Auld Family Tree research resources
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1805 people with the Auld surname? In that year Auld was ranked number 1953 for popularity in the UK. |
Auld records on Ancestry
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Historical References
"AULD. From Old English (Anglo-Saxon) (e)ald, old. As a personal name Ealda is found in an Old English (Anglo-Saxon) charter of 765 A. D. Alda occurs in the Liber Vitae of Durham, and Alda tinges gefera ("the king's companion") is in record in a charter of 743 (Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, 171). Auld was a not uncommon name in Ayrshire from early times. John Aide was servitor of the earl of Carrick in 1284 (Bain, n, 260), and another John Aide was burgess of Perth in 1292 (Milne, p. 5). An agreement was made in 1302 between Nicholas de Haya, dominus de Eroll, and William dictus Ad filius quondam Johannis dictus Aid, burgess of Perth (SCM., n, p. 315). Robert Aide was juror on an inquest held at Berwick in 1315 (Bain, m, 461), Bartholomew Aide was a burgess of Irvine in 1477 (Irvine, 150), and an action was pursued against Johne Auld and others for the wrongous taking of the hay of the Mains of Curmanok in 1488 (ALC., p. 115). John Aulde held a tenement in Glasgow in 1494 (REG., 469), and Robert Awld and William Auld appear in Lanark in 1501 (Lanark, p. 11). Andro Auld was a bonnet maker in Edinburgh in 1532 (EBR., p. 22), and John Auld was commissioner to Parliament for the burgh of Irvine in 1542 (APS., n, p. 410). James Auld in Galdinoch was one of the retainers of Wchtrid McDougall of Frewche in Galloway in 1635 (RFC., 2. ser. v, p. 125), and in the same year John MacAuld in Findret was 0 charged by John Grant of Ballindalloch with having reset the traitor James Grant and others (ibid., 2. ser. vi, p. 112). Archibald M'Auld, a retainer of Kennedy of Cassilis, was charged in 1635 with armed convocation and riot (ibid., 2. ser. v, p. 509), John Aid was reider at Dysart, 1636 (PBK., p. 92), Andrew Add in May, Caithness, was a follower of William Sinclair of Mey in 1670 (ibid., 3. ser. m, p. 194), and William Auld was proprietor in Rothesay in 1689. Auld is also used as one of the Anglicized forms of MacCathail, a name with which it has no connection in root or meaning. Latinized Aldius in Bute in 1507, and in Ireland it appears as Ould. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Auld Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Auld Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Auld family tree.
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Investigate the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Auld family name using the FreeBMD database.
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| Did you know that there are currently 1998 people with the Auld surname in the UK? Auld is now ranked number 2350 for popularity in the UK. |
Auld Family Tree Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Auld surname in the USA? Auld is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Auld Databases
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