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Trying to find Ward

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Colin

Colin Report 15 Aug 2006 06:19

Has anyone out there got information on my Wards? The furthest I can get back to is Thomas Ward who I believe was born somewhere in England before 1837. I know Thomas married Eliza Ferguson and they had a son, John Ward, in around 1854. Thomas and John seem to have been glass blowers and were living around Bolton in the 1870's. Thomas died in the 1870's and John and his wife, Sarah Skarratts, eventually moved to Edinburgh with their child, Thomas Ward in the 1880's. John Ward died in 1905 in Edinburgh. His son, Thomas, who was born in Bolton in 1878, married an Edinburgh girl, Agnes Death, and had a whole bunch of kids. Agnes died around 1918 when Thomas was still with the RAF based in the south of England (if memory serves me right he was an aircraft mechanic). From what I understand Thomas pretty much left his kids to fend for themselves and had little or no further contact with them. I also understand that he later remarried and had more kids in London and was still alive in the 1950's. If any of this sounds familiar then drop me a line.