Person:Daniel Weld (15)

"Daniel, "now in England," out of touch with his father, in 1666. He is undoubtedly the "Daniel Weld, Clerk", of Rochford, co. Essex, of his uncle John's will. One Daniel Weld, apparently of the right age for this son, was appointed administrator of the goods of his sister, Sarah, "infant" at Sudbury, England, 29 March 1637 (Sudbury Archdeaconry, Acta, 5.48). This was at about the time the school master was sailing for American and may mean that these two, Daniel and Sarah, were children who inherited money from a mother who was Daniel Weld's wife before Alice, who came with him to Braintree, Mass. The father's reference to the large sums the son had enjoyed from the estate would point in the same direction. In 1638, summer term, one Daniel Weld received the degree of Master of Arts from Dublin University (Catalogue of the Graduates). I suspect this may have been he, and that the Daniel Weld of Dublin, whose wife was Sarah Brand of Bildeston, Suffolk, was a relative, perhaps a great uncle. The connection with this Suffolk town where his uncle, John Weld, preached, seems very suggestive.

Daniel Weld was admitted to the rectory of Rochford 19 March 1655/6. Patrons Earl of Warwick and five others (Essex Archaeological Transactions, 7.158. See Lambeth MS. 996, p. 589). He succeeded Nicholas Beard, A.M., and was in turn succeeded by John Benson on 8 Nov. 1670, who was presented by the patron, Earl of Warwick, on Weld's death. Richard Newcourt's Repertorium ii.497 (1710). The Parish Register of Rochford should have the baptisms of his children.

Search has failed to find record of his will, or administration of his estate. There is a will of William Weld of Rochford, bricklayer, recorded in Essex Archdeaconry, 159 Chalke, dated 23 Nov., 1715, probated 21 March, 1716, mentioning wife Martha, and sons William, Daniel, and Josiah, William was to have his house in Rochford, called "The Rose and Crown," after Martha's death, and £50 at 21; Daniel and Josiah, £100 each at 21. Martha, who was daughter of Nicholas Bowles the elder, soon died a "widow," as her will (158 Chalke) was dated 8 Dec., 1715, and probated 21 Feb., 1716. Her father and her brother, Nicholas Bowles, the younger, were executors and guardians of the three sons, who were to have £50 each and an equal share in the residue of the estate at 21. The father and brother were to have £50 between them. The name, Daniel, occurring here, and the residence, Rochford, would argue a connection between this family and Rev. Daniel Weld; what, we cannot tell exactly."^[2]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Richardson, Douglas. New England Weld Family. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul 1979)
   55:147.

   Daniel Weld, chr. 5 Dec. 1615, St. Peter's, Sudbury; living 1666 in England, by his father's will.

2. ↑ Robinson, Charles Frederick. Weld collections. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Priv. print., 1938)
   25.