The Caldwell Baronetcy of Wellsborough, County Fermanagh was created in the

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on 23 June 1683 for James Caldwell,

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in 1677. He owned Castle Caldwell at Templecarne, Co Fermanagh and also bought the estate at Wellsborough.

Sir James Caldwell, 4th Baronet Sir James Caldwell, 4th Baronet, Count of Milan (c.1720 – February 1784) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and author. Caldwell was the son of Sir John Caldwell, 3rd Baronet and Anne Trench. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1737 and was made ...

fought as an officer in the Austrian Army, was made Deputy Governor of Fermanagh in 1752, elected a

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in 1753 and was

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in 1756. His son Sir John Caldwell, 5th Baronet fought in the British Army in India, was Governor of County Fermanagh in 1793 and High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1798. Sir John Caldwell, 6th Baronet, lived in Canada, where he was Treasurer General of Canada. His son, the 7th baronet, returned to England and died childless.

Caldwell baronets of Wellsborough, Fermanagh (1683)

* Sir James Caldwell, 1st Baronet (by 1634–) * Sir Henry Caldwell, 2nd Baronet (died c. 1726) * Sir John Caldwell, 3rd Baronet (died 1744) *

(c.1722–1784) * Sir John Caldwell, 5th Baronet (1756–1830) * Sir John Caldwell, 6th Baronet (1775–1842) * Sir

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, 7th Baronet (1801–1858) Baronetcy extinct on his death.

References

* Burke in the Corrigenda to his "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire" 1848 omits Henry from the descent of the Baronetcy showing his son John as the 2nd Baronet. Cockayne's "Complete Baronetage" 1900 shows Henry as Baronet from 1717 to 1726. {{DEFAULTSORT:Caldwell Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland 1683 establishments in the British Empire