Edward Marion Chadwick's History of:

The Chadwicks of Guelph and Toronto and their cousins

Edward Marion Chadwick was a lawyer in Toronto and compiled a history of his Canadian Chadwick family and produced 2 known editions, one in 1892, and the other in 1914.

Edward Chadwick produced a revised and expanded edition, which was privately printed in 1914. It contains the results of his research into the Chadwicks both in Ontario and in Ireland, and includes many branches, and details of some of the female lines. A number of photographs of family members are included. Many of the family coats of arms are embedded in the text. It is a major work on this family and contains much interesting, if not always directly relevant, information. The style in which it is written is in itself an insight into the Victorian way of speech.

The printed edition has been scanned and converted to document and web file formats.

The 1914 edition is available here. It is about 215kb including 19 images (coats of arms, which appear in the text - without the images it is still about 180 kb).

The Word Document version is not on line - it consists of 56 pages and, with the images, it is a 3.8Mb file - I can email it if anyone really wants it!

The 1892 edition was hand-written by him and extensively decorated with family coats of arms. Copies must have been given to family members. One was held by Maurice Chadwick of Victoria, BC: it was photocopied and transcribed onto electronic media in 1997 by A Maitland. Unfortunately, the original was destroyed in a house fire in 2000. It contained some interesting photograph prints of family members.

 

A Maitland, 25/11/2001.

Corrections & Comments received:

From: Maria Suffolk <whitecedars@yahoo.com> 20/1/2002

Priscilla Wakefield (nee Bell) and Edward Wakefield had children, one of whom 
was named Edward Wakefield again.  This Edward married Susannah Crash, and it 
was they who sired Edward Gibbon Wakefield & siblings, one of whom was John 
Howard Wakefield, my own gr.gr.grandfather.  I'm only mentioning it for 
clarity's sake.  So, Priscilla Wakefield was the grandmother of Edward Gibbon 
Wakefield and of Arthur, of John Howard, and others.

Priscilla's sister Katherine Gurney and she were very close.  I've borrowed from 
the NZ Turnbull Library the microfilms of copied diaries of Priscilla Wakefield, 
quite famous herself for work among deprived women in east end of London. 

I myself live in a tiny village in Australia, so most of my research is done via 
the internet and libraries, and the help of a very good friend in UK who has 
beavered in the India Office, London.

What I found absolutely fascinating was to read the account of the visit of the 
King of Prussia, with a Mr Bunsen present.  The Bunsens were in the diplomatic 
service for Prussia.

Elizabeth Fry was a cousin to Edward Wakefield and his wife Susannah Crash.  The 
daughter of Elizabeth Fry, Katherine who looked after the house, would have been 
a second cousin to JHW, my gr.gr.grandfather.

You see, the daughter of John Howard Wakefield, born in India to him and an 
Indian aristocrat who took the name of Maria Suffolk on baptism, was called Lucy Catherine Wakefield.  

Lucy Catherine Wakefield married Count Hugo Radolinski, Prussian, in 1863.  He
later became Prince Radolin, working as Private Secretary to the Kaiser.  I have 
read somewhere that she married from a Gurney household in London, her father 
having died the year before in London (her mother in India in 1852). 

I've always wondered why Lucy connected with a Prussian - your website does 
offer an explanation.   I would welcome hearing from you. My own line of research at present concentrates on finding the background to John Howard's 
wife, who unusually took Suffolk as part of her name. Descendants of theirs 
Germany have a photocopy of a portrait, showing clearly Maria Suffolk Wakefield 
as a full name, and this is also given on her burial certificate (obtained from 
India Office in London). 

It has been Hugh Casement who put me in touch with these relatives, who descend 
from Lucy Catherine (nee Wakefield) and Hugo Radolin. 

You might also be interested to know that a son of :

    Rebecca, married to Abel Chapman (c).

given in your website was called Henry Chapman. He became an Assistant Surgeon 
to the East India Company and, further, married in 1836 (in India)the sister of 
John Howard Wakefield above, one Priscilla Susannah Wakefield who had gone to
India to teach.

Well, I do hope you don't mind my approaching you on this matter and very much 
look forward to hearing any ideas you may have regarding my "quest".  With kind 
regards,

Jean Casper <jacasper@execpc.com>

Organization:

ExecPC

To:

anthony@antonymaitland.com

 

 

 

Anthony,

I realize that I should have sent you the obit so that you could see why

I believe we are concerned with the same family.

Toronto Daily News

Thursday, Oct. 13, 1960

Page 9

C. Macdonald

Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in St. James the

Less chapel for Claude Macdonald, 60, of Bernard Ave., chieftain of a

Scottish Highland clan, who died Monday. Mr. Macdonald worked for

Dominion Securities Corp. Ltd. here for 40 years.

Born in Flushing, N.Y., he was educated at St. Andrew’s College here.

His title was chieftain of the House of Macdonald of Sanda, an island

off the west coast of Scotland. He was recognized in 1957 as 16th in

succession to the title.

Mr. Macdoanld was a member of the Royal Canadian Yacht club and an

ardent bowler. He is survived by two sisters, Carolyn Macdonald and

Mrs. Edward Steinbrugge.

Toronto Daily Star 12 Oct 1960

Donald Claude 16th Chieftan of Sanda d Tuesday Oct 11, 1960. 93 Bernard

Ave. Son of late Donald and Florence Macdonald, brother of Carolyn and

Margorie. Interment at St. James Cemetery. Died at Wellesley Hospital,

Toronto.

Globe has the same as above.

As I said, I have been working on this family (Macdonald of Sanda) and

would like to fit Donald Claude into the family tree. Any help will be

greatly appreciated.

Jean Casper