Ford Family Photo Album - Part One, 1870-1910

We are very fortunate, as a family, to have our story well-documented in papers and photographs

I have papers and photographs from the 1880s onward and they are published here for all the members of our family to access

My brother William sourced and acquired the 19th Century family documents
The early Ford family papers and documents were collected and preserved by my aunt Stella Fleming (née Ford). 
Sadly, we do not have access to Duncan photographs from the same era
My mother said that her sister Mary had them, but she could not find out what had happened to them

Ellen and Thomas Kenniford, parents of Lily Frances Ford

Marriage certificate of James and Bridget Duncan

Birth certificate of William Joseph Duncan

Birth certificate of Douglas Bernard Ford

DB Ford's birthplace - the green house, 19 North St, Bristol

Douglas and Peggy Ford, c.1881

Bristol street scene, 1890s

Thomas Ford's Butchery, King Square Avenue, Bristol, 1890

Douglas Ford is the 10 year old boy on the extreme right

The building appears to have been bombed in World War 2. There is a very uninspiring commercial building there now

Tramlines by the river, Bristol, 1890s

Funeral procession, Bristol, 1890s

A Church outing in the 1890s - Douglas Ford wearing the bowler hat

Martha Ford, née Green

Stanley Ford, father of Hilda Hodge, grandfather of David

Bithia Kenniford's sister Martha, photographed when she was Mistress at Canford Manor, Lady Wimborne's estate

Bithia Kenniford, aka Aunt Buff, was Lily Ford's sister-in-law, married to Lily's brother

At a very great age, she would arrive in the early morning, bringing us treats to take to school at the end of the holidays

Bithia Kenniford's brother Frank

Bithia Kenniford's brother Ernest,  dressed for the Boer War

Bithia Kenniford's sister Mag

The Patriarch - Thomas Gardiner Ford, father of Douglas, Grandfather of Thomas

He was born, I believe, one of the children of Gloucester architect, Gardiner, who died young leaving a large family

His children were given up for adoption. Thomas was adopted by Bristol butchers named Ford

Dolly Ford, who married a vicar, Douglas Curtis

St Werburgh's Church, Bristol - Douglas Curtis' Parish Church
Werburgh was an Anglo-Saxon princess who became the patron saint of the city of Chester in Cheshire

Message to Douglas Ford from his retiring vicar

Norman Ford, son of Stanley, in 1895. He was killed in a flying accident in 1917

Wedding portrait of Percy and Pym Ford

Thomas and Martha Ford and family, c.1899

Names inserted by Stella Ford, daughter of Douglas

Christmas card to GH Kenniford from his son, Lily's father, in 1899

Ashley Down Rd, Bristol, the Ford home in 1899

Nellie Pack [Paterson] daughter of  Matilda Kenniford & niece of Lily Ford

Cecil Ford, son of Percy and Pym

Lily Ford's Confirmation certificate

Norman Ford

Telegrams to Douglas Ford on departure for South Africa on the Carisbrook Castle - 14th June 1902

From his parents

from his brother Percy and his wife, Pym

another from his father

from his sister Dolly

Dolly Curtis with Maud (wearing boater) and Peggy on Green Beach, Clevedon

Douglas Ford in Cape Town

Dolly Curtis (née Ford) & her daughter Peggy

Hilda Constance Ford

Farewell message to Lilly Kenniford from her colleagues at Charles Greig on her departure to work at Premier Mine,

where she met and married Douglas Ford

Marriage certificate Willam Joseph Duncan & Hendrina Maria Bisschoff, 26th November 1906

Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
We drove across it 2019

Hilda Constance Ford, 1906

Mary Gardiner Ford 1836-1909 In Memoriam

I can't be sure, but I presume that she was a sister of Thomas

The album continues HERE