English : topographic name from Middle English wold ‘forest’
or ‘cleared upland’ (see Wald, Wold).
Thomas Weld (1596–1661), born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, was
an influential Puritan divine who emigrated from Terling, Essex, to
Roxbury, MA, in 1632.
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