This week I completed the draft chapter on Manasseh and Madeline Ward, which is now available on my website, together with many of the resources that I have quoted in the footnotes. Researching and writing this chapter took three months. There is a lot more research that I could do, but it would require a lot of travel to access records that are not available from Internet sites. I guess I have to leave some discoveries for the next generation of family historians!
I am now moving on to a short profile on each of their children. Several drafts have been done along the way and these ate linked from the following list. There will be 12 profiles in all:
- Josephine Keele, Madeline's daughter by her first marriage. [Draft available].
- Madeline Hannah Ward.
- William Ward.
- Three babies who died (Thomas, John and Manasseh jnr). [Draft available].
- Robert Ward.
- Roy Archer Ward.
- Ephraim McGregor Ward.
- Amy Gertrude Ward.
- Eric Stanley Ward.
- Laurence Keith Stuart (Pat) Ward.
- Doris May Ward.
- Bruce Leon Clive Ward. [Draft available].
I am wary of taking things too far, particularly as the drafts are being made available on the Internet. I might be being paranoid, but in this age of cyber crime and identity theft, I don't want to provide detailed information about people who are still alive. This is a departure from earlier family histories that often list descendants down to the time of printing.
My next decision will be where to go from here. I originally planned to write the history of the Ward snd Parry families of Gosford, but over the last year, I have concentrated on the Ward side. So I will have to decide on whether to publish the Ward family as a stand-alone history, or stick with my first plan.
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