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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Middle English wold ‘forest’ or ‘cleared upland’ (see Wald, Wold).
  • Thomas Weld (1596–1661), born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, was an influential Puritan divine who emigrated from Terling, Essex, to Roxbury, MA, in 1632.

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