Wilding Family History
Wilding Name Meaning
English (now chiefly Lancashire): from an unattested Old
English personal name, Wilding, a derivative of Old English
wilde ‘wild’, ‘savage’. It is also possible that it may be from
a topographical term derived from the same vocabulary word. Compare
Wild, but early forms with prepositions are not
found.German: patronymic from Wilto, a short form of a
Germanic personal name beginning with wild ‘wild’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wilding
Name Distribution of Wilding Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wilding families
 825 - 1,647  276 - 824 |
 1 - 275  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wilding families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wilding census records
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Wilding Family Origin
Wilding Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wilding Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Wilding Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wilding census records
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Military Service by Wilding
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