Brief Life History of Edward
When Edward Ward was born about 1757, in Amelia, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Rowland Ward, was 33 and his mother, Rebeckah Jones, was 27. He died in 1837, at the age of 81.
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1775
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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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