Hannah Caldwell (nee Armstrong)
Lived in Nantwich, Cheshire
Died 1794
Born:
Not known but died July 1794.
Daughter of:
Not known.
Sister of:
Not known.
Hannah married: James
Caldwell of Scotland.
Hannah and James had 13 children, 4 of
whom survived into adulthood:
1. Ann Caldwell (1758?-1826).
2. Margaret
Skerrett (nee Caldwell, 1749?-1805?) who married Joseph
Skerrett (1745?-1832).
3. James Caldwell
(1759-1838) of Linley Wood who
married Elizabeth Stamford (1755-1831).
4. Elizabeth
Caldwell, (Bessy, Betty, 1766?-1842).
Hannah Caldwell: An Overview
We know of Hannah from two sources; Anne Marsh-Caldwell's diary and a her grave at Nantwich.
Ann's diary reads as follows:
"To return to my brief but vivid recollections of those early
days: I used to sit on a little stool at Grand Mamma's feet. I
remember her sending me across the room one day "to tell that
girl" -meaning Aunt Bessy- "to uncross her
legs!". I remember following her (Grand-Mamma) into the
back kitchen often... (she had the 'gravel', I believe - and I heard
her father suffered dreadfully from it in his old age.) Her
maiden name was Armstrong; her father was, I believe, a stay-maker; a
very remarkable man he was thought for sense and love of literature -
She had been very handsome - they say she and my Grand-Papa Caldwell
were the handsomest couple almost ever seen in Nantwich. I
never saw him; he died after suffering two years from a dreadful
nervous complaint aggravated I suspect from the harsh treatment
adopted in those days as the proper method with these. My
Grand-Mamma had been the mother of 13 children, of which four only
grew up; my Aunt Sheret, the eldest, my Aunt Ann, my father, and my
Aunt Bessy, seven years younger than was the youngest child. Of
these children three, I think, died of putrid throat. It must
have been ill understood in those days. Most of the others
appear to have died as infants. There were I think three
Jameses before my father - who had been a most beautiful child with
long curling flaxen hair and was a perfect idol by his mother."
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