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Hi All GoGaspeins Please find attached a message posted on "Guest Book" that I should have also posted on G.B.B.if I was to receive some feed-back. Monday July 19 12:59:05 2010 Name: Robert Charles Caldwell (Snr.) E-mail: bobcaldwell45@hotmail.com Birth Place: Melbourne,Victoria,Australia. Current Location: Bendigo,Victoria, Australia Comments: What! may you ask, is an Aussie doing visiting your GoGaspe Guest Book. Well, I wish I had found your brilliant community website a month ago. I would certainly have not run into so many brickwalls in endeavouring to follow the Caldwell Trail of my g/g/grandfather Charles Campbell Caldwell, who married in 1842 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. His marriage certificate had no details of his: date of birth, place of birth or the name of his parents. Hence, with such little background to work on, Brian Ross Caldwell (a second cousin of mine & the genealogist of our Caldwell Descendants in Australia, has spent many dollars & 20+ years, trying to get a lead on him. It is only very recently that he had a hunch/inkling, that " New Carlisle, Canada 1812", might be worth investigating. Obtaining any information of any birth in 1812 New Carlisle has been impossible, because all the different churches' records from 1811 onwards for a number of years, have been lost/missing. Just another brickwall to block my journey, as I have been searching 7 days a week, 10-12 hrs a day for the last 4 weeks, trying to track down where he came from. Would you believe I have made a breakthrough by tracking down the whereabouts of a Caldwell in B.C, who 50 yrs ago drove from Vancouver to New Carlisle with his family, given a guided tour around the town by a relative, introduced to a lady who showed him and gave him access to a book, while the guide stood in total disbelief, as the lady never let it out of her possession. Because, he only had it for a short time he took down the details of his descendants, but just happened to also take down some details of one Charles Campbell Caldwell(b.18120, whose father was John Todd Caldwell(b.1763 New Carlisle-N.B this should have read NY State) & whose father was Robert Caldwell (b.ca.1735 in Co Antrim, Nthn Ire.). a "Loyalist" & an early settler of New Carlisle in 1784. I would like to know who the lady was and whatever happened to the book with the details of my descendants? Is there anyone who accesses this brilliant GoGaspe.com website able to give me some clue/s. A Bill Flowers (a descendant of one of the 1st settlers of New Carlisle) who I have been in contact with and relayed this information, states and I quote: "Just a guess, but I think the woman who had the Caldwell book was Eleanor "Tike" Blois-Hall. She died a few years ago, but was the resident genealogist/historian of New Carlisle who had many old documents, artefacts, etc. in her possession. Who knows what happened to that treasure-trove of material envied by other researchers--a mystery all by itself?!: End of quote. Any information would be greatly appreciated by all our Caldwell Descendants in Australia. Highest of Regards to All GoGaspe.com Area Residents. Keep up the great work! I am certainly looking forward to continuing to log onto your website. Bob Caldwell Snr.(b.1945) P.S Well before this intensive search of mine, my wife & I had planned a trip to Canada next year, before the scenario above appeared on my radar, or should I say monitor.If this documentation could be verified, then the whole of the Gaspe Area would be our No.1 Prority and the 2nd Priority would be to visit Washington Co. NY, where Robert C. leased land, raised his young family of 5 children, after arriving in the port of NY in 1761 with his wife Sarah H (nee Todd) from Ulster/Nth Ireland. And so the "Journey of Discovery" of the Caldwell Trail continuing from Australia, to Canada, to NY State, to Ulster and to Scotland possibly, due to 'the Plantation' era ), all hinges on the details found in "the book". Let the 'Journey' continue (hopefully!!) Additional Comment(3/9/10) As you can see it is a while since I have been into GoGaspe.com, as I have been tryig to find Robert Caldwell's birthdate & birth- place in Co. Antrim. But being so far back and not having a name of a townplace, parish or church it is like searching for a needle in a hay-stack. But, as I was gently reminded, it was about time I got back into G.G website, when I received a lovely note (see attached) from a Lani Baker Mitchell today. Hi Bob Thanks for the comments on 'Our Gaspé Roots'. I would love to receive some more data from you on your family, any documents and old family photos also appreciated. I love that we are all spread far and wide! :-) Lani Baker Mitchell Once, again the highest regards to all Go.Gaspeins Bendigo Bob C.
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