A male name. Thorweald, compound of Thor, the Norse name of the grand-daughterknown in Old English as Thunor, and Old English weald ‘strength’; probably a semi- anglicization of Norse Thorvald. It is found after, as well as before, the Norman Conquest, though it was largely supplanted by the Norman-French version of the name, Torold or Turold, which survived until the 15th C. The surnames Thorold, Thorald, Turrell, Turrill, Terrell, Tirrell, Tyrell are derived from it.

Turold, Turoldus Domesday Book 1086, Curia Regis Rolls 1199. Thorold Curia Regis Rolls 1200. 1201, 1203. Thorald Hundred Rolls 1273. Torold Hundred Rolls 1273.

Is a Norwegian m. name (Thorald) naturalized, though never popular, in England. In Teutonic, it connotes ‘Thor’s power’: ‘like the Danish Thorwaldsen, and the German Thorwald, (it) is the direct descendant of the Norse Thorvalldr’ (Swan). Its most distinguished English representative is Thorold Rogers (actually James Edward Thorold Rogers), who, the first under the Act of 1870, relinquished holy orders and wrote the valuable History of Agriculture and Six Centuries of Work and Wages; he died in 1890.

A Teutonic name, meaning: With Thor’s power.