Person:Francis Ward (1)

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Francis Ward
b.Bef 1585
  • HFrancis WardBef 1585 - 1634
  • WJoan Carter1585 - 1637
m. Bef 1610
  1. John Ward1609/10 -
  2. Francis Ward1613 -
  3. Thomas Ward1615/16 - Bef 1622
  4. Felix Ward1618 -
  5. Thomas Ward1622 -
Facts and Events
Name Francis Ward
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1585 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1610 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (John).
to Joan Carter
Burial[1] 1 Aug 1634 Claydon, Oxfordshire, England
Probate[1] 13 May 1636 Will proved.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 4. Felix Carter, in Keegan, Kelly M. New Information on the Ancestry of Felix Carter of Claydon, Oxfordshire, Grandfather of Thomas1 Boreman of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Samuel1 Boreman of Ipswich and Wethersfield, Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Fall 2024)
    178:357.

    "Joan Carter … m. say 1608 Francis Ward, bur. Claydon 1 Aug. 1634. Francis left an undated will proved 13 May 1636, naming his sons John, Francis, Felix, and Thomas, and his brother Richard Ward, and making his (unnamed) wife his executor.

    [footnote] "PCC 44 Pile (PROB 11/171 folio 16): 'Francis Ward of Cledon in the Countie of Oxford being sick in bodie.' While Francis did not name his wife in the will, she was named in the probate clause: 'Joanne Ward Relicte.'"

  2.   Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    pages 132-33.

    'CHILDREN OF FELIX AND MARGARET CARTER. …
    Joan, bapt. Nov. 10, 1585; m. Francis Ward.'