My Ward descent is through my 2nd great-grandfather, William George Ward (1830 - 1878)
Marmaduke WARD
Adm. sizar (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, 06 Jun., 1729.
S. of Joseph, gent., of Derbyshire . B. near Chesterfield [ Derbyshire ].
School, Chesterfield [ Derbyshire ] (Mr Burrow).
Matric. 1729 ;
B.A. 1732/3 .
Ord. deacon (Lincoln) 20 May, 1733; priest (Norwich) Oct., 1735.
R. of Occold, Suffolk , 1745-56 .
R. of Swafield, Norfolk , 1746-72 .
R. of Beeston-by-Sea [ Norfolk ], 1765-72 .
Died 06 Feb., 1772.
( Scott-Mayor, III. 422.)
Source: Cambridge Alumni Database
Above: St. Botolph’s Church, Trunch
Name: Marmaduke Ward
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 13 Jan 1748
Marriage Place: Bacton, Norfolk,
Spouse: Mary Buck
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Above: St. Botolph’s Church canopied font where Marmaduke’s children would have been baptised (photographed 2017)
Above: St Botolph’s, Trunch, photographed 2017
Above: The Ipswich Journal 16 February 1765 reporting Marmaduke’s appointment as Rector of Beeston-by-Sea
Marmaduke WARD (Jr.)
sizar aged 17 St John's College adm1768:07:06
s. of Rev. Marmaduke WARD (1729)
R.: Swafield, [Norfolk], and Beeston Regis, Norfolk , (and Mary)
b. Trunch, Norfolk ,
Sch: private
Matric 1768:10MT:
Scholar 1771
BA 6 th Wrangler 1772
Incorp. at Magdalen College [Oxford] OX 1772
MA(Oxford) 1774
Fellow of: : Magdalen 1774
R.: Horsington, Lincolnshire , 1781-1813
m. Eleanor -.
d. 1813:10:13
brother of George WARD (1772)
brother of William WARD (1773)
( Al. Oxon.; St John's College Adm. IV. 541)
Above: the inscription on the Ward family memorial stone n St. Botolph’s, Trunch, listing Mary Ward, photographed in 2017
Above: the inscription on the Ward family memorial stone n St. Botolph’s, Trunch, listing Jane Ward, photographed in 2017
Above: Horsington, Lincolnshire
Above: Gimingham
Above: Philip Ward
Above: section of George’s memorial plaque
Name: Ann Ward
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 25 Jan 1752
Baptism Date: 18 Feb 1752
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Mary
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name: Elizabeth Ward
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 13 Feb 1753
Baptism Date: 13 Mar 1753
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Mary
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name: Jane Ward
Gender : Female
Birth Date: 28 Jan 1758
Baptism Date: 28 Jan 1758
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Mary
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Marriage of 4th great-grandparents
Name: George Ward
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 4 Oct 1783
Baptism Date: 6 Oct 1783
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Eleanor
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name Harriet Ward
Gender Female
Birth Date 17 Jun 1786
Baptism Date 18 Jun 1786
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Eleanor Smyth
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name William Ward
Gender Male
Baptism Date 14 Jun 1790
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Eleanor Smyth
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Above: Norfolk Chronicle 26 March 1791
Birth of 5th great-grandfather Marmaduke Ward
Marriage of 5th great-grandparents
Birth of 4th great-grandfather
Death of 5th great-grandmother Mary née Buck
Birth of my 3rd great-grandfather
Wards 1700s
C. 1711
Marmaduke Ward born near Chesterfield, Derbyshire to George of Killamarsh near Chesterfield
Winifred Gérin (Horatia Nelson, p. 236) says the Ward family were of Norman origin and migrated to Norfolk from Derbyshire in the early 1700s (below):
11 Nov 1735
Marmaduke Ward marries Ann Google, Swafield, Norfolk (right)
C. 1735
Marmaduke appointed Curate of St. Botolph’s, Trunch (right - pictured left)
30 Mar 1739
Death of Marmaduke’s first wife Ann (see extract of Marmaduke’s family tomb inscription: left)
From Cambridge Alumni Record (top left)
1745-56: Rector of Occold, Suffolk
1746-72: Rector of Swafield, Norfolk
13 Jan 1748
Marmaduke’s 2nd marriage to Mary Buck at Bacton, Norfolk (left) – on the coast 6 miles east of Swafield and 3-and-half miles from Trunch – (right)
My 5th great-grandparents
10 Oct 1749
Mary daughter of Marmaduke and Mary born (right)
13 Jan 1749/50
Mary baptised (right)
24 May 1750
Marmaduke son of Marmaduke and Mary born (right)
My 4th great-grandfather
15 Jun1750
Marmaduke baptised (right and font pictured left)
25 Jan 1752Ann daughter of Marmaduke and Mary born (left)
18 Feb 1752
Ann baptised (left)
13 Feb 1753
Elizabeth daughter of Marmaduke and Mary born (left)
13 Mar 1753
Elizabeth baptised (right)
17 Dec 1754
George son of Marmaduke and Mary born (right)
24 Jan 1755
George baptised (right)
18 Mar 1756
William son of Marmaduke and Mary born (right)
21 Apr 1756
William baptised (right)
28 Jan 1758
Jane daughter of Marmaduke and Mary born (left)
28 Jan 1758
Jane baptised - newborn (left)
From Cambridge Alumni Record (top left)
1765-72: Rector of Beeston-by-Sea, Norfolk
From Cambridge Alumni Record
Marmaduke Ward Jr. (left)
C. 1751: born Trunch, Norfolk, son of Marmaduke Ward and Mary
C. 1759: private school
1768: admitted to St. John’s College, Cambridge
1771: scholar
1772: Batchelor of Arts from Wrangler College, Cambridge
31 Jan 1772
The death of Marmaduke Ward, aged 61.
The inscription on his black marble tomb in the South Aisle of St. Botolph’s Church, Trunch (right) reads:
Beneath this Stone
Resteth the Body of
MARMADUKE WARD Clerk
Rector of Swafield & Beeston-Regis in the
County and 37 Years Curate of this Parish
He died Jan.ry 31st 1772. Aged 61 Years
From Cambridge Alumni Record
Marmaduke Ward Jr. (above left)
1772: enrolled Magdalen College, Oxford
23 Oct 1773
William enters Trinity College Cambridge.
His alumni record reads:
Adm. sizar (age 19) at TRINITY, Oct. 23, 1773. S. of [the Rev.] Marmaduke (1729), of Trunch, Norfolk. B. Apr. 21, 1756. Private tuition. Matric. Michs. 1774; Scholar, 1777; B.A. 1778. Ord. deacon (Lincoln, Litt. dim. from Norwich) Sept. 1778; priest, Aug. 6, 1780; C. of Little Cressingham, Norfolk, 1778. Brother of George (1772) and Marmaduke (1768).
Source: ancestry.co.uk
From Cambridge Alumni Record
Marmaduke Ward Jr. (above left)
1774: Master of Arts, Oxford
1774: Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
13 Jan 1775
Death of Mary (daughter of Marmaduke Sr) aged 22 aged 25 (left)
6 Aug 1780
Marmaduke Sr’s son William becomes Curate of Little Cressingham.
See William’s alumni record above
13 Jul 1777
Marmaduke Sr’s son George becomes Curate of of Waxham and Palling.
See George’s alumni record above.
21 Jan 1781
Death of Jane (daughter of Marmaduke Sr) aged 22 (left)
1781
Marmaduke Jr. becomes Rector of Horsington, Lancashire (below and pictured left)
From Cambridge Alumni Record
Marmaduke Ward Jr. (above left)
1781: Rector of Horsington, Lincolnshire
8 Aug 1782
Marmaduke Ward Jr. marries Eleanor Smyth at Gimingham, near Trunch (right)
Eleanor’s surname Smyth is – unusually – given on baptism records of their children.
Winifred Gérin (Horatia Nelson, p. 236) says Marmaduke Jr.’s in laws, the Smyth’s were of Gimmingham Hall and descendants of William of Wykeham (below):
4 Oct 1783
Birth of George (son of Marmaduke Jr and Eleanor) (left)
06 Oct 1783
Baptism of George
16 Jul 1783
Death of Rev George Ward (son of Marmaduke Sr) aged 28 (right)
22 Oct 1784
Birth and baptism of Mary (daughter of Marmaduke Jr and Eleanor) (right)
17 Jun 1786
Birth of Harriet (daughter of Marmaduke Jr and Eleanor) (left)
18 Jun 1786
Baptism of Harriet
11 Apr 1788
Birth of Eleanor (daughter of Marmaduke Jr and Eleanor)(right)
13 Apr 1788
Baptism of Eleanor
9 Oct 1788
Death of Rev William Ward (son of Marmaduke Sr) aged 32 (right)
Mar 1791
Marmaduke Jr. included in a list of members for the Association of Prosecuting Horse Stealers within the Hundred of North Epringham, Turnstead and Happing (left).
1790
Birth of William (son of Marmaduke Jr and Eleanor) (left)
14 Jun 1790
Baptism of William
The Wards’ Trunch home
TRUNCH HALL Bradfield Road
A late 16th. Century, listed house with possible earlier parts. Goodrich (1939) says that Marmaduke Ward (the Parish Clerk) lived here before selling it to Thomas Bidwell who lived here in 1851 followed by his son Thomas from at least 1861 until after 1891. The Tithe map of 1839 however shows Thomas Bidwell as the owner-occupier but he is not on the 1841 census.
May 1791
Marmaduke Jr. named as an agent for the sale of an estate at Gimmingham and Mundersly (right).
1 Sep1795
Birth and baptism of Philip (son of Marmaduke Jr and Eleanor) (right - and pictured left)
Above HMS Dragon 1798 by By Jean Meissonnier, Voiliers de l'Époque romantique, Edita Lausanne, 1991, ISBN 2-88001-273-2, p.53, Public Domain
Wards 1800 - 1831
Evidence that Marmaduke’s father was George of Killamarsh:
1) Killamarsh baptism record for a Marmaduke Ward born at the right time near Chesterfield (above right)
2) No supporting records unearthed for a contemporary Marmaduke Ward born to Joseph
3) Marmaduke’s firstborn son was named George. He had no sons named Joseph
4) The only one of Marmaduke’s seven children to marry was his younger son Marmaduke. He too called his firstborn son George (again no Josephs)
5) The only record stating Marmaduke’s father was Joseph, his Cambridge alumni listing (above left), is shown in the below text to be highly inaccurate:
“P. 60 no. 33. The name of Marmaduke Mower is entered in the Register, but it seems probable that Marmaduke is a mistake for Edmund….
P. 60 no. 34. No Edmund Ward appears in the printed Graduati, but Marmaduke Ward appears as B.A. in 1732. It seems clear therefore that the keeper of the Register has transposed the Christian names of Mower and Ward. Marmaduke Ward (of St John's College, Cambridge) was ordained Deacon 20 May 1733 and licensed to the curacy of All Saints in Stamford by the Bishop of Lincoln. He was instituted Rector of Occold, Suffolk, 27 November 1715, ceding this in 1756. He was instituted Rector of Swaffteld, Norfolk, 31 May 1746, and Rector of Beeston-next-the- Sea, Norfolk, 9 February 1765, he held both until his death 6 February 1772. He was father of Marmaduke Ward of St John's (B.A. 1772), who was afterwards a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford (Foster, Alumni O.ronienses).” Source: ebooksread.com
The transcript above says Marmaduke was in a parish in 1715, (I think that should read 1735) “He was instituted Rector of Occold, Suffolk, 27 November 1715, ceding this in 1756.”
(see also Ward forbears)
5 Sep 1763
The death of Mary Ward née Buck, aged 49.
The inscription on the black marble family tomb in the South Aisle of St. Botolph’s Church, Trunch (right) reads:
Also of MARY his Second Wife
who died Sept.r 5th 1763, aged 49 years
leaving issue three sons, & four daughters
6 Nov 1772
George enters St. John’s College Cambridge
Alumni record:
Adm. sizar (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Nov. 6, 1772. S. of the Rev. Marmaduke (1729). B. [Dec. 17, 1754] at Trunch, Norfolk. Matric. Michs. 1773; Scholar, 1773; B.A. 1777. Ord. deacon (Norwich) July 13, 1777; C. of Waxham and Palling, Norfolk, 1777. Brother of Marmaduke (1768) and William (1773).
Source: ancestry.co.uk
27 Jan 1798
Birth of James (son of Marmaduke Jr and Eleanor)(right)
29 Jan 1798
Baptism of James
8 Aug 1798
George (eldest son of Marmaduke Jr and Eleanor) starts service on HMS Dragon (newly built at Deptford) aged 14 (left)
Above: Beeston
Death of 5th great-grandfather Marmaduke Ward
This is the only baptism record I’ve found for a Marmaduke Ward near Chesterfield at around the right time
Name: Marmaduke Ward
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 23 Oct 1710
Baptism Place: Killamarsh (near Chesterfield), Derbyshire, England
Father: Geo Ward
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name: Marmaducus Ward
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 12 Nov 1735
Marriage Place: Swafield, Norfolk, England
Spouse: Anna Google
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name: Marmaduke Ward
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 24 May 1750
Baptism Date: 15 Jan 1750
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Mary
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name: Marmaduke Ward
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 24 May 1750
Baptism Date: 15 Jan 1750
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Mary
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name: George Ward
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 17 Dec 1755*
Baptism Date: 24 Jan 1755
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Mary
Source: ancestry.co.uk
We can assume he was born in 1754 as his Cambridge alumni record states, not ’55
Name: William Ward
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1756
Baptism Date: 21 Apr 1756
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Mary
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Above: St John’s College, Cambridge
Last name: Ward
First name: Marmaduke
Marriage date: 08 Aug 1782
Place: Gimingham
Spouse's first: Eleanor
Spouse's last name: Smyth
Source: Trunch records 1725-1799
Transcribed by Val Dagley into a spreadsheet
Above: the inscription on the Ward family memorial stone n St. Botolph’s, Trunch, listing George, photographed in 2017
Name: Mary Ward
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 22 Oct 1784
Baptism Date: 22 Oct 1784
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Eleanor Smyth
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name: Eleanor Ward
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 11 Apr 1788
Baptism Date: 13 Apr 1788
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Eleanor Smyth
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Above: the inscription on the Ward family memorial stone n St. Botolph’s, Trunch, listing William, photographed in 2017
Name: Philip Ward
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1 Sep 1795
Baptism Date: 1 Sep 1795
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Eleanor Smyth
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Name: James Ward
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 27 Jan 1798
Baptism Date: 29 Jan 1798
Baptism Place: Trunch, Norfolk
Father: Marmaduke Ward
Mother: Eleanor Smyth
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Above: old postcard of Bacton, home parish of my 5th great-grandmother, Mary Buck
Above: the inscription on the Ward family memorial stone n St. Botolph’s, Trunch, listing Mary née Buck, photographed in 2017
Above: Norfolk Chronicle 07 May 1791
Above: Magdalen College, Oxford
Above: St. Michael’s, Occold, Suffolk © Bikeway, where Marmaduke was Rector 1745-56
Above: the inscription on the Ward family memorial stone n St. Botolph’s, Trunch, listing Marmaduke Ward Sr. and his first wife Ann, photographed in 2017
Trunch
Trunch
Trunch
Beeston
Horsington, Lincolnshire
Gimingham, Norfolk
Chesterfield
Cambridge