When Howard Archibald Ward was born on 25 October 1890, in Turnwood, Hardenburgh, Ulster, New York, United States, his father, Aaron Ward, was 22 and his mother, Eliza Jane Stanton, was 18. He married Sadie Bailey Foster on 23 May 1914, in Westchester, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1920 and New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 7 July 1974, at the age of 83, and was buried in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, 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.
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