Date of Birth: 22nd April 1918

Place of Birth: John Street, Wexford

Date Interviewed: 14th April 2010

Summary: Teresa Ward is a true Wexfordian born above ‘the cock’ (a water pump) in John Street. Her mother was a nursemaid and her father a stonemason. She grew in a time when the house key was kept on a string hanging inside the front door as there was “no such thing as robbers then”. On finishing school Teresa worked for a time in Wexford County Council for the then Co. Manager T.D.Sinnott. She then moved to O’Connor’s Solicitors where she worked for eighteen years. Teresa tells the story of a Fair day in Wexford when she came out of work to be told there was a dead man in her house. Fearing for her father she ran up Hill Street through all the animal excrement to find a farmer lying dead on the parlour floor! Apparently he had dropped dead while her mother had been paying for a couple of piglets she had just bought.