Good Morning....well....Mate I dont have such things as an image of the parish records....Im sure someone in the family does amd trust me I would have heard if the name was Weard...I believe this is a typo or just someone that just "dont spell real good" Have you not considered thats why you may be have trouble finding this information..I have been able to supply some answers to your questions from the Family book so have a little info but not such things as parish record or scans.
The name of the Master of the ship was John Ward - but Mary Preston definitely names the father of her daughter (at baptism later in February 1811) as James Ward - we know nothing of him at all apart from the fact he was named as the father of Mary Ward. There is no known convict of this name on the ship, so presumably he was part of the crew and returned with his ship.
There are many familytrees on MyH I carefully borrowed this one from Stephen Wood....as he seems to be the most reliable Familysearch has information there also..isnt it weard that not one mentioned the surname weard
Frances Maria (Mary) Preston/McMahon (born Ward)
1811 - 1837
Birth: Feb 1 1811
Sydney City, New South Wales, Australia
Christening: Feb 10 1811
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: Marriage to: William Henry Payton
May 19 1828
Pitt Town, New South Wales, Australia
Death: Died in childbirth
Nov 27 1837
Pitt Town, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
Burial: Nov 29 1837
Pitt Town, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
Family members
Parents:
James John Ward
1776 - 1812
Mary Ward/mcmahon (born Preston)
1790 - 1862
Husband:
William Henry Payton
1799 - 1869
Mary Preston married an Irish convict, Patrick McMAHON in 1813 and they had a son - John James McMahon - about whom nothing is known; possibly he died young - we don't know. Patrick arrived on the "Anne" in 1810. In 1814 he received a conditional pardon - information given was that he was tried at Middlesex 1809, was a native of Limerick, occupation - attorney, age 29. He was about 5'5" tall, fair ruddy complexion, red hair, hazel eyes. Patrick died in a drunken brawl (he didn't fall, he was pushed) in 1816. Mary, who it seems was nothing short of amazing for her time, put in a claim c 1818 for what we would probably now call damages and lost wages, to Patrick's employer - for the small sum (not) of £6,000 - but I've never found evidence that (a) she received any compensation or (b) that she even went through with the case. This I believe is the source of the "Irish connection" story, continued through to the death certificate of Sophia Wilbow (nee Payton) and continued as oral tradition (possibly) in other family lines. Mary seems to have had her wits about her, she was literate, after the death of her husband she tried to get compensation through legal means and she started a clothing/general goods shop (from memory I think that's what she sold), she advertised in the papers and later she started a lodging house. Mary McMahon (nee Preston)