The name FLUDD is of Welsh origin and has been traced back to the twelfth century Ririd Vlaidd of Salop (Shropshire England, the Earl of Penlyn). One of Ririd Vlaidd's descendants was Sir Thomas Fludd (1545-1607) of Milgate House Parish of Berstad, Kent, England who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.
Sir Thomas Fludd, the younger son of a Shropshire family who rose from the humble post of victualler for the Berwick-on-Tweed garrison to that of Treasurer for Her Majesty’s forces in the Netherlands. For his services he received a knighthood, and retired to his home in Milgate House, Bearsted, Kent which though largely rebuilt in the eighteenth century still retains part of the sixteenth-century building. In Bearsted Parish Church register, the marriages of Sir Thomas’s other children to knights and gentlefolk are recorded. Sir Thomas was buried there in 1607, a Justice of the Peace, respected and esteemed by all.
