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- I have put Edward in the tree as he must be somehow related to Ralph Ward of Marske. There is a burial record in the Marske parish register for an 'Ann, wife of Edward Ward of Stanup (Stanhope), Wardale (Weardale), buried 13 Sep 1658.' So, why was this Ann buried in Marske, unless she was related to someone there. Ralph Ward (married 1638) was buried 2 months earlier than Ann, in July 1658. Maybe Edward was Ralph's brother and went to visit him on his deathbed along with his wife, Ann. While there, Ann may have caught what Ralph had and died there.
Also, in the Durham Hearth Tax list of 1666 there is an Edward Warde in Muggleswick close to Stanhope.
In a protestation letter, dated 1673, regarding the so-called 'Muggleswick Conspiracy' most of the citizens, who had been indicted, signed their names, including several Wards:
"and finally know this that all therein is truth and nothing but the truth, as all
those whose names are here subscribed will testifie.
...Edward Ward, Margret Ward,... Francis Ward, Cuthbert Ward, Cuthbert Ward, elder, Mary Ward, Elizabeth Ward,... Elizabeth Ward,..."
Edward's wife, Ann, would have already died by the date of this letter.
Another account describes the situation this way:
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The churchyard at Muggleswick contains the grave of a person of gigantic stature, one Edward Ward. The giant flourished, it is said, in the seventeenth century. If tradition can be relied on, his limbs were of such an enormous size that a favourite hound of his littered in his wooden shoe.
During the brief reign of Presbytery and Independency under the Commonwealth and Protectorate, the bulk of the Muggleswick people seem to have abjured Episcopacy or Prelacy ; and Richard Bradley, master of arts, who had been appointed to take their spiritual oversight in 1641-the year in which the contest between the King and the Parliament began-was extruded from his living, and a Puritan preacher named Thomas Roger, was chosen in his place. But after the restoration of the Monarchy, when everything that had been done in Church and State during the interregnum was annulled, Roger was deposed in his turn, along with other two thousand Nonconformist ministers. This violent change was naturally distasteful to the Puritanical portion of the Muggleswicians, who complained loudly, but in vain, that an unsuitable person was to be imposed upon them to guard and rule them in spiritual matters. Mr. Surtees, in his invaluable History of the Countyiof Durham, has extracted from the first volume of a series of pamphlets presented to the British Museum by George III. the following specimen of a petition, signed by sixty-seven persons, including women and children, whom Mr. Bradley had indicted for absenting themselves from the communion "
Seems logical that Edward and Ann would be Ralph's parents.
Near Stanhope (just south of Muggleswick) in Blanchland Abbey Parish Churchyard (Anglican), there is a headstone for a John Ward buried 22 Jun 1782 and also his son John, buried Apr 1780. The inscription reads:
"Hear lies the body of John Ward of Burnshieldhaugh who died June 22, 1782 aged 75. And of his son John who died April 15 1780 aged 22."
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Abt 1610 - Aft 1690 (> 81 years)