Editing Tuesday Weld (section)

== Background and family ==

Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in Manhattan on Friday, August 27, 1943.<ref>{{cite web |title=Weld, Tuesday (1943—) |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/weld-tuesday-1943 |website=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |publisher=[[Cengage]] |access-date=March 18, 2022}}</ref> Her father was Lathrop Motley Weld, of the [[Weld family]] of [[Massachusetts]]. Her father died in 1947 at the age of 49, shortly before his daughter's fourth birthday. Her mother, Yosene Balfour Ker, daughter of the artist and ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' illustrator [[William Balfour Ker]], was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CVD6-NJ6Z | title=William Balfour Ker | website=www.familysearch.org | url-access=registration}}</ref> She was Lathrop Weld's fourth and last wife.<ref>{{cite news |title=Profile of Lathrop M. Weld |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 7, 1947}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Yosene Ker a Bride; Wed to Lathrop M. Weld in Municipal Marriage Chapel |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 28, 1934}}</ref> Canadian-born William Balfour Ker had Scottish ancestry.<ref name="AskArt">{{cite web |title=William Balfour Ker|date= April 2004| first=Carolyn|last= Hayne| url =http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/William_Balfour_Ker/126118/William_Balfour_Ker.aspx |website=Ask Art |access-date=June 21, 2019}}</ref> His mother, Lily Florence Bell Ker, was first cousin of the inventor [[Alexander Graham Bell]],<ref name="HiI">{{cite web |title=Alexander Graham Bell Autograph – Bell poignantly seeks help for children, 1922 |url=https://www.historyinink.com/1834603_Alexander_Graham_Bell_TLS_4-18-1922.htm |website=History in Ink |access-date=June 20, 2019}}</ref> and his father, William Ker, was a Scottish businessman and banker.<ref name="Yakima-Herald">{{cite web |last1=Lynx |first1=David |last2=Wilbur |first2=Yvonne |title=Moxee Company, The (Yakima County) |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/9218 |website=[[HistoryLink]] |date=November 30, 2009}}</ref>

Weld had two siblings, Sarah King Weld and David Balfour Weld.<ref name=Moviecrazed>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviecrazed.com/outpast/tuesdayweld.html|title=Tuesday Weld: 'I Didn't Have to Play Lolita&nbsp;– I Was Lolita' |work=Moviecrazed |access-date=April 22, 2015}}</ref> Her name became Tuesday, an extension of her childhood nickname, "Tu-Tu", so named by her young cousin, Mary Ker, who could not pronounce "Susan". She legally changed her name to Tuesday Weld on October 9, 1959, a Friday;<ref>{{cite web |title=Name made legal, 1959 |url=http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/view/examiner-m18417.html?x=1353459887310 |work=Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950–1961 |publisher=[[University of Southern California Libraries]] |access-date=April 22, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Friday">{{Cite news|title=Tuesday Weld Given Legal Name on Friday|date=October 10, 1959|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|page=3}}</ref> her birthdate of August 27, 1943 was also a Friday.