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Family: Robert John Caldwell / Jean Beatrice Holmes (F9421)


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    Robert John Caldwell

    Birth  5 May 1875  Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  1951   
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    Jean Beatrice Holmes

    Birth  17 Apr 1885  Laporte, LaPorte, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  1933   
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    + Tracy Fairfax Caldwell

    Birth  19 Oct 1916  New York, New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  25 Mar 1983  San Diego, San Diego, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Spouse  Alice Louise Buckley | F9420 
    Marriage  25 Mar 1983  San Diego, San Diego, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

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    J. Caldwell

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  • Notes 
    • Robert and Jean frequently traveled aboard cruise ships, usually for pleasure, but Robert also for diplomatic work that he did in assisting Czechoslovakia repatriate their refugees after WW1. Whilst he had a career as a cotton merchant and owned several cotton mills in Connecticut, he also worked with the League of Nations (predecessor to the United Nations). -- contributed by Val Caldwell, wife of Douglas Ralph Caldwell of Western Australia, grandson of Robert and Jean, and of Grace Belle Bisbee.

      * 17 Jan - 3 Feb 1914, Trieste to NYC, ship "S.S. Martha Washington," Robert J. Caldwell, age 38y 0m, married, born Louisville, KY, 1876, resides 129 Orange Road, Montclair, NY; Jean Caldwell, wife, age 27 0m, married, born LaPort, IN, 1887, resides 129 Orange Road, Montclair, NY

      * 29 Apr - 9 May 1920, Liverpool to NYC, "S.S. Baltic," Robert J. Caldwell, age 42, married, born Louisville, KY, 12/5/1875, resides 85 Riverside Dr., NYC

      * 17 - 25 Sep 1920, Plymouth to NYC, "S.S. Rotterdam," Robert J. Caldwell, age 45y, male, married, born Louisville, KY, 12 May, 1875, resides 85 Riverside Dr., NYC

      * 7 - 14 Jul 1923, La Havre to NYC, "S.S.Paris," Jean Holmes Caldwell, age 38y 0m female, married, born Laporte, Indiana, 17 Apr 1885, resides 85 Riverside Dr., NYC; Tracy Fairfax Caldwell age 6y 6m male born NYC, 19 Oct 1916, resides 85 Riverside Dr., NYC; Jean Caldwell age 4y 6m female born NYC 13 Dec 1919, resides 85 Riverside Dr., NYC

      * 18 - 26 Aug 1923, Liverpool to NYC, "S.S. Franconia," Robert J. Caldwell, age48, married, born 12 May 1875, Louisville, KY, resides 85 Riverside Dr., NYC

      * 2 - 9 Nov 1924, Cherbourg, France to NYC, ship "S.S. Columbus," citizens and "ship crew": Jean Caldwell, age 39y 6m; Tracy Fairfax Caldwell, age 8y; Jean Caldwell, 5y 11m