Wild

1. English: from Middle English wild ‘wild’, ‘uncontrolled’ (Old English wilde), hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplinedcharacter, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land.
2. English: habitational name from a place named Wyld, as for example in Berkshire and Dorset, both named from Old English wil ‘trap’, ‘snare’.
3. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1, from Middle High German wilde, wilt, German wild ‘wild’, also used in the sense ‘strange’,‘foreign’, and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.

Hokitika Cemetery
Record No: 19262
Family Name: WILD Age: 76 years
Given Names: RICHARD Date Deceased:
Address: Interment Date: 24/03/1942
Gender: M
Warrant No: F828
Cemetery: Hokitika
Plot 469
Block: 20
Grave/Ashes: Grave
Denomination: Anglican

Mr R Wild was Chairman of Hokitika Harbour Board c 1919 and Hospital and Charitable Aid Board around same time and Chairman of the Local ProgressLeague in 1920
1917: Secretary of Hokitika Shipping Company