When George Castleberry Ford was born on 7 October 1888, in Alabama, United States, his father, Jacob King Ford, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Ann Haynes, was 35. He married Myrtle Neighbors on 5 May 1970, in Red River Land District, Texas, United States. He lived in Lamar, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 4, Lamar, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 1 April 1976, in Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Blossom, Lamar, Texas, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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