Ward, John

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Dates Active in Dublin: 

before 1778

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: violin
Address(es): 

Aston Quay

Details: 

Brother of George Ward (Boydell, Card Index).

Admitted free of the city of Dublin (17??); buried in St Audeon's Church, 10 May 1778.

His daughter Isabella, to whom he left a house on Aston Quay (which she set in tenements) married William Gibson.

[Details differ according to sources: Teahan states that he died in 1785 but Rice gives the date as 1778.]

See Also: 

Gibson, William
Ward, George

Source(s): 

Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 32)

Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 260

Rice, John Kenneth, 'The Life and Work of Thomas Perry' (unpublished doctoral thesis, St Patrick's College Maynooth, 1993), p. 27

Boydell, Brian, ‘Ward, George’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

Boydell, Brian, ‘Ward, John’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

Last Update: 26-09-2013