Anna
"Hannah"
Ford
formerly [surname unknown]
Born about in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
William Ford Sr
— married
1633 in England
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 71
in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony
Profile managers:
Puritan Great Migration Project WikiTree 
[send private message] and Darin Neves [send private message]
[send private message] and Darin Neves [send private message]Profile last modified
| Created 24 Dec 2013
This page has been accessed 1,868 times.
There are disproven, disputed, or competing theories about this person's parents. See the text for details.
| Anna (Unknown) Ford migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
- Note: Not a daughter of Anthony Eames. - see notes below
Contents |
Biography
Anna (Unknown) Ford migrated from England to USA in 1632-3.
Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691'[1] states that William Ford's wife was either Anna or Hannah.
She married Deacon William Ford of the Fortune.
Although in her husband's will, dated 12 September 1676, he called her only "my beloved wife", "Anna ffoorde the relict of William ffoorde late of Marshfield" swore to his inventory on 30 October 1676.[2]
Children
- Margaret (Ford) Soule ca. 1631 - 1676
- William (Foord) Ford ca. 1633 - 1721
- Michael Ford ca. 1635 - 1729
- John Ford 1637 - 1670
- Martha Ford 1637 - ?
- Millicent (Ford) (Carver) Drake ca. 1638 - 1696
- Joanna Rockwood (born Ford) 1643 - 1724
- Mercy Ford 1662 - ? [3]
Death
Anna, the widow of William Ford Sr. deceased, was buried the first of September 1684 at Marshfield.[4][5]
Research Notes
From Kathy Alvis Patterson: Statements[6] are frequently made that he [William Ford Sr.?] married a daughter of Anthony Eames. Robert M and Helen C Search in their article "Jonathan Carver of Kent, Conn., and Kingston, Pa.," NEHGR, Vol 118 (1964), page 107, in a note ascribe this theory to Walter Goodwin Davis, Ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1945, page 105.
Immigrated before 1643 ATBA [?]. More information and data on her four children is given in Ford Family Genealogy, by Hannibal C Ford, 1950; this book has mistakes; it is better to check Plymouth Colony[1] by Eugene Stratton (p 293) for up-to-date and accepted lineages before accepting early data. Especially his parentage as given in this book is not correct; he was not the son of the Widow Ford, who arrived in MA in 1621 on the Fortune.
Not this family: The book, Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope, has the following on the family you have inquired about: Ford, Widow, came in the Fortune to Plymouth, and had 4 lots in 1623. Her children John and Martha had shares in cattle in 1627. Martha married William Nelson. Nelson, William, Plymouth, before 1636; land grant 3 Aug 1640, listed as able to bear arms in 1643. Juryman, 1648. He married 29 Oct 1640, Martha Ford; children Joane, born 28 Feb. 1650. Will dated 31 Oct 1679, probated 5 March 1679/80, bequests to wife Martha, sons John and William; daughter Martha Cobb. Inventory of the widow's estate was taken 7 March 1683/4.
Parents: Unknown; Cannot be Anthony Eames 1595 - 1686 because they didn't immigrate until 1634
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony, its history & people, 1620-1691 ( Salt Lake City, UT : Ancestry Pub., 1986) p. 293. Borrow on Archive.org citing Moore Families pp. 264-275.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-V3NM?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-F29%3A338083801 : 20 May 2014), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 406 of 616; State Archives, Boston. Plymouth County Probate Records, Wills, Vol. 3:22-3.
- ↑ MyHeritage
- ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, "The Vital Records of Marshfield, Mass.," Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 2(1900):252. Link on Archive.org.
- "Anna the widdow of william fford Seniour deceased was Buried The first of September 1684."
- ↑ Sherman, Robert M. and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Marshfield, Mass., to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), (Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Compiled by Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1970.) Vol. 1, p. 14. (Link on AmericanAncestors.org.)
- ↑ For instance NEHGR 119:23
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA
No known carriers of Anna's DNA have taken a DNA test. Have you taken a test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
No known carriers of Anna's DNA have taken a DNA test. Have you taken a test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Rejected matches › Anna Barbara (UNKNOWN) Matern (abt.1615-)
Featured German connections: Anna is 17 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 20 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 23 degrees from Lucas Cranach, 16 degrees from Stefanie Graf, 19 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm, 21 degrees from Fanny Hensel, 24 degrees from Theodor Heuss, 15 degrees from Alexander Mack, 31 degrees from Carl Miele, 16 degrees from Nathan Rothschild and 17 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
[Do you know Anna's family name?] | F > Ford > Anna (Unknown) Ford
Categories: Puritan Great Migration Project Needs Biography | English Immigrants to America | Puritan Great Migration
Previous Eames profiles where merged into this "Unkown" surname profile. There is an argument in this profile that Anna was Not a daughter of Anthony Eames. However it seems that there is more evidence than not that her name was Eames, that does not necessarily mean that her father was Anthony Eames. What do the other profile managers want to do with Anna's surname? Keep it unknown, or change it back to Eames but make sure Anthony does not show up as the father unless there is good evidence? I would vote to show her name as Eames until evidence proves otherwise. Anyone else? Katherine Patterson, you seem to be the main merger to Unknown... what are your thoughts? Respectfully - Darin