William Willett is most memorable as the advocate of Daylight Saving or British Summer Time. He was the eldest son of my Great Great Grandfather (through my mother’s adoptive line), also William Willett, who started the building company.
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Potential Ancestral Links to Groups of Overseas Faulders
The Faulder surname appears in various parts of the world:
- Canadian Faulders (mainly in Ontario and Alberta)
- American (United States of) Faulders (mainly in Ohio – linking back to Sebergham in Cumberland – and Pennsylvania)
- Canadian citizen, Joseph Stanley Faulder
executed in Texas - Australian Faulders (mainly in New South Wales – again linking back to Cumberland)
- New Zealand Faulders
(based on BMD data)
Review of World War One records in the above countries is currently revealing more information.
Potential Ancestral Links to the Hertfordshire based Faulders.
There seem to be two main clusters of “original” Faulders:
- Our one in Cumberland
- Another in Hertfordshire
Everyone seem to trace back to one of these two areas. It will be interesting to see if they are linked at some point in history.
The origin of the Faulder family
Widespread belief that the Faulder family is from Southern Scotland
- Emigrated possibly during time of the Covenanters (1638 onwards)
- A number of signet rings in the family have an image of a flaming beacon.
- Belief that the family may have been involved in maintaining Armada beacons.
- However, beacons were also used in the north to warn of Scottish invasion.
- Beacons could also have been those used for navigation assistance.
- Others have suggested a reference to pillaging by Reivers.
The family links with the Woollen trade in Yorkshire, especially Huddersfield
There are various members of the family who have been involved in various aspects of the textile industry, most notably with the Woollen Industry in Yorkshire in particular the firm of Stothart & Faulder in John William Street, Huddersfield
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17 August, 2010
The whereabouts of Joseph Sewell and Emily Faulder at the time of the 1891 census.
Joseph Sewell and Emily Faulder do not appear to be in the 1891 census. It may be that they were abroad (possibly together on business). (more…)
The Origin of the Faulder Surname
- Suggestion that “Faulder” is a corruption of “Folder”, one associated with (Sheep) Folds.
- However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) suggests that the modern word “Fold” (as in “A pen or enclosure for domestic animals, esp. sheep”) is derived from the Old English “Fald” – this would suggest that it is the “Fold” spelling which is the corruption.
- The OED entry for “Fauld” also gives the following examples (amongst others):
- 1788 BURNS My Hoggie ii, The lee-lang night we watch’d the fauld, Me and my faithfu’ doggie.
- c1470 Henry the Minstrel, The actis and deidis of the illustere and vailßeand campioun Schir William Wallace v. 177 Twa scheipe thai tuk besid thaim of a fauld.
- 1802 R. ANDERSON Cumberland ballads 49 Auld Marget in the fauld she sits.
- The Scottish Tour guide, Sandy Stevenson, notes that “fauld” is an alternative Scots word for “field”.
- Also within Scottish phonology, it is noted that “auld” often reduces to the modern “old” – again supporting the argument that “Fold” is a corruption of “Fauld”.
- An alternative derivation of the surname is that it is derived from a maker of “faulds”. A “Fauld” is the piece of articulated armour that straps onto the bottom of the breastplate. It usually consists of two or four flared pieces called lames. (Example (bytheswordinc.com))
The Family of Eileen Fell’s father-in-law Francis Steinthal
The Family tree of Eileen Fell’s father-in-law Francis Steinthal and his wife, Emeline Petrie.
In World War One, their children changed their surname to Petrie (see The Family of Eileen Fell)
The Descendants of Robert Faulder and Anne Jackson (m 1754)
The marriage of Robert Faulder and Anne Jackson in 1754 is the earliest record (in Parish Registers) that I have found for the main Faulder line.
The Descendants of Catherine Blaylock (b 1773)
Family Tree showing the two half families descended from her two husbands (both named Robert Faulder).
See also: The Parents of William Faulder (b 1804)
