Loss of Ford children at sea
extract from Log of John enroute to Cape Town in 1820
DOI:
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Samuel Liversage, Hope Farm, Eastern Cape, Glendower, Eastern Cape, Lombard's Post, Eastern Cape, Ford FamilyAbstract
1820 Settler Samuel Liversage of Staffordshire led a joint-stock party that ‘included a high proportion of young children’(Nash, MD, 1987, p 87). William Ford, farmer, 30, and his wife Hannah, 27, sailed on the John and lost all three of their children to measles: George, 5; John, 3; and William, 1 year. William and Hannah went on to have another three children, who survived. After William’s death at Radway Green near Grahamstown Hannah married Benjamin Keeton of Hope Farm, where still today there is a portrait of Hannah (Ford) Keeton. Of her 18 children, only three Fords and six (of 12) Keetons survived. The Fords and Keetons have been associated with, or farmed, Hope Farm, Glendower and Lombard’s Post since the 1820s.
References
Pearson, Ralph. 1819. Ship's log: John. Unpublished.
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