WARD, John
Bef 1518 - 1558 (> 40 years)-
Name WARD, John Birth Bef 1518 East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England 
[1] Gender Male Residence 1558 Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England [2] Death 1558 Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England [3] Person ID I9819 Ward and Related Families of Nova Scotia and North Yorkshire Last Modified 24 Jun 2021
Family Children 1. WARD, Christopher, b. Abt 1538, Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England d. 1569, Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England (Age 31 years)2. WARD, Richard, b. Abt 1539, Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England d. Aft 1569, Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England (Age > 31 years)3. WARD, George, b. Abt 1540, Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England d. Bef 1569, Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England (Age < 28 years)4. WARD, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1542, Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England d. Yes, date unknown5. WARD, Agnes, b. Abt 1544, Braithwaite, East Witton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England d. Yes, date unknownFamily ID F5719 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Oct 2025
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Notes - The following extracts are from The History of Carlton in Coverdale 1086-1910 by Nora Elaine Joynes
"Coverham rectory A large-scale dealer in land acquired the first lease of Coverham. rectory from the Court of Augmentations - none other than Leonard Beckwith, who was the Receiver for the Augmentations in Yorkshire. Here in the Archdeaconry of Richmond he was operating outside his own area, where he also acquired monastic property. Beckwith was granted the lease of Coverharn rectory for twenty-one years at the rent of f20 on 10 June, 1537. In 1562 the reversion of the rectory, then in the tenure of John Ward, was granted to Thomas Allen and Thomas Freman, along with the Rectory of Iford, Sussex. 45 The tithes of the ancient parish church thus passed to a succession of lay impropriators, who bought and sold their shares of the rectory like any other piece of property, while the pastoral needs of the parish were served by a perpetual curate."
"The witnesses in 1613 gave differing evidence about the tithes paid by the other four granges, but they all distinguished between Carlton Flatts and the other four. The phrase 'except Carlton Flatts' occurs repeatedly. An explanation was given for this difference by Richard Geldart of Carlton, who claimed to be aged ninety or thereabouts. He stated that John Ward, who was an impropriator of the rectory, also obtained a lease of the five granges for twenty-one years from the Earl and Countess of Lennox. He sub-let the other granges, but fanned Carlton Flatts himself. This evidence was partly contradicted by one of the Dawson family who said that about fifty years before (i. e. about 1563) his father Roger Dawson was an under-tenant of John Ward leasing half of Carlton Flatts for seven or eight years, and never paid any tithes to John Ward or any other farmers of the rectory. However, it seems clear that the difference between Carlton Flatts and the other four granges came about in the time of John Ward."
The witnesses described events after the Dissolution, when John Ward, Luke Metcalfe and Leonard Buckle (father of the plaintiff) had a lease of the parsonage of Coverharn and of the chapel and its three acres of land, and were undisturbed during their lease. Roger Dawson said he had heard they paid f6 rent (which seems to indicate the offerings were profitable)"
- The following extracts are from The History of Carlton in Coverdale 1086-1910 by Nora Elaine Joynes
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