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 Lavina CAWOOD


She was known to me quite definitely as "Aunt Lavina" {lav-EYE-na}, not
Lavinia: commonly called "Aunt Lav". Family Register, 1820 Settlers Museum,
gives "Lavina". [6]'s transcript of her father's will, however, gives
"Lavinia".
Lavinia was the youngest of William’s family and travelled widely with her husband (a descendant of Sir Henry Bagnall, Lord Marshall of Ireland in Queen Elizabeth’s reign and one of the founders of Dublin University). Upon returning to South Africa
from Australia and the Far East, they set out for Rhodesia in 1896 just before the Matabele Rebellion. The journey by ox wagon took two months. They entertained Cecil Rhodes to tea in Rhodesia, bringing out their lovely crested Irish silver for this
very special occasion.
Rhodes was very complimentary about Lavinia’s 1820 ancestry saying, "If I could get men of that stamp in Rhodesia, the country would be made". Lavinia and her husband had three children. Eileen who married Mr Cazalet of Tzarist Russian aristocracy.
Kathleen who married Mr Meilandt and Madge who married Eric Tucker, the Johannesburg solicitor and one of the founders of King Edward VII school. They had a daughter Naomi and two sons, Selwyn and Francis who carried on their father’s calling.
(From Chapter 6: William [Cawood] ? book)
Mrs Bagnall, 1895.
Nee Lavina Cawood. Arrived [in Rhodesia] in December, 1895, to join her husband. Was in the Salisbury laager, see p. 93 "In God's White Robed Army", by a Dominican sister....
[From 'Rhodesia's Pioneer Women (1858-1896)', compiled by Jessie M.Lloyd: quoted by Ken Markham [32] in letter to SA Rootsweb dated 16-Apr-1999.]
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