Ward Family

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Peggy,

Please see attached re marriage of Barnabas Ward to Sarah Wright. Would this have any reference to your ancestors?

Credit: www.findmypast.ie

Regards,

 

Thank you so much for looking into this for me.  I am a beginner to research and the help is greatly appreciated!  Wexford is within the area of the Diocese of Ossorry and the date fits.  I would say it is most likely them.  I need to connect Sarah JANE as their daughter to be certain I have the right information.  Finding a record of when they left Ireland would be very helpful as well.

What do you mean by re marriage?

I will look into the Find my Past site for further information.  Are there any other websites that you would recommend for Irish genealogy?

Peggy 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Peggy, There is no easy way of knowing if you and I have any Ward connection, but you mention County Donegal, and my research has told me that it has a large "Catholic" Ward population.

My William Ward search has a slight differnt time frame than your Sarah Jane. He was born in 1798, and arrived in New Brunswick Canada abt 1820, but my search reaches a road block as I don't know what County he was from or departure port or ship name he left from/on. 

Is your Ward line Catholic as well? Where in Canada did Sarah Jane arrive?

Just curious.

Regards,

Earl Ward

 

 

Peggy

"RE" short for regard to.

You should check with the Nationa Archives in Dublin for any record of their marriage  www.nationalarchives.ie  Hopefully, there may be some record of the parish.

Best Wishes,

Hello Earl, 

As far as I know Sarah Jane was not Catholic.  I have found census records form 1861-1901 and Baptist or Methodist are listed as her religion.  Was she Catholic before coming to Canada? Did she just adopt the church where she first arrived in Canada or her husband's faith?  County Donegal is listed as her place of birth on a Find a Grave index.  I find in some cases that records at the time of ones death can be incorrect because the people reporting my not know all the facts. 

I have hit that road block as well.  I cannot find any concrete record of her in Ireland or arrival in Canada.  I wish you luck with your William and I will keep you in mind if I come across anything that may help in your search.

Take Care

Peggy

thanks for your reply.

Wishing you luck as well!

Earl

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Hi Peggy,

What document or documents from Canada do you have showing that Sarah Jane Ward’s father was Barnabas and that her mother may have been Sarah Wright? Or, was this information discovered online?

Concerning Irish records, The 1810 marriage license bond index for Barnabas Ward and Sarah Jane Wright refers to a Church of Ireland marriage, though it is possible that Barnabas and Sarah had belonged to one of the dissenting Protestant religions you had mentioned in your replies, such as the Quakers, Baptists or the Methodists.

The index unfortunately doesn’t record where in the Diocese of Ossory the marriage took place, as this diocese in the 19th century covered several counties, including County Wexford, Kings County, Queens County, County Carlow and County Wicklow.

For more information about the “Diocese of Ossory Marriage License Bonds,” see the FamilySearch link at: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/495699?availability=Family%…

I wanted to see if I could uncover more information about Barnabas Ward in County Wexford, which is one of the counties you think that your Sarah Jane Ward may have been from.

During this search I found two farmers in County Wexford that may be related to your Sarah Jane Ward in an Irish agricultural land record called the Tithe Applotment Books.

One of these farmers is Barnaby Ward, who leased property in the townland of Ballyhast, civil parish of Liskenfere. This parish may also be spelled Leskinfere in some records. Barnaby Ward was recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books for the year 1831.

The other farmer is Barney Ward. He leased land in a location called St. Austin’s in the civil parish of Inch, County Wexford. He was recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books in 1833. There is the possibility that Barnaby Ward and Barney Ward were the same individual recorded in the tithe books in different years for two different locations in County Wexford. There is the possibility that one or the other, or perhaps both tithe records, pertain to Sarah Jane Ward’s father.

The first names Barney and Barnaby are nicknames for Barnabas.

Tithe Applotment Books recorded farmers with agricultural holdings in the 32 counties of Ireland between 1823 and 1837. The farmers were required to pay a portion of their income, that is, a tithe, which went toward the upkeep of the established Church of Ireland. The majority of the farmers in Ireland at the time were Roman Catholic, and so were not happy to give part of their farming income to the Church of Ireland. I suspect Quakers felt the same way. Quakers, along with Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists were considered by the English government to be “dissenters,” that is, dissenters from the Established Church of Ireland.

For a comprehensive explanation about the Tithe Applotment Books, see the National Archives of Ireland links below:

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp
http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/about.jsp
http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/aboutmore.jsp

You can search the Tithe Applotment Books for free at the National Archives of Ireland link: http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/index.jsp

BARNABY WARD

To view the Tithe Applotment Book index for Barnaby Ward in the townland of Ballyhast, civil parish of Liskinfere, go to the following: https://tinyurl.com/yc64fte9

Barnaby’s last and first names are highlighted in blue. Click on either his last or first name and you’ll come to a copy of the original Tithe Applotment Book page where he and other farmers in Ballyhast are recorded.

I’ve also attached the portion of the tithe page where Barnaby Ward and seven other farmers are recorded in Ballyhast. Barnaby is number 5.

The tithe record shows that Barnaby farmed over 28 acres of land. Each acre was valued a 1 Shilling and 8 ½ Pence. His tithes amounted to 2 Pounds and 8 Pence.

Your information shows that Sarah Jane Ward may have been born in Gorey. She may have specified Gorey as her birthplace as it was a more recognizable town than say, Ballyhast, to other immigrants from County Wexford and other locations in Ireland who settled in Canada.

In any case a Google Map shows that Ballyhast is only 4.8 miles southwest of Gorey by the shortest modern-day route: https://tinyurl.com/45hp4mv8

For a Google Street Views of Ballyhast, Wexford, see: https://tinyurl.com/5n93p45d

Attached to this reply is an Ordnance Survey Map of Ballyhast from the 1829 to 1841 time period. This is what Ballyhast would have looked like when Barnaby Ward leased his land there. The map is from the GeoHive website.

LESKINFERE CHURCH RECORDS

I consulted a book by genealogist Brian Mitchell called “A Guide To Irish Parish Registers,” published by the Genealogy Publishing Co., of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1988, to see if there were Quaker Meeting House registers of baptism and marriage for the civil parish of Liskinfere, where Ballyhast was located, but found there are not.

Mitchell however, recommends that genealogists check Church of Ireland parish registers for those with ancestors who were dissenters. For instance, Mitchell states in his book that:

“Until 1782 marriages between dissenters , celebrated by their ministers, were illegal. Until 1844 a marriage between a dissenter and a member of the Established Church was considered illegal if performed by a dissenting minister…Clearly, if you have Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Congregational, or Quaker ancestry, it is essential that you do not overlook the Church of Ireland registers.”

“A Guide To Irish Parish Registers” shows the Liskenfere Church of Ireland parish registers go back to the year 1802.

“The List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers,” from the anglican.org website gives the information that the “Leskinfere” Church of Ireland registers of baptism, marriage, and burial, all begin in 1802. See: https://tinyurl.com/yubdftb8

I checked with the subscription RootsIreland website to see if they have the Liskinfere, County Wexford, Church of Ireland registers available, but found they do not.

What you can do at this point if you’d like to look into Liskinfere Church of Ireland registers for the 1810 marriage of Barnabas Ward and Sarah Wright, is write to the priest in charge of the parish. The name of the Liskinfere Church of Ireland is St. Luke’s. The address is:

Priest in Charge
St. Luke’s Church
Clough, Moneycross Upper
Wexford, Republic of Ireland.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find an email address online for the priest in charge of St. Luke’s Church of Ireland.

If you do write, make sure to mention that Barnabas and Sarah were married in 1810, according to the Marriage License Bonds, Diocese of Ossory index. You can also enclose a copy of the marriage bond index with your letter.

Attached to this reply is an Ordnance Survey Map from the 1829 to 1841 time period for the “Leskenfere” Church of Ireland, “Clogh,” Moneycross Upper. The map is from the GeoHive website.

If you do not hear back from the St. Luke’s Church of Ireland priest, contact the Church of Ireland’s, Representative Church Body Library, in Dublin, to see if they can advise you on where you may find the St. Like’s parish registers for Liskinfere, County Wexford. For contact information go to: https://www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library/location-contact-det…

Also mention that you are looking for the 1810 marriage of Barnabas Ward and Sarah Wright in St. Luke’s Church of Ireland, parish of Liskinfere, County Wexford.

A Google Map shows that St. Luke’s Church is only 1.8 miles east of Ballyhast where Barnaby Ward was recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books in 1831: https://tinyurl.com/ycky2etk

BARNEY WARD

As noted at the beginning of this reply a farmer named Barney Ward was recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books in 1833. His location is recorded as St. Austin’s, in the civil parish of Inch, County Wexford.

The Tithe Applotment Books also shows that a farmer named Daniel Ward had leased property in St. Austin’s. See the attachment.

Barney Ward leased a little over 3 acres of land in St. Austin’s. Each acre was valued at 1 Shilling and 9 and 1/3 Pence. His tithes amounted to 6 Shillings and 1/2 Pence.

By contrast, Daniel Ward leased over 30 acres of land, with each acre valued at 1 Shillings and 7 ½ Pence. His tithes were 2 Pounds, 10 Shillings and 2 ½ Pence.

Barney and Daniel may have been brothers, or perhaps father and son.

I couldn’t find a townland in County Wexford called St. Austin’s or Saint Austin’s. With a little more research however I learned that St. Austin’s was a country house in the townland of Monature, civil parish of Inch.

I found this information at the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage/Buildings of Ireland website, which notes Saint Austin’s was constructed in the year 1763, and had been occupied in the 1800s by the families of Thomas Bolger, Thomas Cupples Ellis, and Ernest Francis Leslie Ellis.

For more information about St. Austin’s House, in Monature, and for a slide presentation of the house, go to the Buildings of Ireland website link at:
https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15700310/sa…

The 1833 Tithe Applotment Book entry for Barney and Daniel Ward in St. Austin’s, shows the first person named is a Mr. Bolger, followed by “Mr. Bolger’s Wood.” This refers to the Thomas Bolger mentioned in the Buildings of Ireland entry for Saint Austin’s House. The Buildings of Ireland entry for Saint Austin’s House shows that Thomas Bolger lived from 1807 to 1855.

A Google Map shows that Monature is 6.5 miles northeast of Gorey: https://tinyurl.com/3r5ua86s

The IreAtlas Townland Data Base shows that Monature is in County Wexford, Barony of Gorey, Parish of Inch, and PLU (Poor Law Union) of Gorey: https://tinyurl.com/5xh39haj

An Ordnance Survey Map of St. Austin’s House, Monature, shows the house is on the site of a former Augustinian friary. The map if from the 1829 to 1842 time period and is attached to this reply. The map is from the GeoHive website.

INCH CHURCH RECORDS

RootsIreland has Church of Ireland baptism transcriptions for Inch for the years 1722 to 1801. RootsIreland does not have Inch Church of Ireland marriage transcriptions, unfortunately. I hadn’t found any information online that shows the Inch Church of Ireland holds marriage records back to the year 1810 when Barnabas Ward and Sarah Wright were married.

But if you’d like to search for your ancestors in County Wexford and surrounding counties which were located in the Diocese of Ossory, you can tie into one of the four subscription packages at RootsIreland. These subscriptions are for a day, a month, 6 months, and a year. See: https://rootsireland.ie/ifhf/subscribe.php

There are no guarantees however, that you will uncover records for your ancestors at RootsIreland.

Concerning Inch, a Google Map shows that the Inch Church of Ireland is 1.1 miles south of the townland of Monature, where St. Austin’s House is located: https://tinyurl.com/y75cd5ud

For Google Street Views of the Inch Church of Ireland and cemetery, go to: https://tinyurl.com/4e6exnp5 and https://tinyurl.com/2y34arcj

The next search involved seeing if a Barnabas, Barnaby, Barney Ward had been recorded in an Irish property tax record called Griffiths Valuation. Griffiths Valuation took place in the 32 counties of Ireland between 1847 and 1864. The valuation for County Wexford was completed by the year 1853.

I didn’t find Barnabas (or variant first names) in Griffiths Valuation in County Wexford. There is no one named Ward recorded in Ballyhast, Civil Parish of Liskinfere either, recorded in Griffiths Valuation.

Griffiths Valuation does show that Daniel Ward was recorded in Monature, civil parish of Inch, where St. Austin’s House is located, and where a Daniel Ward was recorded 20 years earlier in the Tithe Applotment Books. The Daniel Ward in the Tithe Applotment Books may be the same Daniel Ward in Griffiths Valuation.

Unlike a census, Griffiths Valuation did not enumerate individual members of a family, such as husband, wife, and children in a household residence. Those named in the valuation were individuals who paid to lease property, such as land, houses, and outbuildings. Each person who paid to lease the property was called an “Occupier.” The other person listed in Griffiths Valuation was the person who owned the property, or who worked as the middleman collecting the rent on Gale Day for the owner. This middleman was called the “Immediate Lessor.”

You can access Griffiths Valuation transcriptions and original copies for free at the Ask About Ireland website link at: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

There are only four Occupiers recorded in Griffiths Valuation in Monature. They are James Perrin, James Sinnott, James Keegan, and Daniel Ward. See the attachment.

Daniel leased a house, offices and over 53 acres of land in Monature. His Immediate Lessor was James Perrin. The land that Daniel leased was valued at 44 Pounds. The house and offices were valued at 1 Pound and 10 Shillings. The total valuation for Daniel’s lease in Monature was 45 Pounds and 10 Shillings. He would have paid a percentage of the total value toward the tax.

An office in Griffiths Valuation could refer to an outbuilding such as a barn, stable, blacksmith shop, piggery, etc.

WRIGHTS IN THE TITHE APPLOTMENT BOOKS

Thomas and John Wright are recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books in the townland of Ballincur, Civil Parish of Liskinkere. See the index at: https://tinyurl.com/yt3dtw6v

The index shows John and Thomas Wright recorded twice in Ballincur, but in a copy of the original tithe page they are only recorded once at numbers 7 (John), and 8 (Thomas). See the attachment.

John leased over 40 acres of land, valued at 1 Shilling and 9 ¾ Pence, per acre. His tithes were 3 Pounds, 13 Shillings and 1 Pence.

Thomas leased a little over 40 acres of land, also valued at 1 Shilling and 9 ¾ Pence per acre. His tithes were 3 Pounds, 14 Shillings and 7 Pence.

Barnaby and Daniel Ward were recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books, townland of Ballyhast, Civil Parish of Liskinkfere in 1831, and so I went to Google Maps to see how far Ballyhast is from the townland of Ballincur, where Thomas and John Wright were recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books.

Google Maps shows that “Ballinacur,” by the shortest route, is 7.6 miles east of Ballyhast. See: https://tinyurl.com/ycxr7aek

I also checked the Tithe Applotment Books for any farmers named Wright in St. Austin’s, Monature, Civil Parish of Inch, but didn’t find the name recorded there.

If you recall, Barnaby Ward was recorded in St. Austins in the Tithe Applotment Books in 1833.

I next looked for but didn’t find a Barnabas/Barnaby/Barney Ward recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books or in Griffiths Valuation in County Donegal.

Just to recap Peggy, do you have a record from Canada that shows your Sarah Jane Ward’s parents were Barnabas Ward and Sarah Wright? If not where did you get this information from?

With Kind Regards,

Dave Boylan

SOURCES
Diocese of Ossory Marriage License Bonds
FamilySearch
National Archives of Ireland: Tithe Applotment Books
Google Maps
Google Street Views
Mitchell, Brian, A Guide To Irish Parish Registers
ireland.anglican.org: The List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers
RootsIreland
GeoHive: Ordnance Survey Maps
Representative Church Body Library
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage/Buildings of Ireland
IreAtlas Townland Data Base
Ask about Ireland: Griffiths Valuation

 

Thank you for this incredibly detailed report!  I am overwhelmed by the amount of time that must have taken you. Incredibly kind of you to explain your findings in such detail.  

My DNA matches on Ancestry.ca link me to a Robert, John, Samuel and Sarah Jane Ward, my 3x great grandmother.  I am still working through all of their family history for clues and reaching out to people.

- I found a copy from an old church registry reporting the death of a Barnabas Ward in 1843.  No other relations were indicated on that document.

 - My 3x great grandmother named her first born son Barnabas.

- Robert named his first born son Wright Ward which was Sarah Janes maiden name and his second son Barnabas.

- There is a marriage record for a William Ward, parents indicated as Barnabas and Sally Ward.  Sally being a nickname for Sarah.  

 - So far, from what I can tell, they are all living and farming close together.

I am excited to read through everything and gain some knowledge of the geography and history of Ireland.

Thanks again!

You're welcome Peggy, and many thanks for your kind reply.

Best of Luck with your research.

Dave