WARD, James Putnam

1825 - 1872  (46 years)

• Name	WARD, James Putnam
  Birth	30 Aug 1825	Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Census	1861	Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
  	Listed as James P. Ward. 7 males, 8 females, total 15.
  Census	1871	Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Death	7 Apr 1872	Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Person ID	I13320	Ward and Related Families of Nova Scotia and North Yorkshire
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	WARD, Charles Roger Esq.,   b. 10 Jan 1789, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 6 Mar 1864, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 75 years)
  Mother	DUMARESQ, Elizabeth Julia,   b. 4 Dec 1799, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom d. Aft 1871 (Age > 73 years)
  Marriage	14 Oct 1824	Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Family ID	F6380	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HAIRE, Martha Bown,   b. 1827, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 1912, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 85 years)
  Children	1. WARD, Susannah Warne,   b. Nov 1850, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Bef 1927, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age < 76 years)   2. WARD, Eliza L.,   b. 1852, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   3. WARD, Edmund P.,   b. 1854, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   4. WARD, Henrietta,   b. 1856, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   5. WARD, Margaret E.,   b. 1858, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   6. WARD, Charles H.,   b. 1860, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   7. WARD, Mary,   b. 1862, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   8. WARD, James H.,   b. 1864, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   9. WARD, Emily R.,   b. 1866, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   10. WARD, William W.,   b. 1869, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  (copied from Find a Grave and I have no documented proof for any of the statements) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122854600/james-putnam-ward "Publisher of the Cape Breton News and Surrogate Judge of Cape Breton County. Son of Halifax News founder and Publisher Charles Rogers Ward. Husband of Martha Bown Haire who was the daughter of Captain Alexander Haire. Descendant of John Alden, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, General Andrew Ward, Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Colonel Andrew Ward and Reverend Edmund Ward, numerous figures in Colonial America from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the founding of Fairfield Connecticut. Portion of the family were Tories during Revolutionary war, and were shipped out to Nova Scotia after the war. General Alexander Haire led the boats who took them to Nova Scotia. James Ward married Alexander Haire's daughter."