Ward Family History
Ward Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old
English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an
abstract noun).Irish: reduced form of McWard, an
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The
surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of
the family are known as professional poets.Surname adopted
by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky
or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.Americanized form of French Guerin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ward
Name Distribution of Ward Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ward families
 5,847 - 11,691  1,950 - 5,846 |
 1 - 1,949  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ward families
|
546 - 1,089 183 - 545 |
1 - 182 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ward census records
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Ward Family Origin
Ward Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ward Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Ward Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ward census records
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Military Service by Ward
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