Caddie Kin

There really aren’t many of us around the world, but what does that mean? Today on MyHeritage a search for the surname Caddie showed 100,817 results for the whole world.  Obviously not all the records are available digitally or on MyHeritage but as some comparison as search for Harris (another name in my tree) produced 45,547,937 results; and McKay had 6,298,162 results. It makes it easier to search for relatives and less likely that there are multiple options every time you search, so there are positives.  It also means people are often interested in where your surname came from as they are unlikely to have come across it previously. So back to the 100,817 results, having had a look at some of the categories the golfing occupation of caddie crops up, particularly in advertising in trade directories and maps which wipes a few of the returns out.  There are 2,689 in census and voters lists, but for most adults they will appear in voters lists or censuses multiple times, gi...

 Hello again I have realised that I hadn’t published results of the sporadic work I was doing on my Caddie one name study for some time, in fact over a decade on the blog.  A lot has happened in that time, multiple house moves and jobs but of more relevance a couple of break ins which saw me lose computers and hard drive back ups 😔. So the plan is to work through what I had, including on here, check against records in 2024 and go again, but this time spend more time publishing as I go.  Cads #ons #genealogy #caddiekin #familyhistory

So I set myself the challenge and I have done it - I now have a profile on the Guild of One Name Studies for my Caddie study - link below, http://www.one-name.org/profiles/caddie.html I found it quite challenging as it has to be in plain text and whilst I wanted to put tables with the data trying to make them look good was too difficult for me. I have therefore resorted to putting numbers in lines of text working on the basis that it is a start and can be edited going forward. Or the fancy stuff can be on the web site. I suprised myself looking at all the stuff that I have managed to collect from around the world - I don't think I have missed anywhere obvious but will keep looking. However I have no idea how to progress the origins of the name any further except for working backwards to see if they all converge in one area which might be a clue.

Today I thought that the time had come to try and create a profile with the Guild of One Name Studies and start a website to load all the Caddie details. A website appears to be some undertaking - lots of fellow Guild members have mentioned TNG so I had a look and it needs PHP and MySQL.  It can also have multiple trees but didn't seem to think this would be facility needed by many - it is for my one name study, I have groups of people in various locations and no indication that they may join up anytime soon. TNG recommend SimplyHosting so I had a look and then had a look at HostGator which is highly recommended by someone who uses her website to make her living so needs it to work.  Like everything on the web it appears that there are hundreds of variable and if you are like me and just starting out how to know what I might need? So I investigated Google Sites - free and easy to set up so I have a site but I am pretty sure that it doesn't have half the functionality I n...

Caddie ONS So the objective I now have for my ONS is to start making sense of the information that I have - linking the branches so that I have a better view of the families.   This will then lead to a better picture of where the gaps are and so where I should look next.

Objectives I went to a course at the Society of Genealogists last weekend about report writing for clients - there were a few points to take away for working on your own tree. Are you setting yourself some objectives or just meandering around hoping to find something new?  Do you consciously think at the start of the session I would like to work out who the father of x is, and then do you?  Or as I am often prone to, do you get distracted and wander off down a completely different track?  What then happens to the father, does he get pushed to 'next time'?  Is there a problem and what is it, are you making notes on what you have done to try and crack it so that you don't try the same thing next time, and the time after?  Are you also making notes about what you are actually searching, the area, the age range and if so why are you making these assumptions? Whilst I know many of us think about these things, but do we remember when we go back?  A few note...

I am lucky enough to have an iPhone and whilst there have been apps previously they seem to have upgraded to being something that is really helpful. I use the Ancestry app which now links with the online tree(s) I have and allows for updates / editing.  I haven't really kept those trees up to date but now need to pull everything together. I also use GedView which does not allow editing but gives details in a list allowing you to easily see all the who-evers you have, you can also look at the family groups but an alphabetical list has turned out to be really useful on many occasions. Lastly I have recently donwloaded iFMP - I today looked up all the Caddies and put the details into my ONS.  Very easy interface and gave me 165 Census returns, 56 Births, 33 Deaths and 55 Marriages.  The BMD are all for England and Wales but some of the census returns cover Scottish locations (although I am fairly sure not all of them) - I now need to check online what their records act...

I have just had a break through today with my personal tree - which also helps the One Name Study - and it is so obvious that I had overlooked it. I have just found my grandfather in telephone directories going back to 1947 - they follow through to his death missing only a few years and showing 3 addresses.  I was not aware of the earliest address so this is new information.  I think because I knew him and where he lived I hadn't thought to look at these records but I am really glad that I finally did. There are plenty of other Caddies in the phone books so the next thing to do is to work through them putting dates and addresses against them.  What I have found so far is that children quite often set up their own homes with telephone numbers in the same area before (sometimes) moving on to new horizons.  This might help ties up a few families with entries that I have. Another interesting point (for me) is that in the early 1950's there was a company l...

I have to admit that the burglers taking not only my computer but also my HDD back up has been more than a little bit of a problem.  Which is why May was a bit of a write off for family history and one name studies. Still onwards and upwards - I am now in the middle of a course about familysearch.org with Pharos Tutuors.  Instead of just diving in and not really finding much I have found about all the other areas which I hadn't looked at previously including the many videos they have to help.  I am particularly taken with their book search. Coming back to the One Name Study - a search of familysearch.org shows that they have 603 exact matches to Caddie as a surname - with 6 in the Probate and Court collection, 2 in Other, 3 in Military, 8 in Migration and Naturalisation, 180 in Census and Lists, finally 404 in Births, Marriages and Deaths. The other is an Ethel Caddie in England, Cheshire School Records 1796-1950 with her mother Annie. The Migration and Naturalisa...

Thanks to all of those who have replied to me via Genes Reunited.  I got around to doing a surname summary on Genes Reunited and saw that there were 399 matches for Caddie.  A quick look through and I could see that there was a lot of detail that I had been unaware of prior to this, in particular Caddies in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. I have sent a large number of emails to all those who had trees and a wonderful few got straight back to me with details or shared their trees.  The fantastic news is that a lot of the ones in New Zealand appear to link up and I have a whole family in South Africa. I find that the Hot Matches on Genes Reunited just give me 'matches' to someone with the same name but born half way round the world from my relative.  The surname search for One Namers has been so much more productive.

I have just been reading about a discussion on the Guild of One Name Studies regarding ownership of research. Having done a lot of hard work on your family tree or one name study what will become of it when you are no longer able to continue?  Do you have family / friends / colleagues who are ready and willing to take it on; if so you are probably one of the lucky few.  Perhaps you are planning on donating it to some form of library so that others can have access but this leads to further questions like do they want it, in the form it is currently in, does anyone know that you have arranged for it to go and who to contact.  What about email accounts and social media - does anyone know how to get access. A little bit of planning how might make everything a lot easier - if your chosen deposit needs everything index perhaps creating that index should go on your To Do list.  Perhaps those you have been in contact with could be asked to help so that there is a natural...

Scotland's People now has the 1911 census online which is so close but just so far for me.  My grandparents were born just after this so it will be another 10 years before they appear on a census. So the results are 15 entries in total for (in no particular order): John, Mary, Maggie, James, Agnes, Agnes, Alexander, George, Peter, Jeannie, Harriet, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Ann and Andrew.  These consisted of 3 families which account for 11, a servant, a boarder, own means and a scholar/patient. The results have been plugged into my database which is growing and two of the families are my direct relatives so into the family tree program.  All in all not a bad afternoons work.

Working full time is definitely the biggest impediment to progress. I recently met someone who said he did 6 hours a day on his study even when he worked full time. He did say that it had put a strain on his family life. Could / would you do this? It is dedicated but I think it is a bit weird to research your family history or one name whilst alienating your own living breathing relatives. Just an opinion but genealogy is a bit of an addiction so I can see how it would happen.

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 s...

As the point of a one name study is to collect all the records for the surname that is where I started - so far I have all the 1841-1911 census returns for UK, mainly from Find My Past. I also have a lot of records from Scotlands People but am working through what I have and where the gaps are. Following a seminar on Friday at Who Do You Thnk You Are I have found some records in New Zealand so need to get them transferred in. I have about 500 different links to sites which need to be checked for records and that will probably be the immediate focus of the study.

Wdytya is on this weekend in London - I am going, if you are why not stop by the Guild of One Name Studies and the Pharos stands?

The journey will also be on my twitter feed @CaddieKin - will work out how to link it all up in the coming days and months.

Hello This is a blog detailing my journey to build my one name study on the surname Caddie.  I have a long way to go and lots to learn but have just completed a course with Pharos Tutuors so I now have a plan - which starts with this blog. Cads