"Anne" Ward, {fictional profile}

• not the same as Wife of Richard Ward
• not the mother of Andrew Ward of Fairfield

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Her name and origins were fabricated. Richard Ward, of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk, who was not knighted or called "Sir," did have a wife, their children noted below. No descent to America.

"Anne Guiville" [SIC: unknown] (daughter of "Richard Guiville" [SIC: unknown} and <Unnamed>) was born abt 1545 in Gorleston, Suffolk, England, and died date unknown in ,,,England. She married Richard Ward on 1572 in Gorleston, Suff, England, son of Thomas Ward and Margaret Hare [SIC: Geoffrey Ward & Elizabeth Wood ?]

Her surname is also seen as Gonville, Gunville, and Sunnerfield. There is no documentary evidence of her existence as of Feb 2017.

More About Anne Guiville [SIC: unknown} and Richard Ward:

1. Marriage: 1572, Gorleston, Suff, England.

Children of Anne Guiville and Richard Ward are:

1. Henry Ward
2. Richard Ward
3. Ralph Ward
4. Andrew Ward

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origins

Homersfield have been investigated (by Col. Charles E. Banks for Mrs. Finley J. Shepard). No such person as Richard Ward was found; no Gunville family existed in that vicinity as lords of the manor; and every reference given has proved to be fictitious. It is likely that these statements were the invention of a fraudulent genealogist, innocently accepted by members of the Ward family, through whom they found their way into the book."[42]

notes

Discussion on the parents of Andrew Ward of Fairfield

from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/ward/b1035.html

Families of Old Fairfield makes the following statement on p.643:

"....family of Richard Ward of Gorleston or Homersfield have been investigated. No such person as Richard Ward, of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk was found; no "Anne" Ward, {fictional profile} Gunville family existed in that vicinity as lords of the manor; and every reference given has proved to be fictitous. It is likely that these statements were the invention of a fraudulent genealogist, innocently accepted by members of the Ward family, through whom they found their way into the book."

Source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/u/l/Wendy-E-Hull/WEBSI...

this paragraph is fiction

From http://nefamilies.com/fam/groupsheetI100006699.aspx

Source 1: The Ward Family;

Annes name is also spelled Gonville & Gunville; There is an old and famous family of Gonvilles in Sufolk Co, Englang, and this family is believed to be related to them, because they have the same arms as the more illustrious Gonville family who founded Gonville College, and the names of some of their descendants are given in this satatement; but the exact connection between the older gonville family and the Gonville family of Gorleston, suffolk, England is not directly traced, although a connection is plain from the arms. The heralds are very particular not to give the same arms to persons who are not of the same family, even if the names are the same. It was a rule that the consent of the heralds had always to be obtained before any family cold get the Coat of Arms, unless it was the same family; and the arms of this Gunville family are the same as those of the earlier Gonvilles of Suffolk county England (where our Anne Gonville was from;)

Ann Gunville inherited the monor of her father from her brother Henry, whose widow died in 1580; and at his widows death it passed to the wife of Richarcd Ward (which was ofcoarse, Anne (Gunville) Warde);

From http://armidalesoftware.com/issue/full/Thaler_343_main.html#N14

"we find in the Parish Registers of St. Mildred's Cornhill, London, the burial of a Mr. Andrew Warde, gent., 23 January, 1615, * who was probably the son of that Richard Ward of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk, ...."

Discussion on the parents of Andrew Ward of Fairfield

from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/ward/b1035.html

Families of Old Fairfield makes the following statement on p.643:

"....family of Richard Ward of Gorleston or Homersfield have been investigated. No such person as Richard Ward, of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk was found; no "Anne" Ward, {fictional profile} Gunville family existed in that vicinity as lords of the manor; and every reference given has proved to be fictitous. It is likely that these statements were the invention of a fraudulent genealogist, innocently accepted by members of the Ward family, through whom they found their way into the book."

From page 120 of "Clues from English Archives Contributory to American Genealogy," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 44

Andrew Ward of Watertown, Mass., freeman there, 14 May, 1634,1 removed the following year to Wethersfield, Conn., to aid in the foundation of the new town (then called "Connecticut Watertown ") he being one of the five dismissed from the parent town for that purpose. He was a prominent and influential citizen, member of the first Court in the Connecticut Colony in April, 1636; member of the upper house in 1637 when war was declared with the Pequots; twice member of the lower house, 1637 and 1638; deputy from Wethersfield for four sessions after the confederation of the three river towns in 1639, and frequently a member of the General Court and a Magistrate. In 1640, he, with others, bought the land comprising the present town of Stamford for the New Haven Company, he afterward removed, with Rev. Mr. Denton, to Hempstead, L. I., but, about 1650, returned to Connecticut and settled at Fairfield. He was a representative to the upper house of New Haven Colony 1646 and 1653 and died at Fairfield in 1659, his will dated 8 June of that year.f

He has been said to have been the son or grandson of Richard Ward of Homersfield, co. Suffolk, and descended of an ancient family long seated there, § but this statement rests upon the unsupported conjecture of an early Anglo-American genealogist most of whose work, subjected to the light of the clearer criticism of to-day which demands facts instead of fancy, is found to be untrustworthy and misleading. ....

It is also noteworthy, in further contravertion of that erronious derivation, that we find in the Parish Registers of St. Mildred's Cornhill, London, the burial of a Mr. Andrew Warde, gent., 23 January, 1615, * who was probably the son of that Richard Ward of Homersfield and Gorleston, Suffolk, who was so lightly accepted as the American Emigrant without a scintilla of evidence beyond the Christian name.

• Harl. Sac, Psh. Reg. Series, vii, 219.