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WARD family (Dudley)
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My direct forebear was Michael Ward, a nailer of Dudley in Worcestershire. His son, Edward Ward, also a nailer, was born c1790 and lived at Salop Street in the Shaver’s End district of Dudley. He married Harriet (Southall?) sometime around 1815.
Their children, all baptised at Dudley, included my forebear Elizabeth (5 Nov 1815), William Southall (also 5 Nov 1815), Ann Southall (16 Feb 1817, buried 28 Oct 1818), Joseph (17 Jan 1819), Harriet (8 Oct 1820), Edward (17 Mar 1822), Julia (7 Mar 1824), John (15 Jan 1826), Mary Ann (18 Mar 1827, buried 12 June 1827), Noah (16 Nov 1828), James (8 Aug 1830), Louisa (20 Oct 1833) and Samuel.
Harriet Ward died soon after the youngest child's birth. On 29 December 1834 Edward Ward re-married, to Phebe Webb née Green, a widow, at St Mary's church in the neighbouring parish of Kingswinford. One of the witnesses was his son-in-law, Thomas Bradley.
On the 1841 census Edward Ward’s family was at Salop Street in the parish of St James:
Edward Ward, aged 45, labourer
Phebe, aged 50, nailer
Edward, aged 15, miner
Julia, aged 15, nailer
John, aged 10, nailer
Noah, aged 10
Samuel, aged 7
Next door in Salop Street on the 1841 census were Edward’s eldest son William and his family:
William Ward, aged 25, nailer
Prudence, aged 30, nailer
Phoebe, aged 2
Esther, aged 1.
(William Ward had married Prudence Webb, daughter of his stepmother Phebe, at Tipton on 20 April 1835.)
Edward's daughter Julia married Samuel Rook at St Edmund's Dudley on 25 Feb 1849. She died later that same year, aged 25.
Edward Ward's second wife, Phebe, died sometime between 1841 and 1844, and he married his third wife at Tipton parish church on 26 August 1844. The marriage certificate shows him to be a widower, occupation nailer, son of Michael Ward, also a nailer (deceased). The bride was Mary Walsh, widow, daughter of Joseph Jukes, bricklayer (deceased), and the witnesses were John and Sarah Harper.
On the 1851 census the family was still at Salop Street:
Edward Ward, head, aged 59, nailer
Mary, wife, aged 50
Hannah Welsh, daughter, aged 20, dressmaker
James Welsh, son-in-law, aged 18, day labourer.
(Hannah and James were probably the children of Mary, Edward’s third wife: the term son-in-law was also generally used to mean step-son.)
Still living close by were William Ward and his family:
William Ward, aged 35, nail factor
Prudence, wife, aged 40, nail factor
Phoebe, daughter, aged 12
Edward, son, aged 7
Esther, daughter, aged 2.
(A son, Francis, baptised at St James’s on 1 Feb 1852, died in infancy.)
And a short way from them along Salop Street were Edward Ward jnr and his family:
Edward Ward, aged 28, day labourer
Ann, wife, aged 28, dressmaker
Nancy, daughter, aged 2.
(Edward Ward married a widow, Ann Evans née Walsh, at Lower Gornal church on 10 June 1849. Their daughter Naomi, wrongly recorded as Nancy on the 1851 census, had been born on 21 February that year, and baptised Naomi Ward Evans. Edward died sometime before 1863.)
On the same census, another of the Ward brothers, Noah, was living at Salop Street with his in-laws:
William Marsh, aged 78, formerly a limestone miner, born Gornal
Sarah, wife, aged 78, born Sedgley
Noah Ward, son-in-law, aged 23, nailer, born Dudley
Harriet Ward, wife, aged 18, nailer, born Ruiton, Staffs.
Edward Ward was still working as a nailer at Salop Street on the 1861 census:
Edward Ward, head, aged 74, nail factor
Mary, wife, aged 62
George Andrews, grandson, aged 15, vice maker
Samuel Arthur Chavasse, visitor, aged 7, scholar.
Next door was living Edward’s step-son James Welsh (or Walsh) and his family:
James Welsh, head, aged 27, gas fitter
Louisa, wife, aged 24
Rowland Arthur, son, aged 2.
(James Walsh married Louisa Chavass at West Bromwich Dec Q 1857.)
On the same census, living at St Edmund’s Street in Dudley were Edward Ward’s eldest son William and his second wife:
William Southall Ward, head, aged 41, nail manufacturer
Maria, wife, aged 25
Edward, son, aged 17
Esther, daughter, aged 12, scholar
Joseph, son, aged 6 months.
(William Southall Ward married Maria Wooley Sumerfield at Stourbridge March Q 1858. He died in 1867.)
Edward Ward died at Dudley early in 1871, aged 81 according to the death registration.
Another of his sons, Noah, aged 36, a nailmaker, had been living close by in 1861 at Shaver’s End with his wife Harriett, 29, and sons Joseph, aged 9, and Noah, aged 9 months. Twenty years later, in 1881, the family was at 49 King Edmund Street, where Noah, his wife Harriett and son Noah (20) were all working as horse-nail makers. The youngest child, John, aged 9, was still at school. The family later moved to Bishops Auckland, where Noah Ward died in 1906, aged 77.
Edward Ward’s eldest daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Bradley at St Thomas’s Dudley on 20 April 1834. Their witnesses were Thomas Allen (parish clerk) and Enoch Hartshorn. Thomas Bradley was born around 1810.
He and Elizabeth are my direct forebears - see BRADLEY family.
Another of the Ward brothers, Joseph, married Ann Maria Hughes at Dudley parish church on 31 October 1841. The marriage certificate records the bridegroom as a miner of Shaver’s End, son of Edward Ward, nailer, and the bride, also of Shaver’s End, as daughter of Thomas Hughes, sawyer. The witnesses were James and Esther Griffin.
On the 1851 census Joseph and his family were living at Bug Pool, Kingswinford:
Joseph Ward, aged 33, coal miner, born Dudley
Maria, wife, aged 36, born Kingswinford
Mary Ann, daughter, aged 8
Elizabeth Taylor, daughter, aged 6
Julia, daughter, aged 4
Harriett, daughter, aged 3
There were also two lodgers: Thomas Hughes, aged 38, labourer at a coal pit, born Kingswinford (probably Ann Maria’s brother) and Elizabeth Hughes, widow, aged 74, labourer’s wife, born Alvechurch (probably her mother).
The children of Joseph and Ann Maria Ward, all baptised at Kingswinford, included: Mary Ann (18 Dec 1842), Elizabeth Taylor (18 Aug 1844), Julia (10 May 1846), Harriett (13 May 1848), George Hughes (5 May 1850), Anna (25 Jan 1852), Joseph (22 Aug 1853), Edward (c1857).
On the 1881 census Joseph and Ann Maria were living at Main Road, Amblecote, with their widowed daughter Julia:
Joseph Ward, aged 62, carter, born Dudley
Maria, wife, aged 65, born Wordsley
Julia Beautyman, boarder (daughter) widow, aged 34, domestic
servant, born Wordsley
Mary Ann Beautyman, aged 1 (Julia's daughter) born Wordsley.
Julia had married Richard Beautyman at Stourbridge in 1872, and he died at the end of 1879, aged 32.
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