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Names on this page: Billings, Carrduff or Carr-Duff or Carduff, Southwell

• The Carrduff and Southwell families are of English caucasian heritage from England, Ohio, and Michigan. The following material contains bits of information passed down from one generation to another and is undocumented and unverified.
• Maria’s father was Edward Carduff, possibly Sir Edward Carr-Duff, Earl of Cardiff, Wales and Chief Equerry to Queen Victoria.
• He may have lived in Cardiff, Wales, and one report has him related to Queen Victoria.
• There are several spellings for his name, including Carduff, Carr, Duff, Cardiff and Duff.
• One source says Duff was his name but that one of his two wives was named Carr and he added that to his last name.
• He owned a business block in either Liverpool or Wiggan, England. The building contained a theater, a hotel and a pub.
• In physique, the Southwells tended to be of short stature, with fair skin and sandy to red haired. The Southwells were also quick moving and hot tempered.

Sir Edward Carr-Duff	his dtr. Maria (Anna Maria) Carrduff	her dtr: Cora Southwell & Charles Henry Billings

Thomas Southwell ( born: England - immigrated to Geneva, Ohio 1852) + Alice Johnson

• Susan
• Betsy
• Johnson Trigg Southwell (born: Cambridge, England 09/11/1835?) + Anna Maria Duff or Carrduff 1837 - 1919
  • Mary Elizabeth
  • Thomas Southwell
  • Whitwell Southwell
  • Caroline Southwell
  • James Southwell 1863 - 1887
  • ** Cora Southwell (born: 09/03/1865 Ashtabula, Ohio - death: 1960)
    + Charles Henry Billings (07/25/?Rome, N.Y. - 8/01/1911, Ohio)
    • Nellie Billings-Lautzenheizer (07/21/1885 - 12/15/1951)
    • Burt Scott Billings 09/26/1886 - 12/15/34
    • Grace Belle - 09/18/1889 - 04/27/1903
    • Royal Charles Billings 07/31/1891 - 03/19/1971
    • Eva Marie Billings-Keeler
    • Lucy Fern Billings-Cooper 1896 - 1965
  • William Southwell
  • Charles Decker Southwell 1868 - 1945
  • Franklin Southwell 06/06/1872 - 09/08/1952
  • Sadie (Salley) Southwell Rehklau - Monroe Mich 10/03/1873 - 06/17/1961
  • Henry Brandford Southwell 1876 - 1879

History: Cora Southwell-Billings' mother (Anna) Maria came from England. Anna Maria Carduff and her younger sister Elizabeth ran away from home because of a cruel stepmother, who among other things, supposedly cut Maria’s long blond curly hair and sold it for making wigs. They came to the United States to stay with the girls’ uncle John Duff, who operated a blacksmith shop on Summit Street in Toledo, Ohio. When the uncle discovered that the girls had run away from home, he wanted to send them back to England but Maria refused. Since she had some money of her own, she went to Cleveland, Ohio. When her money was gone she went to Mentor, Ohio where she found work with a family named Garfield. Maria became engaged to marry the Garfield son, James. However, one evening while Maria and James were engaged, he took her to a dance at Harpers Corners, near Ashtabula. Here she met a young fiddler named Johnson Trigg Southwell. They fell in love and were married and became the parents of eleven children. The Garfield boy - born in 1831, became an Ohio Republican Politician 1863 to 1881. He became President of the United States and was shot by another office seeker, Charles J. Guiteau 7-2/1881, Died 09/19/81. Sometime in later life Maria Southwell’s father - Sir Edward - came to the United States to live with his daughter and her husband . He died in their home at about midnight on November 26, 1896. Burial was in Pleasantview Cemetery, Petersburg. Maria was 2nd cousin to Lord Alfred Duff-Cooper and Lady Diane.

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