Family Name
With regard to the Carden (formerly Cawarden) family name; according to Ormerod "at some point before the reign of Henry III (i.e., before 1216) a family assumed the local name Carden." About 1450 a daughter of William de Cawarden married John Leche of Chatsworth, Derbyshire, who thereby acquired Lower Carden Hall and its lands in Cheshire.
More than a thousand people carry the surname across the world. A Gathering of the "clan" was first organised in Cheshire at Tilston in 1998 and attended by 150 family members. Ten year's later a second such event has taken place, this time at Henfield near Brighton, Sussex, England, in September 2008. Again nearly 150 family members from across the world - including: Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA - attended. And the end of the three day event some members travelled north to visit Mavesyn Ridware in Staffordshire (a medieval home of the Cardens) and Carden itself. The latter part of the trip included visits to the Carden Park Hotel and the new Carden Hall. Finally, a smaller group travelled to Ireland to visit family sites in Tipperary around Templemore. During the War of Independence (Ireland), "The Abbey" was burnt to the ground by the IRA thereby ending over 250 years of the Cardens as landlords.
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