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Second Wave (1850's) Codd Emigrations To Canada and the Connections of Codd Emigrants to Codds remaining in Ireland

The family of William Code b. 1813 at Carnew has generated much interest in how the Codds who emigrated were connected to the Codds at Aghold and Carnew. This interest is enhanced by DNA testing of William's descendants - and its comparison to differing DNA samples derived from a descendant of James (1705-1763) and his wife Ann _______. This suggests either two lines - or some unknown disruption of one line, which will only be sorted out by further testing of Codds from the several families who emigrated. The problem is that we don't know yet where William Codd (1813) fits in.

There is nothing remarkable in William (1813)'s life which would distinguish him from the other Codds who emigrated to Canada from Ireland except the mystery of his arrival in the first place and his parentage in Ireland. William Code (16 May 1813- 24 Jan. 1891) of Carnew in Wicklow, who married Ann Wilton (b. May 31 1817 in Ireland d. January 1888) on June 30th 1834 in Kitley Township, might have remained an obscure Irish emigrant farmer, had it not been for the keen interest taken among his descendants to trace his origins in Ireland. William and Ann had 13 children over a span of 24 years - and these children retained the name Code - among virtually all of the Codd family who came to Kitley Twp. - most of whom adopted the name Coad about 1850.

William knew his precise birth date and that he had come from Carnew in Wicklow County, a village which had been razed to the ground by rebels seeking emancipation from stern British rule during the Rebellion of 1798 just fifteen years before his birth. He also knew that his father was named William Codd - and that when he had left with an "uncle" some time between 1817 and 1832 - his father - and possibly his mother, Hannah, were still alive. Hannah, in fact, died in 1825 at age 35. It was common to die in childbirth in the 19th century - and perhaps as common to succumb to consumption ( tuberculosis.) William was not an orphan - even though he had been entrusted to an unnamed uncle who would take him to Canada. His father ha, it seemed, lived on for some years, perhaps even remarrying. The difficulty in tracing William (1813) and his family of origin is that all records from Carnew prior to 1808 have been irretrievably lost.

With this background and the DNA testing performed on his family and the family of an untraced Thomas Coade b. 1823 - who shares similar DNA, we have further incentives to trace William - and this draws us in to trying to reconstruct the families as they existed in the 1808-1850 period at Aghold and Carnew.

The Codds of Carnew - And the Codds of Aghold

The records of Carnew Church between 1808 and 1840 reveal a relatively small number of Codds in Carnew at this time when compared with the vastly more numerical branches of the family who were at Aghold, about ten miles away. While the two commmunities, one at Coolkenno and the other to the south of Carnew at Ballingate Townland - where the Codds resided - were at a distance of at least ten miles, we see at least two relevant instances of a Codd from an Aghold family marrying a Codd from Carnew and vice versa in 1811 and 1822. What are we to make of this?

The Records We Have To Work From

From the records we see seven Codd families at Carnew:

John Codd was b. 1823. There was also a William Codd b. 1842 - an entry found at a later date.

The family of William Codd and Mary Watchorn is recorded as below, but ut has beeb determined tgat there were two other sons, John b. 1819 and William b. 1829.

There was also the family of William and Hannnah, whose two sons were placed with an uncle who was on route to Canada after Hannah's death in 1825. By timing alone, this uncle was likely George Codd who arrived in Canada in 1832. James apparently died en route to Canada.

The Fitzwilliam Estate records (1827) show that Thomas Codd age 60 (thus b. 1767) was occupying a farm at Bullingate with his wife, age 60 and one male and 3 female relatives and that William Codd age 27 (b. 1800 more-or-less) and his wife age 26 (b. 1801 more-or-less) was occupying an adjacent farm with 2 male and 3 female family members.

We also know from the Representative Church Body Library records that a William and Henrietta Codd of Bullingate had a son Thomas christened at Aghold October 1st 1809. If one conjectures that these families were not unrelated, and that this William could hardly have been b. after 1792 (to have been at least 17 by the time his son was born) - the above families could be grouped as follows:

Before conjecturing about the Codds of Carnew - we must add another file which has turned up at IGI ...

We know from surveying the Codds at Aghold that a Joseph and Mary marriage indeed existed - Joseph b. 1784 (son of Abraham Codd and Mary Twamley) of the Nauvoo File and his wife Mary (said to have been a Codd too!) This is likely them - as they had a son William. There is no mention of a William in the Nauvoo File (another son Abraham is listed) - which suggests he was alive in 1843 when the File was dictated - but no other record of such a William in Canada. One wonders what happened to William 1820.

The above configuration leaves William 1786 and William 1813 "out in the cold." The Carnew Codds already have a William - and his Fitzwilliam record at Bullingate in 1827 agrees with what we know of his offspring. There can be no doubt that William 1786 did not belong to this family. Besides William (b. 1786) named his first son William (b. 1813) making it somewhat likely that his father was William as well. This mystery, sought after by Codd resercher Annette Code, remains a mystery.

This does not mean that there was no connection between William 1813 and the Codds from Carnew. One comes into play later, as the Joseph Codd-Rachel Codd family moved to North Elmsley Township (Lanark County) in the early 1850's - were linked closely to William (1813) and Ann Wilton. Further to this, John, the first son of Joseph and Rachel, married Sarah Code (? his 1st cousin), daughter of George Code (Jane Morris) of Beckwith Twp., who was likely (by the Irish Naming Pattern and other linkages) the son of John Code (b. 1769) of Aghold. Futher to this, the Sarah from this family could have been (based on dates which fit) the Sarah who married William Dowdall - who located on George Codd's farm in Beckwith Twp. c. 1824.

Thomas 1767-1840 of Ballingate was certainly a contemporary of John 1769 of Aghold (who already had a brother, Thomas) - and was certainly connected closely to the Aghold Codds (brother and sister married a sister and brother?) Thomas' grandson, John, who had to have grown up at Bullingate, married Jane Leybourne of Aghold, where the Codds and Leybourne families were very intertwined. Thomas the elder also seems to have been buried at Aghold in 1840 ...

John Codd 1819 and his wife Jane Leybourn who lived at Mullahullen, referred to Joseph of Carnew and Rachel of Aghold as "Uncle Joe" and "Aunt Rachel". The fact that they were both Codds by birth, makes it difficult to determine which of the two they felt to be blood relatives. But, we accept that John 1819's father was William b.c. 1800 - and we would expect, by the Irish Naming Pattern there to be a Thomas among the children of Thomas of Ballingate. But Carnew records before 1808 were destroyed. And, can we find a place for William 1786 of Carnew or Thomas (Coade) b. 1823 who ended up at Mitchell, Logan Twp. If ony we had the records from Aghold for the 1790's. It seems so close - yet so far away!

For a further exploration of the CODD/CODE families of North Elmsley click HERE.

For a further look at William 1813 in Canada click HERE.

For some years I felt that there were no links between the earliest arriving Codds in Canada and the later arriving ones. But this was because I had no way to investigate beyond establishing that there were no intermarriages. Now, I feel that there were definite links - and probably through the family of Thomas Codd of Ballingate. To see what they may have been CLICK HERE. To look at the Irish origins of the Bayley family of Drummond - who married into the Codd family CLICK HERE.

To visit or return to the CODDS OF AGHOLD PAGE click HERE.

RETURN TO MAIN PAGE HERE.

	In search of my McCreary-Magee-McGee Codd/Code Ancestors in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
MOST GENEALOGY INVOLVES SEEKING OUT RECORDS AND RECORDING THEM. BUT LINKING THEM AND EXTRPOLATING FROM THEM IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT, ENABLING US TO FIND THE MISSING PIECES - BY KNOWING WHERE TO LOOK NEXT. THIS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY HAVING PIECES WHICH CAN BE RELIED UPON - WHICH THEN FORM A PATTERN FROM WHICH NEW FACTS CAN BE DISCOVERED. THIS IS THE NATURE OF FORENSIC GENEALOGY. SOME OF THE MATERIAL ON THIS PAGE IS "CONJECTURAL" I SUGGEST YOU USE THESE CONJECTURES TO FIND NEW RECORDS WHICH WILL COMPLETE THE PATTERN. I WILL BE HAPPY TO ADD IN OR SUBTRACT ON THE BASIS OF WHAT YOU FIND. I DO NOT VISIT LIBRARIES OR RECORD SOURCES. I RELY ON YOU TO DO THAT. BUT I WILL ADD WHAT YOU HAVE FOUND TO MAKE THE PICTURE MORE COMPLETE.	Second Wave (1850's) Codd Emigrations To Canada and the Connections of Codd Emigrants to Codds remaining in Ireland The family of William Code b. 1813 at Carnew has generated much interest in how the Codds who emigrated were connected to the Codds at Aghold and Carnew. This interest is enhanced by DNA testing of William's descendants - and its comparison to differing DNA samples derived from a descendant of James (1705-1763) and his wife Ann _______. This suggests either two lines - or some unknown disruption of one line, which will only be sorted out by further testing of Codds from the several families who emigrated. The problem is that we don't know yet where William Codd (1813) fits in. There is nothing remarkable in William (1813)'s life which would distinguish him from the other Codds who emigrated to Canada from Ireland except the mystery of his arrival in the first place and his parentage in Ireland. William Code (16 May 1813- 24 Jan. 1891) of Carnew in Wicklow, who married Ann Wilton (b. May 31 1817 in Ireland d. January 1888) on June 30th 1834 in Kitley Township, might have remained an obscure Irish emigrant farmer, had it not been for the keen interest taken among his descendants to trace his origins in Ireland. William and Ann had 13 children over a span of 24 years - and these children retained the name Code - among virtually all of the Codd family who came to Kitley Twp. - most of whom adopted the name Coad about 1850. William knew his precise birth date and that he had come from Carnew in Wicklow County, a village which had been razed to the ground by rebels seeking emancipation from stern British rule during the Rebellion of 1798 just fifteen years before his birth. He also knew that his father was named William Codd - and that when he had left with an "uncle" some time between 1817 and 1832 - his father - and possibly his mother, Hannah, were still alive. Hannah, in fact, died in 1825 at age 35. It was common to die in childbirth in the 19th century - and perhaps as common to succumb to consumption ( tuberculosis.) William was not an orphan - even though he had been entrusted to an unnamed uncle who would take him to Canada. His father ha, it seemed, lived on for some years, perhaps even remarrying. The difficulty in tracing William (1813) and his family of origin is that all records from Carnew prior to 1808 have been irretrievably lost. With this background and the DNA testing performed on his family and the family of an untraced Thomas Coade b. 1823 - who shares similar DNA, we have further incentives to trace William - and this draws us in to trying to reconstruct the families as they existed in the 1808-1850 period at Aghold and Carnew. The Codds of Carnew - And the Codds of Aghold The records of Carnew Church between 1808 and 1840 reveal a relatively small number of Codds in Carnew at this time when compared with the vastly more numerical branches of the family who were at Aghold, about ten miles away. While the two commmunities, one at Coolkenno and the other to the south of Carnew at Ballingate Townland - where the Codds resided - were at a distance of at least ten miles, we see at least two relevant instances of a Codd from an Aghold family marrying a Codd from Carnew and vice versa in 1811 and 1822. What are we to make of this? The Records We Have To Work From From the records we see seven Codd families at Carnew: John Codd was b. 1823. There was also a William Codd b. 1842 - an entry found at a later date. The family of William Codd and Mary Watchorn is recorded as below, but ut has beeb determined tgat there were two other sons, John b. 1819 and William b. 1829. There was also the family of William and Hannnah, whose two sons were placed with an uncle who was on route to Canada after Hannah's death in 1825. By timing alone, this uncle was likely George Codd who arrived in Canada in 1832. James apparently died en route to Canada. The Fitzwilliam Estate records (1827) show that Thomas Codd age 60 (thus b. 1767) was occupying a farm at Bullingate with his wife, age 60 and one male and 3 female relatives and that William Codd age 27 (b. 1800 more-or-less) and his wife age 26 (b. 1801 more-or-less) was occupying an adjacent farm with 2 male and 3 female family members. We also know from the Representative Church Body Library records that a William and Henrietta Codd of Bullingate had a son Thomas christened at Aghold October 1st 1809. If one conjectures that these families were not unrelated, and that this William could hardly have been b. after 1792 (to have been at least 17 by the time his son was born) - the above families could be grouped as follows: Before conjecturing about the Codds of Carnew - we must add another file which has turned up at IGI ... We know from surveying the Codds at Aghold that a Joseph and Mary marriage indeed existed - Joseph b. 1784 (son of Abraham Codd and Mary Twamley) of the Nauvoo File and his wife Mary (said to have been a Codd too!) This is likely them - as they had a son William. There is no mention of a William in the Nauvoo File (another son Abraham is listed) - which suggests he was alive in 1843 when the File was dictated - but no other record of such a William in Canada. One wonders what happened to William 1820. The above configuration leaves William 1786 and William 1813 "out in the cold." The Carnew Codds already have a William - and his Fitzwilliam record at Bullingate in 1827 agrees with what we know of his offspring. There can be no doubt that William 1786 did not belong to this family. Besides William (b. 1786) named his first son William (b. 1813) making it somewhat likely that his father was William as well. This mystery, sought after by Codd resercher Annette Code, remains a mystery. This does not mean that there was no connection between William 1813 and the Codds from Carnew. One comes into play later, as the Joseph Codd-Rachel Codd family moved to North Elmsley Township (Lanark County) in the early 1850's - were linked closely to William (1813) and Ann Wilton. Further to this, John, the first son of Joseph and Rachel, married Sarah Code (? his 1st cousin), daughter of George Code (Jane Morris) of Beckwith Twp., who was likely (by the Irish Naming Pattern and other linkages) the son of John Code (b. 1769) of Aghold. Futher to this, the Sarah from this family could have been (based on dates which fit) the Sarah who married William Dowdall - who located on George Codd's farm in Beckwith Twp. c. 1824. Thomas 1767-1840 of Ballingate was certainly a contemporary of John 1769 of Aghold (who already had a brother, Thomas) - and was certainly connected closely to the Aghold Codds (brother and sister married a sister and brother?) Thomas' grandson, John, who had to have grown up at Bullingate, married Jane Leybourne of Aghold, where the Codds and Leybourne families were very intertwined. Thomas the elder also seems to have been buried at Aghold in 1840 ... John Codd 1819 and his wife Jane Leybourn who lived at Mullahullen, referred to Joseph of Carnew and Rachel of Aghold as "Uncle Joe" and "Aunt Rachel". The fact that they were both Codds by birth, makes it difficult to determine which of the two they felt to be blood relatives. But, we accept that John 1819's father was William b.c. 1800 - and we would expect, by the Irish Naming Pattern there to be a Thomas among the children of Thomas of Ballingate. But Carnew records before 1808 were destroyed. And, can we find a place for William 1786 of Carnew or Thomas (Coade) b. 1823 who ended up at Mitchell, Logan Twp. If ony we had the records from Aghold for the 1790's. It seems so close - yet so far away! For a further exploration of the CODD/CODE families of North Elmsley click HERE. For a further look at William 1813 in Canada click HERE. For some years I felt that there were no links between the earliest arriving Codds in Canada and the later arriving ones. But this was because I had no way to investigate beyond establishing that there were no intermarriages. Now, I feel that there were definite links - and probably through the family of Thomas Codd of Ballingate. To see what they may have been CLICK HERE. To look at the Irish origins of the Bayley family of Drummond - who married into the Codd family CLICK HERE. To visit or return to the CODDS OF AGHOLD PAGE click HERE. RETURN TO MAIN PAGE HERE.