The Ford brothers

[Phoenix]

Here is the family in 1901:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...nSearchResults






George Ford 49 b IOW
Elizabeth Ford 32 b Portsmouth
George Ford 11 b Gosport
Albert Ford 9 " "
William Ford 4 " "
Fred Ford 2 " "
Thomas C Ford 1/12 "



George died in 1904. It looks as if the family fell apart. By 1911, William, Fred, Thomas, and Percy who was born in 1905 were all in Portsmouth Children's Home. The family story was that George and Albert emigrated to Canada. It looks as if they were shipped out as children.


I have been contacted by someone whose ancestor was born in Delta, British Columbia.


I have found a George Ford b 1889 in Nanaimo, British Columbia in the 1911 census.


Can anyone find him subsequently?

[Phoenix]

The George I found was born 22 March 1889 (which tallies with a June registration)

There is a 1907 migration of a George Ford as a Barnardo boy on the Dominion, aged 18.

The ship's manifest says he was a farm hand, but someone born in Gosport could turn their hand to work ashore or at sea.

[kiterunner]

This Find a Grave record could be the same person that you found on the 1911 census as the dob is only a week out, but if so, not the son of George and Elizabeth:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147646612

Though - master mariner? Maybe not the same person then.

[Phoenix]

Sounds like the person on the census: only 22 but in charge of the Kestrel. But clearly not my man. I don't think my George aspired to be married by the Bishop!

Thanks for finding that, Kite.

[Phoenix]

Possibly the George Ford b 21 feb 1890, England who is a servant in Dufferin, Ontario in 1911 is more likely to be my man.

Mustn't it have been bleak, cut off from all you knew, in a strange land, without friends.

[kiterunner]

Someone has more info about your George in their tree and they say he is the Dufferin one:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tr...00157234/facts

[Phoenix]

Ooh, thank you, Kite. Shame they've got the wrong name for his mother