
Surname
origins |
Location
Derived from the location where an ancestor originated |
Meaning |
i)
'Black fort'
ii) Name
of the village where the ancestors lived |
Geographic
origins |
From the village of Cardew in Cumberland |
Language |
Old
Welsh |
Sources |
i)
Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London:
Penguin UK, 1967)
ii) Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1958) |
My
line of the Cardew family can be traced back to Thomas Cardew and
Elizabeth Lobb who lived in Cornwall in the first half of the 18th
century.
A century later
many of that generation's descendants had left the county and gone
abroad to India where they worked in various roles for the East
India Company.
It
was on the Indian subcontinent in Bihar in 1836 - a province in the
north of India bordering Nepal - where my great great grandmother
Anne Elizabeth Cardew was born, her father Frederic working as a civil
servant.
Anne returned to England for her schooling and in 1858 married a clergyman
from the Midlands, Gilbert Bradley,
in Staplegrove in Somerset. They had 11 children. |


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