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WALDO

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The Waldo surname in historical dictionaries

WALDO. The leader of those early Protestants, the Yaudois, or Waldenses, was Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who, in the XII. century, denied transubstantiation, and translated the Gospels into French. Peter Waldo, Esq., the author of a Commentary on the Liturgy of the Church of England (1731—1803), is said to have been a lineal descendant of his illustrious namesake.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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