Brief Life History of Richard
When Richard Wild was born in 1684, in Owslebury, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Wilde, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Combes, was 27. He died on 14 April 1700, in his hometown, at the age of 16, and was buried in Owslebury, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Parents and Siblings
1651–1717 Male
1657–1711 Female
Siblings (6)
1679–1679 Male
1683–1712 Male
1684–1700 Male
1693–1697 Female
1696–1691 Female
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Name Meaning
English: from Middle English wilde ‘wild, violent’ (Old English wilde), hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplined character, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land (from Middle English wilde (noun) ‘wild place, wasteland’).
English: variant of Wile , with excrescent -d.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above, from Middle High German wilde, wilt, German wild ‘wild’, also used in the sense ‘strange, foreign’, and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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