The Cawood File
This file contains the known descendants, to the 6th
generation, of Joshua Cawood, born about 1690, nailmaker of Otley, Yorkshire.
Notes for David CAWOOD
David and Mary were 1820 settlers. [2] says they had 10 children - 7 sons and
3 daughters. The three daughters married three 1820 settlers: Gradwell,
Hartley and Kelbrick. Said to have left his "ancestral home, Way Bank Hall,
Yorkshire" to emigrate [Keighley paper, August 18, 1877]. Said to be woollen
manufacturers in Yorkshire (Agnes Gradwell). Embarked 1-Jan-1820 at Liverpool;
landed at Algoa Bay 6-May-1820.
The family settled at Cawood's Post, near Kaffir Drift, Great Fish River...By June 1832 the Cawood brothers were playing an active part in linking Port Natal and Grahamstown by an overland trading route. James was the senior partner in the firm of
Cawood Brothers, which included William, Samuel and Joseph Cawood. The firm had a large business in Grahamstown with country branches. The brothers were prominent in public affairs in Cape Colony. In 1870 there were 356 members of the family, 9 of
whom were originally settlers. ["Goldswain's Chronicle Vol.1. 1819-1836." Ed Una Long in The Van Riebeck Society pub. No 27. Cape Town 1946]
For one account of the Cawood family, see: Cawood, Allen: The Ancient Family of Cawood of Cawood, Yorkshire, 1000 years ago and reminiscences of some of their descendants. [198?].
[48] reports that it is possible that David married a second time, to a Miss Barrett in 1827 in England: "Hence a number of children named Barrett in the following generations".
Will filed 1832 [72].
THE CAWOOD ARMS
CAWOOD: Party per chevron sable and argent, three stags heads caboshed counter-changed for Cawood, for difference a border party per fess charged with an orle of trefoils slipped, all counter-changed and for Cadetship a fleur-de-lis sable on the apex
of the chevron
Crest: On a wreath of the colours a stags head caboshed, proper, charged with a fleur-de-lis sable. Motto: Suaviter.
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