Joseph's sister Janet married Hugh Fulton

husband Fulton Hugh
wife Caldwell Janet
married 30.4.1873 Riccarton
children
Helen Walker Fulton 19.7.1873 Riccarton
Agnes Fulton (1875?) Riccarton

I am starting to venture into more and more places where member's of the Caldwell settled. I am not an expert on the Caldwell's of North America, but to become knowledgeable you have to start somewhere:

Tinkling Springs Virginia had Caldwell settlers. I note that my Caldwell family in Galston Ayrshire had associations with Wilson, McClanachan, Breckenridge & Paton. Names or variations of these names are mentioned as being in John Christian's quarter (along with Caldwell). "Gemmel" is also a "good Ayrshire name".

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/photo.html

Other links to Tinkling Springs Caldwells:
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/dhj001/GenRepJamesH.html
http://lib-operations.sonoma.edu/fin/aaa-0248.html
http://www.geocities.com/r_leddy/cw/rosters/va16cav.html
http://www.members.aol.com/lettermen2/craig.html
http://www.maierassociates.com/Genie/gscal050.html

Cub Creek:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eurovol/IMAGES/PilgrimagetotheCaldwellCubCreekSettlement3.htm

(Just a few)
Not sure if this is as polished as I would like it - but I was tired (poor excuse) will come back to it later (eventually)

5.55pm 22 March 2005. Inside, no airconditioning. Our Autumn (Fall). Just about perfect.

"Johnny Coconut"
http://www.caribbeancompass.com/caldwell.htm

Admiral Benjamin Caldwell
http://www.sailingnavies.com/show_person.php?nid=1&id=53

http://genforum.genealogy.com/caldwell/messages/4597.html

http://caldwellgenealogy.com/forum/cgi-bin/config.cgi?read=614

General John Frederick Caldwell (Irish "Castle Caldwell" family):
"General John Frederick Caldwell, although born in Portugal but into an Anglo-Irish family, was the oldest soldier in the Brazilian army when he died in 1873 at the age of 63"

Union General John Curtis Caldwell

A link to a good little historical article:

http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com/htmlsite/caldwell-family.asp

"
In the late 18th century, the town Balnamore, near Ballymoney, was known as Harmony Hill, and one of the prominent families living in the area was the Caldwells. They were an old family - some of their descendants had survived the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, and later moved to America to found the town of Londonderry, New Hampshire.
"

This thread is a placeholder, I hope to eventually show here how the very early move to "universal" free education in Scotland resulted in great changes to that nation in its world perspective.

In a continuing part of the "rant" I will also comment on the social experiment in Australia in which tertiary level education was effectively made "free" and how this was good, even though possibly abused. This will continue in to show that the HECS loan scheme introduced to fund higher education is fundamentally flawed and leaves the vast majority of graduates worse off.

I will then comment on whether the "smart lucky country" is becoming the "rich educated country". Would certainly work well if all rich people were the clever ones and an education always wasted on the universally "dopey" poor.

I will also comment on how an education is not always a path to immense wealth and how many with only a basic education have become wealthy beyond most dreams.

Perhaps I should round this off with the usual stuff about money not (always) buying happiness.

"I would rather cry in a Jaguar than in an autobus" : Francoise Sagan

Now I have started I am sure to come back and expand on these points.

"I can resist anything but temptation"

"Never treat anyone like a fool until they prove it"

"I never allow myself the luxury of being absolutely right"

"Chess is ok until your kids start beating you"

"I had rather be doing something else than perpetually being third place in "C" grade"

"No sugar, I am sweet enough"

"The ship has not sunk until the water has come over the funnel"

"Children think they are immortal"

"I have never seen a full cat"

"The grass is not greener on the other side of the hill, but you are welcome to look"

"Hot? Its going to be hot when the sun comes up"

"Lead by example, fail when it is not noticed"

"You can stay up late if you can be up before me in the morning"

The Great Siberian Circus called at Coffs Harbour and allowed me to take picture of their acts - this one is not an act but a training session for a new role after the show - known as a "pain session", but she did well ...

Ebony's father, he laconically called himself the "tent boss" but he was also a gifted clown, an expert trapeze artist, fork lift driver, and father of the nicest family. It was my pleasure and honour to meet him at the circus.

Aliya in the rope act

Coffs Harbour: sometimes it rains sometimes it pours

JOSEPH CALDWELL (1773-1835) First University President. Born New Jersey. Graduate Princeton, 1791. Taught in small local school; accepted tutorship at Princeton, 1795; became professor of mathematics and Presiding Professor at U.N.C., 1796. In 1804 he was chosen first president of the University and elected a trustee, a post which he held thirty-one years until his death. He resigned as president in 1812, but continued to hold the chair of mathematics. At his successor's resignation in 1816 he again became president and remained in office until his death. In 1831 he was authorized to build an observatory, the first college building of its kind in the United States. Caldwell County was named for him when it was formed in 1841.

A short biography:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/caldwell/bio.html