Middlemore Family Genealogy

Waldive.-The name of Waldive, Waldeve, or Waldeff is, perhaps, the same as the old English personal name of Waltheof. A Warwickshire landowner named Wallef, of the time of Edward the Confessor, continued, in the Conqueror's time, to hold his lands in Marton and Shelton under the Earl of Mellent. A Waldev, mentioned in the Staffordshire Pipe Roll, held office under the crown in the manor of Trentham during the period 1158 to 1179. In 10 Richard II, 1386-7, the manor of Foshaw was settled by Nicholas Oddingsells and his wife upon Margaret, their daughter and heiress, who married John Waldeyve, esq. In 18 Richard Il, Edmund Waldeyve was seized of land in Mollington in right of his wife, and, under Meriden, Dugdale tells us that "within the precincts of this parish also had the family of Waldeif anciently a seat which continued in that line for divers descents, but at last by a daughter and co-heir came to Walshe." To what branch of the family Agnes Waldive belonged is not known.