Simon Ward was born abt 1755 in England (fairly certain that he was the son of Simon WARD and Sarah COLLING of Marske near Richmond in the North Riding, Yorkshire).
Sometime shortly before 1785, Simon arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada and purchased land in Newport, Hants County. In the 1817 Hants County census, Simon is the head of a household of 6. 1 English born, 5 Nova Scotia born. Simon is the 1 English born.

James Mosher and his wife Lydia married Oct 28, 1748 at Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts and were among the first of the 'New England Planters' to inhabit the Fundy Coast in Nova Scotia. They sailed from Newport, Rhode Island on the Sloop Lydia (shown in the painting above) with their first 6 children and landed at Newport, Nova Scotia in May, 1760 where his occupation was millwright. He died 1822 in Newport, Hants County, NS.

"On 12 October 1758, Governor Charles Lawrence issued a proclamation to the people of New England inviting them to settle the fertile Nova Scotian farmland that had lain vacant since the Acadian deportation. By 1768, approximately 8,000 New Englanders, known as the 'Planters', had made the move. In the process, Nova Scotia was permanently transformed."
(Media Plan Concept, Parks Canada)
See websites:
http://www.cyberus.ca/~bharvey/planters.shtml
http://ace.acadiau.ca/history/plstcntr.htm

Rhoda could have been the first child born to James and Lydia after moving from Rhode Island to Nova Scotia. Likely they named her after their native Rhode Island.

Simon Ward and Rhoda Mosher had the following children:

1. Robert Ward (my gg grandfather) was born in 1786 in Newport, Hants County, NS.
   He died Dec 24, 1835 in Newport, Hants County, NS.
2. James Ward born abt 1789 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia
3. Increase Ward born 1790 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia
4. Sarah Ward born abt 1792 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia
5. Mary Ward born abt 1794 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia
6. Martha Ward born abt 1796 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia
7. Margaret Ward born abt 1798 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia
8. Lucy Ward born abt 1800 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia
9. John Ward born 1803 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia
10. Susannah Ward born abt 1804 at Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia

Robert Ward (parents Simon Ward and Rhoda Mosher) was born abt 1786 in Newport, Hants County, NS. He died Dec 24, 1835 in Newport, Hants County, NS.
Robert and his wife Emetine (Amy) were first cousins. Robert's mother was Rhoda Mosher, and her brother Nicholas Mosher was Amy's father.

Robert married Amy Mosher on Nov 10, 1810 in Newport, Hants County, NS. Amy (parents Nicholas Mosher and Polly (Mary) Greeno) was born 1792 in Mosherville, Hants County, NS. She died abt 1872 in Scotch Village, Hants County, NS.

Robert Ward and Amy Mosher had the following children:

1. Nicholas Ward (my great grandfather) was born 1819 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia.
   He died March 15, 1889 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
2. Jehu Ward was born 1811 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia.
3. Mary Ward was born 1815 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia.
4. James Ward was born 1817 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia.
5. Simon Ward was born 1822 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia.
6. Abigail Ward was born 1823 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia.
7. Elizabeth Ward was born 1825 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia

.Robert was buried at St. James Anglican Church, Newport (now Brooklyn), Hants County, NS. He was only 49 years old when he died. (There is another Robert WARD buried in the same cemetery who died Feb. 9, 1834.. this is possibly an infant son of one of Robert's brothers or ??? there is no age given.)

Nicholas Ward (my great grandfather)(parents Robert Ward and Amy Mosher) was born 1819 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia. He died March 15, 1889 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

- Nicholas was a blacksmith in Windsor, N.S. (1871 Business Directory Map)
- buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Windsor, NS - plot 06 8N
- inscription reads "At Eventide there shall be light"

Nicholas married Sarah Caldwell in 1850 in a Baptist church, Windsor, Nova Scotia. Sarah (parents Samuel Caldwell and Mary Ann Rickards) was born 1830 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. She died May 24, 1913 in Boston, Mass.

Nicholas Ward and Sarah Caldwell had the following children:

1. Amy Ward was born 1845 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. She died December 15, 1851 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
   Buried at Old Parish Burying Ground, Windsor
   Headstone Inscription:
   Amy Ward .. daughter of Nicholas & Sarah Ward
   Died Dec 15, 1851 Aged 6 years
   By her age when she died, compared with the date of Nicholas and Sarah's marriage in 1850, we can only conclude that Sarah is Nicholas' second wife (possibly a sister of his first wife.. maybe Mary Maria Caldwell) and Amy (and also Mary Maria) are children of the first marriage.
2. Mary Maria Ward was born 1845 in Windsor, Hants County, Nova Scotia. (Mary and Amy were likely twins. Amy died at age 6 years.)
3. Anne E. Ward was born 1850 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
4. John Ward was born 1852 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
5. Lucy Ward was born 1853 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. She died August 14, 1874 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
   Buried at Old Parish Burying Ground, Windsor:
   Headstone Inscription:
   In Memory of Lucy Ward
   Died Aug. 14, 1874 Aged 20 yrs
6. Sarah Ward was born 1858 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
7. Mildred Ward was born 1862 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
8. Laura Ward was born 1864 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. (Don: This would be your great aunt Laura that you remember.)
9. Alice Ward was born 1866 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
10. Harry Welton Ward (my grandfather) was born Nov 1, 1872 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. He died Oct, 1936 in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
11. Jeanette Ward was born 1867 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. She died 1914 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

Harry Welton Ward (parents Nicholas Ward and Sarah Caldwell) was born Nov 1, 1872 in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
He learned his father's blacksmith trade and was employed in making all the iron mongery for the huge wooden ship industry in Windsor at that time. He married Maggie Ethel Lowthers in 1896 in the Methodist Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia. Soon the steamships took over and there was no more work in Windsor so in 1901 he moved his family to Sydney, Cape Breton where he took a job in the new Sydney Steel Plant that had just opened there.

He died Oct, 1936 in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Maggie Ethel Lowthers (parents Samuel Lowthers of Londonderry, Ireland and Mary Ellen Berry) was born Oct 31, 1879 in Wentworth, Hants County, Nova Scotia. The family resided in Ardoise Hill, near St. Croix, Hants County. Click here for a little info on the Berry Family

Harry Welton Ward and Maggie Ethel Lowthers had the following children:

1. Claude Welton Ward was born Aug 23, 1898 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. He died Nov 5, 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2. Blanche Ward was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
3. Hilda Ward was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
4. Madge Ward was born in Nova Scotia.
5. Raymond Ward.
6. Ralph Sydney Ward (my father) was born November 29, 1905 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He died Mar 11, 1985 in Abbotsford, B.C..
7. _____ Ward, still living, was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia.