What origin does the family name "Weltsch" come from?

Question

Hey, my name is Bergman(Germany, my actual last name) and Meyer(Germany)and my mothers sides names are Łagówski(Poland) and Weltsch(?) not to be confused with "Welch" or "Welsch". We've had quite some fun trying to figure out our family history.

Does anyone know what country this name comes from?

We've pretty much narrowed it down to being either Scottish or Irish. But we did also find an accountable amount of German residential Weltsch's.

Does anyone know anything about this name?

Answer 1

i would say the family name comes from Austria Germany Switzerland or either Hungary i'm probably right

Answer 2

There are Weltsch immigrants in the early census that are from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Switzerland.

Didn't see any from the UK.

Answer 3

It must be realised that last names have often altered in spelling throughout the centuries in every country and have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. This description contains the name

Welsche, similar to your spelling but still not the same.

Surname: Welch

This interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon and Northern European origins. Recorded in the Isles of Britain as a surname in the spellings of Walsh, Walshe, Welch, Welsh, Walch, Welshman and Walshman, it is or rather was, the word used by both the invading Anglo-Saxons of the 5th century a.d. onwards, and the later Vikings of the 7th century, to describe the local "natives" of the area that they were seeking to conquer.. The derivation is from "waelisc", meaning a stranger or foreigner, the word in its various spelling forms being found throughout Northern Europe. 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. In the late medieval period the word could also have been a nickname for a person from Wales, as in the example quoted by Geoffrey Chaucer in his famous book "Piers Plowman" as follows - "and Rose the Dyssheres, Godefram of Garlekhithe, and Griffyn the Walshe ..." The surname, although not in a hereditary spelling, is also found in early Irish recordings with Haylen de Walsh of Waterford, being the son of Phillip the Welshman, one of the invaders of 1170. The first hereditary holding of the family name is probably that of Simon Welsche, which was dated 1279. This was in the "Hundred Rolls" of Bedfordshire, England, during the reign of King Edward 1st, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307.