" WARE "

History in England

1.     John de la Ware was commander of a flotilla of seven British ships, April 1205, as shown by the British Navy Reports.

2.     Roger de la Ware, Lord of Isefield, was a Baron of Parliment during the reign of Edward I.

3.     Abbott Ware was quite a distinguished Artist in England between 1274 and 1348. He is said to have done beautiful work in Glass, Mosaid, Porphyry, and Alabaster. 

        There seems to have been a noble and ancient family who flourished in Yorkshire, England. Many of the family, under the name of "de Ware", "de Warre", "le Ware" were in succeeding reigns summoned to Parliment as Lords for the Country of York, as may be seen in numerous instances in the abridgement of the Tower Records collected by Robert Cotton.

4.      Christopher Ware, of Yorkshire is said to have been an early convert to the Protestant religion in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

5.      Sir James Ware, a son of Christopher, was given a liberal education and sent to the Court of Queen Elizabeth to push his fortunes. There he soon distinguished himself, being appointed in 1588 Auditor General of Ireland. He was made a member of Parliament from Ireland, representing the Burrough of Mallow County, Cork, in 1613. He was knighted by King James I, who, as a further mark of his esteem granted a reversionary patent of the office of Auditor General to his oldest son.

Sir James Ware died May 14th 1632.

6.       Sir James Ware, 2nd, was born in Dublin Nov. 26, 1594. He was knighted by King James in 1629 and, on the death of his father, succeeded to his estates and office of Auditor General of the kingdom. He was created a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1633, was made a member of the Irish house of Commons 1639. The University of Oxford conferred upon him in 1644 the degree of D. C. L. Doctor of Civil Laws. He died in Dublin Dec. 1, 1666, highly honored as an author, statesman, and celebrated antiquarian. He was called "The Irish Camden". He left two sons and two daughters.

7.       Ann Ware, his sister, married Emmanuel Downing, through whom the celebrated Stoddard family derive their ancestral relationship to the Wares, of which fact they seem to be especially proud, as shown by the prominence given to the Ware branch in the family chart of the "Pedigree of the Stoddard Family":

"Chart of an Abridged Pedigree of the Stoddard Family"

Among the early ancestors, the following item appear:
"Sir James Ware, Knight, Auditor General of Ireland, M. P. 1613, Died May 14, 1632, of Yorkshire; went to Ireland 1588.

8.        Sir Thomas Ware, a tory member of Parliment, "declined to act as ‘Pardon Broker’ at the Court of James the II as against certain girl".
                                         -Pennsylvania Province and State, Bolles, Vol. I.

9.       Thomas Ware, Commander of the British ship, "Ann Piercy" of the "White Squadron in 1653.

10.     Arms of Ware.

Or.- A lion peasant, azure, armed and longued gules, a border of the second
        semee of eschallops
Crest.- A dragon’s head or pierced through with the shiver of a lance.

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11.      M. Ware was a distinguished shipbuilder at Deptford, England and built the government ship, "Brunswick" in 1790.

12.      C. Ware was the commander of the British ship "Swallow", which foundered coming from the Cape of Good Hope, when he lost his life in 1778.

13.      Henry Ware was Captain of the British ship "Warmaid 32" which captured the French ships, "Brutus 15" and "Republic 18" Oct. 10, 1795.

14.      Ware is the name of a vicarage for the Church of England from which Rev. Chas. Chauncy was forced to flee to America to escape the persecution of Land, a church despot in 1629-1635. Rev. Chas. Chauncy became the second (?) President of Harvard College.

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