Marmaduke Ward’s ancestry is obscure. His Cambridge alumni record states he was born c. 1711 near Chesterfield to Joseph Ward, gent., and Winifred Gérin adds that his family were of Norman descent
Name: Joseph Ward
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 15 Oct 1704
Marriage Place: Dronfield, Derbyshire, England
Spouse: Sarah Marland
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Above: Dronfield parish records book. Source: ancestry.co.uk
First name(s): Marmaduke
Last name: Ward
Baptism year 1719
Baptism date: 07 Jun 1719
Baptism place: Bilsdale
Father's first name(s): Marmaduke
County : Yorkshire (North Riding)
Source: findmypast.co.uk
Above: map showing locations of Chesterfield, Killamarsh and Bilsdale. Source: google.com/maps
Above: St Giles, Killamarsh Source: killamarsh.org
Above: General Records Office record of the 1850 Chesterfield birth –– note the mother’s maiden name is Ward Source: gro.gov.uk
Birth of 5th great-grandfather Marmaduke Ward
First name(s): Marmaduke
Last name: Ward
Age 89
Birth year: 1665
Death year:1754
Memorial location: Bilsdale
Description: St Hilda
County: Yorkshire (North Riding)
Source: findmypast.co.uk
First name(s) Marmaduke
Last name Ward
Marriage year 1573
Marriage date 27 Sep 1573
Marriage place Bishop Burton
Spouse's first name(s) Isabell
Spouse's last name Grey
Source: findmypast.co.uk
Wards Forbears
C. 1711
Marmaduke Ward born near Chesterfield, Derbyshire to Joseph (below)
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: Winifred Gérin (Horatia Nelson, p. 236) - no reference cited
Above: Dronfield. Source: wikipedia.com
Viability of Dronfield birth
There is a Joseph Ward marrying a Sarah Marland at Dronfield (10 miles from Chesterfield) both of the parish in 1704 (left and parish record book image right)
But the parish record book lists no Marmaduke born to them c. 1711 (although their daughter, Sarah is baptised in May 1713 (left)
As there seem to be no children of Joseph Ward baptised in Dronfield prior to this, it could be that the family had stayed elsewhere between their 1704 marriage and the 1713 birth of their daughter.
Further afield
Only two baptism records for a Marmaduke Ward born in the United Kingdom 10 years either side of 1710 (source: findmypast.co.uk):
Ward Marmaduke 1710 Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1719 Bilsdale, Yorkshire
Of these, neither father is Joseph. The father named in the Yorkshire baptism record is Marmaduke (left) and the Derbyshire one is George (right).
Above: Bilsdale. Source: wikipedia.com
Viability of Bilsdale birth
Ward Marmaduke 1719 Bilsdale, Yorkshire
Pros:
Name: Marmaduke Ward
Cons
Father’s name: Marmaduke
Location: distant from Chesterfield
Date: only 10 years before Cambridge enrolment
Marmaduke Ward is a surprisingly common name (see below)
Above: Killamarsh
Viability of Killamarsh birth
Ward Marmaduke 1710 Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England
Pros:
Name: Marmaduke Ward
Location: 8 miles from Chesterfield
Date: tallies with Cambridge enrolment date
Father’s name: George also name of Marmaduke’s 1st born son, and his son Marmaduke’s 1st born son (no sons named Joseph)
Cons
Father’s name: not Joseph
Marmaduke Ward is a surprisingly common name (see below)
Exploring Killamarsh viability further
(As it seems more likely)
Above: Marmaduke Ward’s baptism record in Killamarsh parish record. Source: ancestry.co.uk
Contemporary Killamarsh parish records (below) show no Joseph Wards
Contemporary Ward entries in Killamarsh parish records
1693
Geo Ward buried Mar 2–
Source: ancestry.co.uk
1694
Christenings
Thomas son of Robert Ward baptised Feb 28
1695
Christenings
Robert son of Thomas Ward [illegible]
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Source: ancestry.co.uk
1697
Andrew son of Andrew Ward baptised February 13
1698
Martha daughter of William Ward baptised October 2nd
1700
John son of Andrew Ward baptised May 19th
Source: ancestry.co.uk
[Illegible] daughter of George Ward baptised the same day [January 26]
John the son of Andrew Ward baptised May 19th
Burials 1701
Tho: Benson & John Ward both buried [illegible] 22
Christenings 1702
George the son of George Ward bapt Oct 18
John the son of “ “ begotten of the body of Anne Goodison bapt No 3rd
Burials 1702
George the son of George Ward buried Oct 22
John the son of “ “ begotten of the body of Anne Goodison was buried Nov 4
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Christenings 1704
Easter daughter of George Ward bapt May 23
Christenings 1705
Anne daughter of George Ward bapt Nov 28
Christenings 1706
Francis son of George Ward bapt March 11
Easter the daughter of George Ward baptised March 18
Burials 1707
Mary Ward widow buried Sept.r 4
George Ward and John listed as church wardens
1708
[?]um the son of George Ward bapt {?]
George Ward = church warden again
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Christenings 1710
Marmaduke son of Gio: Ward bapt October 23rd
Ste: Ward Curate
1711
John son of Thomas Ward bapt June the 16th
Thoms son of George Ward bapt June 20
M Ward Curate
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Burials 1714
Godfrey Goodison buried May 20
Source: ancestry.co.uk
As the name Marmaduke Ward is distinctive, it feels worth mapping instances of it from earliest records until the mid 1800s (below)
All Marmaduke Ward records from findmypast up until 1850
Ward Marmaduke 1573 Yorkshire Marriages, Bishop Burton, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1598 Yorkshire Baptisms Hull, St Mary, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1631 Nottinghamshire Baptisms Elkesley, Nottinghamshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1637 Somerset Baptism Index Curry Rivel, Somerset, England
Ward Marmaduke 1638 England Marriages Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1638 Massachusetts Vital Records United States
Ward Marmaduke 1639 National Burial Index Curry Rivel, Somerset, England
Ward Marmaduke 1645 Yorkshire Baptisms Patrington, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1649 England Births & Baptisms Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1656 Devon Baptisms Upottery, Devon, England
Ward Marmaduke 1656 England Births & Baptisms Stepney, London, England
Ward Marmaduke 1658 England Deaths & Burials Stepney, Middlesex, England
Ward Marmaduke 1660 Somerset Burial Index Weston Zoyland, Somerset, England
Ward Marmaduke 1666 Somerset Burial Index Curry Rivel, Somerset, England
Ward Marmaduke 1692 Yorkshire, Archbishop Of York Marriage Licences Index
Ward Marmaduke 1705 Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts Of Marriages Crathorne, Yorkshire
Ward Marmaduke 1710 Derbyshire Baptism Index Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1711 York Probate Index, Brandsley, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1719 Yorkshire Baptisms Bilsdale, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1725 Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts Of Marriages Beverley, St John, Yorkshire
Ward Marmaduke 1733 England Births & Baptisms Stepney, London, England
Ward Marmaduke 1733 England Births & Baptisms Beswick, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1735 England Marriages Trunch, Norfolk, England
Ward Marmaduke 1736 Yorkshire, Burials Bilsdale, Yorkshire (North Riding)
Ward Marmaduke 1737 Rhode Island Births & Baptisms Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States
Ward Marmaduke 1742 National Burial Index Masham, Yorkshire (North Riding)
Ward Marmaduke 1746 Yorkshire Marriages Cottingham, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1746 Devon Burials Dartmouth, St Saviour, Devon, England
Ward Marmaduke 1748 England Marriages Bacton, Norfolk, England
Ward Marmaduke 1749 Yorkshire Burials Kilnwick, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1750 England Births & Baptisms Trunch, Norfolk, England
Ward Marmaduke 1751 England Births & Baptisms Clapham, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1752 Yorkshire Baptisms Skeffling, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1754 York Probate Index Bilsdale, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1754 Yorkshire, Burials Bilsdale, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1754 Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions Yorkshire (North Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1769 Derbyshire Baptism Index Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1772 England Births & Baptisms Clapham, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1776 Yorkshire Banns Patrington, Yorkshire (East Riding)
Ward Marmaduke 1776 Yorkshire, Burials Cottingham, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1779 England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, Lancashire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1779 Yorkshire Banns Clapham, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1782 England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, Norfolk, England
Ward Marmaduke 1789 Yorkshire Burials Cottingham, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1793 Derbyshire Burial Index Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1794 England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, Lancashire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1810 US Census 1810 Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Ward Marmaduke 1811 United States Marriages Essex, New Jersey, United States
Ward Marmaduke 1813 Index To Death Duty Registers Norfolk, England
Ward Marmaduke 1813 Ontario County Property Deeds Index, New York, United States
Ward Marmaduke 1814 Yorkshire Marriages Patrington, Yorkshire (East Riding), England
Ward Marmaduke 1820 Us Census 1820 New York Ward 8, New York, United States
Ward Marmaduke 1820 Us Census 1820 Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Ward Marmaduke 1825 Yorkshire Burials Clapham, Yorkshire (West Riding), England (b.1750)
Ward Marmaduke 1830 Us Census 1830 Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Ward Marmaduke 1840 England & Wales Deaths Patrington, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1841 1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census Tenterden, Kent, England
Ward Marmaduke 1846 England & Wales Deaths Settle, Yorkshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1846 Yorkshire Burials Clapham, Yorkshire (West Riding), England (b. 1768)
Ward Marmaduke 1850 England Births & Baptisms Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1850 Us Census 1850 Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, US (b. 1771)
Ward Marmaduke 1850 England & Wales Births Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Ward Marmaduke 1850 Derbyshire Registrars Birth Index Derbyshire, England
Mary (1585-1645) daughter of Marmaduke Ward
The Venerable Mary Ward was born on 23 January 1585 at Mulwith, near Ripon in North Yorkshire, the eldest of the seven children of Marmaduke Ward and Ursula Wright, both from Yorkshire Roman Catholic families of the minor gentry. Marmaduke was bailiff to Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and he managed the Percy properties in Spofforth, near Wetherby, as well as his own estate at Mulwith. As a prominent nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I, the 9th Earl was nominally a Protestant. However, the Percy family was still mostly Catholic and it was widely believed that Henry was a Catholic sympathiser.
Source: yorkcivictrust.co.uk
Neat as it would be, the first Marmaduke Ward in the records list above, who married at Bishop Burton in 1573 (left) , was not the Mary Ward’s father.
There is likely therefore an earlier “Granddaddy” Marmaduke Ward born somewhere in Yorkshire before 1560
The below genealogy of Mary and Marmaduke Ward (from Henriette Peter’s 1992 book about Mary Ward) shows a second Marmaduke of Newby (North Yorkshire) who died c. 1606
Source:Mary Ward: A World in Contemplation By Henriette Peter (1992), p. 7 books.google.co.uk
Source:Mary Ward: A World in Contemplation By Henriette Peter (1992) books.google.co.uk
Codicil of Marmaduke Ward of Hurworth, gentleman
January ultimo: 1670. Whereat by the Razure above, it appeares that I have
bequeathed to my Nephew William Ward foure poundes per Annum
dureing his Life Naturall & since he hath most unnaturally broken my House
& Chest, & stolne my writinges I doe by these presentes utterly Abdicate & forever disowne Him, & His; & of that which I entended Him I give & Bequeath to mybeloved Neece Margarett Stockdell forty shillings per Annum dureing her life Naturall. In testimony whereof I have Added this by way of Codicill unto this my last will & Testament. By me Marmaduke Ward [sealed].
In the presence of us, Edward Dunwell, Samuell Ovington, Natthanell Robin<son>
Ref: DPRI/1/1681/W3/1
Source: http://familyrecords.dur.ac.uk/nei/NEI_family_guide_imag_trans.htm
There is no Marmaduke Ward dying in 1670 in the above records list either. Evidently there are many Marmadukes missing.
Wards 1700s
Above: Dronfield parish records book. Source: ancestry.co.uk
Above: map of Marmaduke Ward locations 1800-1850
This is the only baptism record I’ve found for a Marmaduke Ward near Chesterfield at around the right time
Above: map of Marmaduke Ward locations 15 - 1600s
Above: map of Marmaduke Ward locations 1700 - 1749
Above: map of Marmaduke Ward locations 1750 - 1799
Name: Marmaduke Ward
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 23 Oct 1710
Baptism Place: Killamarsh (near Chesterfield), Derbyshire, England
Father: Geo Ward
Source: ancestry.co.uk
Near Chesterfield
Dronfield near Chesterfield
Bilsdale, Yorkshire
Killamarsh, Derbyshire
Killamarsh, Derbyshire
Killamarsh, Derbyshire
Killamarsh, Derbyshire
Hurworth, near Darlington, County Durham