Damaris Ward was born about 1684, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America as the daughter of John Ward Jr.. She married Major Nathaniel Crane about 1699, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 9 October 1745, in Elizabeth Borough, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, at the age of 62, and was buried in First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1683: Essex, New Jersey Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Essex, New Jersey, United States
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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