I have the usual family connections with the Ward name. Two granddaughters of Edmund Markham, my G G Grandfather, married sons of Patrick Ward. Many other pioneer Lachlan names, particularly Whitty and Marks, appear among the intermarrying descendant families.
Patrick Ward came to New South Wales as a bounty emigrant on the “Champion” arriving in Port Jackson on 12 February 1842. Shipping records show he was aged 19, Agricultural Labourer, Roman Catholic, and could read and write. It is likely that he moved immediately to the land west of Newcastle. He was married in Maitland on 18 October 1845 and the couple had six children, all born in the Hunter River area of Maitland/Singleto. His wife, Catherine Ryan arrived in 1840 on ther “Adam Lodge” describred as a Farm(?) Servant, Roman Catholic, Native Place Limerick and engaged by E Deas Thompson Esq? Woolloomoolloo . It is unknown how long she stayed employed by this distinguished colonial leader, or how and when she reached Maitland.
Nor do I have much information on the family’s life in the area but the attached extracts from Sydney and Mudgee newspapers in 1931 are informative and interesting. Patrick was very successful in the horse racing industry The article desctribes him asin the following terms:
“Patrick Ward, gentleman, of Merriwa, N.S.W. Everyone who knew racehorses in those days knew of Patrick Ward. He had a string of racehorses with the “longest noses in Australia.” That is what they said, because Patrick Ward’s horses usually had their noses in front of all other noses at the winning posts throughout the country. Patrick Ward owned Pasha, and other horse of Stockwell blood, too. Look up the files of old Maitland newspapers, and you’ll find his name linked also with such favorites of the day as Grecian Queen, The Snake, Lord Raglan, Mystery, The Egg, Daughter o’ the Regiment, Sultan, Sappho, Jack the Giant Killer. He was King of the Turf, was Patrick Ward. He was a czar of sports men then, a great gambler of the gold his horses won him, and rather the Beau Brummel and Beau Nash of the race track, too.
1 Patrick (Paddy) WARD b: Abt. 1822 in Co Galway, IRE, Arr. Australia: 12 Feb 1842 in “Champion”, d:
17 Jul 1863 in Woburn, nr Denman NSW
+ Catherine RYAN b: 1827 in Co Limerick, IRE, Arr. Australia: 14 Feb 1840 in “Adam Lodge”, m: 18
Oct 1845 in Maitland NSW, d: 30 May 1865 in Muswellbrook NSW
…2 Catherine E (Kate) WARD b: 1846 in Maitland NSW
+ Matthias DONOHOE m: 1867 in Patricks Plain NSW
…2 John Thomas WARD b: 06 Oct 1848 in Maitland NSW
+ Bridget Mary MARKHAM b: 04 Jul 1859, m: 05 Nov 1879 in Glebe NSW, d: 21 Feb 1946 in Darbys
Falls NSW
……3 Catherine Ellen (Tot) WARD b: 01 Oct 1880, d: 12 Nov 1949
+ Patrick J (Paddy) WHITTY b: 16 Aug 1868 in Reg. Carcoar, m: 1930 in Annandale NSW, d: 1944
in Cowra NSW
……3 James Patrick (Wriggle) WARD b: 27 Sep 1882, d: 28 Oct 1949
……3 Aida WARD b: 10 Oct 1883 in Sydney NSW, d: 09 Oct 1978 in Sydney NSW
+ Patrick William JORDAN b: 13 Dec 1866 in Clifton, Milburn Ck, NSW, m: 1926 in Drummoyne
NSW, d: 1949 in Cowra NSW
……3 Reginald (Cuthy) WARD b: 27 Oct 1886, d: 04 Dec 1970
……3 Mary Clare (Lal) WARD b: 15 Aug 1888 in Sydney NSW, d: 11 Jan 1979 in Sydney NSW
+ John Ambrose (Tiger) MARKS b: 05 Jul 1884 in Reid’s Flat NSW, m: 17 Oct 1922 in Cowra
NSW, d: 22 Aug 1965 in Sydney NSW
………4 Sheila Mary MARKS b: 28 Jun 1923, d: 11 Sep 1923 in Carcoar NSW
………4 Theodore Patrick (Theo) MARKS b: 18 Dec 1924, d: 14 Aug 2007 in Gosford NSW
+ Joan PRITCHARD m: 26 Nov 1960
………4 Bryce John (Kelly) MARKS b: 23 Mar 1926, d: 12 Feb 1995 in Sydney NSW
+ Merle Honora MYERS m: 30 Aug 1947
………4 Roslyn Clare MARKS b: 02 Sep 1929, d: Jun 2009 in Cowra, NSW
………4 Lois Anne MARKS b: 01 Sep 1932, d: Oct 2013
+ Ross Francis PLATT m: 22 Jun 1957
……3 John Thomas (Jack McGuirk) WARD [WW1 service here.] b: 26 Jan 1890, d: 18 Feb 1950 in Darbys Falls NSW
+ Edith E (Edie) SMART b: 31 Jul 1899 in Boorowa Reg, m: 1921 in Boorowa NSW, d: Darbys
Falls NSW
……3 Dorothy (Doss) WARD b: 07 Dec 1891 in Waverley NSW, d: Sep 1959
……3 Francis Bernard (Mick) WARD b: 13 Apr 1893, d: 20 Oct 1934
……3 Eric Stanislaus (Bull) WARD [WW1 service here.] b: 07 May 1898 in Ashfield NSW, d: 1975
+ Thelma WATERS b: 1914 in Crookwell NSW, d: 2006 in Darbys Falls NSW
……3 Neville Philip (Didler) WARD b: 20 Jun 1899, d: 22 Jul 1995 in Harbord NSW
+ Lillian May SMALL b: 06 Feb 1905 in Ulmurra, NSW, m: 1929 in Bellingen NSW, d: 1988
………4 Dorothy May WARD b: 08 Dec 1929 in Bangalow, New South Wales, Australia
+ Jakub Jan BACZKOWSKI b: 09 Aug 1907, m: Feb 1958 in Quirindi NSW, d: 03 Oct 1978 in
Sydney NSW
………4 Yvonne Strelsa WARD b: 03 Nov 1932 in Bangalow, New South Wales, Australia
+ Ian Maurice BOYLE d: 23 May 1972 in Muswellbrook NSW
………4 Colleen Mary Stella WARD b: 06 Jan 1936
+ Kevin Herbert GREEN b: 07 Mar 1931
………4 John Thomas WARD b: 10 May 1946
+ Wendy SANDES b: 28 Dec 1950
……3 Beryl Margaret WARD b: 29 Jun 1902, d: 14 Jan 1974 in Orange NSW
+ Cyril Francis (Sam) EGGLESTON b: 1900, m: 1929 in Cowra NSW, d: 1982 in Croydon Park
NSW
………4 Peter Francis EGGLESTON b: 1929, d: 1964 in Orange NSW
………4 Bridget Ann (Biddy) EGGLESTON b: 1932
+ Kevin Roy SHARP b: 1929, m: 1961 in Cowra NSW, d: 15 Nov 1988
………4 Mick (Soldier) EGGLESTON b: 1932, d: 16 Sep 1990 in Orange NSW
……3 Maurice Joseph (Jock) WARD b: 03 Oct 1904, d: Oct 1993 in Tenterfield NSW
+ Selina Wilhelmina (Billie) MILLER m: 1948 in Tenterfield NSW
…2 James Patrick WARD b: 1851 in Whittingham NSW
+ Bridget Mary O’LEARY b: 09 Mar 1868 in Darbys Falls NSW, m: 1890 in Sydney NSW, d: 21 Dec
1946
……3 Cecil WARD b: 02 Nov 1891 in Sydney NSW, d: 1963 in Parramatta NSW
……3 Marjorie M WARD b: 08 Jun 1894 in Leichhardt NSW, d: 06 Feb 1969 in St Leonards NSW
+ Ernest John R MIDDLETON m: 1933 in Ashfield NSW
……3 Ernest WARD b: 1895 in Leichhardt NSW
+ Betty ?
………4 John WARD
………4 Ronald WARD
………4 Betty WARD
……3 Eileen WARD b: 16 Feb 1903 in Petersham NSW, d: 06 Jun 1973 in St Leonards NSW
…2 Joseph T WARD b: 1854 in Whittingham NSW
…2 William P WARD b: 1856 in Patricks Plain NSW
…2 Christopher S WARD b: 1859 in Patricks Plain NSW