File: "Cloyd.MD", 25 July, 1993, from Sylvia Henderson, Wakefield, NE, 9 July, 1993:

Subject: Cloyd (Origin of name per "The Norman People", by Sir Matthew Hale - Cloid- for Claude

see Clode (pronounced clodee- for Claude (Lower) perhaps from St Claude, near Blois

*The arms appear in "Robson" as Vaire or & az and barry wavy of 6 or and az-

The name does not appear in Normandy-

Cloyd- Londonderry - Scotch-Irish
Lowland of Scotland- mixture of people-English-Saxon-Norman-etc-Flemish

John O'Hart has the name Claude - as Huegonot

perhaps Cloyd (Claude, Clode- was "Walloon")

Walloon defined- french speaking people of Celtic descent inhabiting S.E. Belgium and adjacent regions of France-
Ref: American Heritage Dictionary of Eng Language