Calder Resources
Calder Family Tree by Ellen E. Appel
Handwritten narrative (20 pages) by T. W. Calder found in Calder papers (miscellaneous) Nantucket, Foulger Research Center (coming soon)
Calder Genealogy submitted by Marjorie E. Gould of Glen Rock, NJ, October 2, 1992, found at Nantucket, Foulger Research Center.
Massachusetts Vital Records
Memorials Family of Skene of Skene by William Forbes Skene, Aberdeen 1887
Major William Calder of Charlestown, MA, by Harold Clarke Durrell, 1933
History of Cambridge 1630-1877 by Lucius R. Paige, Supp & Index by Gozzaldi, 1930
Charlestown Genealogies and Estates 1629 - 1818 by Thomas Bellows Wyman
The Register, New England Historical and Genealogical Society
Epitaphs on Old Burial Hill (Phipps Street Burial Ground) Charlestown 1622 - 1952, by William R.J. Griffin, R. Stanton Avery Collection, NEHGS
Eliza Starbuck Barney Collection, Foulger Research Center, Nantucket
Post Card of Elsie Calder (transcription coming soon)
Nantucket Historical Association Website at http://nha.org images of Calders at their Photograph Collections. Also see their Nantucket Cemeteries Inscription Project.
Hannah Calder Administration 1759
Will Abstract of Samuel Calder dated Dec. 16, 1817, of Gloucester, Essex County
WILL Abstract George Calder
died 1884
Obituary of Ellen E. Appel 1993
Hannah Calder Administration in Middlesex County July 16, 1759, son Samuel, Administrator
Samuel Calder of Nantucket in the County of Sherburne, Barber, William Calder, painter & glassier and George Calder, leather dresser, both of Charlestown, signed by Samuel, William and George.
The account of Samuel Calder Administrator of the Estate of his mother Mrs. Hannah Calder late of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex Widow deceased???? the said accountant chargeth himself with the ??? of the said Deceased - specified in the ??? thereof exhibited into the Probate office for said County dated July 24, 1759, accounting (in old terms) to £424-14-6
cash found in the house 43-6-0
£477-19-6
and the said accountant ??? allownces in his ??? as follows, viz
paid for warrant of appraisement & swearing appraising 3-8-3
Recording the ?? oath
for a coffin 9-0-0
To David Edmunds for digging the grave, tolling thebell, attendance, porters 10-6-0
To Abigail Stevens for funding for the funeral 96-11-4
To Capt. for ditto 89-8-0
Paid for the grave stone 7-0-0
As ?? John Gardner 11-11-3
Paid toRecording the copy 1-15-0
To the administrator for his trouble 10-0-0243-14-10
Distributed among the heirs of deceased as follows, viz
To Hannah Flinn 40-11-9
Sarah Bell 74-7-5
George Calder 61-12-0
Rebecca Calder ??? 31-0-1
William Calder 68-5-0
Lydia Calder 42-14-3
Barbara Calder 54-11-6
Elizabeth Calder 38-12-9
Samuel Calder 28-7-6I allow of the foregoing acct. S. Danforth, J. Prob.
Will Abstract of Samuel Calder dated Dec. 16, 1817, of Gloucester, Essex County
ons Samuel, George and William, daughter Mary $5 each when they become of ageS
mentions Epes Ellery
WILL Abstract George Calder died 1884
George Calder of the city and county of Lancaster...I
Executor may sell real estate
Remainder
1/6 to grandson Charles L. Ehler
1/6 to children of son George Calder Jr.
1/6 to children of son Francis L. Calder
1/2 to son George Calder Jr. in trust to pay for Emily E. Calder semiannually,
tombstone and remainder to her children if any, if no children divided equally
among grandchildren
Son George executor
October 23, 1874
Obituary of Ellen E. Appel, 90, retired art teacher, December 11, 1993 Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA, Page: B-3
Ellen E. "Nellie" Appel, 90, formerly of 305 N. Duke St., died Thursday after a brief illness at the Masonic Homes in Elizabethtown, where she had resided. Born in Lancaster, she was the daughter of the late Dr. Theodore B. and Mary Hurford Calder Appel. A member of St. James Episcopal Church, she graduated from Shippen School for Girls in 1921, and in 1924 graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, where she was admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society. She taught art at Lancaster Country Day School for 35 years until retiring in 1966. Her father, the late Theodore B. Appel, was a prominent Lancaster physician and served as Secretary of Health in Pennsylvania. Her brother, the late James Z. Appel, M.D.. was also a Lancaster physician, and served as president of the American Medical Association in 1965. She is survived by nieces and nephews.