Researching Francis Caldwell
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Records of Francis Caldwell on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Francis Caldwell and the Caldwell Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Francis Caldwell
Francis Xavier Caldwell
Francis Xavier Caldwell (May 4, 1792 – June 5, 1851) was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in Detroit in 1792, the son of William Caldwell and grandson of Jacques Baby. He served with the British Army during the War of 1812. After the war, he settled on a farm in Amherstburg. In 1831, he was appointed customs collector and, in 1833, justice of the peace. In 1834, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Essex; he was reelected in 1836. In 1835, he invested heavily in property near an ironworks in Essex County; the project failed due to the unstable financial climate and uncertainty related to the Upper Canada Rebellion. Caldwell also wound up assuming the financial responsibilities of another investor who fled to the United States. He had to sell much of his property to cover these debts.
He died in Malden Township in 1851.
Source: Francis Xavier Caldwell, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaFrancis Caldwell
Francis Caldwell CBE MVO KPM (1860 – 17 April 1934) was a British police officer who served as Head Constable of Liverpool City Police from 1912 to 1925.
Caldwell was born in Croxteth to Francis Brown Caldwell, an accountant from Ayrshire, Scotland and James Caldwell from West Derby. He joined the Liverpool police as a clerk in 1879 and rapidly rose through the ranks to First Assistant Head Constable, succeeding Sir Leonard Dunning as Head Constable (the equivalent of Chief Constable in most other British forces) in January 1912.
Caldwell was appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order 5th Class (MVO) in 1913 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. He was awarded the King's Police Medal (KPM) in the 1919 New Year Honours.
He died at the age of 74.
Source: Francis Caldwell, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Caldwell
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