When Elizabeth Ward was born on 7 April 1793, in Rackheath, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Ward, was 29 and her mother, Mary Rute, was 30. She married George Clarke in 1813, in Sprowston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Norfolk, England in 1793 and Sprowston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died on 22 July 1888, at the age of 95.
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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.
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