Edmund Weld (abt. 1559 - bef. 1608)

Born about 1559 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Amy (Brewster) Weld — married 12 Apr 1585 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died before 3 May 1608 before about age 49 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Edmund Weld was born about 1559 in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the son of Thomas Weld and a prosperous clothes merchant. ^[1]

Death: Primary or Preferred: Y Date: 22 JUL 1608 Place: Sudbury, Suff, Eng

Burial: Primary or Preferred: Y Date: 3 MAY 1608

Research Notes

May have been the son of John Weld and Dorothy (Greswold) Weld.

• Married from different sources; Amye Derselye, Amy Brewster, Amy Brewster Clark

Edmund was a Churchwarden of St. Peter's in 1598 and again in 1603. And was chosen as one of the overseers to assess the parish in 1599. Edmund was the father of Daniel (the schoolmaster), Thomas (the minister), and Joseph Weld (the merchant, and later captain in the militia), all 3 sons emigrated to Roxbury Massachusetts about 1632-33

• Edmunds father Thomas was a linen draper and was licensed to eat flesh during Lent, 1590. this was usually granted to a sick person on a doctors certificate. Thomas Weld, widower, was buried April 8, 1597.
• Hannah Johnson and Polly Palmer with some of their kinsfolk

Captain Joseph Weld born is Sudbury about 1601 emigrated to New England about 1635. His will was probated in Roxbury, MA in 1646. is brother, Rev. Thomas Weld born in 1595 came to New England about 1632, and also another brother, Daniel born in 1586.

• These three brothers were the sons of Edmund Weld, mercer of Sudbury, Suffolk (b. 1559 - will 1608) and his wife, Amy Brewster.
• Edmund Weld and his sisters, Mary b.1561 and Prudence b. 1563, were the children of Thomas Weld, Draper of Sudbury, Suffolk, England, and he was born in 1535 and died 1597. The name of his wife is unknown but she died in 1593.
• Thomas Weld had a brother John, b.1530, a sister Margaret b. 1535, and a sister Margery b. 1538, whose will was dated 1561. These four were the children of John the Elder of Long Medford county, suffolk b. 1505 and whose will was dated 1551. The father of John the Elder was born about 1475.

"Edmund Weld, b. in Sudbury, Suffolk County England in 1559; made his will in Sudbury 5 Dec. 1605, which was probated 5 May 1608; m before 1585 Amy Brewster (some say Deresleye). He was evidently a very prosperous cloth merchant in Sudbury, into which town weavers had been introduced by Edward III. The town was on its way to becoming the center of the cloth industry in Suffolk County, a prominence it attained completely after the Restoration. Edmund Weld invested the savings from his business in lands, as his will shows. He was prominent in the councils of the Borough, of which we find him 'Bailiff' 5 Sept. 1597, (Calendar of the Muniments of the Borough of Sudbury, printed in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archeology, Vol. 13, Town Book). He was a son of Thomas Weld, a draper in Sudbury." "....Edmond Weld, a well-to-do mercer..."

Note: "Edmond Welde of Sudbury, Suffolk, mercer, 5 December 1605, proved 3 May 1608. I give and bequeath unto Amye my right well beloved wife my mansion house wherein I do now inhabit and dwell, in the parish of St. Peter in Sudbury, to hold for life; and after her decease I give the moiety and one part thereof (i.e.) the shop, the chamber over it, the warehouse & c. to Daniel Welde my eldest son; the other part of the messuage, being the West side thereof, I give to John Welde my second son. The the said Daniel fifty pounds at five and twenty years of age ad to John forty pounds (at same age). To Edmund my third son my tenements and houses which I purchased of Mr. John Howe, in the parish of St. Gregory, to have and to hold after he shall be of the full age of four and twenty years. To Thomas my fourth son a piece of arable land of six acres in Great Cornard called Church Crotes, at four and twenty. To Benjamin my fifth son a piece of arable land of five acres which I purchased of Peter Greenegen, being parcel of the manor of Neale's, lying in a field near the clay pits in the parish of St. Peter in Sudbury, abutting upon the way leading from Sudbury towards Great Waldingfield, to have and to hold at his age of four and twenty. I give to Joseph my sixth son my piece of meadow in Cornerd and Sudbury containing two acres and three roods which was some time Richard Eden's gent and abutteth upon the high way leading from Sudbury towards Corneard right against a certain lane called Cats Lane. To James my seventh son my mesuage or tenement with a croft of land belonging of one acre and half in North Lopham Norfolk which I purchased of John Lovick. To my eldest daughter Mary Wede fifty pounds at two and twenty. To my youngest daughter Elizabeth my two tenements which I purchased of John Drewe, in Balington Essex, and an acre of land called Stumperosse in Cornard. Amye my wife to be sole executrix and my brother John Dereslye to be supervisor. William Howe and Robert Buckstone witnesses." 4 Death: in Sudbury, Suffolk, England Note: Will proven 22 Jul 1608. Probate: 3 MAY 1608 Occupation: mercer

Sources

1. ↑ Weld, William Addison, The Descendants of Edmund Weld of Sudbury, England, 1908, Preface, Image 8, InternetArchive (accessed [20 Mar 2023])

• Diaries and letters of Francis Minot Weld, M.D. : with a sketch of his life, a brief history and genealogy of the family of Weld
• Wikipedia-Wed Family,[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_family]
• Weld, Descendants of Edmund of Sudbury, England

Title: William Addison Weld, Descendants of Edmund Weld of Sudbury, England (N.p.: n.p., 1992), . d. N.p.: n.p., 1992. Page: page 4-5

• Abbrev: History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles

Title: John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles o f Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants (Boston, Massa chusetts: Privately Printer, 1913), . ss. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, . f Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants. Boston, Massa chusetts: Privately Printer, 1913. Page: p 502-510

• Abbrev: Dictionary of American Biography

Title: Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography, Multi-volume (Ne w York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936), . ew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Page: pg 627

Acknowledgments

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