Ancestry of
Steve Young

NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback

William Ward

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Steve Young — 13th Generation
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  • 4982 
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  • 10 Aug 1687 
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  • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  Obadiah Ward

  Richard Ward

  Hannah Ward (Ahnentafel No:2491 )

  Elizabeth Ward

  Increase Ward

  William Ward

  Bethiah Ward

• Sources for William Ward

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newton, Vol. 1, p. 202, Birth record for son Obadiah Ward for birth in England.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1863, Vol. 17, p. 339.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 359.
  • ⁴ Greene, Major-General George Sears and Mrs. Louise Brownell Clarke, The Greenes of Rhode Island, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1903), 255.
  • ⁵ Howe, Daniel Wait and Gilman Bigelow Howe, Howe Genealogies: This Volume Contains the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1929), 7.
  • ⁶ Martyn, Charles, The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925, New York: Artemas Ward (1925), 3-62.
  • ⁷ Meggison, Michael Thomas, "No. 71 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Immediate New England and Royal Ancestry of the Beach Boys", (accessed 11/21/2016).
  • ⁸ Paine, Ruth F. W., comp., Paine Genealogy and Allied Lines: Ancestors of William Alfred Paine, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1936), 41-42.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 203.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 42.
  • ¹¹ Trask, William B., A Brief Memoir of Andrew Henshaw Ward, Albany: J. Munsell (1863), 8.
  • ¹² Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England . . ., Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson (1858), 20.
  • ¹³ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward, Who Settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639, Boston: Samuel G. Drake (1851), 9.

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