The Caudills:
An Etymological &
Ethnological Study

Uncovering the True Origins of the Caudill Name & Family

Includes a Caudill Family Tree,
19th-Century Illustrations, Maps, &
Additional Material on Caudill Place-names
& Spelling Variations

by
Lochlainn Seabrook
Copyright © 2003 Lochlainn Seabrook

Foreword by Delmerene Caudill
Letcher County, Kentucky
 

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BOOK REVIEW
This wonderfully written and meticulously researched book is a treasure-trove of intriguing Caudill information, which includes everything from maps to the Cawdor Castle in Scotland, useful web sites, and an extensive Caudill family tree, to our family Coat of Arms, a list of Caudill researchers, and lovely old-fashioned illustrations of down-home country life!

Within these pages the author, Lochlainn Seabrook, himself a Kentucky Caudill descendant and a member of the "Sons of Confederate Veterans," has lovingly shared the benefit of his background in etymology and his extensive scholarly research into the origins and meaning of the Caudill surname.

Who knew, for example, that its roots lie in ancient India, or that in Medieval Europe it was an everyday word connected with witches, healing, and teetolalism?

This is an utterly fascinating and unique book that each and every person with an interest in the Caudills will be proud to have in their library.

With its wealth of helpful research data on not only the Caudills, but on allied families as well, this is a "must have" for all family members and researchers.  You'll never look at the Caudill name the same way again!

Delmerene Caudill, Letcher Co., Kentucky


AUTHOR'S NOTES
This is a comprehensive new examination of the origins of the Caudill family and the authentic meaning of the surname.  (Also includes notes on dozens of similar surnames that are either related to, or have been confused with, Caudill over the past 1,000 years.)  My book sets the record straight on these issues while overturning a number of erroneous "traditions" regarding the emergence and development of the Caudill surname.

My book also contains an 89-page, 11-generation Caudill Family Tree beginning in the 1500s (mainly of the Scottish, English, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky lines and their descendants, who have spread across all 50 states and around the world); a discussion and list of all known spelling variations of the Caudill surname; a list of Caudill researchers; information on and maps to Cawdor Castle, Scotland; the Caudill Coat of Arms and Motto; useful Caudill-related web sites; various Caudill resources and items of interest; illustrations of 19th-Century American life; detailed footnotes; exhaustive index; complete bibliography; and more.

This is a "must-read" for anyone who is a Caudill, is descended from or related to the Caudills, or is simply researching the
Caudills.

Most of my material on the Caudills is completely new and original, and has never been made available to the public before.

Thousands of copies have been sold worldwide.  Makes a great gift for spouses, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, relatives and friends. Serves as a wonderful resource for school projects.

Written not only for Caudill family members and relations, as well as Caudill genealogists and researchers, but also for both the casual reader and the serious scholar.


SURNAMES
The following is a PARTIAL list of the family names that appear in the author's personal Caudill Family Tree, families to which he's related (not all of these will be listed in the book):

Adams, Addington, Adkins, Agee, Amburgey, Anderson, Andrews, Back/Bach, Bailey, Banks, Barker, Bates, Bays, Bedwell, Bentley, Black, Blair, Blakeney, Bledsoe, Blevins, Bond, Bowling/Bolling, Bowman, Branham-Smith, Branson, Brashear, Breeding, Brown, Buckner, Burkhart, Calfee, Calhoun, Campbell, Carroll, Caudill/Caudle/Cadle/Cordel/Cordell/Codill, Cheek, Childers, Christian, Clagg, Collier, Collins, Combs, Conley, Conte, Cook, Cornett, Couch, Craft, Crase/Crace/Kress, Crouse, Day, Dennis, Dickson/Dixon, Edwards, Elam, Ellison, Elridge, Enoch, Evans, Everidge, Falls, Fields, Fitzpatrick, Fleming, Fletcher, Forest, Frazier, Frye, Gentry, Goodrich, Graham, Green, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hammonds, Hampton, Hargrave, Harmon, Harris, Harrison, Haynes, Hensley, Hicks, Hogg, Holbrook, Holloway, Holmes, Hogue, Hughes, Ison/Isom, Jackson, Jent/Gent/Ghent, Johnson, Joines, Jolley/Jollee, Jordan, King, Kiser/Kyser, Koontz, LeMaster, Lewis, Littleton, Lucas, Luntz, Maggard, Martin, Mason, May, McGhee, McKenzie, Miller, Moore, Mullins, Nelson, Newsom/e, Osborne, Padgett, Parker, Pennington, Phipps, Polly/Paulie, Potter, Pratt, Pridemore, Proffitt, Pruitt/Pruett, Puckett, Qualls, Quillen, Radcliff/Ratliff, Ramey, Ready, Reynolds, Riddle, Riley, Ritchie, Roark, Roberts, Robinson, Sanders, Sarles, Scarberry, Scisson, Seabrook, Sexton, Simmons, Simpson, Singleton, Smallwood, Smith, Spangler, Spicer, Spradling, Stacy, Stamper, Stewart, Stidham, Strailor, Strange, Sturgill, Suiter, Sumner, Tackett, Taulbee, Thomas, Thompson, Tolliver, Tolson, Turner, Venters, Waggoner/Wagoner/Wagner, Watts, Weaver, Webb, Wells, Wheeler, Whitaker, Whitehead, Wiley, Williams, Wright, Yarborough, Yonts/Yontz/Yonce/Younce/Younts/Jans/Janss, Young.
 

BOOK DESCRIPTION
♦ Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
♦ Introduction: Lochlainn Seabrook
♦ Foreword: Delmerene Caudill
♦ Publication type: nonfiction book
♦ ISBN: 0976870711
♦ Copyright: 2003
♦ Status: best-selling self-published book
♦ Pages: 192
♦ Illustrated: yes
♦ Printing: double-sided
♦ Cover: paperback (soft)
♦ Binding: tape (professionally glued with linen-cloth spine)
♦ Publisher: self-published, Sea Raven Press
♦ Size: 8.5" x 11"
♦ Categories & Keywords: nonfiction, etymology, ethnology, linguistics, onomastics, history (European & American), anthropology (cultural & social), religion, Caudill family history and genealogy, Scotland, England, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Caudle.

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