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.
32-553: Joseph Weld may refer to: Captain Joseph Weld (1599-1646), Weld family#Joseph Weld , ancestor of many Boston Welds Joseph Weld (yachtsman) , English yachtsman (1777–1863), brother of Cardinal Thomas Weld Joseph Weld (MP) (1651–1712), MP for Bury St Edmunds 1709–1712 Joseph Weld (priest) (?–1781), Archdeacon of Ross Joseph William Weld (1909–1992), British army officer and landowner [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
64-745: 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 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
96-644: 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
128-589: 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 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
160-491: A son and daughter. Margaret died in 1608 and he married (secondly, in 1610) Dorothy, daughter of John Weld, Haberdasher, and niece of Sir Humphrey Weld , Lord Mayor of London 1608–1609, whose son Sir John Weld was married to Whitmore's sister Frances. William's inheritance was the foundation of his wealth, but it was as a Contractor for Crown Lands, 1609–1616, and a farmer of customs, in association with Sir Arthur Ingram and others, and then in further lending schemes, that he
192-730: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Weld family#Joseph Weld 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
224-726: Is provisionally identified as the William Whitmore who matriculated sizar from Trinity College, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1588, and was certainly admitted to the Middle Temple on 1 February 1594/95. William inherited an estate including property at Apley , Shropshire after his father's death in 1593, though he still had to reach majority before receiving it. After his term in the Middle Temple he married (first) Margaret Moseley, daughter of Rowland Moseley of Hough , Lancashire (son of Sir Nicholas Mosley ), and had
256-597: 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 ,
288-757: 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
320-692: 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
352-504: 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 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
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#1732779803278384-690: 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
416-539: 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
448-617: 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
480-617: 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
512-784: 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),
544-530: 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
576-562: The promise that God will advance the temporal affairs of those who attend to the spiritual, are, he says, "to egge you on, whom God hath blessed with so large a portion of his bounty, unto those religious offices", and are an expansion of a lecture formerly delivered to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers when one of them was Master of the Company. He develops his theme to explore differences between their own theology and that of
608-404: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Weld&oldid=977622693 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
640-916: 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
672-930: The sons of Ludovicus Weld. About the English Welds: About the American Welds: William Whitmore (died 1648) Sir William Whitmore (4 November 1573 – before 24 January 1648 ) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1626. Whitmore was the eldest son, and heir, of William Whitmore (died 1593 ), citizen and Haberdasher of London, and his wife Anne Bond (died 1615 ), daughter of Alderman William Bond, Haberdasher (died 1576 ). Their children were: William Whitmore and his younger brother (Sir) George Whitmore , Haberdasher, both had public civic careers in London. He
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#1732779803278704-402: The vast estate with its portion of the magnificent Jurassic Coast (today a UNESCO World Heritage Site ). With 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
736-505: 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
768-502: 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
800-777: 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 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
832-474: 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, 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
864-610: 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
896-405: Was able greatly to extend the original estate. He is thought to have been responsible for the arrangement of a surviving MS ledger in around 1617-1618 compiling transcripts of 181 evidences relating to his land-holdings, including lands acquired from Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Park . He was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1620. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth . He
928-404: 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,
960-564: Was knighted at Greenwich on 24 or 28 June 1621. In 1624 he was re-elected MP for Bridgnorth. He was elected MP for Bridgnorth again in 1626. In 1624 the theologian Thomas Gataker (1574-1654) published a volume Iacobs Thankfulnesse to God, for Gods Goodness to Iacob , dedicated jointly to Sir William and Sir George Whitmore, opening his address by stating that their mother had presented him and spoken for him at baptism, as his godmother. He goes on to say that she continued to support him, making bequests to him in her will. His texts, which concern
992-472: 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
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1024-428: Was the third and first surviving son of Humphrey Weld (died 1722) of Lulworth , son of William Weld, and 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
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