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Weld

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.