Ward Family History
Ward Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old
English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an
abstract noun).Irish: reduced form of McWard, an
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The
surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of
the family are known as professional poets.Surname adopted
by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky
or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.Americanized form of French Guerin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ward
Name Distribution of Ward Families
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England & Wales
Canada
Number of Ward families
 5,847 - 11,691  1,950 - 5,846 |
 1 - 1,949  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ward families
|
490 - 978 164 - 489 |
1 - 163 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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Ward Family Origin
Ward Immigration Information (CA)
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Ward Family Occupations
from 1881 CA Census Data
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