Släkthistoria för Gilders
Gilders Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Gilder or Gelder with post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Ric. Gelder 1566 in IGI (Barton upon Humber Lincs) Nicholas Gilder 1589 in IGI (Saint Ann Blackfriars London) Jeremie Gilder 1592 in IGI (Islip Oxon) and Anne Gilder 1769 in IGI (Alresford Essex) with the bearers cited below. perhaps for an officer of a town's guild-house (Middle English gild-ho(u)s). However it is uncertain that the Middle English surname became hereditary as post-medieval forms like Gildas and Gildus are likely to be quasi-phonetic spellings of Gilders or Gelders in which /r/ has been assimilated to the following /s/. The 1688 spelling Gildhouse is probably a hypercorrect form of Gildus by folk etymology. All the post-medieval examples listed below may therefore belong at (1).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
