When Thomas Ward was born on 8 June 1889, in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Frederick Ward, was 39 and his mother, Martha Allen, was 37. He died on 11 June 1889, in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 0, and was buried in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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