'Ward06'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Warde of London, Warde of Pontefract, Warde of Squerryes Court, Warde of Tanshelf

                               
Visitation starts with 2 brothers who we show as sons of ...
?? Warde
1. Robert Warde, Mayor of Pontefract (Yorkshire) (d before 04.09.1521)
  A. Robert Warde of Pontefract (d before 04.04.1530, Alderman)
  m. Ellen (a 01.1542/3)
  i. Robert Warde of Pontefract (d before 31.05.1543)
  m. Margaret Charlesworth (a 05.1543, dau of Richard Charlesworth)
  a. Roger Warde of Pontefract (b after 1521, a 01.1542/3)
  (1) Robert Warde of Tanshelf Court near Pontefract (d before 10.08.1643)
  (A) Thomas Warde of Tanshelf, Pontefract (bur 09.02.1634/5)
  Thomas is the first mentioned by BLG1952 ('Warde-Aldam') which, apparently wrongly, suggests that the Tanshelf he lived in was in Ghent, Belgium.
  m1. (c1598) Susan Wood (dau of Thomas Wood of Sandal)
(i)+ issue
  m2. (07.07.1610) Elizabeth Bywater (dau of William Bywater, Mayor of Pontefract)
  (ii) Leonard Warde of Tanshelf, Mayor of Pontefract (b c1608, d 03.11.1678) had issue
  (iii) John Warde of Tanshelf (b c1611, d 15.08.1657)
  m. Elizabeth Vincent (bpt 24.06.1628, d 01.02.1668/9, dau of Thomas Vincent of Barnborough Grange)
  (a) Thomas Warde of Tanshelf (d before 09.07.1692, of the Middle Temple)
  m. Katherine Selwood (a 07.1692)
  (b) Sir John Warde of Clay Hill (Epsom, Surrey), Lord Mayor of London (b c1650, d 12.03.1725/6, Director of the Bank of England, MP)
Other than to identify him as 2nd son of John of Tanshelf, John is the first mentioned by BLG1952 ('Warde').
  m. (17.04.1684) Mary Bucknall (d 02.05.1726, dau of Sir William Bucknall or Bucknell of Oxhey)
  ((1)) John Warde of Squerryes Court, Westerham, Kent (d 01.1745/6)
  m. (c1719) Frances Bristowe (dau of Robert Bristowe of Micheldever)
  ((A)) John Warde of Squerryes Court (b 19.06.1721, d 09.02.1775)
m1. Elizabeth Gore (dsp 29.05.1748, dau of John Gore of Bush Hill, Enfield)
  m2. (14.03.1751) Kitty Anne Hoskins (dau/heir of Charles Hoskins of Croydon)
  ((B)) Mary Warde (d 17.01.1760)
  m. (1745) William Clayton of Harleyford (d 03.07.1783, m2. Caroline Mary Lloyd, m3. Louisa Fermor, MP)
((C))+ other issue - Robert (b 29.11.1722, d 17.12.1722), William of Westerham & London (b 05.01.1723/4, bur 09.12.1772), George (b 24.11.1725, d 11.03.1803, General), Katherine (d 28.12.1736)
  ((2)) Sarah Warde (d 1741)
  m. (before 06.03.1725/6 (1709?)) Robert Bristowe of Micheldever (d 1737 (not 1757))
  ((3))+ other issue - Elizabeth (a 12.1756), Susan of Hammersmith (d before 01.12.1756), Mary (d 1737)
  (c) Elizabeth Warde (d 1726)
  m. (before 04.03.1695/6) Sir John Rogerson of Dublin (d 1724)
  (d) Susannah Warde (a 03.1695/6)
  (iv) Sir Patience Warde of London & Hooton Pagnell, Sheriff then Lord Mayor of London (bpt 07.12.1628-9, d 10.07.1696, MP, 8th son)
  HoP ("Patience Ward") suggests that Patience dsp but this should be dspm as Visitation shows that he had the following daughters.
  m. (08.06.1654) Elizabeth Hobson (d 24.12.1685, dau/coheir of William Hobson of Hackney)
  (a) Elizabeth Warde (d before 04.03.1694/5)
  m. (before 10.08.1657) John Cowper of Pontefract (d before 02.11.1696)
  (b) daughter (d before 20.08.1666)
  m. Robert Winter (a 08.1657)
  (v)+ other issue - William (d young), Robert (d young), George (d young), Hastings of Tanshelf (d before 10.05.1670)
  (B) Leonard Warde, Mayor of Pontefract (d before 12.01.1647/8) had issue
  m. Alice (a 01.1647/8)
  (C) John Warde (a 06.1643) had issue
  (D) Margaret Warde (a 08.1643)
  m. _ Tatam of Pontefract
  b.+ other issue - Robert, Miles (d infant), Margaret, Helen
  B. Thomas Warde (a 1529) had issue
  C. Alice Warde
  m. (by 12.1520) - Ellis
2. John Warde of Acworth, Yorkshire (a 1529)

Main source(s): Visitation (Frederick Arthur Crisp, England & Wales, 'Notes', Volume 5 (1903), 'Pedigree of Warde', p79+) with just a little support from BLG1952 ('Warde-Aldam of Hooton Pagnell, Healey and Frickley'), BLG1952 ('Warde of Squerryes Court')
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