Margaret Ward
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 436 years ago |
Born | Congleton |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | August 30,1588 |
Died | Tyburn |
London | |
Feast | England |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic |
Books | Unmanageable revolutionaries |
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: A Life | |
The Female Line: Researching Your Female Ancestors | |
A Dictionary of Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950 | |
The Missing Sex: Putting Women Into Irish History | |
Maud Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc | |
Letters from Betty | |
Fearless Woman: A Biography | |
One Camp Chair in the Living Room: A Woman's Life in Rottingdean | |
Date of birth | January 1,1550 |
Vener in | Anglican Communion |
Roman Catholic Church | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1149287 |
Margaret Ward Life story
Margaret Ward, the "pearl of Tyburn", was an English Catholic martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for assisting a priest to escape from prison. She was canonised in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.