James Edward Ford, 1820 Settler

1770 - 1840  (70 years)

• Name	James Edward Ford  [1]
  Suffix	1820 Settler
  Birth	1770	Homerton, Hackney, London, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Settler	3 Dec 1819	Gravesend, Kent, England
  	Bailie's party on the Chapman
  Settler ID	437
  Death	14 Apr 1840	Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa   [3, 4]
  		Ford, James Edward [31133] DN Caption Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-MQYX-D Keywords: Death Notice
  Person ID	I31133	master
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Edward Ford,   b. 1732, London, Middlesex, England d. Abt 1784 (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Jane Murray,   b. 1731   d. 1799, St Andrew Undershaft, London, England (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F47196	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frances Stransham, 1820 Settler,   b. 25 Jan 1779, Rochester, Kent, England d. 8 Dec 1865, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	19 Jun 1802	St Giles, Camberwell, London, England
  		Ford, James Edward - Frances Stransham Wedding Registry Entry Caption Note: 19th June 1802 - Entry No 566 Marriage of James Edward Fird and Frances Stransham Keywords: Marriage
  Children	1. Henry Stransham Ford,   b. 12 Nov 1803, Southwark, London, England + 2. Frances Jane Clarissa Ford, 1820 Settler,   b. 19 Apr 1805, East Ham, Essex, England d. 5 Dec 1865, Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 60 years) + 3. James Samuel Ford, 1820 Settler,   b. 1806, East Ham, London, England   4. George Henry Ford, 1820 Settler,   b. 1809 + 5. Edward Stransham Ford, 1820 Settler,   b. 1811, England d. 31 Jul 1879, Malmesbury, Western Cape, South Africa (Age 68 years)   6. Adelaide Elizabeth Ford, 1820 Settler,   b. 1812 + 7. Jane Murray Ford, 1820 Settler,   b. 1814, London, England d. Abt Jun 1873, Caen, France (Age 59 years) + 8. John Henry Ford, 1820 Settler,   b. 1817, England d. 7 Nov 1884, Oakwell, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 67 years)   9. Ellen Hester Ford,   b. 1817, Homerton, Hackney, London, England bur. 22 Aug 1818, Homerton, Hackney, London, England (Age ~ 1 years) + 10. Elizabeth Esther Stransham Ford,   b. 25 Feb 1821
  Family ID	F10826	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2021

  
  

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  Marriage - 19 Jun 1802 - St Giles, Camberwell, London, England Settler - 3 Dec 1819 - Gravesend, Kent, England Death - 14 Apr 1840 - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Ford, James Edward Keywords: Picture

  
  

• Notes

  He applied to emigrate from Homerton, Hackney, London, after the total failure of his business. He joined Bailie's party in company with his friends P.R.Marillier and Edward Roberts, and paid the deposit for an indentured servant, William Gray, as well as his own family. He was elected head of a subdivision of the party, but its members complained of his treatment and reorganised themselves under the leadership of Timothy Flanegan. Ford applied for a separate grant of land, but gave up farming altogether at the beginning of 1822 when he moved to Grahamstown as a professional miniature painter. After spending some time in Uitenhage he moved to Cape Town and opened a studio in Boquet Street. His wife conducted a ladies' seminary. He died in 1840, leaving his widow and eight child¬ren: Frances Jane (Marillier), James Samuel, George Henry, Edward Stransham, Adelaide Elizabeth (Wright), Jane Murray, John Henry and Elizabeth. His estate consisted of house¬hold furniture only. The Ford family were originally Unitarians, but Mrs Frances Ford was converted to Roman Catholicism in Cape Town, and after her husband's death became housekeeper to a Catholic priest, Father Devereaux, in George and then in Grahamstown, where she opened a school. It was subsequently taken over by the nuns of the Convent of the Assumption, with which she was closely associated until her death in Grahamstown in 1865. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4396] Fourie, Neill. [S439] Nash, MD, "Bailie's Party of 1820 Settlers", (ISBN 0 86961 140 2). [S439] Nash, MD, "Bailie's Party of 1820 Settlers", (ISBN 0 86961 140 2), https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQX-MQYX-D (Reliability: 3). [S2597] 2517051, (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2517051).