The area was named for Sir
Frederick Weld, Governor of Tasmania from 1875 to 1880. Weldborough was gazetted as a locality in 1969. Weldborough was a
tin mining village, which by the 1880s was populated largely by Chinese miners who had come across from Victoria. Intermarriage was common and reference was made to Weldborough had a Joss House that remained until the 1930s and some of its artifacts are now in the
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. == Demography ==