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I have just discovered that there is a Jamaica on Long Island, New York.

A Joseph Caldwell and Sarah Moore married there in 1793.

I wonder if 4th gt-grandfather did a runner?

Gordon

Hi Colin,

Thanks for this information.

In addition to the family details that you have found, Joshuah/Joseph and Mary Caldwell had a daughter, Jean Caldwell, baptised at Dalry in 1782. She married Mr. Robert Hill at Kilmarnock in 1803 and moved to Edinburgh. Robert Hill (1763 - 1813) was a solicitor and a "Writer to the Signet". They have a large monument in St Cuthbert's churchyard Edinburgh. They are my 3rd gt-grandparents.

I think that Joshuah/Joseph may have had some sort of connection with the legal profession.

Gordon

I am having trouble finding the baptism, or burial, record for my 4th gt - grandfather:

Joshuah (or Joseph) Caldwell.

I have downloaded his marriage record from Scotland's People. He married Mary Boyl(e) at Dalry, Ayrshire on the 24th March 1777. The record says that he was of the Parish of Beith and Mary was of Dalry. His forename is given as Joshuah.

The last mention of him, that I have found, is on the baptism of his last child, William Caldwell, who was baptised at Kilmarnock on 14th June 1789, when his forename was given as Joseph.

Mary (his wife) died in Edinburgh in 1851 at the age of 91. Her father's name, on her death record, is David. There is a record on Findmypast, which indicates that she was born after 1757.

Mary Caldwell was living in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, at the time of the 1841 Census. There is no mention of her husband. So, I think it may be assumed that he died before 1841.

Any help in finding out a little more of Joshuah (or Joseph) Caldwell would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Gordon

The Duke of York School is at Dover.

I noticed that there was a baptism of a William Powell, with father William at Ramsgate in 1906.

(No middle names , however.)

There are about a dozen shared matches and all have strong links to the Johnson family.

If Ancestry's prediction that my DNA match is a 3rd cousin is correct, then it would be likely that William James  Powell's mother was either Jane Johnson, who was born in 1867 at North Leigh, Oxfordshire, or Eliza Johnson, who was born at Littleton, Worcestershire in 1873.

Gordon