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Here is only the third edition of Kellaway Link, after a very long delay. Although the previous issues were well received, at the time there seemed to be insufficient copy for a third. Then came the electronic revolution, and I started to post Kellaway information on my website. You may visit this at www.kellaway.info This will give you links to other pages, particularly the one on which people post requests for help. (/links.htm) If you are interested in Kellaway research would you please send me your e-mail address. My address is bill @ kellaway.info NEW CONTACTS The number of new contacts for Kellaway continues to grow. That of course was the original purpose of this letter. The largest new group, unknown to me at the time of the last Link, is a large group of Kelloways in Newfoundland. N. Bruce Kelloway, nbk@cast.navnet.net, has a Kelloway Family Website at www.navnet.net/~nbk/family where he is attempting to compile all of the information available on the Eastern Canadian branch of the Kelloway Family. In particular, Bruce's research centers on Perry's Cove, Newfoundland and Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Bruce currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and encourages any and all Kelloway family members to visit his site and supply any information they might have about Kelloways to him for publication. It is Bruce's goal to provide the Kelloway Family with a permanent digital record of the family history, including pictures where possible.	In the last couple of years there have been some exciting advances in research into our family name. The most exciting of all is just starting to happen now. You are invited to participate in it. DIVISION IN THE FAMILY Most of the readers of this newsletter have been interested in Kell*ways, that is, ancestors who spelled their name starting with Ke-. By the Nineteenth Century spellings had become more fixed than previously, forming two main groups, the Ca- and the Ke-. Nevertheless, it is clear that Kellaways and Callaways share common origins. I am sure you have found ancestors who spell the name differently from you. It is therefore a mistake to separate the research. MEET THE CALLAWAYS There is another important consideration. A large amount of important research and investigation has been conducted by Callaways, and in particular by two. Have a look at the web-site of Dr Bruce Callaway of Sydney. (www.callaway.com.au/callaway.htm) You will find there much that coincides with what we know about Kellaways. Bruce has been discussing his work with Warwick Kellaway in Hamilton, N.Z., and they find much in common. A much larger group is the Callaway Family Association which is a very active organization in the USA with an annual get-together, a regular magazine, and a bulletin sent by e-mail to interested members. See also their website at www.callawayfamily.org . Although the CFA has always claimed to represent all spellings, it has been difficult for us outside the USA to find much in common, since it has undoubtedly concentrated upon American Callaways. Most Callaways there believe that they a re descended from two migrants in the Seventeenth Century, Peter and Joseph. A fund exists, founded some years ago by Fuller Callaway, jnr. to promote research, and there is an archive in the Troup County library in Georgia. There has been CFA funded research in England, mostly in Wessex. I have had the pleasure of meeting three ladies who have made several trips to England, Cary Moore, Pat Schnurr and Sherrill Williams. While the principal aim of their research has been to seek the obscure provenance of Peter and Joseph, they have religiously recorded all references to the name, - and here's the important part - irrespective of spelling. This information is currently in various forms, from floppy disc to (so they tell me) shoe-boxes full of paper on Sherrill's kitchen table. THE LARGER VIEW Following pressure from overseas members and interested people, the AGM of the CFA decided to recognize the wider value of their resources, and acknowledged that to fulfil the obligations of the trust fund, action should be taken to share it with a wider audience. I believe that the CFA is willing and anxious to receive contributions from Callaways and Kellaways worldwide. The aim is thus to have the best picture possible of the history and development of our name and of the family. It is my intention to share whatever material I have with them, and to cooperate in the project however I can. I hope that is acceptable to those of you who have sent your material to me. I also invite you to forward whatever new data you have. You may send it to me if you wish. The exact details of the project have yet to be decided, though certainly a CD will eventually become available. The work will proceed in three stages; the first two involve CFA American records; the third stage is the amalgamation of the CFA's English records. Before being added to the archive, data will be assessed for genealogical reliability. I therefore strongly appeal to you always to include source information, and only to submit well proven material. The computer programs to be used have yet to be decided. Existing data are stored in every electronic format imaginable, as well as paper. (The CFA English records that I have seen are in MSWord text format.) When this problem has been resolved I will try to let you know. Meanwhile the CFA web-site currently invites submissions in Family Tree Maker. I am trying to clarify whether any GEDCOM format is equally acceptable. Sherrill Williams invites you to write directly to her at 138 Buffalo Ridge Drive, Unicoi, TN37693, USA or SherrillUWilliams@prodigy.net ORIGINS The evidence from Warwick's research tends to confirm the hypothesis that Kellaway derives from Caillouet, a small village in Normandy. (See www.kellaway.info/village.htm). A knight, Philip de Chaileway (amongst other spellings) appeared in England in the 12th Century, in the service of the King. Others with similar sounding names are regularly being discovered. For centuries the spellings proliferated, and then, with improved literacy, diminished to the few we have today. The arms of Sir John Kellaway of Hampshire (left) show two features commonly found in Kellaway heraldry: crossed glaziers' nippers and pears, variously called Kelway, Callaway and Kellaway pears. MEETING THE CAILLOUETS Two years ago a web-site, now unavailable, was pointed out, referring to a reunion of Caillouet descendants in Louisiana. The information referred to a heraldic symbol - the Caillouet pear! This led to contact with members of the Caillouet family who are spread through various southern US states and in Quebec. A lively e-mail correspondence ensued, as it seemed likely that with such heraldic evidence a link would eventually be established. Unfortunately, no one on the Caillouet side was able to produce evidence of the pear as a symbol. Furthermore, the North American Caillouets, who trace their descent from Gilles Caillouet, a Brest armorer of the seventeenth century, have adopted a pronunciation which hardens the final "t". In Quebec, some people spell it Cayouette. This led to a rather fruitless discussion about the rights and wrongs of the final "t", and how the modern Normandy villagers might pronounce it. At present, the question of an historical link remains unresolved. Nevertheless it seems to me that the idea of the Caillouet pear must have reached the Caillouet family from a source which may be traceable back over the centuries. While unproven, it is a possible piece of evidence to link the Kellaways/Callaways with the Caillouets. THE FATE OF THE LUXBOROUGH GALLEY Luxborough Galley was a ship captained by William Kellaway, carrying slaves for the South Sea Company. She left England in October 1725 for Cabinda in West Africa, one leg of a triangular route. In Cabinda Captain Kellaway was attacked as a result of an affront given to the African king by one of the white men. Eight crew and 203 Africans died of smallpox on the second leg of the triangle. Having delivered the surviving slaves, Luxborough Galley left Jamaica, in May 1727, loaded with rum and sugar. On 25 June 1727 the ship caught fire and sank. Some of the crew managed to get into a boat and they survived by drinking the blood of those who died at sea. Eventually they were rescued and taken to Newfoundland. Captain Kellaway died the day after reaching shore, but the ship's boy, Robert Kellaway, survived. The first mate of the slaver was a Ralph Kellaway who was burned to death on the ship. There is a series of six dramatic paintings of the loss of Luxborough Galley at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. You can see them on line at www.nmm.ac.uk , conducting your search on "Trade and Empire" and the keyword "Luxborough". Memorial service for Kellaway A memorial service for the dancer and teacher Leon Kellaway, who died in Melbourne last week, will be held at the Sydney Opera House before the end of the Australian Ballet's season there. Kellaway was the company's first ballet master. Born in London and brought up in South Africa, brother of actor Cecil Kellaway, he danced for Pavlova's company before coming to Australia with its successor, headed by Olga Spessivtzeva in 1934. Working under his stage name, Jan Kowosky, Leon Kellaway remained in Australia to produce dance segments in musicals and operettas for J.C.Williamson, and later opened a studio in Sydney with Lorraine Norton. When the National Theatre Ballet was formed in Victoria in 1949, Kellaway was appointed ballet master, a position he later held with the Borovansky Ballet and then with the Australian Ballet from its formation in 1962 until his retirement in 1980. GEOLOGY - KELLAWAYS ROCK The name Kellaway has been applied to a geological stratum of Jurassic origin. I spotted it in my son's geography book! The name "Kellaways Beds" derives from the hamlet of Kellaways in Wiltshire. The beds "have been mapped between Meysey Hampton, 6 km north of Cricklade, and Trowbridge. They are subdivided into the Kellaways Clay and the Kellaways Sand, which forms a discontinuous mappable stratum at the top. The Kellaways Clay consists mainly of silty clay with impersistent thin layers and lenticular beds of sand. It is grey when fresh and at outcrop weathers orange-brown. The Kellaways Sand, where unweathered, is a pale grey, hard calcareous sandstone or sandy fossiliferous limestone (sometimes known as Kellaways Rock), but at outcrop it is a gritty sand. It gives rise to a light sandy loam soil, easily cultivated, and commonly supporting market gardening. The thickness of the Kellaways Beds varies from 20 to 30 m, of which the sand commonly accounts for only 2 to 3 m, though it may attain as much as 9 m north-west of Chippenham..." Information supplied by the British Geological Survey, from G.W.Green, M.A., Bristol and Gloucester Region. Green's book is based on previous editions, one of whose authors was Dr G.A. Kellaway, DSc
MIGRANTS The database of Kellaway migrants is up and running, but it has very few entries. I would be grateful to receive details of your migrants, wherever and whenever they went. The following fields are suggested. Name, Family Name of Ship Date of travel Port of embarkation Port of Arrival Date of Arrival Initial place of settlement
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