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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 12,559,034 Historical Documents with Ward on Ancestry
- 4,395,668 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,895,103 Census and Voter Lists
- 463,379 Military Records
- 263,211 Immigration Records
- 4,541,673 Member Trees
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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
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546 - 1,089 183 - 545 |
1 - 182 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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