andersen (of the Tonbr...