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49-703: The Welds are an old gentry family which claims descent from Eadric the Wild and are related to other Weld branches in several parts of the United Kingdom, from Willey, Shropshire , and the Lulworth Estate , Dorset and still others in the Antipodes and in Massachusetts . A notable early Weld was William de Welde (or atte Welde), High Sheriff of London in 1352, whose progeny moved in and out of obscurity. In mid 16th century,

98-580: A cadet line originating from John Weld of Eaton , Cheshire and his wife Joanna FitzHugh of Congleton Cheshire descends from his fourth and youngest son, Sir Humphrey Weld (died 1610). Weld settled in Holdwell, Hertfordshire and became a City of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers . On 9 May 1598, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Farringdon Within ward. He

147-506: A conclusion 'the possibility that William le Savage, who held Eudon Savage, Neen Savage and Walton Savage of Ranulph de Mortimer in the twelfth century, could have been a descendant of Eadric'. Eadric's cousin Ealdraed inherited his land at Acton Scott , which was later held by William Leyngleys ('the Englishman," died 1203), likely to have been Ealdraed's descendant. The property is still in

196-404: A family willing to occupy Apley Hall and so alternative uses were sought. In 1962 the house became a state secondary modern boarding school run by Shropshire County Council and remained so until its closure in 1987. Apley Hall remained empty and suffered a great deal of deterioration and vandalism during the following 10 years and was listed on English Heritages Buildings at Risk. in 1997 the house

245-579: A faux chapel, hexagonal turrets and battlements. Design work has been attributed to members of the architectural Wyatt family but more likely John Webb and construction work was undertaken by the Carline family of Shrewsbury . Thomas Whitmore's son Thomas Charlton Whitmore strongly opposed the construction of the Severn Valley Railway which ran through the Apley Park estate on the opposite bank of

294-623: A fleet of trading vessels that brought more wealth back from China. He married Hannah Minot (1780–1860) and together they had one daughter and eight sons. One son was killed in Mexico, but the remaining sons had 813 descendants. Isaac Weld (1774–1856) was an Irish topographical writer, explorer, and artist and member of the Royal Dublin Society , for whom he wrote the Statistical Survey of Co. Roscommon . Like his father and grandfather, he

343-512: A human-succubus relationship. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS D), Eadric is nicknamed Cild (literally "child"), which may signify a title of rank. He was also known as "the Wild", as witnessed by such bynames as se wild , salvage and in Latin, silvaticus . According to Susan Reynolds: Historians have generally treated Eadric's surname as a nickname .. A ... likely explanation

392-496: A point raised by Michael Cobb in 1977, based on studying railway journeys and times. In 2003, Dr Daryl Lloyd and Dr Ian Greatbatch (two researchers in the Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London ) made use of a Geographic Information System to analyse a set of geographical criteria, such as a viewshed analysis of The Wrekin and drive time from Shrewsbury. Their final conclusion

441-645: A rebellion and, allying himself with the Welsh prince of Gwynedd and Powys , Bleddyn ap Cynfyn , and his brother Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn , he unsuccessfully attacked the Norman Hereford Castle in 1067. They did not take the county, and retreated to Wales to plan further raiding. During the widespread wave of English rebellions in 1069–70, he burned the town of Shrewsbury and unsuccessfully besieged Shrewsbury Castle , again helped by his Welsh allies from Gwynedd, as well as other English rebels from Cheshire . It

490-941: Is probably the Eadric son of Ælfric who held two estates from Much Wenlock Priory (Shropshire). Eadric and his cousin Siward ranked as the wealthiest thegns in Shropshire. Accounts of Eadric's act of rebellion in Herefordshire in 1067 are included in Manuscript D the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , John of Worcester 's Chronicle and Orderic Vitalis . After the Conquest of England by William of Normandy , Eadric refused to submit and therefore came under attack from Norman forces based at Hereford Castle , under Richard fitz Scrob . He raised

539-509: Is that Eadric was one of a group of people well known in their own day as 'silvatici'. Orderic Vitalis says in his description of the English risings of c.1068-9 that many of the rebels lived in tents, distaining to sleep in houses lest they should become soft, so that certain of them were called silvatici by the Normans. ... he is not the only chronicler to make it clear that the English resistance

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588-575: The American Revolutionary War . Weld Hill was selected by George Washington as a rallying point for the patriot army to fall back upon in case of disaster. After Eleazer Weld's death in 1800, much of his land along the Roslindale and Jamaica Plain border went to fellow patriot Benjamin Bussey and was subsequently bequeathed to Harvard, becoming the basis for Arnold Arboretum . In Roslindale ,

637-737: The Bay Psalm Book from the original Hebrew , for Stephen Daye , a London printer who took his press to the colony and published the first book in the American colonies. Thomas Welde returned to England and Gateshead . Isaac's great-great-grandfather, reverend Edmund Weld of Blarney Castle , County Cork , Ireland (1655), lived during Cromwell 's time. He later moved to Dublin . There were at least two other 19th-century Welds descended from Joseph's older brother Thomas who returned to England in 1641. Both these Welds were born in Hampton, Connecticut , and were

686-539: The River Severn . It was once home to the Whitmore & Foster families. The Hall is a Grade II* listed building claimed as one of the largest in the county of Shropshire . The Whitmore family had been feudal landowners of Apley since 1572 when the manor was purchased by William Whitmore (d. 1593), a haberdasher of London. The will of William Whitmore, dated 6 August 1593 records: ANNO 36 ELIZABETH. Monday next after

735-481: The entail . To Anne his wife the farm called "Balmes," (fn. 14) situate in the parishes of Hackney, Shorditch, and Tottenham, for life; remainder to all his children equally. Dated 6 August, 35 Elizabeth [A.D. 1593]. Roll 274 (15). William Whitmore's eldest son was Sir William Whitmore of Apley, knight, High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1620, and his second son was Sir George Whitmore (d. 1654), Lord Mayor of London . Sir William resided at Apley and in 1634 purchased

784-668: The "Weld-Walter tract" remains the name of one of the four parcels into which the arboretum is divided. On the Walter Street side of the Arboretum near the intersection with Weld Street is a tiny cemetery with eight slate tombstones dated between 1712 and 1812. Two of the Welds who fought in the Revolutionary War are buried here, marked by a later monument of Roxbury puddingstone . William Gordon Weld (1775–1825), Eleazer's fifth son, founded

833-488: The Feast of S. Ambrose, Bishop [4 April] Whitmore (William), haberdasher.—To George, William, and Thomas his sons he leaves the manor or lordship of Stockton, co. Salop, and his lands, tenements, &c., at Stockton, Apley, Hickford, Astley, and Norton, co. Salop, by equal thirds, in several tail, with cross remainders; remainder to Elizabeth, Anne, Margaret, Mary, "Francis," and Jane his daughters. Provision made against cutting off

882-560: The TV drama Blood Royal: William the Conqueror (1990). In 2005, the English rose hybridists David Austin Roses introduced the rose Wild Edric. Apley Hall Apley Hall is an English Gothic Revival house located in the parish of Stockton near Bridgnorth , Shropshire . The building was completed in 1811 with adjoining property of 180 acres (0.73 km ) of private parkland beside

931-664: The Weld name continued by royal licence granted to Forester in 1811 as a condition of the inheritance of the Willey estate. Having been elected MP for Much Wenlock in 1790, a seat he held till 1820, he was subsequently raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Weld-Forester, of Willey Park in the County of Shropshire . Very distantly related to the Welds, the Weld-Foresters have continued into

980-449: The Wild was a son of one Ælfric, whom he identifies as a brother of Eadric Streona , ealdorman of Mercia under King Æthelred the Unready . While five of Eadric Streona's brothers appear to attest witness-lists of King Æthelred's charters, no Ælfric makes a plausible candidate for identification with a brother of the ealdorman. It is possible that Ælfric was not a brother but a nephew of

1029-526: The Willey Welds. (His youngest brother was Sir Humphrey Weld (died 1610), Lord Mayor of London). The Welds of Shropshire were several times connected by marriage with the Whitmores of Apley Hall , Staffordshire . His son, John Weld, Esquire (1582–1666), and first cousin of Sir John Weld of Edmonton, served as Town Clerk of London 1613–1642, and had bought the manor of Willey, Shropshire in 1617–1618 (where he

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1078-813: The abbey" of Wigmore . He campaigned in Maine for King William in 1072 and according to the Mortimer genealogy held Wigmore Castle against Ranulph de Mortimer during the rebellion of 1075. Domesday Book mentions 'Edric salvage' as the former tenant of six manors in Shropshire and one in Herefordshire . He may have held others but there is a profusion of Eadrics in Domesday, rendering closer identification difficult if not impossible. R. W. Eyton commented that 'a genealogical enthusiast would have little hesitation in assuming as

1127-598: The construction of what is now the VFW Parkway in West Roxbury . While the Weld's Brookline and Dedham properties were developed in the 17th and 18th centuries as agricultural lands, in the 19th and 20th centuries these became Weld-owned estates of great luxury. This first Weld Hall in Jamaica Plain was home to many generations of Welds, the last of which was Colonel Eleazer Weld, one of seven Weld family members who fought in

1176-563: The ealdorman. If so, Eadric (the Wild) would belong to the same generation as his cousin Siward son of Æthelgar, who was himself a grandson of Eadric Streona. Because Eadric's name is a common one in pre-Conquest England, identification with any of the landholders of this name listed in Domesday Book remains a ticklish affair. Nevertheless, it would seem that he held land extensively in Shropshire and also held roughly 12 hides in Herefordshire. He

1225-492: The financial help of his mother's family, he developed the castle and its grounds. He was succeeded by his eldest son and heir, Edward Weld (1740–1775), briefly the first husband of Maria Fitzherbert , before being fatally injured in a riding accident. The next proprietor of Lulworth was Edward's youngest brother: He was also the patriarch of a dynasty which carries on into the new millennium. Thomas Weld and his wife, Mary Massey-Stanley, had fifteen children: “Wilfrid Weld led

1274-605: The first donors to Harvard and a founder of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts . Thomas Weld's involvement with Harvard was the beginning of almost 400 years of association between that institution and the Weld Family. The first Weld to attend ended his Harvard career in disgrace. John Weld (born in 1625) and a classmate stole money and gunpowder from two houses and were caught. Henry Dunster (Harvard's first president) personally whipped them and expelled them from

1323-434: The grandnephew of Humphrey Weld MP, (purchaser in 1641 of the vast Lulworth Estate , who had died without a male heir), and of his wife Margaret Simeons, daughter of Sir James Simeons of Chilworth nr. Oxford . Weld succeeded his father in 1722. On coming of age he was the fourth generation of Welds to take charge of the vast estate with its portion of the magnificent Jurassic Coast (today a UNESCO World Heritage Site ). With

1372-629: The greenwood before him were probably the Old English nobility on their way down and out. In later folklore Eadric is mentioned in connection with the Wild Hunt , and in the tale of Wild Eadric . Various branches of the Weld family of England traditionally claim descent from Eadric, including the Welds of the United States and the extinct line of Weld-Blundells . Eadric was portrayed by Robert O'Mahoney in

1421-459: The hands of Leyngleys' descendants, the Actons, having passed down through the generations without ever being sold. Walter Map , in his De nugis curialium , recounts a legend where Edric and a hunting companion come across a house of succubi in the woods, one of whom Edric marries and bears him a son, Alnodus or Ælfnoth. Walter cites Alnodus as a rare example of a happy and successful offspring from

1470-765: The manor of Balmes in Hackney , held under a lease by his father, for his brother Sir George, who there received King Charles I in 1641. Sir William's son and heir was Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet (d. 1653). On the second baronet's childless death in 1699 Apley passed to his cousin William (died 1725). The existing Georgian style house was remodeled during the Regency period in Neo-Gothic style between 1808 and 1811 for Thomas Whitmore , High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1806 and Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth 1806–31. It incorporated

1519-810: The new millennium. The Weld family has a presence in Massachusetts dating back to the early 17th century and their relationship to one another is clearly recorded. In the first days of the British colonization of the Americas , three sons of Edmund Weld (1559–1608) of Sudbury, Suffolk, England arrived in Boston . Daniel Weld (1585/1586–1666), the eldest, became a teacher at Roxbury Latin School . Two notable Welds in New England traced their ancestry to him. Captain Joseph Weld (1599–1646),

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1568-518: The presence of Weld Hill Street across the street from Forest Hills MBTA station ). The descendants of John Weld created Weld Farm near the Brookline border around what is now Hancock Village but was formerly Weld Golf Course. Other descendants of John Weld moved on to develop the valley of Sawmill Brook near Dedham as the Williams Farm. Part of the Weld properties in this area were sold in 1854 for

1617-594: The river Severn. The railway opened in 1862 after the Severn Valley Railway Company agreed to pay £14,000 compensation and £150 per acre for the land purchased, and also to provide a station at which at least two trains per day in each direction could be stopped on request. Linley station was built to meet that requirement. In 1867, the Foster family purchased the property for a record amount. Famous English eccentric Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson , 14th Baron Berners

1666-890: The school. Weld returned to England and became a minister in Durham . Edmund Weld (1631–1668; son of Thomas), the first Weld to graduate from Harvard (class of 1650) left Massachusetts Bay Colony as well. He became a minister in Ireland. At least eighteen more Weld family members have graduated from Harvard since then, and two prominent buildings at Harvard University are named for the family. Captain John Weld, son of Captain Joseph Weld, inherited his estate and served as an officer in King Philip's War of 1675. He built his home, Weld Hall, on what came to be called Weld Hill in Forest Hills (still marked by

1715-748: The sons of Ludovicus Weld. About the English Welds: About the American Welds: Eadric the Wild Eadric the Wild (or Eadric Silvaticus ), also known as Wild Edric , Eadric Cild (or Child ) and Edric the Forester , was an Anglo-Saxon magnate of Shropshire and Herefordshire who led English resistance to the Norman Conquest , active in 1068–70. The early 12th-century historian John of Worcester writes that Eadric

1764-505: The transformation of the Lulworth Estate from a traditional landed estate, into a modern and self-supporting business powered by tourism and agriculture. Under his leadership he restored the great Lulworth Castle and established Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door as iconic, internationally-renowned landmarks.” John Weld, second son of John Weld of Eaton Hall, Cheshire and his wife Joanna FitzHugh, settled in Shropshire and became patriarch of

1813-473: The twentieth-century maquis , have been named for it, is perfectly credible. Reynolds further notes that: If it is true, however, that the silvatici were for some years a widespread and well-known phenomenon, that might help to explain aspects of later outlaw stories that have puzzled historians. Few outlaws in other countries have apparently left so powerful a legend as Robin Hood . ...The most famous outlaws of

1862-496: The wife of Sir John Weld of Edmonton. He was the father of Sir John Weld (died 1681) of Willey, The Welds returned several Members of Parliament for Much Wenlock where they had industrial interests, starting with George Weld, briefly replaced by his father, Sir John Weld (died 1681) and again George Weld (died 1701). They were second cousins of Humphrey Weld (of Lulworth) (1612–1685) MP for Christchurch . George Weld's successor

1911-493: The youngest of the three Weld immigrants, is the ancestor from whom the more wealthy and famous Welds descend. As an award for his participation in the Pequot War of 1637 and subsequent negotiations, the colonial legislature granted Weld 278 acres (1.13 km) in the town of Roxbury . Captain Weld's land is now much of present-day Jamaica Plain and Roslindale . With the wealth generated from this grant, Joseph Weld became one of

1960-471: Was Sheriff of London from 1599 to 1600. He was knighted on 26 July 1603. He transferred as alderman to Walbrook ward in 1604. In 1608, he was elected Lord Mayor of London. During his mayoralty the reconstruction of the Aldgate , one of the four principal gates of the City of London, was completed. Weld's name as Mayor appeared on the gate itself, and in connection with an engraving of the gate produced later. He

2009-498: Was a neighbour of the Slaneys of Barrow and of the Whitmores of Apley), and was knighted in 1642. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir William Romney (died 1611), Alderman of London, at St Martin Pomary on 4 February 1610/11. His sister Joan wife of Humphrey Slaney was buried there on 3 February 1630. His other sister Dorothy married Sir William Whitmore (died 1648) of Apley, Shropshire, brother of Sir George Whitmore (alderman and Lord Mayor of London) and of Frances Whitmore

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2058-440: Was bought by Neil Avery an entrepreneur and conservation specialist as a family home, the house was restored and subsequently removed from the Buildings at Risk register. During 2003 the house was sold to specialist developers who have since divided the Hall into several self-contained apartments. There had long been speculation that Jeeves and Wooster author P. G. Wodehouse had based his fictitious Blandings Castle on Apley,

2107-403: Was his son, George Weld the younger (1674–1748), another Wenlock MP. He was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth, who married Brooke Forester , a further Wenlock MP. Their son, George Forester succeeded to Willey and to the parliamentary seat for Much Wenlock. He died childless and left his estate to a cousin, Cecil Forester and thus the Weld blood line became extinguished in Shropshire. However,

2156-433: Was knighted in 1617, died in 1622, and was buried in his private chapel at Arnolds. His younger brother, Humphrey died without issue. Sir John's sons married into prominent Catholic families and became recusants . The children of Sir John Weld and Dame Frances (née Whitmore) are shown as follows by Burke: Edward Weld was the third and first surviving son of Humphrey Weld (died 1722) of Lulworth , son of William Weld, and

2205-419: Was named Isaac for his great-grandfather Nathaniel's friend, Isaac Newton . Born in Dublin , he and his sister, Esther, were the children of a first marriage. Esther married George Ensor , and their half-brother was Charles Richard Weld . They were possibly descended from the Welds of Suffolk, via New England . their reputed great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Welde , was among those who helped to translate

2254-523: Was president of Christ's Hospital from 1609. Of his seven surviving children born by his first wife, Ann Wheler, two were sons. His second wife and widow was Dame Mary. The elder of Humphrey's sons being Sir John Weld (1585–1622) of Arnolds in Southgate , Middlesex. A merchant, and a charter member and Council assistant of the Newfoundland Company of 1610, he founded the Weld Chapel in Edmonton, London . He married Frances daughter of William Whitmore of London (and sister of Sir William Whitmore ), he

2303-424: Was probably this combination of forces which was decisively defeated by William in a battle at Stafford in late 1069. Eadric apparently submitted to King William in 1070 and later participated in William's invasion of Scotland in 1072. Another account states that he was captured by Ranulph de Mortimer "after long struggles and handed over to the king for life imprisonment, some of his lands afterwards descending to

2352-412: Was related to the Fosters (as a grandson of William Orme Foster , the purchaser) and was born at Apley in 1883. The Hall and Estate remained in Foster family ownership until 1960 when the last incumbent of the Foster family died and the Hall passed onto his nephew General Goulburn and from him to Lord Hamilton of Dalzell. Due to the vastness of the house and its substantial upkeep it was difficult to find

2401-422: Was very widespread or to describe the rebels as taking to the woods and marshes. The Abingdon chronicle says that many plots were hatched by the English and that some hid in woods and some in islands, plundering and attacking those who came in their way, while others called in the Danes , and that men of different ranks took part in these attempts ... That they should have made their bases in wild country and, like

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