Early WARD family 


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  d - died
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Date of last amendment:
25th June 2006




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                               Jonathan HAYDON ----|----- Mary
                                b 1665/6           |
                                d 1711             |      d24 Apr 1701
                                                   |
                                            Jonathan HAYDON ----|----- Mary
                                                                |
                                                       |--------|--------|
                                                       |                 |
               20 Dec                 12 Dec           |                 |
 Susanna COX ---------- Joseph WARD ---------- Elizabeth HAYDON     Thomas HAYDON -----|---- Elizabeth
b               1759    b 1743         1761        c19 Aug 1738      c30 Jan 1739      |
d 1761        licence   d  Jan 1808     |          d10 Nov 1814                        |
i16 Oct 1761                            |          i13 Nov 1814                        |----------------------------------------------|
                                        |                                                                                             |
      |---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|                 |--------------|--------------|-------------|---------------|
      |                                 |                                             |                 |              |              |             |               |
      |                                 |             13 Aug                          |                 |              |              |             |               |
  Betty WARD   Mary ---------- Jonathan Haydon WARD* --------- Elizabeth WORMAN*    Samuel WARD     Jonathan HAYDON  Thomas HAYDON  Mary HAYDON   Robert HAYDON  Joseph HAYDON
b23 Mar 1767   b 1771              b 1780/81           1810    b 1776               b 1784          c23 Jun 1766     c28 Jan 1768   c18 Feb 1770  c25 Dec 1771   c30 Jan 1774
c26 Apr 1767                       c26 Dec 1781         |                           c 3 May 1785                     m18 Apr 1792
               d 8 Oct 1807        d 4 Jun 1851         |      d25 Sep 1845                                         Sarah SOMERHAYS
                                                        |
      |-------------|-----------------------------------|--------|-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
      |             |                                            |                                           |                                          |
      |             |             5 Mar                          |         16 Apr                            |          5 Jun                           |
 Joseph WARD    Elizabeth WARD ---------- Thomas COOPER    Jonathan WARD ---------- Elizabeth CRABB      Samuel WARD ---------- Matilda CRABB        Sarah WARD
b29 May 1811      b21 Feb 1813    1836                      b 4 Jun 1814    1836                        b24 Oct 1815    1836     b22 Dec 1815      b10 Feb 1819
c 2 Oct 1811      c14 Apr 1813                              c 4 Jul 1814            c 1Apr 1813                                  c10 Feb 1816      c29 Sep 1824
                                                                                                        d11 Feb 1895             d10 Apr 1869      d 4 Nov 1900 (Syncope)

Sources:
  * Death Certificates show that: (1) Jonathan WARD (cordwainer) died of 'Contained Fever'
                                  (2) Elizabeth WARD (wife of Jonathan WARD, cordwainer) died of 'Debility from age'.

  Bridport Record Office files:   (1) Samuel WARD married Matilda CRABB on 5 Jun 1836, witnesses John CRABB and Sarah WARD.
     (and Dorchester)             (2) Jonathan WARD married Elizabeth CRABB on 16 Apr 1836, witnesses Samuel WARD and G.P. CURME ('resident' witness).
                                  (3) Thomas COOPER married Elizabeth WARD on 5 Mar 1836, witnesses Jonathan WARD and Sarah WARD.
                                  (4) Sarah WARD born 10 Feb 1819 in London: baptised 29 Sep 1824 in Bridport.
                                  (5) Sarah WARD's parents - Jonathan Haydon WARD & Elizabeth WORMAN.
                                  (6) Occupation of Jonathan Haydon WARD given as a Cordwainer.
                                  (7) Parents of Joseph WARD given as just Jonathan and Elizabeth WARD (Haydon & WORMAN not shown).
                                      I assume these must be the same parents as no other posibilities have yet been found.

  Census returns:                 (1) Samuel WARD gives birth as Middlesex in all bar 1861 Census.
  (Bridport/Bradpole)             (2) In 1861 Census, Samuel WARD gives birth place as St. George's in the East.
                                      This is a part of Stepney, Middlesex, London, a place noted for its rope walks (like Bridport).
                                  (3) In 1841, 1851, 1861, Samuel WARD gives his occupation as a Cordwainer. 1871 and 1881 as Gardener.
                                  (4) Sarah WARD never married, as 1851 & 1891 Census returns show her living alone (Kelly's in 1867 gives her title as Miss).
                                  (5) Samuel WARD lived at: 1841 in East St.: 1851 in Rope Walks: 1861-81 in Barrack St./Sparacres (Sparacres is part of Barrack St.)

  IGI internet: Vital Records:    (1) Baptisms, Marriages. Most checked against Record Office files.

  Kelly's Directory for Bridport: (1) 1867; Miss Sarah WARD, Tailoress, Chards Mead.

  WARD Family Bible:              (1) Birth dates of Samuel & Matilda WARD, and their children.

  Monumental Inscription (below): (1) Jonathan HAYDON shown from IGI to be Elizabeth HAYDON's grandfather.
                                      Hence the common buriel site, and continuation of the HAYDON name.


  Monumental Inscription: Bridport, St. Mary: No 33.
    Left Side:
      xxxxxxx / Memory of / JONATHAN  HAYDON / who died Jxnxx 1711 aged 45 /
      Also of MARY his wife / who died April 24th 1701 aged x0 /
      Also of JOSEPH  WARD / who died Jan x1 1x08 aged 65 /
      Also of ELIZABETH his wife / who died Nov 10th 1814 aged 75 /
      Also of JOSEPH son of THOMxx  &  ELIZABETH  WARD / who died in his infancy /
      Also of SxMUEL their son / who died Dec 16th 18xx aged xx /
      Also of MARY / wxfx of / JONATHAN  WARD / who died Oct 8th 1807 aged 36 /
        and of two children of / JONATHAN  &  ELIZABETH  WARD / who died in infancy /
      Also of SARAH daughter of / THOMAS  &  ELIZABETH  WARD / who died April 1st 1825 aged 30 /
      And of RICHARD  Lxxxx / [possibly more lines below ground level.]
    Right Side:
      In / xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / ELIZABETH wife of / THOMAS  WARD / who died Sept 8th 1833 aged 66 /
      Also of the above / THOMAS  WARD / who died April 3rd 1831 / aged 82 years /
      Also of HANNAH wife of / RICHARD  LONG / who died October 20th 188x aged 82 years.

Conclusions: All of the evidence strongly suggests that the tree given above is correct. Absolute proof of Samuel WARD's parents will have to await an
             investigation of the London Metropolitan Archives, assuming such evidence exists. I may do this when I have more spare time.

             Basically, it would seem Jonathan Haydon WARD (a Cordwainer), born in Bridport, went to London in 1814/15. He and/or his wife could have
             found work on the rope walks, or in the Shoe and Boot trade. This may not have been such a good move though, as the war with France ended
             (Battle of Waterloo in 1815), with the return and demob. of our forces from Europe (requirements for Army boots would have ended).

             Samuel WARD born and baptised (?) in Stepney, Middlesex (then a suberb of London). Sarah WARD born in 1819 (either London proper, or Middlesex),
             but wasn't baptised until the family returned to Bridport between 1819 and 1824. Samuel WARD followed his father's occupation of Cordwainer,
             but eventually turned Gardener after 1861 (there was then a large garden nursery in Barrack St. - now built on).