Eliza WARD 1846 d/o Elizabeth (General)

by Simone , Friday, October 29, 2010, 11:19 (5144 days ago) @ holly

Hi Holly

If you were confused before you will be more so now!!

Briefly, Charles Ward b c 1822(also known as Marshall) married Charlotte Hale.. they had a daughter Eliza in 1849. Charles had a sister Eliza b c 1825 ,also know as both Ward and Marshall, she married Richard Webb.

Sometime around 1841-51 the Marshall family decided to call themselves Ward.

After a long time trying to sort it all out managed to establish that Charles and siblings all born illegitimate to Phoebe Marshall,but name father on marriages as John Barnes/Burns/Byrne (her mother being Hannah Ward and father John Marshall).

Phoebe's first child Benjamin Barnett Marshall is seen on census as though son of John Marshall and Hannah Ward, but his baptism has him as son of Pheobe Marshall father John Barnes. Phoebe eventually married John Barnes in 1839, some 30 years after the birth of her first son Benjamin. John Barnes had been previously married to Elizabeth Wintle who died in 1810

various threads on it here, whiah as you will see took a lot of working out!!

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=9995

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=10457

hope it makes some sense, just keying all this from memory at the moment, but let me know if you think this is your family and if you want me to send you more detailed info later..

got to pop out for an hour now!!

Simone x