John Kidwell

• Birth Notes
  •  ... John and Jane Kidwellar. They are
    believed to be from the town of Kidwelly in Wales, where is located
    a Kidwelly Castle. On April 1660 they left Bristol, England on a
    sailing ship bound for the island of Nevis in the Carribean. John
    Kidwellar was a yeoman (one who cultivates his own land) and Jane
    ws a spinster (one who spins yarn). They were among 44 indentured
    passengers aboard. (ships name not known) and were bound to John
    Woory, a merchant, for 5 years in Nevis. The island of Nevis is in
    the Leeward Islands, a few miles south of St. Kitts. Recoreds show
    John Kidwell on 10 October 1670 on the estate of John Woodward and 24 September 1670 on the estate of Colonel John Blake. Later John Kidwell moved to Virginia and worked on the estate of Augustine Washington, father of George Washington. He is thought to have died in 1725, Stafford County, Virginia and to be buried close to the grounds of
    Augustine Washington.
    
    from Brooks Family Genealogy Update July 1997~ Bobby M. Hawkins
    resource: http://www.gencircles.com/users/delywe/1/data/762 

• General Notes
  • Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, , Wales
    
    Also seen b. 1635