1841 look-up WALLDER

[celiasuud]

Hi Jeff, not made much progress going back at all, although keeping in touch with things that are more recent,as they come on-line. In the last two years the computer that I stored all my family trees on gave up the ghost .I unplugged it whilst I decorated and then the flipping thing wouldn't start  due to battery failure,unfortunately the batteries were part of the circuit board ,so as I stupidly hadn't copied them ,I lost them all. I decided to update all my paperwork and start again,rather than have them retrieved. I am nowhere near being up to date yet as I have been transcribing for a local history site and rather enjoy doing it.
 I will have a look on GenesReunited later. By the way, I did see the Wallder name on the door plate ,on Stephen Fry's WDYTYA programme and noticed you had mentioned it.  I always wondered if our forebears were German ,as I once looked up the meaning of  the Wallder name and if I remember rightly, it said dweller of the Black Forest or was it just forest! doubting myself now. Nice to hear from you . Sheila

[jeffers]

Hi Sheila

I think the Wallder name cropped up spontaneously in several different places. I have always believed that it means Forest Dweller in German but have been told that UK Wallders first came over here with William the Conk in 1066 and were rewarded afterwards with lands in the Weald in Kent. Thus Wealder, an inhabitant of the Weald. The Anglo-Saxon word weald is derived from early German for forest and the Weald was an unpenetrable forest until 300 years ago. That's why there is a Walderslade at one end of the Weald in Kent and a Walderton at the other end of the Weald in Sussex. To view my family tree in GenesReunited you have to ask for permission to view so when you get that far send me a message via GenesReunited and I will click the relevent button.

Regards, Jeff Wallder