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From: Robins, Paul< >
Subject: Fw: [NHSTRAFF-L] " C " for CALDER
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 23:57:00 -0400

The Robins' Family Motto :
"Vivit Post Funera Virtus" ,
(Virtue Lives After Death) ,
- loosely , today -
"Remember me after I am gone"

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> From: Christine Pettit <>
> To: Robins, Paul <>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [NHSTRAFF-L] " C " for CALDER
> Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 1:56 AM
>
> There are no Calders on the 1790 NH Census in any town.
>
> There was a Robert Coldair in 1790 Middleton. There are 4 males over 16,
3
> males under 16 and 6 females living in that household. There are no other
> Coldairs in NH.
>
> Since the births of the children you listed begin at the same date that
> Robert #2 married, they appear to be his. However, there is a lot of
> information missing. Obviously, Henry and Sophia are either NOT brother
and
> sister or the dates are wrong.
>
> The only Philbrook in Wakefield is Elip't- 2-3-6. Perhaps this is the
> father of Rhoda. You may be able to find Robert Calder near him on the
1800
> Wakefield census and trace him from there to see if the children match
up,
> # and age.
>
> Now the detective work begins AND the fun!!!
>
> Enjoy!!!

Christine, and List :

Interesting, your comments on ROBERT COLDAIR - after some prodding, and
(my) presentation of evidence that ROBERT CALDER was in New Hampshire, both
before and after 1790 -
The New Hampshire Society of Genealogists has ACCEPTED
ROBERT COLDAIR as being ROBERT CALDER , and his family data will be
published in their upcoming " Heads-of-Households "
from the 1790 census.

In retrospect, I suppose that if your Scottish brogue is broad enough, and
the educationally challenged enumerator is using phonetic spelling,
CALL-DER becomes COAL-DER and then phonetically COLD AIR.

In two places on the OLD UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST LISTS
in Canada there is a reference to JOHN COLDAIR and a WILLIAM COLDAIR - in
both instances, the spelling shows a
(later) correction to CALDER.

The census info jives with what I know of Robert Calder (#1)
, at that time. I had been looking for him in Brookfield, but his
probate of 1793 puts him in Middleton.

Where/how does one tie into the 1800 census, up here north of the border in
the land of the sixty-five cent dollar ???? Or does one have to seek out a
volunteer researcher ????

Thanks for the help.

Paul Robins,
BARRIE, Ontario, Canada.

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