When Emma Ward was born in 1859, in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Ward, was 42 and her mother, Susanna Powell, was 35. She married John Jenkinson Hollingshead on 27 December 1875, in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died in December 1907, in Cannock, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 48.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two 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.
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