Chadwick Name Study

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This profile is part of the Chadwick Name Study.

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Chadwick and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader (Henry Chadwick), add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.

To see the list of names (about 1000 so far) in the Chadwick Name Study, click on the words "Chadwick Name Study" at the bottom of this page.

Intentionally, women whose married name is Chadwick, but had another maiden name, are not included in this study, following the paternal line as usually practiced in the Western world. Thus the y chromosome DNA of the male members of this list may often be closely related.

I recently came across the name Cooper-Chadwick. This resulted when Katherine Chadwick married Richard Cooper in 19th century Ireland and adopted the name Cooper-Chadwick. Their children, surnamed Cooper-Chadwick, are not included in this study.

Origin of the Name

The following is from A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames:

Chadwick, Chatwick.— Local, ' of Chadwick,' a hamlet in the parish of Rochdale, co. Lanc. This surname is to be met with in every town in Lancashire. It must have crossed the Atlantic at an early period, as it is strongly represented in the States directories. There is a hamlet named Chadwick in the parish of Bromsgrove, co. Worcester ; but I do not think it has made any considerable impression on nomenclature. Lancashire is the true home of the surname. Chadwick no doubt means the wick or dwelling of Chad, the original settler (v. Wick).^[1]

This is from Chadwick:

The earliest, authentic, and undoubted progenitor of the main stock of the existing family of Chadwick was Nicholas de Chadwyk, who died about the twenty-third year of the reign of King Henry VI. (1445)...^[2]

and this is from Burke:

This family springs originally from the hamlet of Chadwick, in the parish of Rochdale, situated at the southern extremity of Spotland, bounded eastward by the Spodden, and southward by the Roche. William de Chadwyke, the first of the name on record, was born about the year 1355, as he was living in 1413, being then styled senior, and having a son, William, of age. William de Chadwyke, son of William de Chadwyke, senior, had a grant from Adam de Bamford in 1413, of certain lands from Adam de Bamford. His descendant, John de Chadwyk, son of Nicholas de Chadwyk, by Maud, his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas de Paris, died in the life time of his elder brother Robert, in, or about the year 1446, leaving three sons...^[3]

A completely different line of Chadwicks is born out by the fact that my father Maurice P. Chadwick went to West Point at the same time as Col. Benjamin Franklin Chadwick whose parents had apparently changed their surname when coming to the USA.

Puritan Great Migration

During the 1600s, several Chadwicks migrated from Lancashire to Massachusetts. These included Charles, John, John and Thomas and there may be others. See Chadwicks of the Early Massachusetts Bay Colony. Many others remained in England and some migrated to America, Australia, and elsewhere during the 18th and 19th centuries.

My y-DNA Family Line

Please post your own family line here as well.

Henry Chadwick b. 1937 in USA

Maurice Chadwick b. 1899 in USA

Henry Chadwick b.1872 in USA

Jeremiah Chadwick b. 1812 in USA

James Chadwick b. 1800 in Ireland

Samuel Chadwick b. 1780 in USA

Edmund Chadwick b.1754 in Massachusetts

James Chadwick b. 1724 in Massachusetts

Edmund Chadwick b. 1700 in Massachusetts

John Chadwick b. abt. 1645 England - d. 1711 Massachusetts

John Chadwick b. 1651 in Massachusetts

John Chadwick b. 1601 in England

Richard Chadwick b. abt. 1558 in England

Prominent Chadwicks

• Sir James Chadwick Nobel Prize in physics

• George Whitefield Chadwick Composer

• Henry Chadwick Sportswriter

• Henry Chadwick British theologian

• Florence Chadwick Long distance swimmer

• Sir Edwin Chadwick 19th century sanitary reformer

• Trevor Chadwick Rescued Jewish children from Nazis

• Bishop James Chadwick Roman Catholic prelate

• Samuel Taylor Chadwick British doctor

• Francis Brooks Chadwick American painter.

• Cassie Chadwick Con artist

Resources

• List of Chadwickon Wikitree

• G2G feed of questions tagged "Chadwick".

• Orphaned Chadwick profiles on WikiTree.

• Unsourced Chhadwick profiles on WikiTree.

• Unconnected Chadwick profiles on WikiTree.

Thank you to Greg Slade

Sources

1. ↑ Bardsley, Charles Wareing Endell, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances, H. Frowde, 1901, Google Books
2. ↑ Chadwick, John Oldfield, "Reports on the Estate of Sir Andrew Chadwick and the Recent Proceedings of the Chadwick Association in Reference Thereto", Manchester, England, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1881 Google Books
3. ↑ Burke, John, "A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland", Vol. IV, London, Henry Colburn Publisher, 1838, page 456. Google Books

See also:

• Chadwick Genealogy Album. This presents the research conducted by Edith Clark Chadwick during the 1930s into the genealogy of the Chadwick and other families.