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Family Name

Ford

Other Names

John

Date of Birth

16 May 1830

Place of Birth

Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Buteshire, Scotland

Date of Death

21 Dec 1914

Place of Death

Prospect, South Australia

Place of Burial

Prospect North Road Anglican Cemetery Plot 3870/3871, Path 26N (Family Plot)

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Approximately 1851 to Melbourne then circa 1852 to S.A. (one Tree Hill – Kapunda- Minlaton-Prospect.)

Lived in Prospect (dates)

Purchased Lot 201, Section 369, Hundred of Yatala on 21 Jan1885. Rented it out until he retired then lived there until his death in 1914.

Addresses in Prospect

11 Alexandra St, Highbury (Prospect)

Names of houses (if any)

Braeside

Parents

Samuel FORD c1786-1836 & Margaret WRIGHT 1792-1882

Spouse(s)

Mary Ann HYDE c1833-1884

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

4 Jul 1855

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Near Bagot’s Gap, South Australia

Children

John Henry 1856-1938, Samuel James 1858-1859, William James 1860-1943, Eleanor “Nellie” 1862-1940, Robert Albert 1864-1927, Samuel 1866-1938, Ann Jane 1868-1943, Alexander 1870-1955, Ernst 1872-1959, Albert Edwin 1878-1949

Occupation(s)

Farm hand (11 years), baker, farmer, GP

Interests

 

Religion/Churches

Anglican

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Justice of the Peace, member of the Land Board for the Central District.

Sources of information

Research compiled by Corinne Fordschmid, 2014 from BMD certificates or transcripts, parish registers. gravestones, Trove, Scotlandspeople, Certificate of Title, David Kilner property research.

 

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