Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Ward was born about August 1782, in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Ward, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Waite, was 42. He married Sarah Colbert Webster on 2 May 1814, in Grasby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Grasby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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- Samuel Ward, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Ward - Published information: birth-name: Samuel Ward
- Samuel Ward, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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