The Ford Family
Alfred Thomas Ford
8 August 1847, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
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Mary Ann (Thresh, Ford) Line
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Mary Ann Thresh on 3 August 1881,
at Bishopstowe, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Alfred Thomas Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 29. He is an engineer,
resident in Maritzburg. Mary Ann Thresh is recorded as a spinster, aged 24,
resident in Maritzburg. The marriage was witnessed by George Thresh and M.
Cohen.
Natal Witness 6 August 1881
At Bishopstowe, by the Right Rev the Lord Bishop
of Natal, Alfred Thomas Ford, of the firm of EF & AT Ford of PMBurg to
Mary Ann younger daughter of George Thrash of PMBurg
Mary Ann, who was known as "Polly", was born on 7 June 1857, in Northampton,
Northamptonshire, England, the daughter of George Thresh and Emma Flower, who were to found,
and be long time proprietors of, the Imperial Hotel in Pietermaritzburg. She
was baptised on 14 April 1878 in St Peter, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, the
baptism being witnessed by William Law Hester, Maria Hester and Emma Thresh.
Mary Ann married, secondly, Leonard Line on 14 July 1891 in St
Peters Cathedral, Pietermaritzburg. Mary Ann and Leonard had two children, Richard
George Line and Leonard Parker Line.
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Headstone of Mary Ann (Thresh, Ford) Line
in Commercial Road cemetery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
photograph by John Deare posted at eGGSA
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In 1894, a case was heard in the Natal Supreme Court as to whether it was
necessary for Mary Anne to change the name on her deed of Erf No. 2, Burger
Street in Pietermaritzburg from the name of Mary Anne Ford on the deed to
her new name of Mary Anne Line (Natal Law ReportsS: Supreme Court 1894 p48).
Mary Ann died on 17 October 1902, at 192 Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg, aged
45. The cause of death is listed as phthisis pulmonalis (tuberculosis).
She was buried in Commercial Road cemetery, Pietermaritzburg.
Census & Addresses:
1861: West
Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding)
1902: 192 Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1902 #228 DGS 007866811 image 163)
Blacksmith and Engineer. At his
marriage he is noted as being "of the firm of EF & AT Ford of PMBurg".
On the birth
registration of his daughter Bertha in 1882, and on his death
certificate, Alfred's occupation is listed as blacksmith, while at Bertha's
baptism he is listed as an engineer. In his probate proceedings,
Alfred's occupation is given as "wagon maker, machinist"
Alfred usually used his middle name
"Tom"
Alfred emigrated to Natal aboard the Phantom, arriving in Durban on
10 July 1858. He is recorded as aged 10, and surety was stood by George
Andrews, his brother-in-law. Accompanying Alfred on the Phantom
were his parents, Edward (49) and Elizabeth (50) and siblings
Sarah (21), Lucy (19), Ellen (15), Edward (13), Selina (11), Emily (8) and
George (6).
Alfred was a sponsor at the baptism of his nephew, Alfred Frederick Ford, in
1878.
In his
death notice it is noted that the property left by Alfred was:
Portion of Erf 2 Burger Street with house thereon
valued in Corporation Roll £500
Household Furniture £150
and his partnership share in the firm of E.F. and A.T. Ford not yet
accurately ascertained.
10 October 1883, at Burger Street,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, aged 36
Alfred Thomas Ford died on Oct 10 1883 at Burger Street, P.M.Burg. He is a
blacksmith. The cause of death is listed as tetanus.
Robert King writes that "my father told me Tom scratched himself on
something rusty at the Business (at that stage EF and AT Ford), which turned
to tetanus and he died."
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Grave of Alfred Thomas Ford in Commercial
Road cemetery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
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11 October 1883, in Commercial Road
cemetery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal. The grave is located in Map 6 Section JJ
Plot 25.
The inscription reads:
Here lie the remains of
ALFRED THOMAS,
better known as TOM FORD,
one of nature's noblemen.
Born Aug. 8th. 1847.
Died Oct. 10th. 1883
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
Alfred Frederick Ford
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Alfred Frederick Ford (c. 1900) at
Kingston Lodge
(click for full picture)
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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John Bartle Ford, Emily Winifred Elizabeth
Ford, Alfred Frederick Ford, Edward William Ford and in front,
Joseph Clifford Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Fords at Kingston Lodge
L to R. Back: Alfred, Winifred, Joseph, George. Front: Edward
Funnell, Emily née Risley, John, Edward William. Very front:
Wilfred
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Alfred Frederick Ford is fourth from left
in the back row at the 80th birthday of his mother, Emily (Risley)
Ford at Kingston Lodge in November 1932. His wife, Ada (Wallis)
Ford is standing sixth from the left.
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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31 January 1878, at Loop Street,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
24 March 1878, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by Alfred Thos. Ford and parents
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
Ada Wallis in 1910 in Camberwell
district, London, England
Alfred, his sister Emily and their parents visited London for the Franco-British
Exhibition of 1908, hosted by the Marshalls, whose company Edward
represented in South Africa. Marshall's London representative was a William
J. Wallis who had three daughters, Ellen, Ada and Ethel. Alfred carried out
a correspondence courtship with Ada after his return to South Africa,
proposed and was accepted, before he returned to England to marry her in
1910.
Robert King tells us that "Alf and Ada had a very quiet wedding in London in
December 1910 ... there were only 25 invited to the wedding, including the
Imperial Russian Ambassador. Ada always claimed she had been cutting
sandwiches half an hour before she left for the church."
Ada was born on 12 July 1886, in Beckenham, Kent, the daughter of William
James Wallis and Eliza Martin. Robert King relates that Ada was "a lovely
woman who loved entertaining and took over from her mother in law (when
Emily gave up her own home) giving the big parties, including the 21st
dances for most of the eldest children of Alf's siblings. ... I have fond
memories of Alf and Ada's Golden Wedding in December 1960. It was an all day
affair, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and a supper. We went to the
afternoon tea and I've a photo of everyone present taken on the lawn. My
grandmother had gone to her milliner to have new hat made for the occasion.
... Ada's sister, Ethel Wallis, who had been a bridesmaid at the wedding in
1910 and had worked for Winston Churchill came out from London for the
occasion." Ada died on 1 April 1976, and is buried in St Johns Anglican
Church cemetery, Pinetown, Natal, South Africa.
Census:
1891: Spenser
Road, East Brixton, London
1901:
Hollingborne Road, Camberwell, London
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Memorial to Alfred Frederick Ford and Ada
(Wallis) Ford in St Johns Anglican Church cemetery, Pinetown,
Natal
photograph by Eleanor Garvie posted
at eGGSA
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Carriage builder
Alf built his house, Budleigh, at the beginning of Chase Valley Road, out of
his proceeds from the rickshaw business he ran from the Ford business.
Budleigh was on a five acre property, and included a tennis court. It was
the venue for Ada's dances and the weddings of their three children.
Alfred and Ada retired to Pinetown in the 1950's, to be close to their
daughter, Joyce (who lived a couple of doors away in Glenugue Road,
Pinetown).
3 June 1967, at Braemar Nursing Home,
Pinetown, Natal, South Africa, aged 89
St Johns Anglican Church cemetery,
Pinetown, Natal, South Africa
1911: Chase Valley Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (birth
register of daughter Ellen)
1914: Budleigh, Chase Valley Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (baptism
record of son Frederick)
1949: Budleigh, Chase Valley Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1950 #150 GS film 007869147 image 1717)
1950: Budleigh, 14 Chase Valley Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p1542)
- Pietermaritzburg
birth registers 1878 p2 #26; parish
records of St Peters Pietermaritzburg Baptisms 1878 p176; mother's
family bible; place from Zimbabwe
death register #1187/67
- Parish
records of St Peters Pietermaritzburg Baptisms 1878 p176
- Pietermaritzburg
birth registers 1878 p2 #26; parish
records of St Peters Pietermaritzburg Baptisms 1878 p176
- England Marriage Index
(4Q1910 Camberwell vol 1d p1512); memorial
in St Johns Anglican Church cemetery, Pinetown, Natal; Ada birth
from England Birth Index (3Q1886 Bromley vol 2a p413) with exact date
from memorial
in St Johns Anglican Church cemetery, Pinetown, Natal and exact
place from 1901 census; Ada parents from 1901 census with mother's
maiden name from England Marriage Index (4Q1882 Wandsworth vol 1d
p1147); Ada death, burial from memorial
in St Johns Anglican Church cemetery, Pinetown, Natal
- Birth register of
daughter Ellen in Pietermaritzburg
birth registers 1911 p92 #389; baptism record of son Frederick in
parish
records of St Peters Pietermaritzburg Baptisms 1914 p9
- Correspondence with
Robert King
- Zimbabwe
death register #1187/67; memorial
in St Johns Anglican Church cemetery, Pinetown, Natal; National
Archives of South Africa (NAB 1874/1967) Text: FORD, ALFRED
FREDERICK. BORN IN PIETERMARITZBURG, NATAL. S SP FORD, ADA. BORN WALLIS.
DECEASED ESTATE.
- Memorial
in St Johns Anglican Church cemetery, Pinetown, Natal
- Alfred Frederick Ford
Alfred Thomas Ford
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Alfred Thomas Ford
(click for full group picture)
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Alfred Thomas Ford is standing second from
left in this Ford family grouping, probably at Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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5 January 1885
7 April 1885 in St Albans,
Pretoria, South African Republic
Alfred Thomas is recorded as born on Jan 5th 1885 and baptised on
April 7th 1885, the son of George and Mary Anne Ford. George is a
blacksmith, resident in Pretoria. The baptism was witnessed by E J Johnson,
George Ford and Mary Ann Ford
George Ford
Mary Ann (Morrison) Ford
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Susanna Stoffelina (Joubert) Young and her
first child, 1918
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Susanna Stoffelina (Joubert) Young
on 23 December 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Alfred Thomas Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 36, born in the Transvaal
and resident at 21st Carolinas JMburg. Susana Stoffelina Young (born
Joubert) is recorded as a divorcee, aged 22, born in the Transvaal, resident
at 19 Park ???. The couple signed as A. Thos. Ford and S. S. Young.
Alfred Thomas and Susanna were divorced in 1925, and Susanna was married for
a third time on 12 December 1925.
Susanna was born in 1897/8, the daughter of Johannes Christiaan
Joubert and Maria Magdalena Janse van Rensberg. She was married firstly to
_____ Young, this marriage ending in divorce. After her divorce from Alfred
Thomas Ford, Susanna married Robert Marshall on 12 December 1925 in Durban,
Natal, at which time her address is listed as Russell Street, Durban.
Motor salesman
Known as "Tom".
29 July 1950, at General Hospital,
Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa, aged 66
Alfred Thomas is recorded as a widower, aged 66, born in the Transvaal. He
is a motor salesman resident at Alexander Hotel, Jack Street, Germiston. The
cause of death is listed as myocarditis, of duration 3 months, and
congestive cardiac failure, of duration 12 months.
1 August 1950, in St Saviour,
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
1920: Alexander Hotel, Jack Street, Germiston (death
notice)
Alice Ford
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Alice Ford
(click for full group picture)
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Alice Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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George Ford
Mary Ann (Morrison) Ford
Bertha Elizabeth (Ford) Stride
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Bertha Elizabeth Ford
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Bertha Elizabeth Ford
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Rodericka MacDonald (left) and Bertha
Elizabeth Ford (right)
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6 May 1882, at Burger Street,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
11 June 1882, in St Peter,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Berttha Elizabeth is recorded as born on May 6th 1882, the
daughter of Alfred Thomas and Mary Ann Ford. Alfred is an engineer, resident
in Maritzburg. The baptism sponsors are Eliz Macdonald, ? ??? and William
Howes.
Alfred Thomas
Ford
Mary Ann (Thresh) Ford
Philip
William Stride on 6 June 1904, at St Peter's Cathedral,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Philip William Stride is recorded as a bachelor, aged 34. He is an asst.
town clerk, resident in Maritzburg. Bertha Elizabeth Ford is recorded as a
spinster, of full age, resident in Maritzburg. The marriage was witnessed by
M.T.J. Harte, Geo. Ford and E. Stride.
Bertha inherited a half-share of the
dwelling on Erf No.2 Loop Street from her father, the other half going to
her mother. In 1894, an application was made to Bertha's guardian for monies
to pay a half-share of improvements to the property. This request was
granted (Natal Law Reports: Supreme Court 1894 p47).
Bertha is recorded as one of the "ladies in white, with sashes of red,
white, and blue" waiting tables at a large luncheon held in Pietermaritzburg
on 17 October 1900 to celebrate the Relief of Ladysmith and thank the
returning soldiers and volunteers.
Natal Volunteer Record: The Welcome pp31-2
In the Market Hall, the Mayor
(Major Macfarlane) entertained at luncheon 546 guests, mostly returned
volunteers, being supported by a brilliant assembly, including seven
Colonels and other Military men and Colonial Ministers and Justices.
Ladies in white, with sashes of red, white, and blue, waited at
table, viz.:—Mesdames P. F. Payn, H. B. Collins, W. G. Eccles, A. M.
Holloway, Harkness, R. Haworth, E. C. Lawrence, Hannah Ross, Webb, the
Misses W. F. Nicholson, L. Muir, A. E. Nicholson, Burton, Ireland,
MacDonald, R. MacDonald, Bertha Ford, Margaret Haworth, Mabel G. Andrews,
Payn, M. Payn, Fiddes, Anderson, Fanny Anderson, E. Gordon, Murdock, Abel,
Collins, M. Collins, O’Brien, B. O’Brien, Wolhuter, Carmichael, Forsyth,
Rowe, Natalie Wilson, O’Meara, and Sisters of the Nursing Institute.
19 February 1953 at Grey's Hospital,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 70
The cause of death is listed as carcinoma of colon, of duration 8 months.
Mountain Rise cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
1923: 214 Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1923 #15560 DGS 007866893 image 347)
1953: 21 Riverton Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (death
certificate)
Edward Ford
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Edward Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Edward Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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15 November 1807, in London,
Middlesex
13 December 1807, in St George
Hanover Square, Middlesex, England
John Ford
Mary
Elizabeth
Funnell on 27 May 1828, in St Mary, Portsea, Hampshire, England
Edward Ford and Elizabeth Funnell are both recorded as single. The marriage
was witnessed by Sophia Williams and Henry Tomlin.
Whitesmith (1832, 1834, 1836,
1841, 1861); Lock & White Smith (1851); Blacksmith
Edward emigrated to Natal aboard the Phantom, arriving in Durban on
10 July 1858. He is recorded as aged 49, and surety was stood by George
Andrews, Edward's son-in-law. Accompanying Edward on the Phantom
were his wife Elizabeth (50) and children Sarah (21), Lucy (19),
Ellen (15), Edward (13), Selina (11), Alfred (10), Emily (8) and George (6).
Mary Ann had previously emigrated aboard the Lady
of the Lake in 1855, and the two elder daughters, Elizabeth and
Harriet would come out in 1861 aboard the Leila.
We know Eliza did emigrate - she was married in Pietermaritzburg in 1865 -
although I have not yet found record of the passage. The reason why Edward
and Elizabeth Ford emigrated to Natal, according to what Emily (Risley) Ford
told Robert King's father was because the building of the railway to
Southampton had reduced the amount of business that Edward had in Emsworth,
as the railway bypassed Emsworth, and that their daughter, Mary Ann (Polly),
married to George Andrews, had preceded them to Natal.
Cape and Natal News 7 October 1858
The PHANTOM with 117 immigrants from Plymouth
arrived out on the 10th July in 76 days. With respect to her arrival the
Natal Mercury says –
One hundred and sixteen souls embarked on board this vessel and one
hundred and seventeen have landed. An infant died of convulsions in the
early part of the voyage, one was born at sea
and a second saw the light after the vessel was safe in harbour. From all
we hear the passengers by this vessel are of the right sort. They are
mostly agricultural labourers with a sprinkling of mechanics and a goodly
array of wives and children.
Durban, at the time of Edward's immigration, was a small, sand-ridden town,
as described by William James,
who had arrived a few months earlier. After spending about a year or two in
Durban, where he had a business on the corner of Gardiner and Smith streets,
Edward moved up to Pietermaritzburg, where he set up blacksmith shop on
Longmarket Street, just above the Park Hotel. Later the smithy was moved to
the corner of Longmarket and Chapel Streets. Edward stood surety for the
immigration of two of his wife's sisters and their families - Ann Dawes who
arrived in Durban 22 April 1860 aboard the Lady of the Lake at
which time Edward is noted to be of Durban, and Lucy Salmon who arrived in
Durban on 14 March 1861 aboard the Leila, along with two of
Edward's daughters, Eliza and Harriet. A note is made in that passenger
record that Edward Ford was insolvent.
In 1865, at the time of Eliza's wedding, he is recorded as living in
Longmarket Street. Eliza is listed in her wedding notice as the "Fifth
daughter of Mr. E. Ford". My list of Edward's children show Eliza as the
seventh daughter. Perhaps my list is in error, or perhaps two of the elder
girls had died before this time and were not counted.
24 April 1880, at the residence of
his son, Mr. Edward Ford, Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Edward Ford died on April 24 1880 at Loop St, PMBurg. He is recorded as a
blacksmith, aged 74. The cause of death is listed as bronchitis and
exhaustion.
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Grave of Edward Ford, Elizabeth (Funnell)
Ford and Elizabeth (Ford) Johnson in the Wesleyan cemetery,
Commercial Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
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Wesleyan cemetery, Commercial Road,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. The grave is located in Block A Row C
Plot 31.
The inscription reads:
In Memory of
EDWARD FORD
died April 24th 1880
Aged 73
Also ELIZABETH
his wife
died March 29th 1866
aged 59
also ELIZABETH
eldest daughter the above
died September 28th 1867
aged 38
1829: Wickham, Hampshire (baptism of daughter Elizabeth)
1832: Wickham, Hampshire (baptism of daughter Miriam)
1834: Emsworth, Warblington, Hampshire (baptism of daughter Mary
Ann)
1836: Emsworth, Warblington, Hampshire (baptism of daughter
Sarah)
1841: West Street, Warblington,
Hampshire
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
The marriage notice of his son, Edward Funnell Ford, in 1875 states that the
elder Edward was "formerley of Warblington
House, Emsworth, Hants."
Edward Funnell Ford
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Edward Funnell Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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10 April 1844, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
Emily
Risley on 28 September 1875, in St Peters Cathedral, Pietermaritzburg,
Natal
Edward Funnel Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 34. He is an engineer,
resident in Maritzburg. Emily Risley is recorded as a spinster, aged 22 and
resident in Maritzburg. The marriage was performed by Bishop John William
Colenso ("Jno. Natal") and witnessed by Wm. Risley and A. T. Ford.
Natal Witness 8 October 1875
Edward Funnell eldest son of Mr Edward Ford
formerly of Warblington House, Emsworth, Hants. To - Emily, eldest
daughter of William Risley of PMBurg, Natal
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Letterhead of
Edward Funnell Ford's "motor and general engineer" business
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Edward Funnell
Ford's coachbuilding works on Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg.
The building was demolished circa 1950, and Braemar House now
stands on the site.
Scan by Chris Gosnell from photograph
belonging to Esme Fuller
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Engineer and carriage builder
Edward ran away from school aged 14, so was put to work as an apprenticeship
with his father, a blacksmith, often being called up in the early hours of
the morning to blow the bellows and strike, as the heat was so oppressive
during the day. After a few years the business was moved to the corner of
Longmarket and Chapel Streets. In 1876 and 1878, at the baptisms of his sons
Edward and Alfred, Edward is listed as an "iron founder" and in 1880 he is
listed as a blacksmith in the birth register of his son John and a machinist
in John's baptism record. At the baptism of children in 1882, 1885,1887 and
1890, he is listed as an engineer. On the death of his father in 1880,
Edward acquired the business and made considerable extensions, securing the
sole agency for the British engineering firm of Marshall,
Sons & Co., of London and Gainsborough. In the early days Mr. Ford
was successful in securing the orders for machinery for many of the leading
mines and in addition had a good connection throughout Natal and the
Transvaal in the carriage and coachbuilding business.
In 1872, Edward decided to try his hand at diamond prospecting, leaving the
firm in the hands of his brother, Alfred Thomas ("Tom"). Love letters from
Edward to "Miss Risley" from the diamond fields have survived. Having only
minor success in the diamond fields, bringing home a few diamonds eventually
made into jewellery for his future wife, Edward returned to the business in
partnership with Tom and now styled "EF & AT Ford of PMBurg".
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This chair was made by Edward Ford as a
wedding gift to his bride
photograph by Jeremy Gosnell
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Edward emigrated to Natal aboard the
Phantom, arriving in Durban on 10 July 1858. He is recorded as aged
13, and surety was stood by George Andrews, his brother-in-law. Accompanying
Edward on the Phantom were his
parents, Edward (49) and Elizabeth (50) and siblings Sarah (21), Lucy (19),
Ellen (15), Selina (11), Alfred (10), Emily (8) and George (6).
Edward and Emily were married by the Bishop of Natal, Dr. John William
Colenso. Robert King tells us that the Risleys were great supporters of
Colenso and St. Peters Cathedral. The Fords were Weslyan. However, Edward
became very friendly with Colenso and converted to Church of England. He was
given a book of Colenso's sermons, in which the Bishop had inserted his
photograph and inscribed to EF. When asked their religion, the family tended
to reply "Colensoite".
Edward Ford had a town house named Leighton House, at 151 Loop Street in
Pietermaritzburg, behind the site of the family business. In 1880 he bought
over 40 acres of land in the Chase Valley outside of town, and rented
another plot on English Road, where he built Kingston Lodge, named after his
wife's birthplace in London, as a country residence, feeling that
Pietermaritzburg was too wild in which to bring up a young family. Edward
leveled out a platform on the steep hillside to build the original stone
house. Originally he planned to build a double story house and the walls
were constructed accordingly. He then decided that in old age he would not
want to have to climb the stairs to bed and instead over the years added on
2 wings. First a billiard room off which was a bathroom and a bedroom and
later another wing which included at the end the big double drawing room and
the main bedroom. The house ultimately had 6 bedrooms. Edward moved the
family there about 1883, and Winnie was born there in 1884. The Kingston
Lodge orchards, comprising approximately 40 acres in the pick of the valley,
became renowned for the quality of their fruit, and year after year at the
exhibitions of the Royal Agricultural Society, Edward took premier honours
with the citrus productions of his late estate, and the magnificent displays
of flowers from the estate were a feature of the various Maritzburg shows.
Kingston Lodge was built to entertain - the dining room at stretched the
width of the main block and had two tables, one with leaves and a second
table made by the firm with legs like a billiard table - both tables seating
about 14 people each. Edward's great-grandson, Robert King relates that "the
older generation remembered Kingston Lodge for the verandahs that encircled
the garden side of the house with a covered grapevine walk way to the
outdoor loo (long drop), a double affair with a companion high and low
seat, so mother and child could avail themselves of the facility together
... The verandahs of Kingston Lodge were wooden. EF had had made go-carts
with lawnmower wheels for the children. They made an enormous racket on the
wooden floors of the verandah. ... Under the verandah, reached by a trap
door, was a cellar where EF kept his home made wine made from Catawba
grapes." Edward's granddaughter Esme remembers wonderful family Christmas
parties at Kingston Lodge, featuring citrus and flowers. Joyce (Ford)
Arntzen related that the fairy on the top of the Christmas tree (dressed by
her mother, Ada) was given to the youngest girl present.
Robert King, tells us that Edward, his wife Emily and at least two of their
children, Alfred and Emily, visited London for the Franco-British
Exhibition of 1908, hosted by the Marshalls, whose company Edward
represented in South Africa. "On reaching London the family were entertained
to lunch by the Marshalls at their London residence, straight after they got
off the ship. My great grandmother (Emily) and grandmother were annoyed that
they had not been given the chance to change their dresses or delve into
their jewel cases before being entertained at a grand London house, butler,
footmen, etc."
Edward lived at Kingston Lodge until 1922 when he had a nervous breakdown,
and was admitted to the Pietermaritzburg Mental Hospital on 23 June 1922. On
25 August of that year, on the recommendation of his wife and family, three
of his sons, namely Alfred Frederick Ford, John Bartle Ford and Joseph
Clifford Ford were appointed curators bonis of Edward's business
affairs (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files GS film 001295222 images 01250-1).
15 June 1924, at the Pietermaritzburg
Mental Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 80.
The cause of death is listed as senile decay of duration 3 years, fatty
degeneration of heart, and acute heart failure of duration half-an-hour.
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The grave of Edward Funnell Ford and his
wife Emily (Risley) Ford in Pietermaritzburg, covered in flowers
at Emily's funeral in July 1943. Edward's headstone on the right
in this photograph was later removed, and last seen at the Ford
family business in Longmarket Street. It was replaced by the joint
headstone with Emily shown below.
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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The headstone of Edward Funnell Ford and
Emily (Risley) Ford in the Commercial Road cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg.
photograph by Robert King
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23 June 1924, in the Wesleyan
cemetery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. The grave is located in
Block A Row C Plot 31.
The inscription on the headstone reads:
In treasured memory of
our deeply loved parents
EDWARD FUNNELL FORD
born 10th April 1844
called to higher service
15th June 1924
and
EMILY FORD
(née RISLEY)
born 29th November 1852
called to higher service
5th July 1943
Labour and seek no reward
Natal Mercury Saturday 28 June 1924:
OBITUARY
MR. E.F. FORD, MARITZBURG
On Sunday, June 15, there passed away at Maritzburg another of the few
remaining Old Colonists in the person of Mr. E.F. (Ted) Ford, who
arrived at Durban, with his parents, at the early age of 13 years by the
sailing ship, Phantom, in July, 1858, after a trying voyage of over
three months.
Mr. Edward Ford, sen., settled in
Durban for about 12 months and then came on to Maritzburg in 1859, and
started business as a blacksmith at what is now known as "Ingleside," in
Longmarket Street, just above the Park Hotel, and at this early age Mr.
Ford started his apprenticeship with his father, often being called up
in the early hours of the morning to blow the bellows and strike, as the
heat was so oppressive during the day.
After a few years the business
was moved to the now familiar corner of Longmarket and Chapel Streets,
where it has seen the City grow from a few cottages here and there to
its present state. On the death of his father, Mr. Ford acquired the
business and made considerable extensions, securing the sole agency for
the great British engineering firm of Messrs. Marshall Son & Sons,
of London and Gainsborough, an agency the firm holds to the present day.
In the early days Mr. Ford was successful in securing the orders for
machinery for many of the leading mines and in addition had a good
connection throughout Natal and the Transvaal in the carriage and
coachbuilding business.
The deceased was one of the
foundation members of the Maritzburg Rifles, and later joined the Natal
Royal Rifles but as horsemanship appealed to him more strongly, he
transferred to the City troop of the Natal Carbineers and was one who
volunteered for the Langalibalele expedition, and his reminiscences of
the stirring experiences of this gallant troop in the Bushman's Pass
under Colonel Durnford, were always most interesting. Incidentally, he
was believed to be the last survivor of this expedition unless a Mr.
Church of Durban is still alive. He had with him as half-section Mr.
Bond, who was killed along with Potterill and Erskine, the fatal bullet
passing Mr. Ford and striking Bond. The Langalibalele Monument in the
Market Gardens, Maritzburg, bears testimony to the noble efforts of this
troop of the Natal Carbineers.
In 1872 Mr Ford left for the Vaal
River diamond diggings, along with three or four chums, amongst whom was
the late Mr. Kit Bird, a former Colonial Secretary of Natal. Mr. Ford
used to relate how the party missed a small fortune, for it seems that
after working for a week or a fortnight digging and carting the precious
soil that was to end all trouble financially, they decided to commence
the washing and sorting. The first wash gave them great hopes, for they
secured five small stones, and a neighbouring camp, amongst whom was the
late Durant (Dan) Scott, came along and offered them £10,000 for the
heap. This offer they refused, but to their dismay, they went right
through the remainder of the heap and never found another stone.
When Mr. Ford arrived back in
Maritzburg he continued his business which, during his absence, had been
carried on by his brother, Mr. Tom Ford. Some years later great
excitement ran through Maritzburg when gold was found in various places
in close proximity, notably Table Mountain. Mr. Ford, who then owned the
only steam engine in the town, set to work to make a crusher, and as the
prospectors brought their samples along, so he crushed and tested them,
along with his old friends Dr. Sutherland and Mr. Joe Shaw.
Unfortunately for the sake of Maritzburg and Natal, although signs of
the precious metal were found, none of the samples proved profitable.
The deceased gentleman was an
intimate friend of the late Bishop Colenso, and many were the
experiences he could relate of the unhappy breach in the English Church
in those early days. It was he who suggested and eventually erected, the
now familiar church bells in the grounds of St. Peter's Cathedral,
photographs of which have been taken and sent to all parts of the world.
He undertook the making of the ironwork for the first footbridge over
the Umsindusi River into the Alexandra Park, and also stood security for
the contractor, Mr. Tom Harding, and the writer will never forget
hearing him tell of the anxious afternoon when the bridge was just about
finished, and a very heavy storm broke over Zwartkop, the river rising
and rising until everyone thought the bridge must go. The storm,
however, happily abated, but it is on record that it was the highest the
river has ever come down.
Some years after the Boer War, Mr. Ford
gave up the worries of business to his sons, and took on the planting of
his country property in the Chase Valley with citrus and ornamental
trees. The Kingston Lodge orchards, comprising approximately 40 acres in
the pick of the valley, have become renowned for the quality of their
fruit, and year after year at the exhibitions of the Royal Agricultural
Society Mr. Ford took premier honours with the citrus productions of his
late estate, and the magnificent displays of flowers from the estate are
quite a feature of the various Maritzburg shows.
Although never taking an active part in
public life, he was keenly interested in things municipal and
governmental, and was a staunch supporter of Natal remaining out of the
Union, and up till three years ago never lost interest in the old
established business that bears his name.
He married, in the year 1877,
Emily, the eldest daughter of the late William Risley, by whom he is
survived, the marriage bearing seven sons and two daughters, of whom one
daughter (Mrs. J.H. King, of Umlaas Road) and six sons (Alf, John,
Cliff, George, Rupert, Wilfred) are still living, five being with the
business in Maritzburg and one resident in Durban.
Although in indifferent health
for the past three years, the end was painfully sudden at the ripe old
age of 80 years and 2 months. Of a kind & lovable disposition, and a
devoted husband and father, he will be sadly missed by his sorrowing
wife and family, to whom the deepest sympathy will be extended. The many
beautiful floral tributes bore testimony to the esteem in which the
deceased was held by those who had the privilege of his friendship.
The funeral which was attended by a
very large number of mourners and friends of the old pioneer, took place
at the Wesleyan Cemetery, Maritzburg, on Monday afternoon, the Rev.
Canon Harris, of St. Peter's Cathedral Church, officiating.
dated 12 November 1919, filed 18 June
1924
Pietermaritzburg
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THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me EDWARD
FUNNELL FORD of Pietermaritzburg Natal, Engineer married out of community
of property. I revoke all testamentary dispositions before made by me. I
appoint the following Executors who shall also be Administrators of my
estate namely:- my wife EMILY FORD and my three sons ALFRED FREDERICK
FORD, JOHN BARTLE FORD and JOSEPH CLIFFORD FORD and I direct that the
decision of any three of them shall be sufficient in any matters
concerning my estate and any papers or documents requiring their
signatures shall be sufficiently signed by any three of them or by persons
authorised by Power of Attorney of any three of them. It is my wish
that there shall always be at least three Executors and should there at
any time be only two remaining, I authorise them to assume some other
person to act with them. After payment of all my just debts funeral and
testamentary expenses I direct my Executors and Administrators to remain
possessed of the whole of my estate upon trust as long as my wife
shall be living and out of the net income of my estate to pay to my
daughter-in-law LAURA ELIZABETH FORD the widow of my late son EDWARD
WILLIAM FORD, so long only as she shall remain unmarried, a sum of ELEVEN
POUNDS (£11) Sterling per month and only for so long as my Executors in
their absolute discretion shall consider reasonable having regard to the
amount of income available from my estate. I direct my Executors to pay
the balance of the net income of my estate to my wife EMILY FORD for her
own use and benefit for the term of her natural life. Upon the death of my
wife Emily Ford or should she happen to predecease me I direct that my
estate shall be divided equally between all my children who may be living
at the time of her death or who may have previously died at anytime
leaving lawful issue, such issue to inherit equally between them by
representation the share which would have been payable to their deceased
parent if such parent had survived. The children of my son Edward William
Ford who died before the date of this Will are to be included and to
inherit between them the share which he would have received if he had
survived. I direct that the shares of any minors who may inherit under
this Will shall be held by my Executors upon trust and be invested and
such shares and the income thereof shall not be paid to them until they
shall respectively attain the age of twenty one years. I authorise my
Executors in their absolute discretion, to expend the whole or any part of
the income or capital of any minors shares for or towards their
maintenance education and advancement in life and if necessary for or
towards the maintenance of their mother so long as such mother shall
remain a widow and need assistance. I authorise my Executors to sell or
dispose of any part of my estate either by public auction or private sale
if they should consider it best in the interests of my estate to do so. I
authorise my Executors to invest moneys belonging to my estate upon such
investments as they may consider suitable excluding always the shares of
any Company or Bank.
DATED at Pietermaritzburg in the Province of Natal, on the twelfth
day of the month of November in this year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and ninete[en]
E.F. FORD
Signed in the presence of:
J.P.J.Eaton 110 Greyling St, Engineer
C.C.Cheek 381 Prince Alfred St
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
1878: Pietermaritzburg, Natal (baptism
of son Alfred)
1885: Town Lands (baptism
of daughter Emily)
1887: Chase Valley (baptism
of son George)
1897: 158 Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal; residence at Kingston
Lodge, Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg (Natal Almanac & Directory 1897 p102)
1909: Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files #37/61 film 007866875 image 438)
1924: Kingston Lodge, Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files GS film 001295222 image 01248)
1924: 158 Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Natal
Civil Records Deaths 1924 DGS 007752174 image 1002)
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Edward Funnell Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Edward Funnell Ford is seated
rightmost in this photograph of a Ford family grouping,
probably at Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Edward Funnell Ford is seated centre
in this photograph of a tennis party at Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Ford family at Kingston Lodge circa
1900
Edward Funnell Ford is seated in the centre
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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(left to right) John Edward Risley,
Edward Funnell Ford, William Frederick Risley and Alfred
Edmondson
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Fords at Kingston Lodge
L to R. Back: Alfred, Winifred, Joseph, George. Front:
Edward Funnell, Emily née Risley, John, Edward William. Very
front: Wilfred
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Edward Funnell Ford is seated third
from left in the front row in this photograph of a garden
party at Kingston Lodge circa 1907
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Edward Funnell Ford is seated on the
right in the wedding photograph of Laura Elizabeth Scarlett
and Edward William Ford on 4 January 1911, taken at Howick
Farmers Hall.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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EF Ford is standing second from left
in the wedding photograph of John Herbert James King and
Emily Winifred Elizabeth Ford on 22 April 1914
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Edward Funnell Ford is standing on
the right in the wedding photograph of George Herbert Ford
and Lulu Iris Borain on 26 March 1919
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, Christmas
1912
Edward Funnell Ford is seated second from left.
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, circa 1918
Edward Funnell Ford is seated centre of the middle row
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Edward William Ford
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Edward William Ford
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1 October 1876
19 November 1876, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by William Risley and parents
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
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The wedding of Laura Elizabeth Scarlett
and Edward William Ford on 4 January 1911. The photo is taken at
Howick Farmers Hall.
(left to right) back row: Daisy (McDonald) Parker, John Clarke
Parker, Harriet (Ford, Trenowth) Dyer
middle row: Emily Winifred Ford, Edward William Ford, Laura
Elizabeth Scarlett, John Bartle Ford, Emily (Risley) Ford, Edward
Funnel Ford
front row, order uncertain: Vera, Mooi, Madge and Irene Parker
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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The widowed Laura Elizabeth (Scarlett)
Ford is fifth from left at the 80th birthday of her mother-in-law,
Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in November 1932.
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Nella Louise (Borain) Ford (left) and
Laura Elizabeth (Scarlett) Ford, aged 96, at a Ford family reunion
at Kingston Lodge on 31 July 1983.
photograph of a newspaper clipping
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Laura Elizabeth Scarlett on 4
January 1911 in St Lukes, Howick, Karkloof, Natal, South Africa
Edward William Ford is recorded as a bachelor, of full age. He is a coach
builder, resident in Maritzburg. Laura Elizabeth Scarlett is recorded as a
spinster, of full age, resident in Karkloof. The marriage was performed by
E. W. Bibby, and witnessed by John Clarke Parker and John Bartle Ford.
Edward and Laura honeymooned in England, meeting up with his brother Alf,
and his new wife Ada, who had married in London a month earlier. They went
to England to meet Laura's family - she was an orphan brought up by a strict
aunt and uncle and had a brother.
Laura was born on 29 June 1887. At the time of her wedding, Laura was a
governess in the household of John Clarke Parker (one of the witnesses on
the marriage register). John is center, back row in the wedding photo, with
his wife, back left and Laura's charges, their four daughters, Vera, Mooi,
Madge and Irene Parker, seated in front. Robert King tells us that "she was
a formidable character who kept teaching until she was 89, lived in her
house in Pietermaritzburg until she was 99 and ran her book club virtually
to her death." Laura was aged 96 at a Ford family reunion on 31 July 1983.
She died on 2 July 1988 in Pietermaritzburg, of cardiac failure, aged 101.
Coach and carriage builder
In 1906, Edward provided
evidence to a commission on tariff revision. Not surprisingly,
considering his occupation, Edward favoured reducing tariffs on parts needed
to build vehicles, but increasing tariffs on imported complete vehicles. The
testimony does, however, provide some interesting insight into the coach
building industry in Natal at that time. For example:
14. Name all such articles required in the
business of Carriage Building ?
Axles,
axle caps, nuts and collets, bushes, tyre and carriage bolts, bows, bow
sockets, bow fingers, brake blocks, and pans, beading, seat back rest
irons, brake rod connections, cloth, canvas, curtain fasteners, seaming
cord, floor cloth, draw bar chains, dash handles, door fasteners, dog
cart bar furniture, fore-carriages, felloe plates, fifth wheels, glue,
horsehair, coir, pump handles, ends, hinges, hubs, bar iron, bar steel,
connecting rod joints, tent joint ends, knobs, lamps, locks, leather and
patent leathers, nave hoops, nails, undergears, off-sets, paints, pumice
stone and powder, filling-up powder, papier mache, pole crabs, poles
with circles and bars, panel pins, tent-props, white lead, rims, rein
rails, rivets, rubber tyres, spokes, springs, scroll irons, shafts,
lancewood and hickory, shafts staples, screws, seat slides, steps, step
treads, transfers, thread, and twine, tracehooks, walnut, mahogany, and
white woods, wings, whiffletree plates, and tips.
...
86. The CHAIRMAN:—According to your evidence, the Industry is
practically ruined?
That is so. It will simply mean that if it is going on as it has
been for a little longer there will probably be one or two shops for
repairs and a few orders will come in from those who prefer to have a
Colonial carriage, whilst the other shops will have to shut down.
Edward is described as a book-keeper in the birth
register of his son Edward in 1912, but as a coach builder in Edward's
baptism record.
Robert King tells us that "both Eddie and Laura were bookish and were
contented to spend hours together just reading." Eddie and Laura had a
smallholding in Town Bush Valley, Pietermaritzburg, which Laura sold when
Eddie died in 1919.
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Gravestone of Edward William Ford in the
Commercial Road cemetery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
photograph by Heather Peyper posted
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30 May 1919 at the Sanatorium,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 42
Edward William Ford died on 30 May 1919 at Sanatorium PmBurg. He is recorded
as 42 years old, married and his occupation is manager motor works. The
cause of death is listed as abdominal tumour and exhaustion of duration 1
year. He was buried in PmBurg.
31 May 1919, in Commercial Road
cemetery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. The grave is located in map
3, section C, plot 25/26.
The gravestone reads:
In Loving Memory of Edward William Ford
Born October 1st 1876
Died May 30th 1919
To memory ever dear
dated 21 February 1911, filed 16 June
1919
Pietermaritzburg
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THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me EDWARD
WILLIAM FORD of Pietermaritzburg in the Province of Natal in the Union of
South Africa Coach builder I hereby revoke all Wills Codicils and other
testamentary dispositions at any time heretofore made by me and I give
leave devise and bequeath unto my dear wife Laura Elizabeth Ford (born
Scarlett) the whole of my estate and effects both real and personal
movable and immovable and whether the same be in possession reversion
remainder or expectancy and wheresoever situate nothing excepted for her
own use and benefit absolutely. And I hereby appoint my said wife to be
the sole Executrix of this my will and Administratrix of my estate and
effects.
In witness whereof I the said Edward William Ford have hereunto set
my hand and subscribed my name at Pietermaritzburg aforesaid on this the
twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and eleven.
E.W.Ford
Signed by the Testator the said Edward William Ford as and for his last
Will and Testament in the presence of us two then present together who at
his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have
hereunto set our hands and subscribed our names as witnesses to the said
Will.
R.Morcom of Pietermaritzburg Advocate
Harry Ford his Clerk
1912: 158 Longmarket, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (baptism
of son Edward)
1914: Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (birth
register of daughter Margaret)
1919: Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (burial
record)
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John Bartle Ford, Emily Winifred
Elizabeth Ford, Alfred Frederick Ford, Edward William Ford
and in front, Joseph Clifford Ford
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Edward William Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Edward William Ford is standing
third from right in this photograph of a Ford family
grouping, probably at Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Edward William Ford is standing
third from right in this photograph of a tennis party at
Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Ford family at Kingston Lodge circa
1900
Edward is standing back left
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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Edward William Ford
I believe he is in the uniform of the Natal Carbineers
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Fords at Kingston Lodge
L to R. Back: Alfred, Winifred, Joseph, George. Front:
Edward Funnell, Emily née Risley, John, Edward William. Very
front: Wilfred
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, Christmas
1912
Edward William Ford is standing left, Laura Elizabeth
(Scarlett) Ford is seated left with Edward Laurence Ford on
her lap.
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, Christmas 1912
Edward Laurence Ford is the infant in the lap of his mother, Laura
Elizabeth (Scarlett) Ford, seated left.
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Edward Laurence Ford is sixth from left in
the back row (standing behind his cousin Nel Ford) at the 80th
birthday of his grandmother, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge
in November 1932.
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19 January 1912, at Garfield House,
Church Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
3 March 1912, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
The baptism was sponsored by John Bartle Ford, father and Ada Ford
Edward William
Ford
Laura Elizabeth (Scarlett) Ford
Hazel Eunice Mellis on 6 July 1940
in St Peters, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Edward Laurence Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 28, born in Natal. He
is a fitter, resident at 1 Keate St, Ladysmith, Natal. Hazel Eunice Scarlett
is recorded as a spinster, aged 25. She is a book-keeper, resident at 1
Keate St, Ladysmith, Natal. The marriage was performed by Henry Shelton, and
witnessed by L. E. Ford and B. M. Wright.
Fitter
Known as Laurence.
1940: 1 Keate St, Ladysmith, Natal (marriage
certificate)
Elizabeth (Ford) Johnson
18 May 1829, in Wickham, Hampshire,
England
21 June 1829, at Middle Street
Wesleyan, town of Gosport, parish of Alverstoke, Hampshire, England
Elizabeth is recorded as born on May 18th 1829, baptized June 21st,
the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Ford of Wickham in the parish of
Wickham
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
William
Johnson on 24 August 1861 at the residence of Mr. Ford,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
William Johnson is recorded as a widower, of full age. He is a merchant,
resident in D'Urban. Elizabeth Ford is recorded as a spinster, of full age,
resident in P.M.Burg. The marriage was performed by W. Berry, Wesleyan
Minister, and witnessed by Joseph Burge Godfrey, Harriett Ford and Eliza
Ford.
(Joseph Burge Godfrey was a coachbuilder in Somerset who went bankrupt in
1854 (London Gazette 6 July 1858 p3198), and
emigrated to Natal on the Leila in
1861 - the same voyage as Elizabeth. I wonder if this connection was part
of, or led to, the Ford family's, especially Edward Funnell Ford's, interest
in coachbuilding.)
Elizabeth emigrated to Natal aboard
the Leila, arriving in Durban on
14 March 1861. She is recorded as aged 30, and surety was stood by
Edward Ford. Accompanying Elizabeth on the Leila
was her younger sister, Harriet. Elizabeth's parents and most of
her family had emigrated to Natal a few years earlier, and it is not clear
why Elizabeth and Harriet only came out three years later, though possibly
it had something to do with the securing of a husband - Elizabeth was
married five months after landing in Natal. Also on board the Leila were
their aunt and uncle, George and Lucy Salmon, and eight of their Salmon
cousins.
27 September 1867, aged 38
Natal Witness 2 October 1867
DEATHS
JOHNSON, Elizabeth, 27 Sep 1867, at Pietermaritzburg, the wife of Mr W.
Johnson, 10 Longmarket Street, aged 38 years
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Grave of Edward Ford, Elizabeth (Funnell)
Ford and Elizabeth (Ford) Johnson in the Wesleyan cemetery,
Commercial Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
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Wesleyan cemetery, Pietermaritzburg,
Natal. The grave is located in Block A Row C Plot 31.
Elizabeth is buried in the same plot as her father and mother. The
inscription reads:
In Memory of
EDWARD FORD
died April 24th 1880
Aged 73
Also ELIZABETH
his wife
died March 29th 1866
aged 59
also ELIZABETH
eldest daughter the above
died September 28th 1867
aged 38
1841: West Street, Warblington,
Hampshire
1851: High
Street, Marylebone, Middlesex
Eliza (Ford) Smith
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Eliza (Ford) Smith
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September/October 1840, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
John
Smith on 16 March 1865, in the Wesleyan chapel, Pietermaritzburg,
Natal.
John Smith is recorded as a bachelor, aged 38. He is a farmer resident at
Thornville Park, Pietermaritzburg. Eliza Ford is recorded as a spinster,
aged 24, resident in Pietermaritzburg. The marriage was performed by Rev. G.
Blencowe and witnessed by Robert Topham, George Andrews and Selina Ford.
The marriage
license application records John Smith as a bachelor, aged 38, born in
Osgoodby Hall, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, England. Eliza Ford is recorded as a
spinster, aged 24, born in Emsworth, Hampshire, England.
Natal Witness 31 March 1865
Marriages:
Ford, Eliza: 16 March 1865 Eliza, 5th daughter of Mr E. Ford, Longmarket
Street, Pietermaritzburg, to John Smith
Smith, John: 16 March 1865 at the Wesleyan Chapel, Pietermaritzburg, John
Smith, Esq., of Thornville Park, to Eliza Ford
Eliza is listed in her wedding notice
as the "Fifth daughter of Mr. E. Ford", although my list of Edward's
children show Eliza as the seventh daughter, the sixth surviving at that
time. A family story told by Robert King is that, after moving to Pretoria,
Eliza wrote a letter to the newspaper that was derogatory about Paul Kruger
and she and her family were deported back to Pietermaritzburg for the
duration of the 2nd Anglo-Boer War.
26 April 1921, at 1158 Burnett St,
Hatfield, Pretoria,a Transvaal, South Africa
The cause of death is listed as cerebral haemorrhage, of duration 2 days
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Gravestone of John Smith, Eliza (Ford)
Smith, Ernest Dickenson Smith and Norman Wise Grove in Church
Street cemetery, Pretoria, Transvaal
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Church Street cemetery, Pretoria,
Transvaal, South Africa
The inscription reads:
In Loving Memory of
John Smith
of Osgodby Hall Yorks England
Aged 67 years
Died 29 August 1893 at Pretoria
and
Eliza Smith
Beloved wife of John Smith
Aged 80 Years
Died 26 April 1921
Also son
Ernest Dickenson Smith
Aged 18 years
Died 12 May 1896
Also Grandson
Norman Wise Grove
Aged 3 months
Died 9 November 1902
1841: West Street, Warblington,
Hampshire
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
1921: 1158 Burnett St, Hatfield, Pretoria, Transvaal (death
notice)
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Eliza (Ford) Smith
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(left to right) Albert John Smith,
Eliza (Ford) Smith and Alfred Edward Smith
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Eliza (Ford) Smith and Florence
Eliza Smith
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Eliza (Ford) Smith, third from left
in the back row, surrounded by her children and their
spouses.
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Eliza (Ford) Smith, seated in the
centre of the middle row, with family.
Back: Charles Evelyn Smith,
Arthur Rimmington Smith with child and Alfred Edward
Smith.
Seated: Unknown, Marie Rosalie (Willmann) Smith and Dulcie
Joan Smith, Eliza (Ford) Smith, Eliza Beatrice (Johnson)
Smith, Mary Anne Harriet Phoebe (Dunn) Smith.
Front: children of Rimmington Smith. Jack Smith front
centre.
The photograph was taken by a studio in Pretoria.
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Ellen (Ford) Short
14 July 1842 in Emsworth, Hampshire,
England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
Martin
Short on 18 April 1863, at the house of Mr. Edward Ford,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Martin Short is recorded as a bachelor, aged 27. He is a store-keeper,
resident in P.M.Burg. Ellen Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 21,
resident in P.M.Burg. The marriage was performed by George Blencowe, and
witnessed by W. Johnson, Selina Ford, Lucy ?? and Eliza Ford.
Ellen emigrated to Natal aboard the Phantom,
arriving in Durban on 10 July 1858. She is recorded as aged 15, and surety
was stood by George Andrews, her brother-in-law. Accompanying Ellen on the Phantom were her parents, Edward (49)
and Elizabeth (50) and siblings Sarah (21), Lucy (19), Edward (13), Selina
(11), Alfred (10), Emily (8) and George (6).
25 August 1890, at D'Urban Lodge,
Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, London, England, aged 46
South Africa Magazine 30 August 1890
SHORT—On August 25, at D’Urban Lodge, West
Hampstead, Ellen, the beloved wife of Martin Short.
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
1881: Durban Lodge, St John Hampstead, Middlesex
Ellen Elizabeth Wallis (Ford) Pfotenhauer
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Ellen Elizabeth Wallis Ford - "Nell" - is
fifth from left in the back row at the 80th birthday of her
grandmother, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in November
1932.
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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18 September 1911, at Chase Valley
Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
29 October 1911, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Alfred
Frederick Ford
Ada (Wallis) Ford
Ellen studied Fine Arts at the
University of Natal, in Durban, South Africa
Victor Otto Pfotenhauer on 3 April
1937 in St Peters, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Victor Otto Pfotenhauer is recorded as a bachelor, aged 28, born in South
Africa. He is an engineer, resident at Coronation Rd, Malvern, Natal. Ellen
Elizabeth Wallis-Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 25, born in South
Africa. She is an art teacher, resident at 'Budleigh', Chase Valley Rd,
PMburg.
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Gravestone of Victor Otto Pfotenhauer in
Lutheran cemetery, Wartburg, Kwazulu-Natal
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Victor was born on 3 March 1909 in Dalton, Natal, the son of Heinrich August
Wilhelm Immanuel Pfotenhauer, of Altencelle, Germany, and Elizabeth Johanne
Frederike Sophia Behrmann. He died on 23 October 1997, and was buried in the
Lutheran cemetery, Wartburg, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.
Addresses:
1950: 28 Charles Grove, Durban, Natal (Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p149)
Art Teacher
Known as "Nell"
6 January 1990, in Durban, Natal,
South Africa
Emily (Ford) Foss
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Emily (Ford) Foss
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Emily (Ford) Foss
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19 January 1849, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
Richard
Foss on 30 April 1866 at the home of Mr. Richard Foss,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Richard Foss is recorded as a bachelor, aged 26. He is a wagon maker,
resident in P.M.Burg. Emily Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 17,
resident in P.M.Burg and marrying with the consent of her father. The
marriage was witnessed by E. Ford, C. Johnson and Selina Ford.
The antenuptial contract between Richard and Emily, assisted by her father
Edward Ford, can be found at Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1895 #295 DGS 004049921 images 404-5.
Emily emigrated to Natal aboard the Phantom,
arriving in Durban on 10 July 1858. She is recorded as aged 8, and surety
was stood by George Andrews, her brother-in-law. Accompanying Emily on the Phantom were her parents, Edward (49)
and Elizabeth (50) and siblings Sarah (21), Lucy (19), Ellen (15), Edward
(13), Selina (11), Alfred (10) and George (6).
Robert King remembers that Emily was a Christian Scientist.
29 September 1922, at 265 Prince
Alfred Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 73
The cause of death is listed as diabetes mellitus contributing to a coma of
duration 1 day
Natal Witness 6 October 1922
DEATHS
FOSS. – On the 29th September, Emily, widow of the late Richard FOSS,
formerly of New England, passed peacefully away.
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Gravestone of Emily (Ford) Foss in
Commercial Road cemetery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
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Commercial Road cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
The headstone reads:
In Loving Memory of
EMILY wife of RICHARD FOSS
who fell asleep
September 29th 1922
Aged 73 years
I know no death, O Father because I live in thee!
dated 29 August 1922, filed 7 October
1922
Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1922 #7724 DGS 007866843 images 1152-3
This is the last Will and Testament of me Emily
Foss (born Ford) Widow of the late Richard Foss, of Pietermaritzburg,
Natal.
I revoke all former Wills and Testamentary dispositions made by me.
I nominate and appoint my son Arthur Edward Foss of Stanger my son
George Prince Foss of Pietermaritzburg, and my daughter Myrtle Emilie Foss
of Pietermaritzburg, (or the survivor of them) to be the Executors or
Executor of this my Will and Administrators or Administrator of my estate
granting unto them all power and authority allowed in law.
I direct that the Master of the Supreme Court shall dispense with
the filing of security by the said Executors for the faithful
administration of my estate.
I give and bequeath unto my said Executors Upon trust all that
piece of land in extent 1 rood 0.33 perches situate and being the
Subdivision G of the Erf 61 Burger Street in the City of Pietermaritzburg
together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, to stand
possessed of the same and to allow the use and the occupation thereof and
to pay any income therefrom unto my daughter Myrtle Emilie Foss until her
death.
I devise and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my
estate and effects of what nature and kind soever and wheresoever situate
unto my daughter Myrtle Emile Foss to be her absolute property after
payment of my debts and testamentary and funeral expenses.
Upon the death of my said daughter Myrtle Emilie Foss I direct my
Executors to sell by public auction by private tender or contract as they
may think fit, the aforesaid piece of land in extent 1 rood 0.33 perches
situate and being the subdivision G of the Erf No. 61 Burger Street in the
City of Pietermaritzburg, together with all buildings and improvements
thereon and after paying all lawful expenses in connection with this sale
and distribution I direct them to divide the proceeds between my children,
issue of my marriage with the said Richard Foss in equal shares absolutely
declaring however that should any of my said children have died leaving
lawful issue such issue shall take if more than one equally or if only one
wholly the deceased parent's share.
Should any of my children have died before the date of division of
the above proceeds of sale without leaving lawful issue, the portion or
portions that would have accrued to such deceased child or children shall
revert back to my estate and devolve upon my other children and the issue
of any deceased child or children in manner aforesaid.
Should any children of a deceased child be minors at the time of
division I direct that my said Executors shall in their discretion invest
the shares and portions due to such minors for their behalf and benefit
until hey respectively attain the age of majority.
I direct that in every case where a female takes benefit under this
my Will the same shall be taken and held by her exclusive of the jus
mariti right of administration and of every other marital right of any
husband she may marry or may have married and the same shall not be
attachable for any such husbands debts or liabilities.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Pietermaritzburg,
Natal, this twenty-ninth day of August one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-two.
Emily Foss
Signed by the said Emily Foss the Testatrix of this Will in our presence
we in her presence and in the presence of each other subscribing hereto as
witnesses.
F.R.Shaw, Solicitor, P.M.Burg
W.T.Shippey, Agent, P.M.Burg
This will set out that Myrtle should have use of the house at 61 Burger
Street until her death, after which it would be sold and the proceeds
divided amongst Emily's other children, or their descendants. Myrtle lived a
long time and in 1973, aged 85, she made an application to the court, with
the support of the various other descendants due to inherit, to sell the
property and be provided with the investment income of the sale for her
maintenance, the capital to be divided amongst the heirs on her death (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1922 #7724 DGS 007866843 images 1144-50).
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
1922: 265 Prince Alfred Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1922 #7724 DGS 007866843 image 1151)
Emily Winifred Elizabeth (Ford) King
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Emily Winifred Elizabeth Ford (on 22 April
1914)
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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: 13 December 1884, at Chase Valley,
Pietermaritzburg Townlands, Colony of Natal
18? January 1885, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Colony of Natal
The baptism was sponsored by Mrs Watkins, Miss Risley and father
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
Girls'
Collegiate, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
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The wedding of John Herbert James King and
Emily Winifred Elizabeth Ford on 22 April 1914
Back L to R: Harriet (Ford, Trenowth) Dyer, Edward Funnell Ford,
Stanley Porritt, Emily Winifred Elizabeth Ford, John Herbert James
King, Harry Harold Hutton. Seated: Emily (Risley) Ford, Violet
Mary Lillian Turnbull King, Daisy Muriel Hutton, Mary Jane
(Turner, King) Hutton. Front: Gwynneth Muriel Stride, Eileen Mary
Stride, Wilfred Hutton
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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John
Herbert James King on 22 April 1914 in St Peter's Parish Church,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
John Herbert James King is recorded as a bachelor, aged 27. He is a farmer,
resident in Camperdown. Emily Winifred Elizabeth Ford is recorded as a
spinster, aged 29, resident in Maritzburg. The marriage was witnessed by ?.
H. Porritt and E. W. Ford.
Often used her middle name, Winifred.
Robert King relates that "My grandmother [Emily Winifred Ford] and Daisy
King were very close, being only surviving daughters with numerous brothers.
Grandmama went up to Lynedoch every summer and Daisy came down to the Ford
country residence, Kingston Lodge, Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg, every
winter and they were both educated at the the Girls' Collegiate,
Pietermaritzburg. ... My grandmother believed, like her father, EF, that
kissing was an unhealthy habit. Grandmama never let my grandfather kiss her
and my mother was shocked when she first met my father to see him shake his
mother's hand for her birthday. We Grandchildren never kissed grandmama".
Emily was a sponsor at the baptism of her first cousin Mary
Olive Vyvyan Potterill in Pietermaritzburg in 1912 (parish
records of St Peters Pietermaritzburg Baptisms 1912 p183 #2654)
20 February 1962 at Parklands Nursing
Home, Durban, Natal, South Africa
The cause of death is listed as carcinoma of stomach, of duration 2 years
: Red Hill cemetery, Durban, Natal,
South Africa
1914: Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
certificate)
1962: 167 High Ridge Road, Durban North, Durban, Natal (death
certificate)
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John Bartle Ford, Emily Winifred
Elizabeth Ford, Alfred Frederick Ford, Edward William Ford
and in front, Joseph Clifford Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Emily Winifred Ford is holding the
bicycle in this Ford family grouping, probably at Kingston
Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Emily Winifred Ford is standing
rightmost in this photograph of a tennis party at Kingston
Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Ford family at Kingston Lodge circa
1900
Emily Winifred Ford is second from the left in the back row
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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Fords at Kingston Lodge
L to R. Back: Alfred, Winifred, Joseph, George. Front:
Edward Funnell, Emily née Risley, John, Edward William. Very
front: Wilfred
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Emily Winifred Ford, rightmost, with
her 2nd cousin Arthur Harold Christian, second from right
(the two on the left are unidentified)
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Emily Winifred Elizabeth Ford
(right) as chaperone for May Foaden (left) and her brother
Joseph Clifford Ford courting at the Bluff, Durban, on 5
September 1905.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Emily Winifred Ford is sitting
leftmost in the centre row in the wedding photograph of
Laura Elizabeth Scarlett and Edward William Ford on 4
January 1911. The photo is taken at Howick Farmers Hall.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, Christmas
1912
Emily Winifred Ford is standing second from left.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Emily Winifred (Ford) King is
sitting on the right at the 80th birthday of her
mother-in-law, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in
November 1932.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Esmé Dolling (Ford, Karlson) Fuller
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Esmé Dolling (Ford, Karlson) Fuller
Scan by Chris Gosnell from photograph
belonging to Esme Fuller
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Raymond Ernest Fuller in 1973
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18 December 1912, at 205 Boom Street,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Joseph Clifford
Ford
May
(Foaden) Ford
Charles
Henry Karlson on 30 March 1935 in the Congregational Church,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Charles Henry Karlson is recorded as a divorcé, aged 35, born in South
Africa. He is an analytical chemist, resident in Maidstone. Esmé Dolling
Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 22, born in South Africa and a resident
of Maritzburg. The marriage was witnessed by Frances Doreen Ford and Otto
Waldemar Karlson.
Raymond Ernest Fuller on 26
September 1959, in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa.
Raymond was born on 27 January 1909, in Pietermaritzburg, Natal. He was
married firstly to Helen Valerie Gould, a concert pianist from Heilbron,
Orange Free State, South Africa, who died in 1958. Raymond was a
schoolmaster, and headmaster of Maritzburg College from 1954 until 1965,
when he left to join the inspectorate. He died on 5 December 1989, in Port
Shepstone, Natal, South Africa.
Maritzburg College Magazine April 1990 p8
Obituary
RAYMOND FULLER
When Raymond Fuller became Headmaster of Maritzburg College in
1954, he was the first Old Collegian to hold this important post. His
first four years at College were clouded by the very serious illness of
his wife, Valerie, and this made it difficult for him to give the
attention to the school that he would have liked. Sadly, Valerie died in
January 1958 and in September 1959 he married the very talented Esme
Karlson.
Considerable changes took place under Fuller's leadership, many
of them brought about by the increase in pupil numbers (from 450 in 1954
to just over 700 in 1963), owing to the effect of the post-war 'baby
boom', the re-introduction of Standard Six to the high schools and the
opening of a new boarding establishment, Shepstone House, now known as
Hudson House, in 1957. A new block of classrooms, now the Fuller Block,
had to be built, and for some years use had to be made of the much
disliked pre-fabricated classrooms. The Victoria Hall could no longer
cope with the number of boys at Assembly and the Headmaster heaved a
sigh of relief when the Elizabeth Hall was finally completed, even
though it did not come up to his expectations. He had fought long and
hard for a larger hall, but to no avail. Meanwhile the Kent Pavilion had
been built on Goldstone's ground.
The increased numbers put a great strain on the sporting
facilities. Fuller's attempts to get the Department to level the grounds
across College Road bore no fruit. Matters really came to a head when it
was discovered that the Department was keen to establish a primary
school on those grounds. The school and the Old Boys reacted very
strongly indeed and the lands were saved for College. They were
eventually levelled and put into use in 1962. More boys took to tennis
and so extra tennis courts had to be built.
All these developments placed a heavy load on the Headmaster and,
to add to it all, he had to steer the school through the Centenary
celebrations in 1963. These entailed a great deal of planning and very
hard work. Despite all this, Fuller, on looking back, felt that they
were among the most pleasant events he could remember and that he was
indeed privileged to oversee them.
Fuller's control of College was made easier by his own undoubted
administrative ability and his capacity to delegate authority. Once he
had confidence in a senior member of Staff, he was quite happy to place
heavy responsibilities on his shoulders and in this way he developed a
team that was happy to work with him in the interests of College. He
felt that it was important to get to know his Staff really well, and he
was therefore happy to spend time in the Staff room, talking to and
guiding new members. The significance of this approach is revealed by
the fact that changes in the Staff became far more numerous than in
earlier years - in all, over a hundred Staff members are listed as
having served College during the twelve years of Fuller's period of
office.
Fuller had a surprising knowledge of the boys, their home
backgrounds and their progress in the school. As the school grew in
numbers he was worried about the lack of contact between himself and the
boys, and it was this that made him decide to teach either English or
Afrikaans in the junior classes. One parent who complained to Fuller
(after reading the Headmaster's comment on his son's report) that he did
not know his son was highly embarrassed when Fuller told him a few home
truths about the boy and, to add to his misery, included a few things
that the father did not know about his own son.
The boys nicknamed the Headmaster "Bones", no doubt because of
his tallness and his gaunt features. Nevertheless pupils of his time had
a great respect for him and this was surely reinforced by the thought of
the cane being applied from that great height. He was a man of few
words. His instructions in Assembly were often brief and to the point,
as he did not believe in long addresses. Many will remember the time
when he ejected a boy from Assembly because of his long hair - a few
well-chosen words led to the boy's sudden departure from a quiet and
electrified Assembly. In dealing with the litter problem, Fuller would
merely say, "I am unhappy about the litter in the school. See that it is
all cleared up at lunch break. If it is not done to my satisfaction, the
school day will be extended this afternoon." Needless to say, the litter
disappeared.
Fuller had other standards which he liked to see maintained at
College. For instance, no member of Staff was allowed to walk around the
school without wearing his jacket, and if he thought that a student
teacher was unsuitably dressed, he had him or her sent home to change
into something more suited to the dignity of a teacher. The Headmaster
also stressed the importance of language and address, and during his
period of office he saw to it that the Debating Society flourished.
Public Speaking was encouraged and a dramatic production was staged
every year. Many an old boy will remember, as a junior, leaving the
Headmaster's office to learn from some senior boy the correct way to
address his Headmaster. No doubt the member of Staff who was careless
enough to use the expression, "How come?", in a Staff meeting will
always remember the dressing down he received from Fuller. It must not
be thought, however, that Fuller was an unsympathetic man - far from it.
There are members of Staff who will remember with gratitude how this
quietly spoken man gave them support, advice and encouragement when they
really needed it.
Fuller was a keen gardener and one of his aims was to beautify
the surroundings of College. Some senior members of Staff were surprised
to see the Headmaster with a pair of shears or a fork in his hand, but
later had to admit that his enthusiasm paid dividends. Of course the
Headmaster could not give much time to the gardens himself and so his
wife, Esme, who always supported her husband to the full, and Dorothy
Nicholson worked with a very limited labour force and brought about
great changes with their beautiful garden layouts and planting of trees,
including the Pride of Indias and bauhineas along College Road.
Attention was also given to the playing fields - for example, concrete
seating was laid out along Basher Ridge and the western side of
Goldstone's ground.
In his final speech day address Fuller referred to the many
changes that had taken place at College during his headmastership. His
conclusion to that speech at the end of 1965 gives some idea of what he
had had in mind for College while the school was under his care. He
said, "But there are certain things that do not change. The basic human
values of truth, courage, kindliness and manliness for which the school
has stood, will be just as important in the future as they have been in
the past, and it is the duty of all of us who love this school to see
that its noble traditions remain unchanged."
When Ray Fuller died last year, we lost a man who stamped his
mark on College and impressed everyone with his qualities of quiet
dignity, leadership and dedication to the welfare of the school. Our
deepest sympathy goes out to Esme Fuller and her family. They will have
many happy memories of Ray and will look back on his twelve years as
Headmaster of College with a great deal of quiet pride and satisfaction.
J.
M. Nicholson
Author and photographer.
Publications include:
Two of my favourite of Esmé's poems from The Big
Book for Little South Africans are:
Seven (p22)
I send you seven kisses,
Because you're seven to-day.
They are my seven wishes
And this is what they say:
The first wish is for happiness,
The second is for health,
The third is for your thoughtfulness
For others—not yourself.
The fourth is that you will have friends,
The fifth that you may know
Beauty in books and music,
And in the flowers that blow.
My sixth wish is that you will be wise,
Clear sighted and sincere,
That you will know no compromise,
That you will know no fear.
My last wish is for strength to fight
For right against the wrong,
That you will always seek the light,
With laughter and a song.
Trains (p12)
I've seen trains look little,
Like snakes upon the grass.
I've seen them look like dragons,
And I tremble when they pass.
At night-time when they're far away
They seem to stand quite still,
And look like fairy necklaces
Strung round a velvet hill.
I love my trains so very much,
I think when I'm a man
I'll be an engine-driver—
At least that is my plan.
I'd be inside the dragon then,
I'd be inside the snake,
I'd be the fairy necklace
That nobody could break.
So if you have a little boy
Who would like to the same,
I wish that you would write to me
And let me know his name.
Maritzburg College Magazine May 1966 p21
To Mrs.
Fuller the school owes a great debt. We may almost requote the epitaph
to Christopher Wren: "If ye seek her monument, look around''. The
grounds of College have improved out of all recognition since she came.
She received help, of course, from parents, friends and staff-wives, but
the impulse to rejuvenate College grounds - as well as much of the
execution - was hers alone. That, combined with
the generosity of the Province at the time of the Centenary, has made
College a show-place for those who appreciate old buildings in a
beautiful setting. In numerous other ways Mrs. Fuller participated in
the life of the school - from helping the photographic society to
welcoming the many guests and visitors who came to College.
It is therefore with gratitude and affection that we say good-bye
to the Headmaster and Mrs. Fuller. May they enjoy the new vistas that
are spreading out before them and may they be happy in their new home at
Town Bush Valley!
2 January 2009, in the Village of
Happiness, Margate, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Natal
Witness 4 June 2010 (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
In the Estate of the late ESME DOLLING FULLER Id
No: 121218 0039 083 Date of Birth: 18 December 1912 Dated of Death: 02
January 2009of Hibiscus Retirement Village, 319 Azalea Gardens, Village of
Happiness, Margate Estate No: 2946/2009/PMB
Notice is hereby given that the Supplementary Liquidation and Distribution
Account in the above Estate will lie for inspection at the office of the
Master of the High Court Pietermaritzburg and Magistrate's Court Port
Shepstone for a period of twenty-one (21) days as from date of publication
hereof.
Dated at Pietermaritzburg this 2nd day of June 2010.
— Stowell & Co Attorneys for Executor Testamentary
Address: P O Box 33 Pietermaritzburg 3200.
8 January 2009, in the Good
Samaritan Chapel, Village of Happiness, Margate, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The Mercury 2 January 2009 (Durban, South
Africa)
FULLER (KARLSON) Esme † 2 Jan 2009 van Village of
Happiness Margate. Ma van Marilyn, John, Adrian en Geraldine. Begrafnis by
Good Samaritan Kapel, Village of Happiness Margate op 8 Jan 2009 om 11 vm
. Verassing privaat.
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, Christmas
1912
May (Foaden) Ford is seated on the right with Esmé Dolling
Ford on her lap.
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Esmé Christmas card 1915
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Esmé as a child
photo from Marilyn Gosnell
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Marriage to Charles Henry Karlson
(1935)
photo from Marilyn Gosnell
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Esmé Dolling (Ford) Karlson
photo from Marilyn Gosnell
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Esmé, proud mother of the bride
(1957)
photo from Marilyn Gosnell
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Esmé and Raymond Ernest Fuller
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Esmé Fuller in 1965
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Esmé in front of "Iona", the house
she designed for her retirement in Leisure Bay, Natal, South
Africa
photo from Marilyn Gosnell
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Esmé and Ray in the living room at
"Iona"
photo from Marilyn Gosnell
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Esmé surfing in the ocean at Lesiure
Bay, Natal, South Africa (1975)
photo from Marilyn Gosnell
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Esmé cutting the cake on her 90th
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Florence Elizabeth (Ford) Allen
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Florence Elizabeth Ford
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1886, in Pretoria, South African
Republic
George Ford
Mary Ann (Morrison) Ford
William Allen on 1 December 1910 in
St Albans Cathedral, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
William Allen is recorded as a bachelor, aged 31, born in Braintree,
England, resident at 50 Buiten Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria. Florence
Elizabeth Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 24, born in Pretoria and
resident at Brooklyn, Pretoria. The marriage was witnessed by George Ford
and Lucy Maud Shilling.
William Allen was born in 1879, in Shalford, Essex, England, the son of
Frederick James Allen and Julia Thompson. He was a civil servant.
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Gravestone of William Allen in Main
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William died on 5 January 1949, in the Government Hospital, Port Shepstone,
Natal, South Africa, aged 69. The cause of death is listed as a coronary
thrombosis of duration six weeks, contributed to by myocardial degeneration
and arteriosclerosis of duration five years. William was buried in General
Cemetery, Margate, Natal.
The inscription on the headstone reads:
To the Memory / of
Beloved Husband
and our Father
WILLIAM ALLEN
Died Jan. 5 1949
Age 69 Years
Census & Addresses:
1881:
Shalford, Essex
1891: Mill
End, Shalford, Essex
1910: 50 Buiten Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria, Transvaal (marriage
register)
1949: Plot J of I of A of Margate, Natal (death
notice)
- Julia Barbara Allen (1912 - 2004)
Known as "Florrie"
24 May 1967, aged 80
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Gravestone of Florence Elizabeth (Ford)
Allen in Main cemetery, Margate, Natal
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Main cemetery, Margate, Natal, South
Africa
The inscription on the headstone reads:
In Memory of our Beloved
Mother Grandmother and Great Grandmother
FLORENCE ELIZABETH ALLEN
Age 80 years
Died 24th May 1967
1910: Brooklyn, Pretoria, Transvaal
Frances Doreen (Ford) Dunlop
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Frances Doreen (Ford) Dunlop (c. 1941)
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Frances Doreen Ford
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Frances Doreen Ford is fifth from left in
the back row at the 80th birthday of her grandmother, Emily
(Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in November 1932.
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29 March 1917, at 231 Berg Street,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Joseph Clifford
Ford
May
(Foaden) Ford
Alexander Douglas Dunlop on 4
November 1939 in the Congregational Church, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South
Africa
Alexander Douglas Dunlop is recorded as a bachelor, aged 26, born in Natal,
S. Africa. He is a quantity surveyor, resident at 202 Currie Road, Durban.
Frances Doreen Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 22, born in Natal, S.
Africa. She is a nurse, resident at 196 King Edward Avenue, Maritzburg. The
marriage was witnessed by Robert Dunlop and J.B. Ford.
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Alexander Douglas Dunlop
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Alexander, who was known as "Doug", was born on 19 December 1912, in Natal,
South Africa, the son of Robert Dunlop and Marion Gray. He was a quantity
surveyor.
Addresses:
1950: 55 Stirling Crescent, Durban North, Natal (Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p617)
Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p617
1950 (office): 72-3 Trust Buildings, Durban, Natal (Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p1332)
Nurse
29 May 1997
(Francis) Henry Herbert Ford
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Francis Henry Herbert Ford - "Herbert" -
is fourth from left in the back row at the 80th birthday of his
grandmother, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in November
1932.
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26 September 1915, in Town Bush
Valley, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
17 October 1915, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Francis Henry Herbert was born on Sept 26th 1915, the son of Edward William
and Laura Elizabeth Ford. Edward is a carriage builder, of Ferndale own Bush
Valley. The baptism took place on Oct 17th and was sponsored by Harry
Herbert Potter, father and Gladys May Potterill
Edward William
Ford
Laura Elizabeth (Scarlett) Ford
Pearl Natalie Strachan on 1
December 1945 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Henry Herbert Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 30, born in Natal. He is
a farmer on active service, resident at 99 Boshoff St, Pietermaritzburg.
Pearl Natalie Strachan is recorded as a spinster, aged 22. She is a teacher,
resident at 51 Longmarket St, Pietermaritzburg. The marriage was performed
by Gordon P. Wiles, and witnessed by A. J. Allison and W. A. Ford.
Henry and Natalie were divorced in 1950.
Euphemia Urquhart (Gow) Maud
on 12 June 1959, in Greytown, Natal, South Africa
Henry Herbert Ford is recorded as a divorcee, born on 26.9.1915 in
Pietermaritzburg. He is an agricultural overseer. Euphemia Urquhart Maud
(born Gow) is described as a divorcee, born on 8.3.1910 in Pietermaritzburg.
Her address is 128 Pine Street, Greytown. The marriage was performed by L.
Bester, magistrate, and witnessed by B.A. Yeoman and P.B. Maritz.
Farmer (1945); Agricultural
overseer (1959)
Francis was known as Herbert, and he
formally changed his name to Herbert Henry Ford on 9 January 1946. His civil
birth registration is in the name "Francis Henry Ford" and he was baptised
as "Francis Henry Herbert Ford". His first marriage certificate in 1945,
divorce proceedings in 1950 and second marriage certificate in 1959 all use
the name "Henry Herbert Ford" but a note in his birth registration states
"Christian names altered to HERBERT HENRY. Ref. R.G. 530892 d.d. 9.1.46. E.
Combes 11.1.46"
1945: 99 Boshoff Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
certificate)
Frederick Jackson Wallis Ford
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Frederick Jackson Wallis Ford - "Jack" -
is second from right in the back row at the 80th birthday of his
grandmother, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in November
1932.
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28 August 1914, at Budleigh, Chase
Valley Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Natal Witness 2 September 1914
BIRTHS
FORD. – At Budleigh, Chase Valley Road, on the 28th August, to Mr. and
Mrs. A.F. FORD, a son.
11 November 1914, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by Ethel Mary Wallis, William Jackson Wallis and
Rupert Sydney Ford. This was a private baptism, and Frederick was received
into the church on 13 December 1914.
Alfred
Frederick Ford
Ada (Wallis) Ford
Fitter and Turner
Known "Jack"
30 December 1949 at 10 Aberfeldy
Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 35
The cause of death is listed as cardiac failure, and status
asthmaticus of duration 2 years
Mountain Rise cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
1948: Budleigh, Chase Valley Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
certificate)
1949: 10 Aberfeldy Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Natal
Civil Records Deaths Pietermaritzburg 1949 DGS007751213 image 569)
George Ford
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George Ford
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George Ford is seated leftmost in this
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4 November 1850, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
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George Ford and Mary Ann "Polly"
(Morrison) Ford
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Mary Ann Morrison on 3 July 1884 at
a private residence in Pretoria, South African Republic
George Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 32, born in England. He is a
blacksmith, resident in Pretoria. Mary Ann Morrisson is recorded as a
spinster, aged 16, born in the Cape Colony. She is resident in Pretoria and
married with her mother's consent.
Mary Ann was born in 1867/8, in the Cape Colony. She was known as "Polly".
Mary Ann died on 21 May 1926 at 6 Bourke Cottages, Pretoria, aged 59. The
cause of death is listed as influenza and broncho-pneumonia of duration 16
days and heart failure of duration 24 hours, Her intended place of burial
was Pretoria.
Blacksmith, and later a carriage
maker.
Robert King remembers that George "had a successful carriage and engineering
business in Van Mullen street, Pretoria and a big house next the Lion Bridge
in Church Street, Pretoria." At the Industrial Exhibition, a permanent
exhibition of South African Industries in a large building in Van der Walt
Street established in 1909, the Transvaal exhibits included "carts and
carriages from Mr. George Ford's well-known establishment" (Pretoria: The Administrative Capital of South Africa
p89 (H. E. Hall, F. R. Paver, 1910))
George emigrated to the Colony of
Natal aboard the Phantom, arriving in Durban on 10 July 1858. He is
recorded as aged 6, and surety was stood by George Andrews, his
brother-in-law. Accompanying George on the Phantom
were his parents, Edward (49) and Elizabeth (50) and siblings Sarah (21),
Lucy (19), Ellen (15), Edward (13), Selina (11), Alfred (10) and Emily (8).
George was a sponsor at the baptism
of his nephew, George Herbert Ford, in Pietermaritzburg in 1887.
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George Ford
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Men
of the Times - Pioneers of the Transvaal and Glimpses of South Africa
pp145-6 (1905)
MR.
GEORGE FORD is a Colonist from practically the day of his birth, and he
possesses a wide range of knowledge pertaining to all South African
questions such as few men can claim. He was born in England in 1850,
being the youngest son of Mr. Edward Ford. one of the earliest settlers
in Natal. Mr. Ford’s career is an interesting one, and his long
association with the sub-continent has placed him in possession of such
information as enables him to tell of stirring times of adventure in its
earlier history.
Whilst still a boy Mr. Ford was brought to Natal by his parents
in 1858 in the sailing ship “Phantom.” It was at that time a long and
dreary voyage, but even the voyage was not without its lessons to the
boy. It was on the “Phantom” that he first learned the virtue of
perseverance which is to-day one of his chief characteristics. On
arriving at Natal he went to Pietermaritzburg, and there he was
apprenticed as a blacksmith with his brother. He finished the term of
his apprenticeship, and became an expert tradesman, and then the diamond
fever of 1870 broke out. In common with numbers of young men, Mr. Ford
was seized with the desire to become a diamond digger, and he set out
for the river diggings, but after a brief period there he went to De
Beers; his stay was short, and he again set out for Colesberg Kopje,
which was then discovered at a short distance from De Beers. Mr. Ford
and his then partners went and marked out one claim in No, 6 road.
For various reasons Mr. Ford did not stay at his claim longer
than to make sufficient money to enable him to return to Natal, where he
resumed work at his own trade. But the free life of the diggings still
fascinated the young man, and he once more found his way back at
Kimberley, where he marked out a three-quarter claim, and by dint of
hard. work he was very successful.
Having accumulated a fair amount of money, and the price of
diamonds deteriorating, he joined in the gold rush which now spread like
wildfire throughout the country, and he soon found himself at Pilgrim’s
Rest; but instead of searching for gold, he purchased an hotel at
Lydenburg called “Victoria Hotel.” The hotel business did not keep Mr.
Ford, he kept it, whilst he joined a companion and went trading in
Seccoconi’s country. On his return from the trading expedition he found
that the business of his hotel had vanished, and he lost the money which
he had sunk in the venture. Now, with little money in his pocket, but
with plenty of pluck and determination, he became a hunter, and found
ample opportunity to practise his sport on the veld and vlies in
Portuguese territory. Buffaloes and other game fell to his gun, but the
unhealthy life in the swamps forced him to retire to more healthy
climes, and accordingly he went to Pietermaritzburg, where he became a
partner with a coachbuilder who was also a blacksmith. For twelve months
he studied the coachbuilding trade, and then went to Durban, where he
opened up an establishment in West Street. He was successful there, and
only left on account of the fact that the premises were pulled down.
Instead of re-opening at Durban, he turned his attention to the
Transvaal, and settled in Pretoria. Here he opened up business in a
small way as a coachbuilder, general smith, &c.; but he was soon
compelled to seek larger premises, and he selected a spot in St. Andries
Street. So enterprising was Mr. Ford that after a few months he sold out
for a good price, and took a trip to the Old Country.
Mr. Ford found the English climate altogether unsuited to him,
and he longed for the sunny skies of South Africa, so he at once
returned to the land of his adoption, and, arriving at Pretoria, he
re-purchased his old business. He continued with the business and built
it up, until to-day it is one of the largest and most successful in the
capital. With an intimate knowledge of the position of affairs in
Pretoria, and being a large property owner, he was selected as a
representative of Ward No. 1 of Pretoria’s first Town Council. He is one
of the most useful members of the municipality, and although his voice
is silent when trifling matters come before the council, yet when any
question of vital importance enters into the deliberations of the
council, Mr. Ford is never found wanting, and his sound judgment and
keen insight into municipal affairs enable him to submit advice to the
council which from a business point of view can always be relied upon.
Mr. Ford is the owner of the Pretoria North township, and firmly
believes in the future expansion of the city. Since the foundation of
the Pretoria Building Society, he has been a director of the concern,
and he is a member of the Public Health Committee of the Council. Mr.
Ford is a sportsman of the old school and an expert shot with the rifle.
He has a splendid collection of trophies and numerous cups which he has
won at rifle meetings. His long and varied experience has given him an
acute perception, and he is a thorough man of the world and a good judge
of character. Mr. Ford is one of Pretoria’s most respected citizens, and
he is the type of man which South Africa needs if we are to have that
era of prosperity for which we all long.
He is married to a daughter of John Morrison, Esq. of England,
and has issue nine children.
15 December 1933, at Pretoria
Hospital, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, aged 83
George is recorded as a widower. The cause of death is listed as myocardial
degeneration, senile decay and inguinal hernia. He had been hospitalised for
10 days.
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
George Herbert Ford
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George Herbert Ford
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19 May 1887, in Chase Valley,
Townlands, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
1887, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by George Ford and parents
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
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The wedding of George Herbert Ford and
Lulu Iris Borain on 26 March 1919
L to R Back: clergyman (probably J. Henry Roberts, who officiated
the wedding), George Herbert Ford, Lulu Iris Borain, Edward
Funnell Ford. Seated: Wilfred Risley Ford, Mona Elizabeth
Goldsmith Borain, Emily (Risley) Ford, Matilda Eliza (Marshall)
Currie (step grandmother to the bride)
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Lulu Iris Borain on 26 March 1919,
in the Boshoff Street Wesleyan Church, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
George Herbert Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 32. He is a farmer,
resident in Pietermaritzburg. Lulu Iris Borain is recorded as a spinster,
aged 22 and resident in Pietermaritzburg. The marriage was performed by J.
Henry Roberts and witnessed by Wilfred Risley Ford and Mona Elizabeth
Borain.
Lulu was born on 14 February 1897 and baptised on 4 June 1900 in the
Wesleyan-Methodist church, Durban, the daughter of James Borain and Louisa
Cecelia Currie. At the baptism, the parents are resident in Gillets. Lulu
was the sister of Mona Elizabeth Goldsmith Borain who married George's
younger brother, Wilfred, three months later, and the sister of Nella Louise
Borain who married John Bartle Ford in 1926. Lulu died on 30 June 1945, at
Kingston Lodge, Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg. The cause of death is listed
as carcinoma of ovaries, of duration nine months. She was buried in Mountain
Rise cemetery, Pietermaritzburg.
Addresses:
1919: Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
register)
1963: "Kingston Lodge" Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (death
registration)
Farmer
19 October 1963, in Grey's Hospital,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
The cause of death is listed as congestive cardiac failure, of duration 1
week, chronic bronchitis, of duration 3-4 years and myocardial infarction,
of duration 1 year.
Mountain Rise cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
1919: Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
register)
1950: "Kingston Lodge", 69 Campbell Road, Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg,
Natal (Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p1542)
1963: "Kingston Lodge" Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (death
registration)
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George Herbert Ford is front left
seated on the ground in this Ford family grouping, probably
at Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Ford family at Kingston Lodge circa
1900
George is seated on the ground front
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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Fords at Kingston Lodge
L to R. Back: Alfred, Winifred, Joseph, George. Front:
Edward Funnell, Emily née Risley, John, Edward William. Very
front: Wilfred
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, Christmas
1912
George Herbert Ford is standing third from the left at the
80th birthday of his mother, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston
Lodge in November 1932. His wife, Lulu Iris (Borain) Ford is
standing third from the right.
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Harriet (Ford, Trenowth) Dyer
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Harriet (Ford, Trenowth) Dyer
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The wedding of Laura Elizabeth Scarlett
and Edward William Ford on 4 January 1911.
Harriet (Ford, Trenowth) Dyer is standing rightmost
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Harriet (Ford, Trenowth) Dyer is standing
leftmost in the wedding photograph of John Herbert James King and
Emily Winifred Elizabeth Ford on 22 April 1914
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1830-1832, in Wickham, Hampshire,
England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
George
Trenowth on 14 November 1863, in the Crown Hotel, Pietermaritzburg,
Natal
George Trenowth is recorded as a bachelor, of full age. He is a builder,
resident in P.M.Burg. Harriett Ford is recorded as a spinster, of full age,
resident in P.M.Burg.
The marriage
license application lists George as aged 37, born in Tunbridge, Kent
and Harriet Ford as aged 32, born in Wickham, Hampshire.
John Dyer on 20 February
1877, at a private home in Durban, Natal
John Dyer is recorded as a widower, of full age. He is a tailor, resident in
Durban. Harriet Trenowth is recorded as a widow, of full age, resident in
Durban. The marriage was witnessed by W. H. Dyer and R. Dyer.
The marriage
license application records that John was born in Cornwall, England,
and that Harriet Trenowth was born in Hampshire. Both are widowed, and John
has three children - William Henry Dyer, aged 23, Mary Jane Dyer, aged 21
and Rebecca Ann Dyer, aged 20 - while Harriet has one child, Gertrude Alice
Trenowth, aged 12.
John was born in 1823/4, in Landrake, Cornwall. His first marriage
certificate records his father as Nicholas Dyer, a shoemaker, but his death
notice records his parents as Samuel Dyer and Ann. A possible baptism
entry in Landrake on 11 January 1824 records John Dyer as the son of
Nicholas Dyer, cordwainer, and Ann. He was married first to Jane Henwood on
5 November 1849, in Constantine, Cornwall. John was a tailor. John and Jane
emigrated to Natal with five children, arriving
on the Priscilla on 16 September
1860. The two youngest children, Samuel and John presumably died young
as they are not mentioned with their older siblings, William, Mary Jane and
Rebecca, in the marriage
license application in 1877 or in John's
probate proceedings. Jane died in Durban on 3 May 1869, aged 49. John
died on 14 March 1878, at the home of James
Christian, in Commercial Road, Pietermaritzburg, of choleraic
diarrhœa, aged 54.
Census & Addresses:
1851:
Scarborough Street, Whitechapel, Middlesex
1878: Queen Street, Durban, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1878 #302)
Servant (1851)
I have not been able to find Harriet's baptism record, although we have
records for both her elder sister, Elizabeth, in 1829, in Gosport, and her
younger sister, Miriam in 1832, also in Gosport. In the marriage
license application for her first marriage on 14 November 1863,
Harriet is listed as aged 32, born in Wickham, Hampshire, which would give a
birth date in 1830 or 1831. She is also listed as aged 90 at
her death on 2 May 1921 also putting her birth in 1830 or 1831.
Wickham is about 10 miles north of Gosport. The presumed identification of
Harriet in the 1851 census puts her age at 19 (born in "Wickhampton", which
puts her birth in 1832 or 1831. The birth date given in the FORD tree of 1
January 1832 is precariously close to the 11 October 1832 birth date
recorded in the baptism record for her younger sister Miriam
Harriet emigrated to Natal aboard
the Leila, arriving in Durban on
14 March 1861. She is recorded as aged 27, and surety was stood by
Edward Ford. Accompanying Harriet on the Leila
was her elder sister, Elizabeth. Harriet's parents and most of her
family had emigrated to Natal a few years earlier, and it is not clear why
Elizabeth and Harriet only came out three years later. Also on board the Leila
were their aunt and uncle, George and Lucy Salmon, and eight of their
Salmon cousins.
2 May 1921 at the Mental Hospital,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 90
The cause of death is listed as senile decay, of duration 2 years.
Commercial Road cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
1841: West Street, Warblington,
Hampshire
1851: Queens
Terrace, St Marylebone, Middlesex
- In the marriage
license application for her first marriage on 14 November 1863,
Harriet is listed as aged 32, born in Wickham, Hampshire, which would
give a birth date in 1830 or 1831. She is also listed as aged 90 at
her death on 2 May 1921 also putting her birth in 1830 or 1831.
The presumed identification of Harriet in the 1851 census put her age at
19 (born in "Wickhampton", which put her birth in 1832 or 1831. The
birth date given in the FORD tree of 1 January 1832 is precariously
close to the 11 October 1832 birth date recorded in the baptism record
for her younger sister Miriam; place from marriage
license application
- 1841 census
- Natal
Civil Records Marriages Pietermaritzburg 1863; marriage
license application
- Natal
Civil Records Marriages Durban 1877 #280; John birth from age 54
at death in 1878 from Pietermaritzburg
death register 1878 p95 #37 and aged 27 in the 1851 census,
although he is recorded as aged 40 in 1860 from passenger
list of the Priscilla
with place from marriage
license application. John 1st marriage from Constantine
parish register Marriages 1849 p78 #155; Jane death from Natal Witness 7 May 1869; John
occupation from 1st
marriage, 1851 census, Natal
Civil Records Marriages Durban 1877 #280, and Pietermaritzburg
death register 1878 p95 #37; John death from Pietermaritzburg
death register 1878 p95 #37, Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1878 #302 and Natal Witness 19 March 1878; other John
research at wikitree
- 1851 census
- Immigration: passenger
lists transcribed at eGGSA from NAB Pietermaritzburg Archives,
Land and Immigration Board, Natal, Register of Immigrants Arrived, vol
65, p24
- Natal
civil registration Deaths Pietermaritzburg May 1921 #123
- Natal
civil registration Deaths Pietermaritzburg May 1921 #123
- Harriet Ford
John Ford
1780/1, in Westminster St James,
Middlesex
Mary _____
Clerk, West India Dock
1851: 18 Alfred Terrace, Mile
End Old Town, Middlesex
- 1851 census (St James
Piccadilly was an alternate name for Westminster St James)
- 1851 census; baptism
record of son Edward
- 1851 census
John Bartle Ford
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John Bartle Ford
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26 January 1880, at Loop Street,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
22 February 1880, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by Frederick William Risley and parents
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
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Nella Louise (Borain) Ford (left) and
Laura Elizabeth (Scarlett) Ford at a Ford family reunion at
Kingston Lodge on 31 July 1983.
photograph of a newspaper clipping
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Nella Louise Borain on 3 August
1926, in the Wesleyan church, Newcastle, Natal, South Africa
John Bartle Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 46, born in Natal. He is an
engineer, resident in Pietermaritzburg. Nella Louise Borain is recorded as a
spinster, aged 22, born in Natal. Her occupation is "domestic" and she is
resident in Pietermaritzburg. The marriage was witnessed by James Arthur
Carr and Mary Gaunt.
Nella was born on 2 August 1904 in Mount Rule, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, the
daughter of James Borain and Cecilia Louisa Currie. Nella was the sister of
Lulu Iris Borain who married George Herbert Ford in March 1919 and also the
sister of Mona Elizabeth Goldsmith Borain who married Wilfred Risley Ford in
June 1919.
Engineer
John was sent to England to train as engineer at Marshall,
Sons & Co., of London and Gainsborough, for whom the family
business in Pietermaritzburg were sole agents. He returned again during WW1
to work as an engineer in the factory as part of the war effort.
1950: 45 Golf Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p1542)
10 February 1967 at St Anne's
Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 87.
The cause of death is listed as myocarditis and coronary thrombosis, both of
duration 8 years
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John Bartle Ford
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John Bartle Ford, Emily Winifred
Elizabeth Ford, Alfred Frederick Ford, Edward William Ford
and in front, Joseph Clifford Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert
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John Bartle Ford is standing
rightmost in this Ford family grouping, probably at Kingston
Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Ford family at Kingston Lodge circa
1900
John Bartle Ford is standing rightmost
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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Fords at Kingston Lodge
L to R. Back: Alfred, Winifred, Joseph, George. Front:
Edward Funnell, Emily née Risley, John, Edward William. Very
front: Wilfred
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, Christmas
1912
John Bartle Ford is standing rightmost in the back row.
photograph courtesy of Robert
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John Bartle Ford is standing
rightmost at the 80th birthday of his mother, Emily (Risley)
Ford at Kingston Lodge in November 1932. His wife, Nella
(Borain) Ford is next to him, second from right.
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John Bartle Ford (right)
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Joseph Clifford Ford
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10 September 1882, in Townlands,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
29 October 1882, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by Joseph Risley and parents
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
May
Foaden on 18 February 1911 in the Congregational Church, Florida Road,
Durban, Natal, South Africa
Joseph Clifford Ford is recorded as a bachelor, of full age. He is a coach
builder, resident in Maritzburg. May Foaden is recorded as a spinster, of
full age, resident in Durban. The marriage was witnessed by H.N.H. White and
Edgar Foaden.
Carriage Builder
Known as "Cliff"
31 October 1967, at St Anne's
Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 85.
The cause of death is listed as a dissective aneurism of the abdominal
aorta, of duration 5 days
1912: 205 Boom Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (birth
record of daughter Esmé)
1917: 205 Boom Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (birth
record of daughter Frances)
1950: 14 Milner Road, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p1542)
1967: "The Gables", New England Road, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
(death notice)
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John Bartle Ford, Emily Winifred
Elizabeth Ford, Alfred Frederick Ford, Edward William Ford
and in front, Joseph Clifford Ford
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Joseph Clifford Ford is standing
third from left in this Ford family grouping, probably at
Kingston Lodge
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Joseph Clifford Ford is standing
leftmost in this photograph of a tennis party at Kingston
Lodge
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Ford family at Kingston Lodge circa
1900
Joseph Clifford Ford is in the centre of the back row
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Fords at Kingston Lodge
L to R. Back: Alfred, Winifred, Joseph, George. Front:
Edward Funnell, Emily née Risley, John, Edward William. Very
front: Wilfred
photograph courtesy of Robert
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Joseph Clifford Ford. From the
composition of the photo I assume that he recently won the
trophy, probably for shooting.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Joseph Clifford Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Joseph Clifford Ford
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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I guess Cliff won the trophy again
another year.
photograph courtesy of Robert
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May Foaden (left) and Joseph
Clifford Ford courting at the Bluff, Durban, on 5 September
1905. With Emily Winifred Elizabeth Ford (right) as
chaperone.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Wedding of Joseph Clifford Ford and
May Foaden on 18 February 1911 in Durban, Natal
L to R. Lillian Tonkin, H Norman H White, Joseph Clifford
Ford, May Ford née Foaden, Edgar Foaden, Emily Winnifred
Elizabeth Ford. Front: Joyce Tyzack
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Fords at Kingston Lodge, Christmas
1912
Joseph Clifford Ford is standing back row centre.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Joseph Clifford Ford is standing
fourth from right in the back row at the 80th birthday of
his mother, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in
November 1932.
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Joseph Clifford Ford
scan by Chris Gosnell from
photograph belonging to Esme Fuller
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Joseph Clifford Ford circa 1965
photograph from Jerry Gosnell
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Joyce Wallis (Ford) Arntzen
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Joyce Wallis Ford is fourth from right in
the back row at the 80th birthday of her grandmother, Emily
(Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in November 1932.
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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22 October 1916 in Pietermaritzburg,
Natal, South Africa
19 November 1916, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by Laura Ford, Louise Borain and Wilfred Risley
Ford
Alfred
Frederick Ford
Ada (Wallis) Ford
Rolf Theodore Arntzen on 12 June
1943 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Rolf Theodore Arntzen is recorded as a divorcee, aged 35, born in
Frederickstad, Norway. He is a shipwright carpenter, resident at 39
Wincelsea Avenue, Jacobs, Durban. Joyce Wallis Ford is recorded as a
spinster, aged 26, born in Pietermaritzburg. She is a nurse, resident at
Budleigh, Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg. The marriage was witnessed by J.
Arntsen and A. Ford.
Rolf was born on 12 April 1908 in Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway, the son of Aksel Arntzen and Alma Kathinka Johannesdatter. He
was married firstly to Mary Christina Mackenzie, from whom he was divorced
in 1937. He was a shipwright carpenter and builder. Rolf died on 13 November
1976 in Pinetown, Natal, South Africa, aged 68.
Nurse
Joyce was a District Nurse in Pinetown.
2 June 2006, aged 89
1943: Budleigh, Chase Valley, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
certificate)
Lucy Ford
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Lucy Ford
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6 August 1838, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
Lucy emigrated to Natal aboard the Phantom,
arriving in Durban on 10 July 1858. She is recorded as aged 19, and surety
was stood by George Andrews, her brother-in-law. Accompanying Lucy on the Phantom were her parents, Edward (49)
and Elizabeth (50) and siblings Sarah (21), Ellen (15), Edward (13), Selina
(11), Alfred (10), Emily (8) and George (6).
13 April 1918, at the Mental
Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, aged 79
Lucy Ford died on 13th April 1918 at Mental Hospital P.M.Burg. She is
recorded as a spinster, aged 79, born in England. The cause of death is
listed as chronic nephritis
and senile decay of duration many years. She was buried in P.M.Burg.
15 April 1918, in Wesleyan cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal. The grave is located in Block A.
1841: West Street, Warblington,
Hampshire
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
Margaret Emily Louisa (Ford) Low
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Margaret Emily Louisa Ford - "Peggy" - is
third from left in the back row at the 80th birthday of her
grandmother, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in November
1932.
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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23 December 1913, in Chase Valley,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
25 January 1914, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
The baptism was sponsored by Flora Louisa Potter
Edward William
Ford
Laura Elizabeth (Scarlett) Ford
Trevor William Low on 18 July 1942
in St Peters, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Trevor William Low is recorded as a bachelor, aged 28, born in East
Griqualand. He is a joiner, resident at 36 Holmsdale Rd, Rossburgh. Margaret
Emily Louise Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 28, born in Natal. She is
a teacher, resident at 99 Boshoff St, Pietermaritzburg. The marriage was
performed by Henry Skelton, and witnessed by L. E. Ford and W. H. Low.
Trevor was born on 21 January 1914, in East Griqualand, Cape Province, South
Africa. He died on 10 March 2004.
The Mercury 12 March 2005
MEMORIAM;
LOW Trevor 1914--2004 van Pegs pa van Steph,Brian, Kevin ,Delys en Mark.
Ook van Judy, Norman, Garth, Belinda,Janine en fam.
The Mercury 10 March 2008
MEMORIAL:-
LOW Trevor William 21/01/1914 ----10/03/2004. Onthou deur Norman, Judy ,
Garth, Belinda, Janine en familie
The Sunday Tribune 5 June 2011
12/03/2005
MEMORIAM:-
LOW Trevor + 10 Maart 2004 LOW Peggy + 26 Mei 2005
Teacher
Known as "Peggy"
26 May 2005
1942: 99 Boshoff St, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
certificate)
Mary (_____) Ford
1779/80, in Bishop's Waltham,
Hampshire, England
John Ford
1851: 18 Alfred Terrace, Mile
End Old Town, Middlesex
- 1851 census
- 1851 census; baptism
record of son Edward
Mary Ann (Ford) Andrews
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Mary Ann (Ford) Andrews
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Mary Ann (Ford) Andrews
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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7 September 1834, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
22 October 1834, at St Peter's
Chapel, Daniel Street and Green Row, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Mary Ann is recorded as the daughter of Edward Ford, whitesmith of Emsworth,
parish of Warblington, Hampshire and of Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of
Thomas and Sarah Funnell.
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
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Mary Ann (Ford) Andrews and George Andrews
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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George
Andrews on 22 October 1855 in the parish church, Durban, Natal
George Andrews is recorded as a bachelor, of full age. He is a grocer,
resident in Durban. Mary Ann Ford is recorded as a spinster, of full age,
resident in Durban. The marriage was performed by C. J. Mackenzie and
witnessed by Thos. A. Payne and H. M. Payne.
(Thomas Ashbourne Payne and Hannah Maria Payne were brother and sister, and
fellow passengers of Mary Ann's on the Lady
of the Lake.)
In the marriage
license application, George Andrews is recorded as a bachelor, aged
23, resident in D'Urban. Mary Ann Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 21,
resident in D'Urban.
Mary Ann and George celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary at their
home at 10th Avenue, Lower Morningside, Durban.
Mary Ann emigrated to Natal before
the rest of her family. She sailed aboard the Lady
of the Lake, leaving London on 12 July 1855 and arriving in Durban
on 20 October 1855, then was married two days later to George Andrews. In
1858 George Andrews sponsored Mary Ann's parents and most of her siblings to
emigrate to Natal.
13 October 1917, at 127 Seventh
Avenue, Durban, Natal, South Africa, aged 83
Mary Ann Andrews died on 13 October 1917 at 127 Seventh Avenue. She was aged
83, born in England and the widow of George Andrews. The cause of death is
listed as cancer of stomach and exhaustion.
Natal Witness 13 October 1922
IN MEMORIAM
ANDREWS. – In ever loving memory of dear mother, M.A. ANDREWS, who passed
away in Durban, on the 13th October, 1917.
Inserted by her son, Charlie.
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Gravestone of Mary Ann (Ford) Andrews in
West Street cemetery, Durban
photo by GGSA Kwazulu-Natal at eGGSA
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West Street cemetery, Durban. Natal,
South Africa
The gravestone reads:
In Loving Memory of Mary Ann Andrews who died
13th October 1917, aged 83 years. "Faith's journey ends in welcome to the
weary."
Mary Ann and George had a joint will
dated 28 September 1906 (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files GS film 001295293 images 00593-4) which specified that
"the survivor of us be permitted to remain in full possession of the whole
of our Joint Estate" and that "Upon the decease of the survivor of us we
will and bequeath the whole of said joint estate unto our children male and
female in equal shares"
1841: West Street, Warblington,
Hampshire
1851: High
Street, Marylebone, Middlesex (Mary is listed as an apprentice, in the
home of her grandfather, Thomas Funnell)
1911: 127 Seventh Avenue, Durban, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files GS film 001295293 image 00591)
1917: 127 7th Avenue, Durban, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files GS film 001295108 image 00953)
Miriam Ford
11 October 1832
2 December 1832, at Middle Street
Wesleyan, Alverstoke Gosport, Hampshire, England
Miriam is recorded as born on Oct 11, baptized Dec. 2 1832, the daughter of
Edward and Elizabeth Ford. Edward is a whitesmith, resident at Wickham, in
the parish of Wickham
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
18 March 1835, in Warblington,
Hampshire, England, aged 2
- Non-conformist
registers Gosport Middle Street Wesleyan Chapel (Baptisms 1832 p28 #218)
- Non-conformist
registers Gosport Middle Street Wesleyan Chapel (Baptisms 1832 p28 #218)
- Non-conformist
registers Gosport Middle Street Wesleyan Chapel (Baptisms 1832 p28 #218)
- Hampshire
parish registers
Rupert Sydney Ford
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Rupert Sydney Ford (left) and his twin
Wilfred Risley Ford (right)
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Rupert Sydney Ford is seated second from
right in this Ford family grouping, probably at Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Rupert Sydney Ford is front left in this
photograph of a tennis party at Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Ford family at Kingston Lodge circa 1900
Rupert is seated left chair in the centre row
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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18 December 1889, at Kingston Lodge,
Chase Valley, Townlands, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
20 February 1890, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by Harriet Dyer and Elizabeth Wills.
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
Twin brother of Wilfred
Risley
Ford
Company secretary
Rupert was bookkeeper to Todd's Pharmacy in Red Hill, Durban North.
17 April 1960, at Entabeni Hospital,
Durban, Natal, South Africa, aged 70
The cause of death is listed as uraemia, renal failure, haemorrhage from
varices, hepatic cirrhosis of duration 3 weeks.
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Grave of Rupert Sydney Ford in the
Commercial Road cemetery, Pietermaritzburg
photograph by Robert King
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Commercial Road cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. The grave is located in Block A Row C
Plot 31.
The inscription on the headstone reads:
In treasured memory of
RUPERT SYDNEY FORD,
younger son of E. F. Ford and E. Ford
called to higher service
17th April 1960,
aged 70 years
1932: Durban, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1934 #21169 film 007867948 image 1133)
1934: Durban, Natal (Pietermaritzburg
Estate Files 1934 #21169 film 007867948 image 1134)
1960: Wyham Mansions, Gillespie Street, Durban (death
registration)
Sarah (Ford) Gannaway
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Sarah (Ford) Gannaway
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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14 November 1836, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
11 December 1836, at St Peter's
Chapel, Daniel Street and Green Row, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Sarah is recorded as the daughter of Edward Ford, whitesmith of Emsworth,
parish of Warblington, Hampshire and of Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of
Thomas and Sarah Funnell. Sarah was born on 14 November 1836 and baptized on
11 December 1836.
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
Alfred Joseph Gannaway on 27
October 1861, in Portsea St Mary, Portsea, Hampshire, England
Alfred Joseph Gannaway is recorded as single, aged 21, the son of William
Gannaway, a gardener. Alfred is a carpenter, resident in Harfisle Road.
Sarah Ford is recorded as single, aged 24, the daughter of Edward Ford, a
whitesmith. Sarah is resident at Marine Terrace. The marriage was witnessed
by Caroline Gannaway and William Gannaway.
Alfred was born in 1840, in Warblington, Hampshire, the son of William and
Mary Gannaway. His occupation is described as "Carpenter and Joiner" in
1861, and "Printer's Traveller" in 1871.
Census & Addresses:
1841:
Warblington Lodge, Warblington, Hampshire
1851: South
Street, Havant, Hampshire
1861: Somers
Road, Portsea, Hampshire
1861: Harfisle Road, Portsea, Hampshire (marriage
record)
1871: St
Marylebone, Middlesex
Servant (1861); Lodging House
Keeper (1891)
Sarah emigrated to Natal aboard the Phantom,
arriving in Durban on 10 July 1858. She is recorded as aged 21, and surety
was stood by George Andrews, her brother-in-law. Accompanying Sarah on the Phantom were her parents, Edward (49)
and Elizabeth (50) and siblings Lucy (19), Ellen (15), Edward (13), Selina
(11), Alfred (10), Emily (8) and George (6). Sarah did not stay long in the
colony - she returned to England where she was married in 1861.
1906, in Christchurch
district, Hampshire, England, aged 70
1841: West Street, Warblington,
Hampshire
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
1861: Marine
Terrace, Portsea, Hampshire
1861: Marine Terrace, Portsea, Hampshire (marriage
record)
1871: St
Marylebone, Middlesex
1881: 50
Nicholay Road, Islington, Middlesex
1891:
Drummond Road, Christchurch, Hampshire
1901: Sea
Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire
Selina (Ford, Byerley) Bales
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Selina (Ford, Byerley)
Bales
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Selina (Ford, Byerley)
Bales
taken about 1895 in Barberton by her son, Edward Worsely Byerley
photograph scan courtesy of Alan
Fitz-Patrick
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16 January 1846, in Emsworth,
Hampshire, England
Edward Ford
Elizabeth
(Funnell)
Ford
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George Byerley and Selina
Ford
taken in Verulam, Natal, 1867 - thought to be taken on their
wedding day
photograph scan courtesy of Alan
Fitz-Patrick
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George
Alexander Byerley on 18 February 1867, in Mission House, Verulam,
Natal
George Byerley is recorded as a bachelor, aged 23. He is a clerk, resident
in Pietermaritzburg. Selina Ford is recorded as a spinster, aged 21,
resident in Riverton. The wedding was performed by Thomas Kirkby and
witnessed by G. Andrews and M. A. Andrews.
George and Mary Ann Andrews were Selina's elder sister and brother-in-law.
William Bales on 1 July 1896
at Mr. Allsopp's residence, Barberton, South African Republic.
William Bales is recorded as a bachelor, aged 44. He is chemist, resident in
Barberton. Selina Byerley is recorded as a widow, aged 47, resident in
Barberton. The marriage was witnessed by C. Urquhart and J. W. Winter.
William was born in 1850/1, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, the son of George
William Bales and Lucretia Holden. He was a chemist. William was a sponsor
at the baptism of one of Selina's daughters from her first marriage, Nellie
Caroline Byerley, in Pretoria in 1883. William died on 20 October 1906, at
his residence in Barberton, Transvaal
Colony.
Census & Addresses:
1851:
Cornhill, Ipswich St Mary at the Tower, Suffolk
1861:
Cornhill, Ipswich St Mary at the Tower, Suffolk
1906: Barberton, Transvaal Colony (Transvaal
Probate Records 1906 #9790 DGS 007805928 image 361)
Selina emigrated to Natal aboard the
Phantom, arriving in Durban on 10 July 1858. She is recorded as aged
11, and surety was stood by George Andrews, her brother-in-law. Accompanying
Selina on the Phantom were her
parents, Edward (49) and Elizabeth (50) and siblings Sarah (21), Lucy (19),
Ellen (15), Edward (13), Alfred (10), Emily (8) and George (6).
In 1877 George and Selina were operating a canteen at Sptitzkop in the
eastern Transvaal. They were encountered there by Rowland Atcherley, an
Englishman on a year-long adventure in Natal and the Transvaal who describes
Selina as "a delicate young Englishwoman, little fitted for the rough life
of the gold-diggings" (A Trip to Böerland p127)
After the death of her first husband in 1893, Selina took in boarders in
Barberton for a while and remarried in 1896 to William Bales. After that,
they moved to Lourenço Marques, Mozambique.
7 April 1934, in South Africa
1851: Havant Road, Warblington,
Hampshire
Wilfred Risley Ford
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Rupert Sydney Ford (left) and his twin
Wilfred Risley Ford (right)
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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18 December 1889, at Kingston Lodge,
Chase Valley, Townlands, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
20 February 1890, in St Peters,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The baptism was sponsored by Harriet Dyer and Alfred Edmondson.
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
Mona Elizabeth Goldsmith Borain on
5 June 1919 in the Wesleyan Church, Boshoff Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal,
South Africa
Wilfred Risley Ford is recorded as a bachelor, aged 29. He is an engineer,
resident in Pietermaritzburg. Mona Elizabeth Goldsmith Borain is recorded as
a spinster, aged 23, resident in Pietermaritzburg. The marriage was
performed by J. Henry Roberts and witnessed by Rupert Sydney Ford, M. E.
Currie and Lulu I. Ford.
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Wilfred and Mona are seated left and
second left in the wedding photograph of their of their brother
and sister, respectively, George Herbert Ford and Lulu Iris Borain
on 26 March 1919
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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Mona was born on 17 July 1895 at West Street, Pietermaritzburg, the daughter
of James Borain, a plate layer, and Louisa Cecilia Currie, and baptised on
14 June 1900, in Durban. Mona was the sister of Lulu Iris Borain who married
George Herbert Ford in March 1919 and also the sister of Nella Louise Borain
who married John Bartle Ford in 1926. Mona died on 17 July 1969, in Grey's
Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. The cause of death is listed as myocardial
infarction, of duration 1 day and acute hypertension of duration many years.
Engineer, machinist
Wilfred was the twin brother of Rupert
Sydney Ford
1 September 1965 in Bishopstowe,
Natal, South Africa
The cause of death is listed as carcinoma of prostate, of duration over 1
year, abdominal obstruction, of duration 4 months and hepeptezia(?), of
duration 2 weeks.
Mountain Rise crematorium,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
1919: Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
register)
1950: 510 Prince Alfred Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Braby's Natal Directory 1950 p1542)
1965: 510 Prince Alfred Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (death
registration)
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Wilfred Risley Ford is sitting front
right in this Ford family grouping, probably at Kingston
Lodge
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Wilfred Risley Ford is front centre
in this photograph of a tennis party at Kingston Lodge
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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Ford family at Kingston Lodge circa
1900
Wilfred is seated right chair in the centre row
photograph courtesy of Ann Meier
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Fords at Kingston Lodge
L to R. Back: Alfred, Winifred, Joseph, George. Front:
Edward Funnell, Emily née Risley, John, Edward William. Very
front: Wilfred
photograph courtesy of Robert
King
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Wilfred Risley Ford is second from
left left in the back row at the 80th birthday of his
mother, Emily (Risley) Ford at Kingston Lodge in November
1932. Wilfred's wife, Mona Elizabeth Goldsmith (Borain) Ford
is seventh from the left in the back row.
photograph courtesy of Robert
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William Alan Ford
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William Alan Ford is rightmost in the back
row at the 80th birthday of his grandmother, Emily (Risley) Ford
at Kingston Lodge in November 1932.
photograph courtesy of Robert King
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22 June 1917, in Town Bush Valley,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
2 August 1917, in All Saints,
Allerton, Natal, South Africa
The baptism was sponsored by A. Vyvyan Edmondson, Dorothy Mary Potter and
'Father'
Edward William
Ford
Laura Elizabeth (Scarlett) Ford
Draughtsman
Known as "Alan"
1947: 99 Boshoff Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal (marriage
certificate)
Unnamed "Baby Girl" Ford
8 August 1881
Edward Funnell
Ford
Emily
(Risley) Ford
8 August 1881
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