Phoebe Marshall/ Barnes- could she be a Ward!? (General)

by gjward, Monday, March 24, 2008, 03:21 (6158 days ago) @ Simone

Hi, I have been chasing this elusive lady for some 30 years, she is my GG grand mother! She lived with a widower John Burns, their 5 children were named Ward? all baptised English Bicknor with John Burns signing his name as the father. My GG Grand father Charles was one of these children, his son Elam is my Grand Father, his son Frederick is my father. Thirty years ago my father said we should not be named Ward it should be Burns! The whole family worked as wood cutters in the Forest of Dean and to make sure they covered their options they signed Burns/Ward. I still have not found out why Ward? and as you say the story deepens, who was Phoebe? IGI index 3-12-1791 W-on-Trym a Phoebe was christened M & Father John and Hannah Marshall. Also a Phoebe Marshall married a John Barnes on 14-11-1839 at Flaxley Glos. It was said in the family that John and Phoebe were married in their own home by a local vicar together with many others in the area. On the 1861 cencus a Phoebe Barnes is residing with Benjamin Marshall family at Ruardean Woodside, East Dean Glos., as a widow.

G Ward