'Ford02'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Ford of Barbados, Ford of Ember Court, Ford of Harting, Ford of Kingston, Ford of Sussex

                               
Showing the following Richard & William as brothers is highly speculative and is being done more to show the Ford-Carew connections together, in case this helps further research, than because we consider it likely that they were indeed brothers. We do not know how the Carews mentioned fit with the family shown on Carew01.
?? Ford
1. Richard Ford of Penshurst, Sussex
  m. Maria or Mercy Carew (dau/coheir of Thomas Carew of Beddington)
  A. Margaret Ford (coheir)
  m. John Ashfield of Eithorpe
2. William Ford of Kingston upon Thames
  m. _ Carew (dau of _ Carew of Beddington)
  A. Walter Ford of Kingston (remembrancer of the King's Exchequer)
m. Margaret Leigh (dau of Rafe Leigh of Stockwell (by Elizabeth, dau of Henry Langley by dau of ?? Walden by dau of ?? of Breton), widow of Sir Henry Frowick of Gannelsbury)
  i. Erasmus Ford of Harting, Sussex
  m. Julian Salford (dau of William Salford of Derbyshire by Ellen, dau of Sir Richard Chawey)
  a. Edmond Ford of Harting
  m. Joane Cheesman (dau/heir of John Cheesman of Lewsam by Ann, dau/heir of Thomas Ustithen by Ellen, dau of Thomas Gonthorp)
  The following is supported by Mundy's Middlesex Pedigrees (1914, Cheesman of Dormans Well).
  (1) Dorothy Ford
  m. Francis Fortescue of Fawburne, Essex
  (2) Magdalyn Ford
m1/2. John Ford @@ below
  m2/1. Henry Knevett of Warwickshire
  (A) issue including Robert, Henry
  (3)+ other issue - Thomas (dsp), Mary
  b. Erasmus Ford
  m. Ann Skipwith (dau of Richard Skipwith)
  (1)+ issue - Margaret, Dorothy
  c.+ other issue - Frances (dsp), Isabel
  ii. Anthony Ford (dsp)
  iii. Dorothy Ford
  m. William Martyn
  B. daughter possibly of this generation
  m. Thomas Newington

 

 

J. Ford of Devon
m. _ Claverton (heir)
1. John Ford
  m. _ Apleton
A. John Ford
  m. Magdalen Ford (dau of Edmund Ford of Harting) @@ above
  i. Sir William Ford of Harting
  m. Anna Carrell (dau of Sir Ed. Carrell of Sussex)
  a. (Sir) Edward Ford 'of Harting'
  m. Sara Ireton ('dau of German Ireton of Ireton')
  (1) Anne Ford (d young?)
  (2) Catherine Ford (b 22.05.1634, d c1682) probably of this generation
  m1. (08.09.1648) Alexander Colepeper (dvpsp 02.03.1648/9)
  m2. (03.1648-9) Ralph Grey, 2nd Lord of Werke (bpt 27.10.1630, d 15.06.1675)
  b. John Ford
  m1. Anne Smith of London
  (1)+ issue - William, Anne
  m2. Elizabeth Kempe of Hampshire
  c. William Ford
  d. Catherine Ford probably the Catherine who married ...
  m. (1639) Henry Weston of Ockham (d 1666)
  ii.+ other issue - Edmond, John

 

 

Descended from a Devonshire family was ...
Thomas Ford of The Ridge in the Barbados
m. (24.07.1690) Eleanor Austin
1. Francis Ford (bpt 06.02.1693, member of the Assembly of Barbados)
  m. Martha Matson (dau of Smithell Matson, widow of Capt. John Hooper)
A. Francis Ford of Lears (b 24.02.1717, d 1772, member of the Assembly of Barbados)
  m. (28.01.1758) Elizabeth Hothersall (bur 18.04.1764, dau of Birch Hothersall, relict of Samuel Osborne)
  i. Sir Francis Ford of Ember Court in Surrey, 1st Bart (b 15.11.1758, d 17.06.1801, member of the Assembly of Barbados, MP)
  m. (22.01.1785) Mary Anson (d 20.01.1837, dau of George Anson of Orgrave by Mary, dau of 1st Lord Vernon)
  a. Sir Francis Ford of Ember Court, 2nd Bart (b 15.02.1787, d 13.04.1839) had issue
  m. (04.09.1817) Eliza Brady (d 29.05.1875, dau of Henry Brady of Limerick)
b. George Ford
  c. Charles Ford (b 1797, d 09.05.1863, rector of Billingford & Postwick) had issue
  m. (09.05.1839) Catherine Stuart (dau of Henry Stuart, niece of Viscount Anson)
  d. Mary Ford (d 12.05.1872)
  m1. (24.02.1807) Peter Touchet
  m2. (20.07.1816) Henry Elton (Captain RN, son of Sir Abraham, Bart)
  e. Georgiana Ford (d 04.1879)
  m. (04.03.1816) I.W.F. Welch of Ebworth Park
f. Sophia Catherine Ford (dsp 29.04.1847)
  m. (19.02.1822) John Palmer Chichester of Arlington (d 05.11.1823, Colonel)
  g. Caroline Ford (d 24.09.1882)
  m. John Hyde of Ardwick
  h. Anne Ford (d 29.06.1870)
  m. (20.07.1844) Robert Bertram Mitford (dsp 01.12.1880, brother of John Philip Osbaldeston of Mitford Castle)
  ii. Martha Ford
  m. W. Becher of Howbury
  iii. Anne Ford
  m. John Swinfen of Swinfen Hall
  iv. Elizabeth Ford
  m. John, 10th Lord Colville

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Ford)
(2) For middle section : Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Ford)
(3) For lower section : BP1934 (Ford of Ember Court)
[What was previously shown as the upper section has been absorbed into the lower section on Ford04.]
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