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47-706: The Weld family are a cadet branch, arisen in 1843, of the English Welds of Lulworth. It is an old gentry family which claims descent from Eadric the Wild and is related to other Weld branches in several parts of the United Kingdom, notably from Willey, Shropshire and others in the Antipodes and America . 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. This Weld line

94-434: A RYS meeting on 9 May 1851, the race was scheduled for 22 August 1851. This race was to be the first of a series of challenge races for successive £100 Cups. At the time, it was normal practise for the winners to own the cups that were won, and not to return them for the next race to be won by others. The trophy is a bottomless ewer made out of 134 oz (3.8 kg) of silver, and is 27 in (69 cm) tall. The ewer

141-599: 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

188-644: 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

235-458: A result, the Lulworth and other estates were ceded to the third and next surviving son of Thomas and Mary, who was Joseph Weld (1777-1863). He is remembered as one of the earliest Englishmen to build and handle fast-sailing yachts. His best known boat was The Arrow , which took part in the first America's Cup race in 1851 under the ownership of Thomas Chamberlayne . Joseph was also founder of

282-508: Is itself a cadet line originating from John Weld of Eaton , Cheshire and descends from his youngest son, Sir Humphrey Weld , Lord Mayor of London (1608), a Protestant, whose grandson of the same name, having reverted to Catholicism , purchased Lulworth Castle in Dorset , England , in 1641. They were a notable recusant family prior to Catholic Emancipation in the 19th century. The distantly related Catholic Blundell family died out at

329-597: 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 ,

376-757: 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

423-769: The Canonesses of Saint Augustine , to run it as a nursing home. Weld family 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,

470-750: The Isle of Wight based Royal Yacht Squadron . Joseph Weld's heir was his son, Thomas Weld (1808-1883), who would subsequently start the Weld-Blundell line as a result of an inheritance on Merseyside in 1837. The first documentation of the name of Blundell on the Ince Blindell site on Merseyside is that of Richard Blundell in 1212. Following the Reformation the Blundells became recusants and kept their Catholic faith and were subjected to

517-557: The Isle of Wight in a fleet race . The course was called "The Queen's Course". The course was near Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight, where the Royal Yacht Squadron headquarters are located. The race took place as part of the 1851 Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta . The signal gun for sailing was fired at 10am, and the winner saluted by a gun from the flag-ship at 8:34pm (8:37pm railway time ). 18 yachts were entered for

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564-532: The Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS), inviting the recently formed New York Yacht Club (NYYC) to enjoy the facilities of the clubhouse of the RYS. John Cox Stevens, Commodore of the NYYC responded positively, and anticipated racing. Due to the RYS rules of the time, other races in the 1851 RYS Regatta were restricted to RYS members and their self-owned yachts, so the R. Y. S. £100 Cup was established, open to anyone to enter. At

611-539: The Walker Art Gallery . Charles died childless in 1837, and the estate passed to Thomas Weld, a cousin. As a condition of the inheritance, Thomas took the name of Thomas Weld Blundell, and restored, refurnished and redecorated the Blundell Hall. On 11 March 1843 Queen Victoria granted Thomas Weld (1808-1887), second son of Joseph, her royal licence and authority for him and his issue to use and bear

658-692: 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

705-528: The "leading mason-architect in the area" at that time. In 1761 Robert Blundell moved from the house to Liverpool, and the estate passed to his eldest son, Henry (1724–1810). Henry extended the house "without the help of a Wyat (sic) or any architect". He made other improvements to the grounds, including a lake and a ha-ha . Henry Blundell was a collector, of paintings, statues and antiquities. The collection amounted to over 500 items. In order to house them at Ince Blundell, he constructed various buildings in

752-663: The Fitzherbert family and went to live in Bruges . Meanwhile, the older surviving son, Edward (1705-1761), became his heir when Humphrey III died in 1722. Edward Weld and his wife Dame Maria née Vaughan, of the Welsh Bicknor exclave in Herefordshire had four sons and a daughter. The latter became a Poor Clare religious. The eldest of the sons, also Edward (1740 - 1775), became his heir in 1761 aged just 21. He

799-626: The Lulworth estates from the Howards and become "Humphrey of Lulworth", his only issue was his daughter, Mary. When he died in 1685, his successor was his nephew, William Weld, son of Humphrey's younger brother, Sir John Weld of Compton Bassett , Knight banneret . William had married Elizabeth Shireburn in 1672 the daughter of the squire of Stonyhurst . William died in 1698 and was succeeded by his surviving younger son, Humphrey. Humphrey married Margaret Simeons and had surviving issue, one of whom, Thomas, changed his surname to Weld-Simeons and married into

846-690: 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

893-539: 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

940-591: The age of 78. After the race, the trophy was engraved with the names of the yachts that raced against America, except the runner-up Aurora . The winning owners of the America considered melting the Cup down to make individual medals for each of them, but decided against it. They did however perpetuate a misconception, by engraving it "100 Guinea Cup" instead of "The £100 Cup". 100 guineas would have been 105 pounds. The regatta, held on 22 August 1851, raced clockwise around

987-654: The consequent hardships and hazards. They should not be confused with the Anglican merchant Blundells, one of whom, Bryan (c. 1675-1756), was a prominent mariner and slave trader . Despite the penal restrictions placed on Catholics, the Blundell family acquired more assets either by legal transactions or dowries from advantageous marriages. By the end of the 18th century they held 15 manors together with other property, some of it in Liverpool and Preston . One of

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1034-617: 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

1081-493: 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

1128-617: 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

1175-435: 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

1222-769: The grounds of the hall to house his pieces. In 1790–92 he built the Garden Temple, a building in Classical style. This was followed in about 1802–05 by the Pantheon, based on the Pantheon in Rome . When Henry died in 1810, the hall passed to his son, Charles. After his death, most of the paintings were sold, and the collection of antiquities given to the National Museums Liverpool and put on show in

1269-844: 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),

1316-400: The noted family members was Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), of Little Crosby and seated at Crosby Hall , Lancashire , probably best known for his diaries which provide a first-hand insight into the life of 18th-century English gentry . The extant Ince Blundell Hall was built by Robert Blundell (1700–73) who inherited the estate in 1711. The house was designed by Henry Sephton, who was

1363-530: 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

1410-916: 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

1457-713: The sons of Ludovicus Weld. About the English Welds: About the American Welds: 1851 America%27s Cup The 100 Guineas Cup , also known as the Hundred Guinea Cup ( £100 Cup ), or the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns , was a regatta in 1851 which was the first competition for the trophy later named America's Cup . The trophy was valued at 100 pounds-sterling which led to its various names, all variations on 100 Pound Cup . The race

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1504-530: The start of the 19th century and passed on their Ince Blundell estate to Thomas Weld (1808-1887), the second son of the then owner of Lulworth Castle , Joseph, on condition that he and his issue adopted the "Blundell" name. The branch in England had died out by 1924, since Herbert Weld Blundell , last of the line, dropped the suffix, "Blundell". After Humphrey Weld , governor of Portland Castle and grandson of Sir Humphrey Weld, Lord Mayor of London, had bought

1551-563: The surname of Blundell in addition to Weld. His cadet Weld line thus became Weld-Blundell upon inheriting the Lancashire estates, previously seated at Ince Blundell Hall and had been a cadet branch of the ancient Blundells of Crosby . The English Catholic Who's Who (1912) mentioned three Weld-Blundells and six Welds. The Lulworth branch died out by the 1920s, after two sons of Charles Joseph Weld-Blundell died young. Lulworth Castle devolved in 1924 upon Herbert Weld Blundell . His father

1598-572: 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

1645-505: 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

1692-502: 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

1739-477: 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

1786-525: Was Thomas Weld-Blundell of Ince Blundell. After the death of the childless Herbert Weld-Blundell in 1935, the Lulworth estates in Dorset reverted to another Weld family member, Col. Sir Joseph William Weld . Meanwhile, the Grade II* listed Ince Blundell Hall in Lancashire , still owned by a branch of the Welds, was sold in 1959 partly to the local council for housing and the hall to an order of nuns,

1833-610: 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

1880-495: Was a stock item obtained by the (original) Marquess of Anglesey from jeweler and silversmith Robert Garrard in 1848. He made the donation to the Royal Yacht Squadron in the hope they would use it for a special event to help the club revive from a sudden drop in attendance, afloat and ashore - the result of a short period of mismanagement under a Commodore who had assumed the role after Angelesey turned it down, at

1927-404: 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,

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1974-437: 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

2021-472: 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

2068-426: Was no issue from either marriage, the estate therefore passed to his surviving younger brother, Thomas (1750-1810). Thomas had married Mary Stanley-Massey-Stanley daughter of Sir John Stanley-Massey-Stanley, 6th Baronet (1711–1794). They had six daughters and nine sons, the eldest of whom was also Thomas , who after being widowed and left with a daughter, entered the church and rose to the status of cardinal . As

2115-767: 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

2162-456: Was widowed after his first marriage in 1763 to Juliana Petre, daughter of Robert James Petre, 8th Baron Petre , who died in 1772. In 1775 he married the impecunious Maria Smythe , a cousin by marriage, later Mrs Fitzherbert and the morganatic wife of the Prince of Wales . Three months after the wedding he fell off his horse and died of his injuries, before having time to sign his new will. There

2209-430: Was won by the yacht America , leading to the trophy being renamed "America's Cup". The official event known as "The America's Cup" was founded in 1857, when the deed of gift established the racing regattas. The 1851 competition was a fleet race , whereas modern America's Cups finals are match races . The race originated with an invitation for the Great Exhibition of 1851 by the Earl of Winton , then Commodore of

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