Richard Wild

Male1684–14 April 1700

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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Family Time Line

William Wilde
1651–1717
Elizabeth Combes
1657–1711
William Wild
1679–1679
Thomas Wild
1683–1712
Richard Wild
1684–1700
Mary Wild
1693–1697
Elizabeth Wild
1696–1691
Henry Wild
1698–1744

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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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