Richard Ward, of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk

Not the father of Andrew Ward of Fairfield

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"we find in the Parish Registers of St. Mildred's Cornhill, London, the burial of a Mr. Andrew Warde, gent., 23 January, 1615, who was probably the son of that Richard Ward of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk ..."

family

Richard Ward of Homersfield & Gorleston did have a wife, their children noted below, but her name and origins were fabricated. No descent to America.

It is not clear if this profile was also fabricated. He is seen as a knight, and called "Sir," which he was not .....

"Anne Guiville" [SIC: unknown] (daughter of Richard Guiville and <Unnamed>) [SIC: unknown] was born abt 1545 in Gorleston, Suffolk, England, and died date unknown in ,,,England. She married Richard Ward on 1572 in Gorleston, Suff, England, son of Thomas Ward, of Homersfield and Margaret Ward [SIC: Geoffrey Ward & Elizabeth Wood ?]

More About Anne Guiville [SIC: Unknown] and Richard Ward:

1. Marriage: 1572, Gorleston, Suff, England.

Children of Anne Guiville [SIC: Unknown] and Richard Ward are:

1. Henry Ward
2. Richard Ward
3. Ralph Ward
4. Andrew Ward

notes

Discussion on the parents of Andrew Ward of Fairfield

from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/ward/b1035.html

Families of Old Fairfield makes the following statement on p.643:

"....family of Richard Ward of Gorleston or Homersfield have been investigated. No such person as Richard Ward, of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk was found; no "Anne" Ward, {fictional profile} Gunville family existed in that vicinity as lords of the manor; and every reference given has proved to be fictitous. It is likely that these statements were the invention of a fraudulent genealogist, innocently accepted by members of the Ward family, through whom they found their way into the book."

From page 120 of "Clues from English Archives Contributory to American Genealogy," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 44

Andrew Ward of Watertown, Mass., freeman there, 14 May, 1634,1 removed the following year to Wethersfield, Conn., to aid in the foundation of the new town (then called "Connecticut Watertown ") he being one of the five dismissed from the parent town for that purpose. He was a prominent and influential citizen, member of the first Court in the Connecticut Colony in April, 1636; member of the upper house in 1637 when war was declared with the Pequots; twice member of the lower house, 1637 and 1638; deputy from Wethersfield for four sessions after the confederation of the three river towns in 1639, and frequently a member of the General Court and a Magistrate. In 1640, he, with others, bought the land comprising the present town of Stamford for the New Haven Company, he afterward removed, with Rev. Mr. Denton, to Hempstead, L. I., but, about 1650, returned to Connecticut and settled at Fairfield. He was a representative to the upper house of New Haven Colony 1646 and 1653 and died at Fairfield in 1659, his will dated 8 June of that year.f

He has been said to have been the son or grandson of Richard Ward of Homersfield, co. Suffolk, and descended of an ancient family long seated there, § but this statement rests upon the unsupported conjecture of an early Anglo-American genealogist most of whose work, subjected to the light of the clearer criticism of to-day which demands facts instead of fancy, is found to be untrustworthy and misleading. ....

It is also noteworthy, in further contravertion of that erronious derivation, that we find in the Parish Registers of St. Mildred's Cornhill, London, the burial of a Mr. Andrew Warde, gent., 23 January, 1615, * who was probably the son of that Richard Ward of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk, who was so lightly accepted as the American Emigrant without a scintilla of evidence beyond the Christian name.

• Harl. Sac, Psh. Reg. Series, vii, 219.

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Will

Source 1: The Ward Family:

Source 2. Will of Richard Ward, probated in Bishops Court in England in 1598; Henry died in 1598 of extreem old age;

In his will heg ave to his son Henry all his lands in Horstead and Stoninghall, in Norfolk; to his son r R chard all his lands, tenements, etc, in Metfield, wethrsdale, Menham, Sandcroft, Homersfield, St Michaels and Flixton, in Suffolk, and all his remaining lands in Norfolk; to his son Andrew 333 pounds!

He was succeeded by his son Henry Ward;

His son Henry sold the manor to people of another name and moved to Norfolk, where the family continued for one or two generations, and then died out without issue.

notes

"The statements in the preface to the Andrew Ward Genealogy with regard to Andrew's being of the family of Richard Ward of Gorleston or Homersfield have been investigated (by Col. Charles E. Banks for Mrs. Finley J. Shepard). No such person as Richard Ward was found; no Gunville family existed in that vicinity as lords of the manor; and every reference given has proved to be fictitious. It is likely that these statements were the invention of a fraudulent genealogist, innocently accepted by members of the Ward family, through whom they found their way into the book."[42]

Sources

• Descendants of Osbert de Varde
• Some Descendants of Andrew Warde - source list
• George K. Ward, Compiled under Direction of Assoc. of Descendants of Andrew Ward; Andrew Warde and His Descendants 1597-1910 (New York: A.T.De La Mare Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., 1910

links

• http://nefamilies.com/fam/groupsheetI100006698.aspx

OLD

from: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/u/l/Wendy-E-Hull/WEBSI...

1. ID: I1230
2. Name: Richard WARD
3. Suffix: [SIR KNIGHT]/
4. Title: [SIR KNIGHT]/
5. Sex: M
6. Birth: Abt 1578
7. Note:

   Name Suffix: [SIR KNIGHT]/

   Ancestral File Number: GW4G-JF''''''

# Change Date: 26 MAY 2002 at 08:49:10 Marriage 1 Ann SUNNERVILLE b: Abt 1582

Children

  1. Has Children (Mrs.) Ann BARLOW b: Abt 1604 in Of Fairfield,Fairfield,Conn c: in ,,Eng Sources:

  1. Title: GEDCOM File : ~AT1E4.ged

     Abbrev: GEDCOM File : ~AT1E4.ged

     Date: 5 OCT 2000 

of Homersfield, Gorleston, Suffolk, England