When George Ward Jr was born in 1699, in New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, George Ward Sr., was 20 and his mother, Hannah Abigail Wainwright, was 19. He married Margaret Bennett on 28 August 1729, in Gloucester, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died in 1748, in Deptford Township, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 49.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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