Sarah (Hood) Caddy (abt. 1745 - aft. 1798)

Born about 1745 in England

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Biography

Sarah was born about 1745. Sarah Hood ... She passed away after 1798. ^[1]

Her birth and death dates are unknown.

A possible baptism is 28 April 1747 St Andrews Holborn: Sarah Daughter of William and Sarah Hood^[2]

Marriage 23 April 1766 Saint George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, England: John Caddy, gentleman and Sarah Hood, bachelor and spinster, both of the parish, both of the age of 21 and upwards, by license, witnesses Wm Hood, Franciss[?] Caddy, Thos Onion (all signed).^[3]

Children: Sarah 1766; William Henry 1768; Frances Ann b. 27 May 1770; John Thomas b. abt 1772; Charlotte b.1774; Elizabeth b.1778; Mary b.1787 Newfoundland. The children's baptisms were at Saint George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, England, except for Mary's baptism at Newfoundland.

The following comes from the book 'Cornwallis: The Imperial Years':^[4]

A Lieutenant Colonel Caddy of the royal engineers died in the West Indies in June of 1798, where his son had also died. “Had I known that Lieut-Colonel Caddy had lost a son in that cursed island of St Domingo,” Cornwallis observed, “I do not think that I should have ordered him thither.” Mrs Caddy was now left with two daughters, one of them a cripple, and her husband’s pension would be only that of a captain, his permanent rank, “When her husband was so near that situation in the Corps that would have entitled her to the pension of a widow of a Lieut-Colonel.” These circumstances rendered her case “truly compassionate.” Cornwallis therefore overrode the rules and allowed Mrs. Caddy the pension of a lieutenant colonel with an additional allowance for each child.

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Barry Meadows, Tuesday, September 24, 2013.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
3. ↑ Ancestry.com: London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921: Marriage Bond and Allegation 21 April 1766; Findmypast: Westminster Marriages, St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, England https://search.findmypast.com.au/record?id=GBPRS%2FWSMTN%2F005620065%2F00233&parentid=GBPRS%2FM%2F492188522%2F1
4. ↑ Cornwallis: The Imperial Years, Franklin B. Wickwire, Mary B. Wickwire UNC Press Books, 1 Nov 2017 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kX45DwAAQBAJ&pg=PP168&lpg=PP168&dq=%22colonel+caddy%22&source=bl&ots=SHGSJkvSXy&sig=ACfU3U2eAbRp6qVc1LVMeHeqjOxC5o7REg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNjYuXn7nnAhUUXnwKHSzTCCIQ6AEwBnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22colonel%20caddy%22&f=false

Acknowledgments

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