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 Sarah Lucy ("Sadie") CAWOOD


William’s fifth daughter Sadie married James Butler, one of Paulings railway engineers, who built the Stormberg and Pondoland railways both regarded as feats of engineering in extremely difficult mountainous terrain. Another railway project in China
to which James was assigned, necessitated high level negotiations which entailed lavish entertainment. James congratulated his cook after one such sumptuous dinner and discovered that his cook had in fact called in the services of the cooks of the
distinguished guests! - each bringing cutlery, etc., and dishes and delicacies to which his master was particularly partial ... Another incident described by James was a novel way of shooting for the pot by the owner of a chain of restaurants. He had
mounted an ancient cannon on a raft which was then towed to a spot on the banks of the Yellow River frequented by myriads of water fowl. The cannon was loaded to the muzzle with scrap metal, then clanging noises were made on the raft, and as the water
fowl took to the air in fright the cannon was fired in the direction of the birds. Literally hundreds were killed by the scrapnel and baskets filled with their remains. James could not speak too highly of the integrity of the Chinese manderins. On
one occasion he won a large sum of money gambling and the unfortunate mandarin was unable to pay in cash but undertook to send silk of equivalent value to James’s wife. James told him to forget it but many months later several bales of exquisite silk
arrived as promised.
(From Chapter 6: William [Cawood] ? book).
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