The English surname Welch, also found in Ireland and Scotland, is an ethnic name for someone of Welsh origin. Early examples of the surname recordings taken from authentic rolls and registers of the medieval period include Margery Wellis in the Subsidy Rolls of the county of Essex in the year 1327, and Roger Welch in the 1334 Court Rolls of the borough of Colchester, also in Essex. A notable bearer of the name was Thomas Vincent Welch a 19th Century US politician and conservationist.

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