Ireland XO
Back to Message Board

Francis Ward/John Wickliff

Offaly

Sons and daughter started making their way to America in 1820's. Elizabeth Ward (b. 1790 est.) m. John Wickliffe and Isabella Ward (b 6 Apr. 1792) m. George Wickliffe. Yourger brother Joseph Ward (17 June 1805) m. Susannah Crampton Nov. 1828 Clonsast Lower, County Offaly, Ireland. Susannah and Joseph left GB with 8 children 1847 on the "Courtney" out of Liverpool.

Upon arrival in NY 22 Apl 1847, youngest daughter Isabella died followed by her parents a few weeks later. The seven orphan children, Rachael, Francis, Mary, Jane,Nathaniel, John, and Kitty were taken in by relatives of either a Wards or a Wickliff who had emigrated earlier and where living in the Lima, Licking, Ohio area.Nathanielis my great, great, grandfather. I would love to find our where his father and mother, Francis Ward (b.1767) (d1791) Clonsast, County Kildare and his wife, Rachel Wickliff (b.1767) Kildare, Naas, Ireland (d. 1820) where buried. Any information would be appreciated.

.

deliltree2@cha…

2 replies

Dorene:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Based on the record I found below, I assume your ancestors were Church of Ireland? Roots Ireland has the Clonsast C of I records starting in 1805 for Baptisms and 1806 Marriages. I did not find any Wickcliffe marriages on Roots and when I searched for a Ward/Crampton marriage the only one I found was the 1815 record below. 

Roots Ireland also has Clonsast death records from 1808-1985 but again no Wickcliff records.  I searched in Co. Kildare and again no Wickcliff baptismal or marriage records.

You may want to add the Ward emigration story to our XO Chronicles site and maybe someone will recognize the family https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-dat…

Also have you considered autosomal DNA testing?

Roger McDonnell

Date of Marriage:25-Jul-1815
Parish / District:CLONSAST
County:Co. Offaly
Husband  SamuelCrampton Address Dunlavin
Wife ElizabethWard
Denomination:Church Of Ireland"

 

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Hi there,

I am presently researching my great x3 grandparents - John Ward & Dora Watson of Clonsast, Kings Co. (Now Co. Offaly) Ireland. I have managed to locate three Ward families living in Clonsast parish at that time - the repetition of Christian names over generations leads me to think the three families are related. My email address is lornamillscarroll@gmail.com if you would like to correspond 're same.

Lorna

Lornamillscarr…

Reply

Reply
One image file up to 2 MB.