Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-09-06

TINS town as here set forth, stamps him AZ
having been man OF character and excep
tional standing, in whom his fellow towns
men reposed full confidence, and justifies
Us IN setting up and dedicating this stone
TO his memory, and the people of the town
III pointing to it and in saying: at was
erected TO commemorate the life and Iabors
oil first settler and OF model citizen. y
ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF cANpAeE.
In the year 1861, spent a week at Cher
oourg, France, and one day my wife and !
at the invitation of French gentleman
took a fifteen mile drive from that city
through beautiful agricultural country
to Balfieur. There we alighted and as
cended the stairs of the lighthouse to the
gallery around the lantern, which gave us
fine view of the coast, the country and
of the harbor of Balfieur, near at hand,
from which William, Duke OF Normandy,
sailed with his fleet in 1866, to conquer
England.
While engaged in viewing those historic
scenes my French friend said to me
! captain, yours is a French name" | re-
| piled that II did not think so, but that
my ancestors were English and went to
| America two hundred years ago. ''That
may all be true" said he, "but your name
! is certainly French in its origin, for its
last syllable cage is the telltsle by which
| am able to say it is of French origin"
| AT that time i had given no study and
| but little attention to genealogy and the
| origin OF names, and felt little embar-
| rassed at being called Frenchman But
later when ! took up the study of geneal-
| ogy and the origin of surnames l was
/ convinced that my French friend was
! right in his conclusions.
have had copies of many English wills
| of the Cavendishes Candishes and Cand-
| ages, copied for me, which date from the
| twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, con-
tirming the opinion expressed by my
French friend at Balfieur, and even tend
family was with William the Conqueror
at the battle of Hastings.
In my library at Brookline, Mass,
hangs a sketch of Cavendish Overhaul
mansion, in the village OF Cavendish,
Suffolk, England, said to have been
built in the twelfth century, still
occupied, in which resided Sir John de
Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England
at the time he was beheaded at Bury Saint
Edmund, by Wat Tyler's mob in 1891.
The present Duke of Devonshire is a
Cavendish and there have been many dis
tinguished and honorable men OF that
name in England in the past as well as st
the present time.
1t is difficult undertaking to connect
the Cavendishes of England with those of
this country, Notwithstanding the we'll
settled belief that they are OF the same
family, for it is not known positively who
was the immigrant, in what ship, or in
what year he landed upon the shores of
the new world.
We do know, however, that one John
Candage, shipwright, was living in
Charlestown, Mass, in 1860, supposed to
have come to this country with Winthrop's
Massachusetts, Bay Colony. He was twice
married, first to Mary, who died of small
pox, and second to Mary Swain.
His children were /, Sarah, born Sept. g,
1862; II, Isaac, born in 1884 III, William,
born Jan. IS, 1865, and daughter who
died OF smallpox Sept. n, 1877. The name
was often spelled Candsh as well as Can
dage in the Charlestown records. John
Candage decided his house and lot, IN 1870,
to his SON in-law, Samuel Mold, OF Boston,
for maintenance. (See "Wymau's Gene
alogies and Estates of Charlestown, Mass"
Vol. /. Page 175.)
In the enumeration OF the Inhabitants
of Boston in the year 1885 the name of
John Candage appears, who is supposed to
be John, formerly OF Charlestown.
In the Salem records under date of Nov
ember 1889, William Cardidge (Candidge)
was married to Mary Bacon. Their sen
William was born the II. 8. 1880.
In the Boston records, Feb. 16, 1882,
Elizabeth Candage to Jonathan Blake, ty
Rev. Cotton Mather. Their home was
Wrentham, Mass. December ID, 1888,
Mary Candage to Samuel Earle of Boston.
January 7, 1713 William Candage to Ann
Holland. September 10, 17l6, Thomas
Candish OF Marblehead, to Ann Collins
OF bOsIOHs THESE dEc lut HupIoSSu pdiChts
of James of Blue Hill. The name Can
dage, sometimes given in the records as
Candish and Cavendish, is to be found in
the Lynn, Beverly and Marblehead rec
ords, but throws no further light upon the
ancestry of James.
Thomas Cavendish, of Marblehead, had
will proved in 1713, naming executors,
wife Sarah, sons Thomas and James. His
estate was appraised $50.
The Marblehead records contain long
list of baptisms, marriages, deaths and
burials of Candages from 100 to 1S45. 1t
is well known that the names of Candage
and Roundy are common to both Beverly
and Marblehead, which may be accounted
for by the fact that they are fishing towns
and had common interests, which led
those people to move from one town to tie
other for business purposes.
Thomas Cavendish, End, of Marblehead,
81 f,fh will nd ia