Surname origins
A second part of the study is working out where the Caddie surname comes from and t his is one area that I have definitely struggled with. I can find very few, if any references to Caddie on the surname websites - too rare. http://www.surnamedb.com/ have the following: 'Recorded as Cadde, Cade, Caddie, Caddy, Caddies and others, this unusual name has a number of possible sources, each with its own distinctive history and derivation'. It then went on to say it could be Anglo-Saxon for an Olde English personal name Cada meaning 'lump' and possibly applied to stout, plump people. The second option was Old French / early medieval as an occupational name for a cooper, from cade meaning cask or barrel. The third option was Middle English from Cade meaning a domestic animal. This sounded to me that they were taking a bit of a guess and throwing anything into the descriptor that may in someway possible be Caddie'ish, particularly as it said it could be linked t