Birth Name: Susan Ker Weld
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 27, 1943
Ethnicity: English, approx. one quarter Scottish, smaller amounts of Welsh, Dutch, and Belgian Flemish
Tuesday Weld is an American actress and model. She has starred in the films Sex Kittens Go to College, The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, Play It as It Lays, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Once Upon a Time in America, and television’s The Winter of Our Discontent, among many other works.
Tuesday is the daughter of Yosene Aileen and Lathrop Motley Weld. She is a member of the prominent Weld family, a descendant of Captain Joseph Weld (1599-1646), one of the founders of the Boston Brahmin Weld lineage of Massachusetts. Among Joseph’s other descendants are Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld and actors and musicians Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff.
Born Susan Ker Weld, she legally changed her name to Tuesday Weld in 1959. Tuesday has a daughter with her former husband, screenwriter Claude Harz; and a son with her former husband, English actor, comedian, and musician Dudley Moore.
Her maternal grandfather was Canadian-born artist and painter William Balfour Ker, whose work appeared in Life and The Delineator magazines. Her maternal great-grandmother, Lily Florence Bell Ker, was first cousin of Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
Tuesday’s paternal grandfather was Edward Motley Weld (the son of Stephen Minot Weld, Jr. and Susan Eloise Rodman). Edward was born in Boston, Massachusets, and had deep Colonial American (English) ancestry. Stephen was a horticulturalist, and much-decorated U.S. Army officer of the American Civil War. He was the son of Stephen Minot Weld, a schoolmaster, real estate investor, and politician, and Sarah Bartlett/Barlett Balch. Susan was the daughter of Alfred Rodman and Anna Lathrop/Lothrop Motley.
Tuesday’s paternal grandmother was Sarah Lathrop/Lothrop King (the daughter of George Parsons King and Sarah Williams Lathrop/Lothrop). Tuesday’s grandmother Sarah was born in Massachusetts, and had deep lines in the U.S. George was the son of Jacob Morrell King and Frances Holt Parsons. Tuesday’s great-grandmother Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Church Lathrop/Lothrop and Ann Avery Parker.
Tuesday’s maternal grandfather was William Balfour Ker (the son of William Ker and Elizabeth Florence “Lily” Bell). Tuesday’s grandfather William was born in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada. Tuesday’s great-grandfather William was of Scottish descent, and was the son of The Rev. John Kerr and Marion Balfour. He was a businessperson and banker. Elizabeth was born in Ireland, the daughter of David Charles Bell, who was Scottish, and of Ellen Adine Hyland, who was born in Ireland, and possibly was of Scottish descent.
Tuesday’s maternal grandmother was Josephine Reeder Phillips (the daughter of Charles Goheen Phillips and Annie Chambers Bennett). Josephine was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and had deep lines in the U.S. Charles was the son of Joseph R. Phillips and Annie M. Hendrickson, who likely had some degree of Dutch ancestry. Tuesday’s great-grandmother Annie was the daughter of Henry Harrison Bennett and Rachael Marrett.
Sources: Genealogy of Tuesday Weld – https://www.familysearch.org
Tuesday’s father on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogy of Tuesday Weld (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
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