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Surname origins Location
Derived from the location where an ancestor originated
Meaning i) 'Black fort'

ii) Name of the village where the ancestors lived
Geographic origins From the village of Cardew in Cumberland
Language Old Welsh
Sources i) Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London: Penguin UK, 1967)

ii) Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958)
My line of the Cardew family can be traced back to Thomas Cardew and Elizabeth Lobb who lived in Cornwall in the first half of the 18th century. A century later many of that generation's descendants had left the county and gone abroad to India where they worked in various roles for the then powerful East India Company.
It was on the Indian subcontinent in Bihar in 1836 - a province in the north of India bordering Nepal - where my great great grandmother Anne Elizabeth Cardew was born, her father Frederic working as a civil servant.

 Anne returned to England for her schooling and in 1858 married a clergyman from the Midlands, Gilbert Bradley, in Staplegrove in Somerset. They had 11 children.
Links Cardew message board on Genealogy.com

Do you have a Cardew ancestor with a connection to one of the following places?

Liskeard, Cornwall   18th century

Do you have any information on the following people?
 
Thomas Cardew   -1744
Thomas Cardew   1701-
John Cardew   1721/22-91


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