NZ Marriages (Bride)
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NZ Marriages (Groom)
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1902/399 | Frances Ellen | Talbot | Charles Dudley Robert | Ward | Order Product |
NZ Births (Mother)
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NZ Deaths
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1913/7601 | Ward | Charles Dudley Robert | 1827 | 86Y | Order Product |
Gisborne Photo News (1954-1975, 1993–1996)
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Nelson Photo News (1960-1972)
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Tributes Online (obituaries)
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Whanganui Council Property Rolls
Ward, Charles Dudley Robert 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://wdc.whanganui.govt.nz/propertyrolls/data.aspx?id=search
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Te Papa Collections - People
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Name | Birth | Death | Died at | Gender |
Judge Charles Dudley Robert Ward | 9 July 1827 | 30 August 1913 | Dunedin | Male |
Otago Nominal Index
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WARD | Charles Dudley Robert | Wellington | Otago | 19 Feb 1864 |
WARD | Charles Robert Dudley | Park st | Dunedin & Suburbs & Districts | 1870-71 |
NZ Presbyterian Marriages
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Shadows of Time
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Our Stuff - Denise & Peter's NZ history site
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Officer H. M. Customs Ward Charles Dudley Robert Wellington Tce Ward Edward Wellington Mariner Warmoll John Lambton Quay Storekeeper Warren John Henry Lambton Quay Bookbinder
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1858Q-Z.htm
Elect1857Q-Z
Officer H. M. Customs Ward Charles Dudley Robert Thordon Flat Barrister at Law Ward Edward Wellington Mariner Warren John Henry Lambton Quay Book binder Waters George Willis St
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1857Q-Z.htm
Elect1865Q-Z
Kemmis Lambton Qu Ward Charles Dudley Robert Hawkstone St Ward Charles Taranaki St Ward Edward Taranaki St Warmoll John Courtenay Pl Wassell Edward Tinakori Rd Waters George Dixon
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Elect1855 Q-Z
Officer of Customs Ward Charles Dudley Robert Thorndon Flat Barrister at Law Ward James Town Belt Labourer Waters George Dickson St Storekeeper Waters Thomas Hill St Merchant
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1855Q-Z.htm
JP'sN- Z
Brookly Omaka Marlborough Ward Charles Dudley Robert Wellington Wardell Herbert Samuel Wairarapa Wellington Waters Thomas Wanganui Watson John Akaroa Canterbury Watt Isaac Newton
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/JP1866N-Z.htm
JP1868M-Z
Joseph Omaka,Marlborough Ward Charles Dudley Robert Wellington Wardell Herbert Samuel Wairarapa, Wellington Waters Thomas Wanganui Watson John Akaroa Watt Isaac Newton Dunedin
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/JP1868M-Z.htm
Asterope1863
Thomas Smith Lizzie Ward Charles Dudley Robert Mrs A Copyright Denise & Peter 2002 - 2009 Reference: Wellington Independent October 4th 1863 RootsWeb is funded and supported by
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Sooty NZ (NZ history and genealogical information)
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NZ Genealogy Research Made Easy
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Transcriptions NZ
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March 1981, age 98. wife of Joseph. photo 299 WARD - Charles Dudley Robert, d. 31 August 1913, photo 300 WARD - Anne, d. 31 May 1896, wife of Charles Dudley Robert, photo 300
https://www.transcriptions.nz/Gravestone.Photos/Burwood.All.Saints.churchyard.ht...
Alexander Turnbull Library
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DigitalNZ
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Macdonald Dictionary Record: Charles Dudley Robert Ward | One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Charles Dudley Robert Ward. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964. | George Ranald Macdonald | Canterbury Museum / Canterbury Museum |
Inward letters - Surnames, War - War | Correspondents: Abraham Warbrick, Auckland & Tauranga, 1844, 1860-1876 (15 letters); C D R Ward, Wellington & Dunedin, 1864, 1876 & undated (4 letters); Robert Ward, Rangitikei, 1869 & 1871 (2 letters) Quantity: 1 folder(s). | Not specified | TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library | |
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Judge Ward | The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts] - His Honour Charles Dudley Robert Ward - Judge Ward. | Cyclopedia Company Limited | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington |
His Honour Charles Dudley Robert Ward - The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts] | His Honour Charles Dudley Robert Ward , District Court Judge in Otago, is the eldest son of Sir Henry George Ward, G.C.M.G., of Gilston Park, Herts, who died in the year 1860, as Governor of Madras. Mr. Ward was educated at Rugby and at Wadham College, Oxford. After studying law at the Inner Temple he was called to the Bar in 1853, and arrived ... | Cyclopedia Company Limited | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
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Judge Ward : an ’infamous’ New Zealand colonist and his two celebrity wives | "Three fascinating figures from Victorian New Zealand are portrayed in this study... Dudley Ward was an early MP, becoming a controversial Judge who presided over a number of sensational cases in the courts ... his first wife, Anne, was the first president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and helped women get the vote in 1893 .... Thorp... | Adams, Geoffrey T. (Geoffrey Thomas), 1933- | South Canterbury Museum / South Canterbury Museum |



Legacy.com NZ Obituaries
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Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph
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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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Find A Grave (NZ cemeteries)
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Name | Born | Died | Cemetery | Cemetery location | Region |
Charles Dudley Robert Ward | 6 Jul 1827 🔍 | 31 Aug 1913 🔍 📰 | All Saints Church Cemetery | Burwood, Christchurch City | Canterbury |
Kura Heritage Collections (Auckland)
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Upper Hutt City Libraries Heritage Collections
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NZ Electronic Text Centre
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Archives NZ
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Justice Department > Inwards letters and registered files
Department of Internal Affairs, Head Office > Central filing system
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From: Charles Dudley Robert Ward, Returning Officer, Wellington To: Colonial Secretary, Wellington Date: 28 November 1865 Subject: Departmental Return | 1865 | Wellington | Open |
Dunedin High Court > Dunedin probate and Letters of Administration files (I)
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WARD Charles Dudley Robert - Maori Hill near Dunedin - Retired Judge | 1913 | Dunedin | Open |
Department of Justice, Head Office > Wellington Land District Deposited Deeds
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Power of Attorney - William Henry Rawson to Charles Clifford [Includes No. 2668 Power of Attorney - William Henry Rawson to [Charles Dudley Robert] Ward & [John Howard] Wallace] |
1895 | Wellington | Open |
Tinui History
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Masterton Anglican History
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Tasman Heritage
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West Coast NZ History
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Archives Central (Manawatū-Whanganui)
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Canterbury Museum Collections - People
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Lower Hutt MyRecollect
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Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)
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Source: A Dictionary of NZ Biography, by Scholefield (1940), from NZ History / CC BY-NC 3.0 NZ
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Charles Dudley Robert Ward | WARD, CHARLES DUDLEY ROBERT (1827-1913) was born at Gilston Park, Hertfordshire, the eldest son of Sir Henry George Ward, who became governor of Madras. He was educated at Rugby and at Wadham College, Oxford, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1853, and in 1854 emigrated to New Zealand. In the following year he was elected member for the Wellington County district in the House of Representatives (retired 1858), and in 1857 was appointed chairman of the courts of sessions of the peace for Wellington, and presiding judge of the magistrate's courts for Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa and Wanganui. Subsequently he was appointed resident magistrate for Wellington (1864); district judge for Wellington, Wanganui, Marlborough and Hawkes Bay (1866); acting Supreme Court judge at Dunedin (1868); district judge for Westland, Southland and Otago (1869), and acting Supreme Court judge at Auckland (1886), Christchurch (1887), and Dunedin (1894). Ward declined a permanent appointment on the Supreme Court bench in 1896. He retired in 1906, and served for a time as chairman of the railway board of appeal. His death occurred on 30 Aug 1913. Cycl. N.Z., iv (p); Who's Who N.Z., 1908; Otago Daily Times, 1 Sep 1913, 2 May 1914. | Volume 2, page 232 |
WARD, CHARLES DUDLEY ROBERT (1827-1913) was born at Gilston Park, Hertfordshire, the eldest son of Sir Henry George Ward, who became governor of Madras. He was educated at Rugby and at Wadham College, Oxford, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1853, and in 1854 emigrated to New Zealand. In the following year he was elected member for the Wellington County district in the House of Representatives (retired 1858), and in 1857 was appointed chairman of the courts of sessions of the peace for Wellington, and presiding judge of the magistrate's courts for Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa and Wanganui. Subsequently he was appointed resident magistrate for Wellington (1864); district judge for Wellington, Wanganui, Marlborough and Hawkes Bay (1866); acting Supreme Court judge at Dunedin (1868); district judge for Westland, Southland and Otago (1869), and acting Supreme Court judge at Auckland (1886), Christchurch (1887), and Dunedin (1894). Ward declined a permanent appointment on the Supreme Court bench in 1896. He retired in 1906, and served for a time as chairman of the railway board of appeal. His death occurred on 30 Aug 1913.
Cycl. N.Z., iv (p); Who's Who N.Z., 1908; Otago Daily Times, 1 Sep 1913, 2 May 1914.
Volume 2, page 232NZ War Graves
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Wellington City Council Archives
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Masterton Library Wairarapa Archive
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NZSG Kiwi Collection (non-member records)
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WARD, Charles Dudley Robert 🔍 | 1913 | NZ Probates |
WARD, Charles Dudley Robert 🔍 | 19 Sep 1913 | NZ Probates |
Puke Ariki Collections - People
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Hocken Digital Collections
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Discover EverAfter (NZ Cemeteries)
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Charles Dudley Robert Ward | 31 Aug 1913 🔍 📰 | All Saints Anglican Church Graveyard, Burwood | Canterbury |