Patrick John Ford
- Born
- 1866-09-23 12:00:00
- Died
- 1928-09-17 12:00:00
- Gender
- Male
I believe that Patrick J. Ford was the son of John Ford and Bridget Thornton, born in Clooneen, Co. Sligo on September 23, 1866 (though other lifetime documents list a combination of these dates and September 28 or 1867). His gravestone in Holy Cross Cemetery in Lackawanna, Erie County, NY shows his birth year as 1866.
John and Bridget Thornton were married on 24 July 1864. Bridget was the daugher of Henry Thornton. John was the son of Patrick Ford.
Patrick had one sister who was born Mary Ford to the same parents in Clooneen on 13 April 1865. I was told that Mary would call herself "Ellen" later in life, and also emigrated to the US.
Patrick emigrated to the United States in August 1888, via Liverpool, landing in 1888 in Philadelphia. He eventually settled a little further west, settling in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Patrick declared his intention to become a US citizen in October 1892 in Erie, PA. The next month, he married Mary Dorothy Schneider in the same city.
My grandfather, Michael Joseph Ford, was one of seven children born to the couple in Pennsylvania, but the family then moved north to Buffalo, NY where most of them reached adulthood.
On Patrick's naturalization form for citizenship, his date of birth is listed as 28 September 1866 and place of birth is listed as "Calloon, Co, Sligo."
Patrick died in Buffalo, NY on 17 September 1928. On the death certificate, his date of birth is listed as 28 September 1867 in Ireland. His father's name is John Ford of Ireland, and mother's name is "unknown."
