Wallich History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

For many English families, the social climate in England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. For such families, the shores of Ireland, Australia, and the New World beckoned. They left their homeland at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. Many arrived after the long voyage sick, starving, and without a penny. But even those were greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. Numerous English settlers who arrived in the United States and Canada at this time went on to make important contributions to the developing cultures of those countries. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Wallich were among those contributors:

• Henry Wallich (1914-1988), German American banker and economist, Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (1974-1986)
• Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854), Danish botanist and surgeon who identified Wallich's pheasant who cataloged over eight thousand specimens of plants, father of George Charles Wallich
• Paul Wallich (1882-1938), German banker, one of the founders of Deutsche Bank, son of Hermann Wallich
• Hermann Wallich (1833-1928), German Jewish banker, born in Bonn, father of Paul Wallich
• George Charles Wallich (1815-1899), British marine biologist and physcian, son of Nathaniel Wallich