William
Ford
Born about in Ballinascarthy, County Cork, Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of John Ford
and Thomasina (Smith) Ford
Brother of
Rebecca (Ford) Flaherty, Mary Ford, Nancy Anna (Ford) Flaherty, Henry Ford and Samuel Ford
Husband of
Mary (Litogot) Ford
— married
21 Apr 1861 in Wayne county, Michigan, USA
Descendants 
Died
at about age 78
in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Dec 2010
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Biography
William Ford was born in Ireland.
William was born in Ballinascarthy near Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland and was the son of Thomasine (née Smith) and Jonathan "John" Ford.
The family arrived in Quebec in 1847 and then onto the United States.
On April 21, 1861, William married Mary Litogot in Wayne County, Michigan, daughter of Belgian immigrants. He and Mary had eight children, six of whom survived into adulthood. They moved to Detroit, Michigan.
William Ford 73 yrs, widower, retired farmer, Margaret 32 yrs, Jane 30 yrs resided in 1900 in 582 Boulevard West, Detroit city Ward 14, Wayne, Michigan, United States. [1]
William Ford 50 yrs, farmer, Henry 17 yrs, John 14 yrs, Maggie 13 yrs, Jennie 12 yrs, William 10 yrs, Patrick Oherin 68 yrs, resided in 1880 in Springwells, Wayne, Michigan. [2]
William died of natural causes on March 8, 1905, in his home
William is interred at Ford Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. [3]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DZDQ-F68?cc=1325221&wc=9BQV-2J4%3A1030554301%2C1030554302%2C1031114801 : 5 August 2014), Michigan > Wayne > ED 151 Detroit city Ward 14 > image 10 of 27; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBV-3FK?cc=1417683&wc=XW9H-PTL%3A1589394748%2C1589394747%2C1589406406%2C1589398272 : 24 December 2015), Michigan > Wayne > Springwells > ED 263 > image 64 of 77; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
- ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 July 2019), memorial page for William Ford (10 Dec 1826–8 Mar 1905), Find A Grave: Memorial #7017437, citing Ford Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Earl Richard Sutton (contributor 43016934)
See also:
- "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHCP-MRK : 14 June 2019), William Ford, Greenfield, Wayne, Michigan, United States, 1870.
- Ancestry Profile
- Wikidata: Item Q8009204, pt:Wikipedia
Acknowledgements
This person was created through the import of McDonald Family Tree.ged on 02 December 2010.
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Categories: Ford Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan
when he left home and the tenanted farm at Ballinascarty, Co. Cork, with the rest of the family. They had to travel 30 miles to reach Cork, and like many others they would have loaded their belongings on to a handcart along with the young members of the family, while the older children and their parents walked alongside. On the rocky paths and what passed for roads at that time it would have taken them 2-3 adays. In those days some ships loaded and sailed from Cork rather than the harbor at Cobh.
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