Weld family
The
Weld family may refer to an ancient English family, and to their possible relations in
New England, an extended family of
Boston Brahmin. An early record of a Weld holding public office, is the High
Sheriff of London in 1352, William. In the 16th and 17th centuries people called Weld and living in
Cheshire began to travel and to settle in the environs of London, in
Shropshire, in
Suffolk and thence in the
American Colonies, and in
Dorset. While most of the Welds of England had adopted
Protestantism, the exception was all three sons of
Sir John Weld of
Edmonton, who married into elite
recusant families, thus reverting, with their descendants, to
Roman Catholicism. The noted Catholic Weld lineage, unbroken till the new millennium, is that of
Lulworth Castle in Dorset.
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