Weld-Blundell family

The Weld family, is an old English gentry family that claims descent from Eadric the Wild and has branches in several parts of the United Kingdom and America. The senior line descends from Sir Humphrey Weld, Lord Mayor of London, whose grandson of the same name purchased Lulworth Castle in Dorset, England in 1641. They were notable as a recusant family prior to Catholic Emancipation in the 19th century.

The senior Weld line became Weld-Blundell upon inheriting the Lancashire estates at Ince Blundell, who were previously seated at Ince Blundell Hall and were 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 was Thomas Weld-Blundell of Ince Blundell. This is almost completely incorrect. The Weld-Blundell family was a minor arm of the Weld family (Weld-Blundells actually being Welds). Thomas Weld, the third son of Joseph Weld of Lulworth Castle, was required to change his name to Weld-Blundell on inheriting the Ince Blundell Estate in Lancashire. The Weld-Blundells of Ince Blundell died out in the 1950s, when the Estate in Lancashire passed to the Weld family at Lulworth. The Weld family is very much alive and continuing and is certainly not now known as Weld-Blundell.

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