![]() They acquired land from an English officer who was given land in Donegal in the late 16th century. It’s unclear when and how they came to be in Ireland. This branch of the Campbells was in Ireland prior to the plantations of the early 17th century. The village of Kilmacrennan lies west of of the Inishowen Penninsula and Drongawn Lough, which is the lough bordering the southwest of the Inishowen Penninsula. His wife was Mary Ann Campbell of Kilmacrennan (Gaelic: Cill Mhic nÉanáin or Cill Mhic Réanáin), County Donegal. There seems to be very little known about her parentage.Īt least one of their sons, John, from whom we are descended, was married in Ireland. Sarah was also born on the Inishowen Penninsula, but she may have been the first generation there, and her Rodgers family may have come over to Ireland from England or Scotland. The Ward family seems to have been based in the Inishowen Penninsula of County Donegal for at least four generations. James (Sr.) and Sarah were married about 1700 in Donegal, Ireland. The immigrant family was James Ward and Sarah Rodgers, and perhaps five of their children: James (Jr.), William, John, Issac, and Joseph. Judah Ladd’s family seems to have arrived from Ireland prior to 1730 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. What life was like in Stokes County in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when our Ward and Richardson families lived in Stokes County. In the Gaelic case, Ward is an Anglicized version of the original, “Mac an Bhaird,” “son of the bard.”Ģ. The English version has two possible derivations, the first being occupational for a civil guard or keeper of the watch, and the second topographical, describing one who lived by a ‘werd’ – a marsh. These families formed the Scottish Highlander community in Cape Fear that became one of the most notable Gaelic speaking communities in North America.Īlso, I discovered that there was both an English and a Gaelic origin for the name Ward. However, I was surprised to find Wards having arrived in the Cape Fear, North Carolina area on The Thistle with families from Kintyre, Scotland in 1739. Perhaps I will come up with something about Anna Emma Jane Ward’s ancestry later.Īt first glance I assumed Ward was an English family line. I’ve assumed these two Ward lines were related, but haven’t proven it yet, so I decided to go ahead and discuss the roots of Judah Ladd Ward’s line. Anna Emma Jane Ward married the son of Judah Ladd and Green Lee, Joseph Richardson, on 23 February 1850 in Stokes County. ![]() Judah Ladd Ward married Green Lee Richardson in Stokes County, North Carolina on 12 February 1825. We have two Ward lines on my mother’s side of the family marrying into the Richardson family in the same general time period in the same county. Relationship to Fawn: 4th great-grandmother
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